Dr. Konstantinos Kotis

Dr. Konstantinos Kotis obtained his BSc (Honours) from the Honours School of Computation at University of Manchester (UMIST), UK, in 1995. He obtained his PhD in Information Management (in the area of Knowledge Representation and Management) from the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean, Greece, in 2005. He then worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Lab of the same department for one year (2005-2006). From 2006 to 2010 he also worked at the same department as an adjunct lecturer and as a researcher. During this period he supervised or co-supervised several theses and taught courses at both graduate and post-graduate level. Konstantinos also works as an IT director in a governmental local administrative authority organization since 2000. His research interests include but not limited to: Knowledge engineering, Ontology Engineering, Semantic Interoperability, Semantic Web and the Web of Things. His latest research interest focus on Semantic Interoperability in the Web of Things. He has published 13 papers in international journals, 26 papers in international conferences and 7 book chapters, with a total of more than 45 peer-reviewed publications. Recently, Microsoft’s Academic Research and Google Scholar portals reported an h-index of 7 and 9 respectively. Dr. Kotis is a member of the Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Company (EETN) and a member of ERCIM DIS working group. In addition, he has served as a reviewer in several international journals and also as a member of conferences’ program committees. He has also served as a guest editor in an international journal, as an organizer and chair of an international workshop (i-SEEK), and a co-organizer of an Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative (OAEI) contest track in 2011. In Nov. 2011 he has been selected among 222 candidates world-wide and awarded a one-year ERCIM fellowship at post-doc level, working on ‘semantic interoperability and smart environments’ at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. Finally, he has been participating in ERCIM Research Exchange and ERASMUS LLP-teaching programs (Poland-University of Zielona Góra, Austria-TUW@DIS group, Switzerland-UZH@DDIS group).

Please access his publication records at:

1. DBLP: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/pers/hd/k/Kotis:Konstantinos.html
2. Microsoft Academic Search: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Author/1467814/konstantinos-kotis
3. ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Konstantinos_Kotis/
4. Google: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=x4T5OfIAAAAJ
Please contact him at:

Phone: +30 6974822712 (GR)
Skype: kotis_office, kotis_mobile
E-mail: kotis@aegean.gr (academic), kotis@samos.gr (IT management), kotis.kostas@gmail.com (personal)
LinkedID: http://gr.linkedin.com/in/kotis
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KotisK