Dr George Fakas

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Dr. Georgios John Fakas

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Biographical Notes

Awards

Research Projects:

(Current Projects,

Past Projects)

People: PhD Students

Research Interests

Teaching

Recent Publications

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Biographical Notes

Dr. Fakas has been a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computing and Mathematics of the Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) since June 2002. From January until May 2002, he was a Research Associate in the Computer Science Department of the University of Cyprus. In 2001, he was awarded an ERCIM (European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics) Fellowship and worked as a Research Associate at the Institute for Automatic Control of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. At EPFL he managed the CoHandle (Collaborative Environment for Remote Hands-on Learning Experimentation) project, a collaborative and co-operative web-based learning environment (funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation). From 1999-2001, he worked as a Research Associate in the Computer Science Department of the University of Cyprus, managing the Cultural Journeys in the Information Society (CJIS) project (an INCO project funded by EC). From 1996-98, he worked as a Research Assistant in the Computation Department, UMIST, managing the ISM-S (funded by UMEM Ltd) and EUROBANQUET (funded by EU, ESPRIT III) projects.

Dr. Fakas obtained his Ph.D. in 1998, his M.Phil. in 1996 and, his B.Sc. in Computation in 1995; all from the Department of Computation, UMIST, Manchester, UK. Dr. Fakas has a number of publications in refereed journals and international conference proceedings. He is also currently participating in a SOCRATES Partnership (academics exchange) with Aristotle University of Thesaloniki, Greece and University of Cyprus, Cyprus.

He is also a warden at Montgomery Hall of Residence, Manchester Metropolitan University. Montgomery Hall is located in Whalley Range, i.e. 2 miles (3km) south of the Manchester City centre, and has over 250 student residents.

Awards

In 2001, he was awarded an ERCIM (European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics) Fellowship. As part of the ERCIM fellowship, he worked as a Research Associate at the Institute for Automatic Control of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland (for 9 months, i.e. 1/2/2001-31/10/2001), and he is also to work at VTT, Oulou, Finland (for another 9 months- not yet).

Participation in Research Projects

Current Projects

SEEArchWeb: An Interactive Web-based Presentation of Southeastern European Archaeology project (10/2003- 10/2006), funded by the SOCRATES/MINERVA Programme, European Commission. The project will develop and present web-based distance learning resources for the Prehistory and Archaeology of South-eastern Europe. Other partners of this project are Aristotle University Of Thessaloniki, Greece, Foundation of Hellenic World, Greece, Open University of Catalonia, Spain, University Of Paris I, France, American University In Bulgaria and University Of Cyprus, Cyprus.

EPSRC CASE for New Academics (CNA) Studentship in collaboration with SibiLo (UK) Ltd (10/2003 – 10/2006). This project investigates mechanisms that address the integration of personal data (in the context of Data Protection Act) from different parts of an organisation. Data Spiders are proposed that can search corporate databases to identify and fetch “automated data”. Schema-design for relational databases varies immensely; thus, identifying a set of fields in a single database table or multiple tables as personal data and that they belong to the data subject requires the use of machine learning approaches.

This Project’s Web site is still under construction…..

Past Projects

Cultural Journeys in the Information Society (CJIS), (15/3/99-30/5/2002), (INCO Project- funded by the EU), Electronic Roads in the Information Society (ERIS) (funded by the Government of Cyprus), University of Cyprus. Development of the CJIS systems; an intelligent navigation environment that proposes Electronic Roads as a meta-form in exploring cultural content that can form Cultural Journeys.

eMersion and CoHandle (1/2/2001-31/10/2001), (funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, ERCIM Fellowship program), EPFL. Development of the Electronic laboratory Journal environment that emphasizes collaborative and cooperative work in the framework of remote experimentation carried out by a group of students located at different places.

extensible Retrieval Annotation Caching Engine (eRace), Collaborator, (1/1/2001-30/6/2002) (funded by the Cyprus National Research Promotion Foundation), University of Cyprus. eRACE collects information from heterogeneous Internet sources and protocols (Web, email, newsgroups) according to prespecified user profiles and interests.

EUROBANQUET (4/1996 –6/1998) (ESPRIT project funded by EU), UMIST. EUROBANQUET proposes an effective methodology for information System Evolution reflecting business and legislative changes.

People

PhD Students

Ben Cawley is my first PhD student (completed his PhD in 2008).

Zhi Cai is my second PhD student

Research Interests

His research interests include Database Systems. More precisely, his research activities in Database Systems cover the following areas:

1) Keyword Searching in Relational Databases: Object Summaries, (demo)

2) Automated Generation of Personal Data Reports from Relational Databases and Compliance with Data Protection Acts.

He also researches in Workflow Management Systems and Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Dr. Fakas investigates Peer to Peer and Grid Workflow Architectures, dynamic web enabled workflows. Other research interests also include Computers in Education, Distance and Collaborative Learning.

Courses Teaching

· Peer to Peer (P2P) Computing – JXTA Labs(63SN2203)

· Database Management and Programming, Object Oriented Databases, Oracle

· Object Oriented Programming (Java)

· Systems Analysis and Design

· Multimedia Learning Environments

Recent Publications

G. Fakas, Z. Cai, Ranking of Object Summaries, DBRank Workshop 2009, ICDE 2009.

B. Karakostas, G. Fakas, An Architecture for Reliable Mobile Workflow in a Grid Environment, Fourth International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services, Venice, May 2009.

G. Fakas, Automated Generation of Object Summaries from Relational Databases: A Novel Keyword Searching Paradigm, DBRank Workshop 2008, ICDE 2008. (Presentation, Demo)

E. Kyriacou, G. Fakas, V. Pavlaki, A Completely Decentralized Workflow Management System for the Support of Emergency Telemedicine and Patient Monitoring, 28th IEEE EMBS Annual International Conference, Aug 30-Sept. 3, 2006, New York City, New York, USA.

G. Fakas, A. V. Nguyen and D. Gillet, The Electronic Laboratory Journal: A Web-Based Collaborative Environment for Remote Experimentation, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW): The Journal of Collaborative Computing, Kluwer Academic Publisher, Volume 14, Number 3, pp 189–216, 2005.

G. Fakas, I. Lamprianou, A. Andreou, M. Pampaka, C. Schizas, The Evaluation of Cultural Journeys in the Information Society (CJIS) Environment as an Educational Aid, Computers & Education Journal, Elsevier, Volume 45, Issue 1, pp. 123-139, 2005.

G. Fakas, B. Karakostas, A Peer to Peer Architecture for Dynamic Workflow Management Using Web Services, Information and Software Technology Journal, Elsevier, Volume 46, Issue 6, pp 423-431, 2004.

G. Fakas, A. Kakas, C. Schizas, Electronic Roads: Intelligent Navigation Through Multi-Contextual Information, Knowledge and Information Systems, International Journal, Springer, Volume 6, Issue 1, pp. 103–124, 2004.

G. Papadopoulos, G. Fakas, Component-Based Development of Dynamic Workflow Systems Using the Coordination Paradigm, Seventh International Conference on Parallel Computing Technologies (PaCT-2003), September 15-19, 2003, Nizhni Novgorod, Russia.

G. Fakas, B. Karakostas, A Peer to Peer (P2P) Dynamic Workflow Management Based on Web Services, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Services, ICWS'03, CSREA Press, pp 428-431, June 23-26, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

B. Karakostas, D. Panayiotakis, G. Fakas, Workflow Requirements Modelling Using XML, Requirements Engineering Journal, Springer, Volume 7, Issue 3, pp 124-138, 2002.

G. Fakas, D. Gillet, The Electronic Laboratory Journal: A Web-Based collaborative environment for Remote Experimentation, the 2002 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Vive Le Engineer, Montréal, Canada, June 16-19, 2002.

D. Gillet, G. Fakas, Emersion: A New Paradigm For Web-Based Training In Mechanical Engineering Education, International Conference on Engineering Education (ICEE), 2001 Oslo, Norway