Eleni Fotopoulou

• National Technical University of Athens

The application of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) methodologies within classrooms has been widely adopted and examined, highlighting its positive impact on the academic, emotional, and social sectors at both the individual and classroom levels. Through this wide applicability, a need is identified to focus more on the development of SEL approa...

Climate change vulnerability assessment (CCVA) is crucial to understand how different regions, communities, and ecosystems are susceptible to the impacts of climate change. Through the identification of vulnerabilities, policymakers can prioritize adaptation efforts, allocate resources effectively, and develop risk mitigation strategies. Social and...

The way towards sustainable development is paved through the commitment to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which encompass a wide range of global challenges. The successful progress of these goals depends on the identification and understanding of their interconnected nature. A plethora of data is made available for tracking targets re...

The dominance of microservices-based development frameworks and the development of complex distributed applications, along with the massive production of powerful Internet of things (IoT) and edge computing devices, are paving the way toward the transition from centralized to distributed computing paradigms, where applications are deployed across t...

The design and implementation of Internet of Things (IoT)-based solutions in smart homes and buildings is emerging, given their applicability in various aspects, including, for instance, the energy efficiency, water management, security, and healthcare domains. Following this trend, the current chapter focuses on the presentation of a generic archi...

The development of education programmes that integrate information in accordance with the targets defined in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is considered crucial for the development of innovative solutions for a more sustainable and climate-resilient future. In our work in this manuscript, we detail an approach for assessing the relations...

Over the last few years, there has been a significant increase in the release of massive amounts of data related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This has been driven by the recognition that data is critical for monitoring progress towards the SDGs, identifying areas that require attention, and informing policy decisions. Given that a s...

Creating a positive school environment in classrooms can enhance the academic and social outcomes of students. In order to promote inclusive education, it is crucial that all students develop the skills to communicate, understand each other, and work together effectively. Although there are numerous research findings and guidelines available for de...

The development of solutions to manage or mitigate climate change impacts is very challenging, given the complexity and dynamicity of the socio-environmental and socio-ecological systems that have to be modeled and analyzed, and the need to include qualitative variables that are not easily quantifiable. The existence of qualitative, interoperable a...

Nowadays, various frameworks are emerging for supporting distributed tracing techniques over microservices-based distributed applications. The objective is to improve observability and management of operational problems of distributed applications, considering bottlenecks in terms of high latencies in the interaction among the deployed microservice...

Serverless computing is emerging as a cloud computing paradigm that provisions computing resources on demand, while billing is taking place based on the exact usage of the cloud resources. The responsibility for infrastructure management is undertaken by cloud providers, enabling developers to focus on the development of the business logic of their...

Significant efforts have been allocated over the last thirty years towards the conceptualization and assessment of the Emotional Intelligence (EI) construct. However, there is limited work on examining the EI construct in a group level. Collective Emotional Intelligence (CEI) is introduced as the ability of a group to promote awareness and regulati...

By considering the dynamicity and complexity that is present in modern Socio-Environmental Systems along with the misalignment in the usage of terms that are used by scientists in different disciplines, there is a need to support new ways of modelling and analysis based on the establishment of synergies and the collaboration among scientists. To ad...

In this paper, a vision for beyond-5G systems is proposed where automation and intelligence in cloud-native infrastructures are in focus. Exploiting the convergence of cloud technologies at the edge and mobile communication networks, a set of technological solutions is discussed that will play a fundamental role on the path from 5G towards future 6...

Improvement of social and emotional competencies of students is associated with positive effects in various learning and personal development activities. To achieve so, Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) activities are applied by tutors within educational groups. In the current manuscript, we present an approach for composition and analysis of soc...

Significant efforts have been allocated over the last thirty years towards the definition and measurement of the Emotional Intelligence (EI) construct. Several EI theories and models have been produced to support psychological assessment processes. However, barriers are identified for their wide adoption and exploitation by social scientists. The a...

The development of Social and Emotional competences of students can significantly improve their learning and social outcomes. This prompts for tools to assist tutors in accomplishing social and emotional learning activities and evaluating the impact achieved. To do so, the blending of Recommender Systems with Machine Learning technologies can be pr...

The Industry 4.0 sector is evolving in a tremendous pace by introducing a set of industrial automation mechanisms tightly coupled with the exploitation of Internet of Things (IoT), 5G and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. By combining such emerging technologies, interconnected sensors, instruments, and other industrial devices are networke...

5G is considered to be the technology that will accommodate the development and management of innovative services with stringent and diverse requirements from end users, calling for new business models from the industry. In this context, the development and efficient management of Network Services (NS) serving specific vertical industries and spann...

Sociometric-oriented approaches have been applied the last years in numerous cases and domains, targeting at the improvement of social groups’ characteristics for achieving personal and team-based objectives. Considering the existing approaches and the published results, in the current study, a set of emotional intervention activities based on a so...

5G network technologies are evolving in a tremendous pace, enhancing the potential for being adopted and exploited by vertical industries and serve advance networking requirements needs. Towards this direction, a set of 5G PPP projects are providing contributions for tackling aspects related to the overall lifecycle of 5G vertical applications desi...

Considering that the largest part of end-use energy consumption worldwide is associated with the buildings sector, there is an inherent need for the conceptualization, specification, implementation, and instantiation of novel solutions in smart buildings, able to achieve significant reductions in energy consumption through the adoption of energy ef...

In this paper, ENTROPY platform, an IT ecosystem for supporting energy efficiency in buildings through behavioural change of the occupants is provided. The ENTROPY platform targets at providing a set of mechanisms for accelerating the adoption of energy efficient practices through the increase of the energy awareness and energy saving potential of...

In this paper, ENTROPY platform, an IT ecosystem for supporting energy efficiency in buildings through behavioural change of the occupants is provided. The ENTROPY platform targets at providing a set of mechanisms for accelerating the adoption of energy efficient practices through the increase of the energy awareness and energy saving potential of...

Linked Data has become the current W3C recommended approach for publishing data on the World Wide Web as it is sharable, extensible, and easily re-usable. An ecosystem of linked data hubs in the Public Sector has the potential to offer significant benefits to its consumers (other public offices and ministries, as well as researchers, citizens and S...

The design and development of distributed applications consisting of microservices is an emerging pattern, considering the advantages associated with the management of self-deployable and orchestratable components as well as the adoption of a DevOps culture in cloud applications deployment and management. In this position paper, we present a contex...

Residential and office buildings have the largest share in energy consumption, followed by transport and industry. At the same time, many buildings do not leverage all feasible opportunities to increase their energy efficiency. Particularly, the solutions influencing the behaviour of the end-users are lacking. In this paper, we present a novel sema...

The introduction of the linked data concepts to SMEs, coupled with sophisticated analytics and visualizations deriving through an integrated environment, called the LinDA Workbench, reduces the effort of specific workflows within a company, by almost 50% in terms of time, while its major benefit is the introduction of new, innovative, business mode...

The design of solutions that are able to exploit the available data collected in smart cities environments can lead to insights that can guide the implementation of approaches that have the potential to significantly improve the quality of life within a city. Such solutions include tools for the production of advanced analytics considering data fus...

The continuous evolution and adaptation of cybercrime technologies along with their impact on a set of services in various business areas make necessary the design and development of novel methodologies and tools for protecting public organizations and businesses’ infrastructure as well as end users. Such methodologies and tools have to exploit the...