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Vassilios Lazarou

Management

BSc, Applied Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business; MSc, Advanced Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK; PhD, Distributed Artificial Intelligence and Software Agents, Imperial College, University of London, UK.

Dr. Vasilios Lazarou has been a member of the Deree faculty since 2003 and has taught across the curriculum. He received full funding for his PhD research at Fujitsu Labs under the research initiative Agent Languages & Architectures. He has published numerous papers in international books, journals and conferences related to Web Information Systems, Intelligent Information Systems, Agent Information Systems, Software Systems, Social Network Knowledge Discovery and Distributed Systems for Healthcare & Tourism. Dr. Lazarou exhibits notable teaching experience, serving as a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Thessaly, where he delivered a course in Geographical Information Systems. Before that, he served as a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Crete – School of Social Sciences. His current teaching involves CRM Systems, Business Technology and Business Website development. In addition, he serves as an Honors Thesis Supervisor at the Deree International Honours Program. His research interests include software agents, social media analytics and AI.

Selected Publications 

  • “Agent Information Systems for Software Engineering”, S. K. Gardikiotis, V. S. Lazarou. Tools in Artificial Intelligence, Chapter AI in Software Engineering, I-Tech Education and Publishing 2011, ISBN 978-3-902613-36-3.
  • “An Ontology-Based Multi-Agent Information System for Maintaining Database Applications”, S. K. Gardikiotis, V. S. Lazarou, N. Malevris. International Journal of Computer & Information Science, Vol.8, No.5, 2010.
  • “Utilizing Agent Technology for Database Applications Software Engineering”, S. K. Gardikiotis, V. S. Lazarou, N. Malevris. International Journal of Electronics & Computer Science, Vol.9, No.2, 2009.
  • “Employing Agents towards Database Applications Testing”, S. K. Gardikiotis, V. S. Lazarou. 21th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI’07), Patras, Greece 2007. Published by IEEE Computer Society Press (pp. 157 – 166).
  • “An Agent-based Approach for the Maintenance of Database Applications”, S. K. Gardikiotis, V. S. Lazarou, N. Malevris. 5th International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA’07), Busan, Korea 2007.
  • “A Multi-Agent System for Hypermedia Information Discovery on the World Wide Web”, V. S. Lazarou, K. L. Clark. Agents for Collaborative Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999 (pp. 187 – 197).
  • “Agents for Hypermedia Information Discovery”, V. S. Lazarou, K. L. Clark. Agents’ World 98, Cooperative Information Agents (CIA98), Paris, France, 1998. Published by Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (1435) (pp. 55 – 66).
  • “World Wide Web Agents for Information Discovery”, V. S. Lazarou, K. L. Clark. International Journal of World Wide Web, WWWJ, 1997 (pp. 233 – 240).
  • “A Multi-Agent System for Distributed Information Retrieval on the World Wide Web”, V. S. Lazarou, K. L. Clark. IEEE 6th Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE97), Collaborative Agents in Distributed Web Applications, MIT Cambridge, MA, 1997. Published by IEEE Computer Society Press (pp. 157 – 166).
  • “Distributed Information Retrieval using a Multi-Agent System and the role of Logic Programming”, V. S. Lazarou, K. L. Clark. 14th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP97), Logic Programming Tools for Internet Applications, Leuven, Belgium, 1997 (p. 71 – 77). Also in 6th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW6), Logic Programming for the Web, Santa Clara, CA, 1997 (pp. 105 – 111).