The OS-WINDS (Operating Systems – Web/INternet Data Sources management) group belongs to the Programming Languages & Software Engineering Lab at the Department of Informatics (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki). It focuses on the area of operating systems, Web data mining, Web traffic management, content distribution and delivery over the Web, Internet data storage and the XML standard in the content representation and processing.

OSWINDS profile

Distinctions

Best Theses 2010 & 2011

OSWINDS members have been honored by the Aristotle University Rectors for their 2010-11 achievements

Life Avatar: A software platform that trains users towards a healthier life style against obesity The paper entitled “The Dynamics of Content Popularity in Social Media” co-authored by S. Papadopoulos, A. Vakali and I. Kompatsiaris received the best paper award of the International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining for the year 2010. The “ClustΤour: City Exploration by use of Spatio-temporal Analysis and Clustering of User Contributed Photos” coauthored by S. Papadopoulos, C. Zigolis, S. Kapiris, I. Kompatsiaris and A. Vakali received the Best demo award at the International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval 2011

The main activities of OSWINDS Research Group are:

• Applied research
• Educational activities
• Projects participation

The coordinator of the group is Associate Professor Athena Vakali, while the director of the PLaSE laboratory is Professor I. Vlahavas. Other groups of the PLaSE lab include LPIS Group and SWENG Group.

Contact:

Associate Professor Athena Vakali
Dpt. of Informatics
Aristotle University, Box 114
54124 Thessaloniki
GREECE
Email: avakali@csd.auth.gr
Telephone: +30-2310-998415
Fax: +30-2310-998419