Kolomvatsos, K., Anagnostopoulos, C. (2021)'Proactive, Uncertainty-Driven Queries Management at the Edge ', Elsevier, Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS)

Alghamdi, I., Anagnostopoulos, C., Pezaros, D., 'Optimized Contextual Data Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing', IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2021)

Bordeaux, France between 17-21 May 2021

Iordache-Sica, M., Anagnostopoulos, C., Pezaros, D., 'Towards QoS-aware Provisioning of Chained Virtual Security Services in Edge Networks', IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2021)

Bordeaux, France between 17-21 May 2021

Alghamdi, I., Anagnostopoulos, C., Pezaros, D., (2021)'Data Quality-Aware Task Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing: An Optimal Stopping Theory Approach', Elsevier, Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS)

In-vehicle Edge Data Analytics

Kick-off meeting of our industrial project with NXP.

Oikonomou, P., Kolomvatsos, K., Tziritas, N., Theodoropoulos, G., Loukopoulos, T., Stamoulis, G., 'Uncertainty Driven Workflow Scheduling Using Unreliable Cloud Resources', 19th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA 2020)

Up to 17 Studentships available to support PhD Research for students starting in 2021, School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow; Deadline: 31/1/2021.

PhD Defense

Congratulations to Fotis Savva for his PhD Defense! Query-driven learning for automating exploratory analytics in large-scale data management systems.

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

• Kolomvatsos, K. 'Proactive Tasks Management for Pervasive Computing Applications.' Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier, 2021.

Kolomvatsos, K. (2020) 'Probabilistic Data Allocation in Pervasive Computing Applications'. 19th Intl Conf Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IUCC); 18th IEEE Intl Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (IEEE ISPA), December 17-19, 2020, Exeter, UK

Kolomvatsos, K. (2020) 'A Proactive Uncertainty Driven Model for Data Synopses Management in Pervasive Applications'. 6th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems (IEE-DSS), December 14-16, 2020, Fiji

Open Computer Science (De Gruyter) joins C Anagnostopoulos as Senior Editor [flyer].

P. Fountas, K. Kolomvatsos, Ensemble based Data Imputation at the Edge, 32th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), November 09-11, 2020

(Best Student Paper Award!)

Kolomvatsos, K., Anagnostopoulos, C., Koziri, M. and Loukopoulos, T. (2020) 'Proactive and time-optimized data synopsis management at the edge'. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

[IEEE Preprint]

Funding: EPSRC EP/R018634/1

Leyva-Pupo, I., Cervelló-Pastor, C., Anagnostopoulos, C. and Pezaros, D. (2020) Dynamic Scheduling and Optimal Reconfiguration of UPF Placement in 5G Networks., 23rd ACM Intl Conf Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (ACM MSWiM 2020)

Funding: TEC2016-76795-C6-1-R

K Kolomvatsos, C Anagnostopoulos. (2020), 'A Deep Learning Model for Demand-driven, Proactive Tasks Management in Pervasive Computing', Internet of Things (IoT)

Special Issue: Efficiency of Modern Data Centers.

The papers in our Special Issue: Recent Advancement in Edge/Fog Computing for Intelligent IoT Applications have now been publshed (full access)! in Sensors (IF:3.275).

Kolomvatsos, K. and Anagnostopoulos, C. (2020) An intelligent edge-centric queries allocation scheme based on ensemble models. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (ACM TOIT)

Funding: EU/H2020/MSCA-IF INNOVATE

2 x Lecturer (Learning & Teaching) in Data Science

School of Computing Science is looking to recruit a Lecturer to contribute to the delivery of an excellent student experience by contributing to teaching, assessment and administration processes associated with undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and to undertake scholarship to enhance learning and teaching in the School (Closes: 16 SEPT 2020)

2 x Lecturer / Senior Lecturer / Reader in Data Science

We welcome academics in the area of Data Science: Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, ML in Science, Fairness, Transparency & Explainability, Algorithmic Bias & Ethics, Vision systems, Computational Interaction, Conversational systems/agents, Knowledge Bases & NLP, Recommender Systems, Media & Data Science. (Closes: 16 SEPT 2020)

Excellence bursaries for PhD Research.

Searching for a PhD in Distributed/Edge Computing? Having an excellent Honours or MSc degree in Computer Science? School of Computing Science (University of Glasgow) offers several international and home/EU excellence bursaries for PhD research. (Deadline: 15 OCT 2020).

F. Savva, C. Anagnostopoulos, P. Triantafillou, K. Kolomvatsos, 'Large-scale Data Exploration using Explanatory Regression Functions', ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (ACM TKDD).

Funding: EPSRC EP/R018634/1, EU/H2020/MSCA-IF INNOVATE

"A Smartphone Crowdsensing System Enabling Environmental Crowdsourcing for Municipality Resource Allocation with LSTM Stochastic Prediction", T Anagnostopoulos; T Xanthopoulos; Y Psaromiligkos

SI: Recent Advancement in Edge/Fog Computing for Intelligent IoT Applications (Sensors; MDPI IF 3.275)

"A Demand-driven Proactive Tasks Management Model at the Edge", A. Karanika, P. Oikonomou, K. Kolomvatsos, T. Loukopoulos

IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) 2020, Glasgow, UK
Session: Human-in-the-Loop Interactions in Fuzzy Reasoning and Machine Learning. (EU/MSCA-IF/INNOVATE)

Scaling kNN queries using statistical learning

Cahsai, Atoshum Samuel (2020). PhD Thesis, University of Glasgow [online]

3 Book Chapters authored by: E. Aleksandrova, H. Ivanov, N. Shehab, K. Kolomvatsos, C. Anagnostopoulos

• Convergence of Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things

Join our presentation (IEEE ISCC 2020) Session 5B: Cloud and Edge Computing (Session I)

PhD Defense

Congratulations to A. S. Cahsai for the PhD Defense: Scaling kNN Queries Using Statistical Learning Link: [Enlighten]

PhD Defense

Congratulations to A. F. T. Ali for the PhD Defense: On the Placement of Security-related Virtualized Netwrok Functions over Data Center Networks Link: [Enlighten]

Special Issue: Recent Advancement in Edge/Fog Computing for Intelligent IoT Applications

• Deadline: 31 JULY 2020

Special Issue: Intelligent Edge Computing for Smart Cities

• Deadline: 31 DEC 2020

10th Workshop on Management of Cloud and Smart City Systems (MoCS 2020; IEEE ISCC 2020)

• P. Fountas, K. Kolomvatsos, A Continuous Data Imputation Mechanism based on Streams Correlation, IEEE ISCC Rennes, France, 7-10 July 2020.

IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE), IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI)

• Karanika, A., Oikonomou, P., Kolomvatsos, K., Loukopoulos, T., A Demand-driven, Proactive Tasks Management Model at the Edge, IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) Glasgow, UK, 2020

CD-MAKE Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction, All-Digital Conference, 25-28 Aug 2020

• Karanika, A., Oikonomou, P., Kolomvatsos, K. and Anagnostopoulos, C. An Ensemble Interpretable Machine Learning Scheme for Securing Data Quality at the Edge. (EU INNOVATE)
Interpretable ML in Edge Computing!

Future Generation Computer Systems

• Savva, F. , Anagnostopoulos, C. and Triantafillou, P. Adaptive learning of aggregate analytics under dynamic workloads Future Generation Computer Systems [PDF] (UK EPSRC CLDC)
Adaptive Query-driven Analytics at the Edge!

Journal of Data Science and Analytics

• Anagnostopoulos, C. and Triantafillou, P. Large-scale predictive modeling and analytics through regression queries in data management systems. Journal of Data Science and Analytics, 9(1), pp. 17-55. [PDF] (UK EPSRC CLDC)

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

• Anagnostopoulos, C. Edge-centric inferential modeling and analytics. [PDF], Journal of Network and Computer Applications (UK EPSRC CLDC)

IEEE Conference on Data Engineering (IEEE ICDE 2020)

• F. Savva, C. Anagnostopoulos, P. Triantafillou (2020) SuRF: Identification of Interesting Data Regions with Surrogate Models.36th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (IEEE ICDE), Dallas, TX, USA, 20-24 April 2020
A succesfull blend of Swarm Intelligence with Machine Learning!

IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (IEEE ISCC 2020)

• Ali, A. F. T., Anagnostopoulos, C. and Pezaros, D. In-Network Placement of Security VNFs in Multi-Tenant Data Centers, IEEE ISCC Rennes, France, 7-10 July 2020.

Applied Intelligence

• Anagnostopoulos, C. and Kolomvatsos, K. Predictive intelligence of reliable analytics in distributed computing environments, Applied Intelligence [PDF] (UK EPSRC CLDC)

Recruiting: Post Doctoral Data Analyst/Research Associate/Research Fellow!

EPSRC-funded Closed-Loop Data Science for Complex, Computationally- and Data-Intensive Analytics (Closes: 17 JUNE 2020)

ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (ACM TOIT)

• Panagidi, K., Anagnostopoulos, C. , Chalvatzaras, A. and Hadjietfthymiades, S. (2019) To transmit or not to transmit: controlling the communications in the mobile IoT domain. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOITs)

We are recruiting!

Permanent faculty openings (Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader) at Glasgow's School of Computing Science: Advanced networking; Cyber Security; FinTech; Trustworthy Autonomous Systems

• Deadline: 08.01.2020

IEEE WCCI/ECCI 2020

Our First International Workshop on Edge Computing & Computational Intelligence (ECCI 2020) is held in conjunction with the IEEE WCCI 2020, 19 - 24 July 2020, Glasgow, UK

Recruiting: Research Associate/Fellow!

EPSRC-funded Closed-Loop Data Science for Complex, Computationally- and Data-Intensive Analytics (Closes: 6th February 2020)

Journal article in Infromation. MDPI

• Alghamdi, I. A. I., Anagnostopoulos, C. and Pezaros, D. P. 'Delay-tolerant sequential decision making for task offloading in mobile edge computing environments'.

Journal article in Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier (IF: 5.273; JCR/2018)

'An intelligent, time-optimized monitoring scheme for edge nodes'

• Anagnostopoulos, C. and Kolomvatsos, K.

IEEE Big Data 2019; LA, 9-12 DEC 2019

'Aggregate Query Prediction under DynamicWorkloads'

• F. Savva, C. Anagnostopoulos, P. Triantafillou

Article in Computing (Springer)

'A probabilistic model for assigning queries at the edge'

• K. Kolomvatsos, C. Anagnostopoulos

IEEE Global Communications Conference 9-13 DEC 2019, Waikoloa, HI, USA Revolutionizing Communications

Join our full paper presentation in GLOBECOM 2019 @ Hawaii!

• Alghamdi, I. A. I., Anagnostopoulos, C. and Pezaros, D. P. 'On the Optimality of Task Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing Environments'.

12th International Conference on Internet and Distributed Computing Systems (IDCS 2019)

Join our full paper presentation in IDCS 2019 @ Italy

• Karanika, A., Soula, M., Anagnostopoulos, C. , Kolomvatsos, K. and Stamoulis, G. 'Optimized Analytics Query Allocation at the Edge of the Network'.

IEEE West European Student and Young Professional Congress (WESYP 2019)

Join my Plenary Talk in IEEE WESYP 2019 @ Glasgow, Scotland

• Anagnostopoulos, C. 'Next Generation Networked Systems: Virtualization, Programmability, Adaptability, Resilence, Intelligence'.

[Call for Papers] International Journal of Distributed Sensor Network

Special Collection on Distributed Artificial and Machine Intelligence in Evolving Sensor Networks

• Deadline: January 31, 2020

SIGMOD Student Research Competition

Congratulations to F. Savva on winning the 2nd place in SIGMOD 2019 SRC!

• F. Savva Query-Driven Learning for Next Generation Predictive Modelling & Analytics [PDF]

Applied Intelligence (Springer; Editorial News 2019)

Certificate awarded to C. Anagnostopoulos in recognition of continued commitment, prompt reviews, and excellent service to the International Journal of Applied Intelligence as an Editorial Board Member.

UCI ML Repository Dataset

[New] Query Analytics Workloads Dataset in UCI ML Repository [Dataset]

Special Issue Journal: Sensors (IF: 3.031)

Recent Advancement in Edge/Fog Computing for Intelligent IoT Applications Guest Editors: C Anagnostopoulos; K Kolomvatsos; D Pezaros [CFP]

European Research Council MSCA Meeting

Join our talk in ERC/MSCA Brussels 17-18, June 2019: 'AI in Europe'.

• Kolomvatsos, K., Anagnostopoulos, C., INNOVATE [PDF]

2019 ACM SIGMOD/POD; Amsterdam, NL

Poster presentation at ACM SIGMOD 2019.

• F. Savva Query-Driven Learning for Next Generation Predictive Modelling and Analytics [PDF]

SICSA PhD Conference 2019

Poster presentation at SICSA PhD Conference 2019, University of Stirling, 18-19 June 2019.

• I. Alghamdi, C. Anagnostopoulos, D. Pezaros. Time-Optimized Task Offloading Decision Making in Mobile Edge Computing

Internship: Grenoble INP Ensimag

We welcome Mr V Orru from U Grenoble Ensimag in Essence!

• Internship Research Topic:Application of Optimal Stopping Time in Large-scale Data Streams

2 x IEEE ISCC 2019 Papers

Join our paper presentations at IEEE ISCC 2019 Conference, Barcelona, Spain 2019.

• Sagkriotis, S., Anagnostopoulos, C., Pezaros, D. Energy Usage Profiling for Virtualized Single Board Computer Clusters.


• Sagkriotis, S., Kolomvatsos, K., Anagnostopoulos, C., Pezaros, D., Hadjiefthymiades, S. Knowledge-centric Analytics Queries Allocation in Edge Computing Environments.

IEEE ISPDC 2019 Paper

Join our paper presentations at IEEE ISPDC 2019 Conference, Amsterdam, 2019 (18th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing).

• E. Aleksandrova, C. Anagnostopoulos, K. Kolomvatsos, Machine Learning Model Updates in Edge Computing: An Optimal Stopping Theory Approach Funded by: H2020/INNOVATE.

IEEE WD 2019 Best Paper Runner Up Award

In recognition of the technical merit and significance of our paper: Alghamdi, I., Anagnostopoulos, C., Pezaros, D., 'Time-optimized Task Offloading Decision Making in Mobile Edge Computing' @ 11th IEEE Wireless Days 2019, Manchester.

2nd MobiUK 2019

We are presenting: Alghamdi, I., Anagnostopoulos, C., Pezaros, D., 'Time-optimized Task Offloading Decision Making in Mobile Edge Computing' @2nd UK Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Systems Research Symposium 1st-2nd July 2019, Dept of Computer Science, University of Oxford, UK.