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Matoula Magiridou

Computer Scientist
 
 
Address Department of Informatics and Telecommunications
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Panepistimiopolis, Ilisia
Athens 15784 Greece
 
Phone +30 210 727 5207 
Fax  
E-mail matoula at di.uoa.gr
Url http://www.di.uoa.gr/~matoula
 
 

EDUCATION
2003-now:
PhD candidate in Advanced Information Systems
Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Supervisor: Manolis Koubarakis (koubarak at di.uoa.gr)
2003:
MSc in Information Systems
Department of Computing, University of Leeds, UK.
Thesis title: "A Software Platform for building multi-agent simulations"
Supervisor: Dr. Nick D. Efford (nde at comp.leeds.ac.uk)
2000:
BSc in Computer Science
University of Crete, Greece, Computer Science Department.
Thesis title: "Design and implementation of a toolkit for checking normal forms in relational databases”
Supervisor: Dimitris Plexousakis (dp at ics.forth.gr)
 

EXPERIENCE
May 2005 - now
Research assistant in project ONTOGRID (EU 6th Framework Programme IST/FET).
January 2003 - October 2005:
Research assistant in the Intelligent Systems Laboratory in Technical University of Crete
March 2003 - now:
Teaching assistant in the following cources
  • Compilers (autumn 2003, 2004)
  • Data Structures and Algorithms (spring 2003, 2004)
  • Artificial Intelligence (autumn 2005)
  • Foundations of Databases (spring 2006)
January 2003 - June 2003:
Research in project DIET (Decentralised Information Ecosystem Technologies)
March 2001 - June 2001:
Practical training in Kernel ltd. (IBM business partner and retailer in Heraklion, Crete)
 

RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • Updates and Rules over RDF DataBases
  • Peer-to-peer and Grid computing
  • Agent-based computing and multi-agent systems
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    PUBLICATIONS

    Conference & Journal Papers

    1.    Matoula Magiridou, Stavros Sahtouris, Vassilis Christophides, Manolis Koubarakis, RUL: A Declarative Update Language for RDF, In Proceedings of the 4th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 2005.

    Workshop Papers

    1.    Manolis Koubarakis, Iris Miliaraki, Zoi Kaoudi, Matoula Magiridou, Antonis Papadakis-Pesaresi, Semantic Grid Resource Discovery using DHTs in Atlas, In  3rd GGF Semantic Grid Workshop, 2006

    Theses

    1.      Matoula Magiridou. A Software Platform for Building Multi-Agent Simulations. Master's thesis, Department Computing, University of Leeds, UK, September 2002.

    2.      Matoula Magiridou. Design and implementation of a toolkit for checking normal forms in relational databases. Diploma thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, Greece, 2001.

     

    PRESENTATIONS
    November 2005:
    RUL: A Declarative Update Language for RDF, presented at International Semantic Web Conference 2005 in Galway, Ireland.
     

    SEMINARS ATTENDED
    June 2004:
    Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece - 3rd Seminar in Technologies used for Mining and Managing Knowledge stemming from Multimedia (MultiMine)