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 | Invited
panelist: "The m-Commerce Era?" main panel of The
2002 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet
(SAINT2002), Nara, Japan / Jan.28 - Feb.1 2002 |
| Invited
panelist: "Locating
Zillions of Gismos on the Internet, what’s in it for the Database
People?", main
panel of the 17th
International Data Engineering Conference (ICDE 2001),
Germany,
April 2-6 2001. |
| Samaras
G., K. Britton,
A. Citron, "Systems
Network Architecture, Sync Point Services Architecture", IBM
Book, SC31-8134-00,
September 1994. Presents IBM's distributed transaction processing
architecture. Published and distributed by IBM. This architecture is
being implemented by IBM's VM, DB2, CICS, AS400, Transarc's Encina,
Tandem and Bull. |
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M.
Dikaiakos, G. Samaras, "A Performance Analysis Framework for
Mobile-Agent Systems” A chapter in: Performance Engineering: State of the Art and
Current Trends. Dumke, R., Rautenstrauch, C., Schmietendorf, A.,
Scholz, A. (Eds.), Sprigler-Verlag
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ISBN
3-540-42145-9, 2001. XIV, 349 pp. |
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Samaras,
G., and P. Chrysanthis "Commit
Protocols", A chapter
in: The Encyclopedia of Distributed Computing, P. Dasgupta and J.
Urban, Editors, Kluwer Academic Publishers,
forthcoming 2000. |
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E.
Pitoura and Samaras, G, "Mobile Computing", A
chapter in: The Encyclopedia of Distributed Computing, P. Dasgupta and
J. Urban, Editors, Kluwer Academic Publishers,
forthcoming 2001. |
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Chrysanthis,
P., Samaras, G., and Y. Al-Houmail, "Recovery
and Performance of Atomic Commit Protocols in Distributed and
Multidatabase Systems", Chapter 13 (pp 370-416) in Performance of Database Recovery Mechanism, Edited by V. Kumar, Foreword
by Phil Bernstein. Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0-13-614215-x, January 1998. |
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Samaras
G., K. Britton,
A. Citron,
C. Mohan, "Two-Phase
Commit Optimizations and Trade offs in the Commercial Environment",
selected to be included in Advances
in Concurrency Control and Transaction Processing by K. Ramamritham and P.K.
Chrysanthis, IEEE Computer
Science Press, ISBN 0-1886-7405-9, 1996. |
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Samaras
G., K. Britton,
A. Citron,
C. Mohan, "Enhancing
SNA's LU6.2 Sync Point
to Include Presumed Abort Protocol", TR# 29.1751.
Embedded as chapter 5 in IBM's book publication "Systems Network Architecture, Sync Point Services Architecture",
SC31-8134-00, Sept. 1994. |
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Evripidou
P., Samaras G., Pitoura E., Christoforos P.,
“The PacMan Metacomputer: Parallel Computing with Java Mobile Agents”,
Journal FGCS special issue on JAVA in High Performance Computing,
Vol 19, No. 2 (2001) pp 265-280. [ Visit
Homepage ] |
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Stavros
Papastavrou, Panos K. Chrysanthis, George Samaras, Evaggelia Pitoura,
“An Evaluation of the Java-based Approaches for Web Database Access”,
International Journal of Cooperation Systems (IJCIS), special issue.
(accepted)
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Paraskevas
Evripidou, George Samaras, Constantinos Spyrou,
Andreas Papagapiou, “Net-Console:
A Web Based Development Environment for Parallel Programs”, Parallel
Processing Letters special issue on Parallel Processing in the
New Millennium. (accepted) |
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Papastavrou
S., G. Samaras, E. Pitoura, “Mobile
Agents for WWW Distributed Database Access”, IEEE
Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering Journal (TKDE),
Vol. 12, No. 5 September/October 2000. |
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Constantinos
Spyrou, George Samaras, Evangelia Pitoura,
Evripidou Paraskevas
“Mobile
Agents for Wireless Computing: The Convergence of Wireless
Computational Models with Mobile-Agent Technologies”,
Journal of ACM/Baltzer Mobile Networking and Applications (MONET),
special issue on
“Mobility
in Databases & Distributed Systems
", 2000. (to appear) |
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E.
Pitoura, and Samaras, G., “Locating Objects in Mobile Computing”. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering Journal (TKDE).
Vol. 13 No. 4, pp. 571-592, July/August 2001. |
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Barron
C. Housel, George
Samaras, David B. Lindquist, "WebExpress: A Client/Intercept Based System for Optimizing Web Browsing
in a Wireless Environment",
Journal of ACM/Baltzer
Mobile Networking and Applications (MONET), special issue on
"Mobile Networking on the Internet", 3(4): 419-431,
December, 1998. |
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A.,
Kshemlakyani, Samaras, G., Citron,, A. "Context
Management and its Applications to Distributed Transactions",
Distributed Systems Engineering Journal, 5(1):1-11, March 1998.
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Samaras,
G., Citron, A., Kshemlakyani, A., "Reconciling
Communication Chained and Unchained Transactional Support in
Distributed Systems", Journal of Systems
Architecture, 43(1-5):
229-243, March, 1997.
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Samaras
G., K. Britton, A. Citron, C. Mohan , "Two-Phase
Commit Optimizations in a Commercial
Distributed Environment", Distributed
and Parallel Databases Journal/An
International Journal,
3(4): 325-361, October, 1995.
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Samaras,
G., Spooner D., and M. Hardwick, "Query
Classification in Object-Oriented Engineering Design Systems",
Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
Journal, 26(2): 127-137, February, 1994.
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S.
D. Nikolopoulos, and G. Samaras, "Sub-Optimal
Solutions to Track Detection Problem using Graph Theoretic
Concepts". (Special issue) Journal
of Systems Architecture, 42(9-10): 743-760, February, 1997. |
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Samaras,
G., E. Pitoura, and P. Evripidou “Software
Models for Wireless and Mobile Computing: Survey
and Case Study”.
To the Journal of ACM/Baltzer Mobile Networking and Applications
(MONET), TR# 99-5, University of Cyprus, Computer Science Department. |
| Samaras,
G. and S. D. Nikolopoulos, "Heuristic
Decisions and Commit Protocols", TR# 96-17, University of
Cyprus, Computer Science Department.
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George
Samaras, Christoforos Panayiotou, "A Flexible Personalization
Architecture for Wireless Internet Based on Mobile Agents", Proc. 6th East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and
Information Systems (ADBIS 2002), September 2002, Bratislava,
Slovakia. (Accepted rate: 30%)
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G.
Samaras, C. Spyrou, E. Pitoura, View Generator (VG): A Mobile Agent
Based System for the Creation and Maintenance of Web Views, 7th
IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications,
Taormina, Italy July 2002. (Accepted
rate: 55%)
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G. Samaras, C. Spyrou, E. Pitoura, M. Dikaiakos,
" Tracker: A Universal Location Management System for Mobile
Agents", European Wireless, Feb 2002. [Visit
Webpage]
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George
Samaras, Constantinos Spyrou, Evaggelia Pitoura, Marios Dikaiakos,
Tracker:
A Universal Location Management System for Mobile Agents.
Proc.
The European Wireless
2002 Conference, Next Generation Wireless Networks: Technologies,
Protocols, Services and Applications,
pp. 572-580, Florence,
Italy, February 25-28, 2002.
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Samaras,
G., On the Semantic
Adaptability of Commit Protocols",
submitted, also
technical report TR-98-6, University of Cyprus, April 1998.
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Samaras,
G., Kyrou G., P. Chrysanthis, "Structuring
the Commit Tree to Improve Commit Processing". Proc.
9th Hellenic Conference on Informatics, Nicosia, Cyprus, November
2001.
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M. Dikaiakos, Melinos k., G. Samaras,
"A
Performance Analysis Framework for Mobile-Agent Systems"
, 5th
International Conference on Mobile Agents. Atlanta, Georgia, USA,
December 2 - 4, 2001. Published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture
Notes on Computer Science series. (Accepted rate: 24%)
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Chrystalla Alexandrou, Achilleas Kentonis,
Andreas Andreou, George Samaras and Christos N. Schizas, “THE
CYPRUS TREASURE” A web based Multimedia Application for
Archeological Treasures,
Technology
and Cultural Heritage (ICHIM-2001): Cultural Heritage and Technologies
in the Third Millennium,
3-7 September, 2001.
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Constantinos Spyrou, George Samaras, Evaggelia
Pitoura, Stavros Papastavrou, and Panos K. Chrysanthis, “Mobile
Agents to Support Views for Wireless and Mobile Client”, Proc.
17th International Data
Engineering Conference (ICDE 2001),
demo session, Germany,
April 2-6 2001. (Accepted rate: 25%)
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C. Spyrou, G. Samaras, E. Pitoura, S. Papastavrou, P. K. Chrysanthis, The Dynamic View System (DVS): Mobile Agents to Support Web Views (demo).
In the 17h International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE01), Heidelberg, Germany, April 2-6,
2001.
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George Samaras and
Paraskevas Evripidou, Evangelia Pitoura,
“Mobile-Agents based
Infrastructure for eWork and eBussiness Applications”, The eBusiness and eWork Conference, eWork2000, Madrid, Spain, October
2000.
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M. Dikaiakos, G.
Samaras, "A Performance Analysis Framework for Mobile-Agent
Systems, "First Annual Workshop on Infrastructure for Scalable
Multi-Agent Systems, The Fourth
International Conference on Autonomous Agents 2000, ACM,
Barcelona, June 2000. Published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture
Notes on Computer Science series.
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Stavros Papastavrou, Panos K. Chrysanthis, George
Samaras, Evaggelia Pitoura, “An Evaluation of the Java-based Approaches for Web Database Access”,
Proc. of the Fifth IFCIS
International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS´2000),
Israel, September 2000. (selected for Journal publication) |
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Stavros
Papastavrou, Panos K. Chrysanthis, George Samaras, Evaggelia Pitoura, “A Survey on the Java-based Approaches for Web Database Connectivity”,
Proc. of the Medicon 2000
Conference, May 2000.
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Andreas
Pitsillides, George Samaras, Marios Dikaiakos, Eleni Christodoulou,
DITIS: Collaborative Virtual Medical team for home healthcare of
cancer patients, Conference
on the Information Society and Telematics Applications, Catania,
Italy, 16-18 April 1999. (Invited)
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Samaras G.,
Dikaiakos M., Spyrou C.,
Liberdos A., “Mobile Agent Platforms for Web-Databases: A Qualitative and
Quantitative Assessment”, The
Joint Symposium ASA/MA'99. First
International Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications (ASA'99).
Third International Symposium on Mobile Agents (MA'99), pp. 50-64,
USA, 1999. (Accepted rate: 22%)
[visit
webpage]
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Evripidou P.,
Samaras G., Pitoura E., Christoforos P.,
“PacMan: Parallel Computing Using Java Mobile Agents”,
13th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS),
Workshop on “Java for High Performance Computing”, Rhodes,
Greece, June 1999.
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Papagapiou A.,
Evripidou P, Samaras G., “Net-Console:
A Web Based Development Environment for MPI Programs”, International
Conference EuroPVM/MPI99,
Sprigler-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Barcelona,
Spain, 1999.
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Constantinos Spyrou,
George Samaras, Evangelia Pitoura,
Evripidou Paraskevas,
“Wireless Computational Models: Mobile Agents to the Rescue”,
2nd International Workshop “Mobility in Databases &
Distributed Systems” DEXA´99, Florence, Italy, September 1999.
(Accepted rate: 30%) (selected for Journal publication) |
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Christoforos P.,
Samaras G., Pitoura E., Evripidou P.,
“Parallel Computing Using
Java Mobile Agents”,
25th Euromicro Conference, Workshop on Network Computing, September
1999. Also technical report TR-99-7, University of Cyprus,
February 1999. |
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Louca,
S., Pitsillides, A., and Samaras, G.
“On Network Survivability Algorithms based on Trellis Graph
Transformations”, Proc. Of the Fourth
Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC´99), Egypt, June
1999.
(Accepted rate: 35%)
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Barelos,
D., E. Pitoura, G. Samaras, “Mobile
Agents Procedures: Metacomputing in Java”,
Proc. Of the ICDCS Workshop on Distributed
Middleware
(in conjunction with the 19th IEEE International Conference on
Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS99)), pp. 90-95, Austin, TX USA,
June
1999.
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Papastavrou
S., G. Samaras, E. Pitoura, “Mobile
Agents for WWW Distributed Database Access”,
Proc. 15th International
Data Engineering Conference, pp. 228-237, Sydney, Australia, March
1999. ICDE´99
Best Paper Award. (Accepted rate: 22%)
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Samaras,
G., A. Pitsillides,
"Client/Intercept: a
Computational Model for Wireless Environments", Proc.
4th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT'97),
Melbourne, Australia, April 1997.
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Samaras,
G., S.D. Nikolopoulos, K. Britton, A. Citron, "Transaction
Identifier Management in the Peer-to-Peer Distributed Transactional
Environment". In the
Nineth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing
Systems (PDCS'96), pp. 796-803, Dijon, France, September 1996.
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Mohan,
C., K. Britton, A.
Citron, G. Samaras , "Generalized
Presumed Abort: Marrying Presumed Abort and SNA's LU6.2 Commit
Protocols', Proc. International Workshop on Advance Transaction Models and
Architectures (ATMA96) (Edited Book), Goa, India, September 1996
(Held in conjunction with VLDB'96). Extended version of the HPTS'93
paper.
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Samaras,
G., A., Kshemlakyani, Citron,, A. "Context
Management and its Applications to Distributed Transactions".
Proc. 16th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing
Systems (IDCS96) Hong
Kong, May 1996. (Accepted
rate: 29%)
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Citron,
A., Samaras, G., "Handling Parallel Processing in Multimedia Systems, Proc.
3rd International Conference on Telecommunications ICT'96, April
1996.
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Samaras,
G., S.D. Nikolopoulos, "Algorithmic Techniques Incorporating Heuristic
Decisions in Commit Protocols". Proc.
25th Euromicro Conference, IEEE/CS, Como, September
1995.
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Samaras,
G., S.D. Nikolopoulos, K. Britton, A. Citron, "Efficient
Algorithms for Managing
Transaction Identifiers in the Peer-to-Peer Distributed Transactional
Environment". Proc.
5th Hellenic Conference on Informatics, Athens, December 1995.
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S.
D. Nikolopoulos, Samaras, G., Spooner D., Skolnick M., "Teaching
Computer Science for Non-Majors through a Hypertext Book". Proc. 2nd Hellenic Conference on Mathematics and Computer Science
in Education, Nicosia, April 1995.
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S.D.
Nikolopoulos, G. Samaras, "Sub-Optimal
Approach to Track Detection in Real-Time Systems". Proc.
25th Euromicro Conference, EEE/CS, Como, September 1995. |
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Samaras,
G., Citron, A., Kshemlakyani, A., "Unchained
Transactions and SNA's LU6.2', Proc.
5th International Workshop on High Performance Transaction Systems (HPTS),
Asilomar, September 1993. |
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Samaras
G., K. Britton, A. Citron, C. Mohan, "Two-Phase
Commit Optimizations and Trade offs in the Commercial Environment",
Proc. 9th
International Data Engineering Conference, IEEE, Vienna,
April 1993.
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Samaras,
G., Citron, A., "Unchained Transactions in the Peer-to-Peer Chained environment of
SNA's LU6.2', Proc.
8th International Symposium on Computer Systems, November 1993.
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Mohan,
C., K. Britton, A.
Citron, G. Samaras , "Generalized
Presumed Abort: Marrying Presumed Abort and SNA's LU6.2 Commit
Protocols', Proc. 4th
International Workshop on High Performance Transaction Systems (HPTS),
Asilomar, September 1993.
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Samaras,
G., Citron, A., Kshemlakyani, A., "Reconciling
Communication Transactional Support
for Chained and Unchained Transactions",
Proc. 2nd International
Conference on Computer Applications to Engineering Systems, IEE
and IEEE, Nicosia,
Cyprus, July 1993.
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Samaras,
G. , Spooner D., M. Hardwick, "Query
Classification in Object-Oriented Engineering Design Systems",
Proc. 1st International
Conference on Computer Applications to Engineering Systems, IEE
and IEEE, Nicosia,
Cyprus, July 1991.
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Samaras,
G., "Object-Oriented
Engineering Databases: Issues", Proc. 1st International Conference on Computer Applications to
Engineering Systems, IEE and IEEE, Nicosia, Cyprus, July 1991.
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Hardwick,
M., G. Samaras, et. al, "Evolution of ROSE: An Object Oriented Database for Engineering
Design Systems", 1st
International CIM Conference, Center of
Manufacturing, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New
York, May 1990.
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Hardwick,
M. and G. Samaras, "Using a Relational Database as an index to a Distributed Object
Database in Engineering Applications", Proc. of the 2nd International Conference on Data and Knowledge
Systems for Engineering and Manufacturing, Gaithersburg, Maryland,
IEEE Computer Society Press, October 1989.
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Hardwick,
M., G. Samaras and D. Spooner, "Evaluating
Recursive queries in CAD Using Extended Projection Function",
Proc. 3rd International
Data Engineering Conference, IEEE, Los Angeles, February 1987.
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D.
Spooner, M. Hardwick, G. Samaras, "Some
Conceptual Ideas for Extending SQL for Object-Oriented Engineering
Database Systems", Proc.
1st International Conference on Data and Knowledge Systems for
Engineering and Manufacturing, IEEE, Hartford, Connecticut,
October 1987. |
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