Constantina Costopoulou is an professor at the Informatics Laboratory of the Agricultural Economics & Rural Development Dept. of the Agricultural University of Athens. She holds a BSc in mathematics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, an MSc in software engineering from Cranfield University (former Cranfield Institute of Tecnology) and a PhD from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. She has published more than 120 papers in scientific journals, edited volumes, and refereed conferences. She has also served as the scientific responsible or member of the working group of several funded projects in the above research areas.
Her research interests include rural area networks, Web services, e-commerce, e-government, e-learning, and e-services for the agricultural sector.
Maria Ntaliani is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development of the Agricultural University of Athens with specialization in “Digital Services and E-Government in Rural Areas”. She has received a scholarship from the State Scholarships Foundation for her doctoral research. She has previous teaching experience at the Hellenic Open University, the University of West Attica, the University of Piraeus, and the Technological Educations Institutes of Sterea Ellada and Western Greece. She has participated in European and national research and development programs. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, in special volumes/ collections of articles, and in peer-reviewed conferences (international and national). She has been a reviewer of international scientific journals and a member of conference organizing and scientific committees.
Her research interests include e-government, e-business, e-learning, and digital services and applications for agriculture and rural areas.
Konstantinos Demestichas received his Diploma (2005), as well as his PhD degree in Telecommunications (2009), from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). He also holds an MBA degree (2012) in Techno-Economic Systems through the joint postgraduates’ programme of NTUA and University of Piraeus, as well as an MSc degree in Quality Assurance (2015) from the Hellenic Open University. In 2021, he joined the Agricultural Economics and Rural Development Dept. of the Agricultural University of Athens as Assistant Professor, and he serves as a member of the Informatics Laboratory ever since. Before joining the Agricultrual University of Athens, he served as a lecturer at NTUA, the University of Western Macedonia, the University of West Attica and the Hellenic Open University. Since 2005, he has been actively involved in several European and national research projects. He was the concept initiator and primary proposal author of several EU funded projects, often assuming the role of scientific or project coordinator. He has participated in the Technical Program Committees of international conferences and has assisted as a reviewer and editor in top ranked scientific journals. He has authored over 200 publications and has also served as a technical expert for the European Commission.
His primary research interests include Artificial intelligence, Machine Learning, and Big Data analytics, as well as secure digital and network technologies for agriculture and the environment.
Sotirios T. Karetsos is an Assistant Professor at the Informatics Laboratory of the Agricultural Economics & Rural Development Dept. of the Agricultural University of Athens. He holds an MSc (integrated master) and BSc in Agricultural Biotechnology from the Agricultural University of Athens, and MBA degree in Economic – Engineering Systems by the joint postgraduates’ programme of National Technical University of Athens and the University of Piraeus, and a PhD from the Informatics Laboratory of the Agricultural University of Athens. He worked for the Ministry of Rural Development and Food, he served as Seconded National Expert and external collaborator at the Joint Research Center of the European Commission, Italy, as well as Researcher at the Agricultural University of Athens. He has published more than 60 papers in scientific journals, edited volumes, and refereed conferences and more than 60 reports for the European Commission.
His research interests include the design, development and implementation of information systems for Internet services provision, the use of Internet technologies for services provision (e-commerce, e-government, e-learning), social network analysis, mobile apps development, business models and innovation services in the digital economy, information systems modeling and business process analysis. He has also served as member of working groups of several funded projects in the above research areas.
George Lagogiannis graduated from the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, (University of Patras, Greece) on September 1995. In 2000 he received a Master’s degree in Computer Science, from the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, of the University of Patras. In 2003 he received a PhD from the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics of the University of Patras. Title of PhD thesis is “Tree structures for searching, on a Random Access Machine and on a Pointer Machine.” The supervisor was Professor Α. Tsakalidis.
On October 2004, he was elected lecturer in the Department of Science of the Agricultural University of Athens. In 16/3/2006 he started working as a lecturer, in the Department of Science of the Agricultural University of Athens. In 10/7/2013 the Department of Science ceased to exist, and he entered the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural development, of the Agricultural University of Athens. In 31/7/2013 we started working as an assistant professor at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural development, of the Agricultural University of Athens.
His field of expertise is “Data structures and algorithms”.
His research interests include dynamic graph problems, query optimization, data structures with sublinear space, as well as other theoretical problems in the field of Data Structures and Algorithms.
Mr Athanasios Makrandreou is a member of the Laboratory and Teaching Staff at the Informatics Laboratory of the Agricultural University of Athens.
Born in Cyprus, I enrolled to School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki from where I graduated in 1982 with a degree in Mathematics. Afterwards, in 1985 I received a postgraduate degree, in Informatics and Operation Research, from School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Since February 2006, I am a holder of PhD degree from Informatics Laboratory of Agricultural University of Athens in the knowledge domain area of “Knowledge Base Systems”. From April 1985 until July 2000 I worked at the Animal Breeding and Husbandry Department of Agricultural University of Athens, with the Statistical analysis of data as my major responsibility. Since August 2000 I am a member of the Special Laboratory and Teaching Staff of the Agricultural University of Athens at the Informatics Laboratory, teaching classes on Computers Programming and Databases. In parallel, I participate in the development and maintenance of the administrative applications of the university. Major author or coauthor of the technical specifications, and member of the development team, for various programmes of the University related to ITC, funded through the 3rd Community Support Framework of the European Union (2000-2006) or the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) (2007-2013). Such programmes are the Improvement of undergraduate studies in Agricultural University of Athens, Equipment of tele-teaching and Advanced Network Services in Agricultural University of Athens, Modernization and enrichment of the library of the Agricultural University of Athens, Online Electronic Services at AUA and Design and Implementation of a Digital Repository of the AUA. Single author or co-author of several research papers concerning knowledge representation and management, repositories and digital libraries and ontology development and usage.
His interests cover the subjects of knowledge representation and management, knowledge base systems, system analysis and design of information systems, design and implementation of expert systems, ontology design and usage and development of web based systems using Java related technologies.
Sophia Leni was born in Athens. She holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Patras and two MSc in “Engineering Infrastructure Works” from the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Patras and “Environmental Design of Cities and Buildings” from the School of Sciences and Technology from the Hellenic Open University. She has worked in the private sector, in the public sector and as a laboratory assistant at the former TEI of Piraeus. She is a PhD candidate in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Development. PhD thesis in” Land Policy and rural Systems. A GIS Approach”.