Panos Fitsilis- PhD
- Professor (Full) at University of Thessaly
Panos Fitsilis
- PhD
- Professor (Full) at University of Thessaly
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Introduction
Dr. Panos Fitsilis, Professor at the University of Thessaly.
Previously he was a full professor at University of Applied Sciences of Thessaly, School of Business and Economics.
Further, he is Visiting Profesor at Innopolis University, Kazan, Russian Federation. Dr. Fitsilis has extensive project management experience with the development and deployment of large IT systems. His research interests include Smart Cities, Agile Project Management, Software Engineering, Social Networks, e-Government Systems, etc.
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February 2003 - present
February 2003 - present
October 2003 - present
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Publications (137)
![Design science research approach based on Peffers et al. [53].](publication/389623718/figure/fig2/AS:11431281317052143@1742313905493/Design-science-research-approach-based-on-Peffers-et-al-53_Q320.jpg)
![The process of deriving design principles based on Gregor and Hevner [54].](publication/389623718/figure/fig3/AS:11431281317023522@1742313905675/The-process-of-deriving-design-principles-based-on-Gregor-and-Hevner-54_Q320.jpg)
The increasing frequency of natural catastrophes and other disasters has underscored the importance of resilience as a core competence for smart cities so that they efficiently manage unforeseen crises. The increasing recognition of resilience in the context of smart cities leads to examining the role and context for the role of the “Smart City Res...
The significance of open data in higher education stems from the changing tendencies towards open science, and open research in higher education encourages new ways of making scientific inquiry more transparent, collaborative and accessible. This study focuses on the critical role of open data stewards in this transition, essential for managing and...
This article analyzes around 200 online articles to identify trends within Industry 5.0 using artificial intelligence techniques. Specifically, it applies algorithms such as LDA, BERTopic, LSA, and K-means, in various configurations, to extract and compare the central themes present in the literature. The results reveal a convergence around a core...
One of the most pressing concerns in contemporary education examines the integration of big data and artificial intelligence methodologies to enhance the educational learning outcome. Towards that purpose, it is imperative to leverage the unstructured data originating from student feedback, particularly in the form of comments to open-ended questio...
The rapid integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into various industries presents both revolutionary opportunities and unique challenges. This research aims to establish a scalable and efficient framework for LLM customization, exploring how DevOps practices should be adapted to meet the specific demands of LLM customization. By integrating on...
Dear Colleagues,
In the rapidly evolving landscape of education, the integration of data-driven mobile networks into educational technology is not just an option but a necessity. This Special Issue, titled "Data-Driven Mobile Networks in Educational Technology: Innovations and Challenges in E-Learning and Higher Education", aims to explore the dyna...
This opinion paper delves into the significance of competence frameworks in contemporary education and professional development. It posits that these frameworks are crucial in delineating the requisite skills, knowledge, behaviors, and attributes for effective performance in diverse roles, particularly within the context of Education 4.0. The paper...
One of the most important issues concerning education nowadays is that of mapping the quality of teaching, and teacher competencies. Simultaneously, the need to exploit the huge amount of data derived from student feedback, and in particular the comments on open-ended questions, constitutes a huge challenge for both universities and researchers. In...
This paper presents a transformative approach to education, integrating agile methodologies into teaching and learning practices. It begins by contextualizing the necessity of agile learning in the modern educational landscape, drawing on a comprehensive review of background literature. The document then outlines the essential competencies required...
The paper explores the emerging occupational profiles and key technological areas that will shape the workforce of the future in smart cities. The paper discusses the importance of transversal skills, core competencies, and specialized knowledge required to succeed in this dynamic environment. It identifies the five categories of occupational profi...
This paper presents a transformative approach to education, integrating agile methodologies into teaching and learning practices. It begins by contextualizing the necessity of agile learning in the modern educational landscape, drawing on a comprehensive review of background literature. The document then outlines the essential competencies required...
The paper explores the emerging occupational profiles and key technological areas that will shape the workforce of the future in smart cities. The paper discusses the importance of transversal skills, core competencies, and specialized knowledge required to succeed in this dynamic environment. It identifies the five categories of occupational profi...
The paper explores the emerging occupational profiles and key technological areas that will shape the workforce of the future in smart cities. The paper discusses the importance of transversal skills, core competencies, and specialized knowledge required to succeed in this dynamic environment. It identifies the five categories of occupational profi...
This paper presents a transformative approach to education, integrating agile methodologies into teaching and learning practices. It begins by contextualizing the necessity of agile learning in the modern educational landscape, drawing on a comprehensive review of background literature. The document then outlines the essential competencies required...
This paper presents a transformative approach to education, integrating agile methodologies into teaching and learning practices. It begins by contextualizing the necessity of agile learning in the modern educational landscape, drawing on a comprehensive review of background literature. The document then outlines the essential competencies required...
Agile2Learn Project (project number 2021-1-CZ01-KA220-VET-000025558) is an Erasmus+ KA2/ Innovative project aimed at transforming education through the development of an Agile-based curriculum. The developed curriculum is designed to empower educators in primary and secondary education to adapt to the demands of the 21st century and create a dynami...
Education is undergoing a profound transformation as the needs and expectations of students evolve in the fast-paced, technology-driven world. In this era of constant change, traditional educational approaches are becoming increasingly inadequate. To meet the dynamic requirements of students, educators are embracing agile learning methodologies tha...
For democratically elected local authorities that are pursuing smart city goals, public engagement is a logical priority. To that aim, the rapid development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is typically recognized as holding great promises toward improving cooperation between citizens and public administrations. However, ICT also b...
Students attending Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are faced with a variety of complex decisions and procedures. To provide students with more sustained and personalized advising, many HEIs turn to online academic advising systems and tools as a way to minimize costs and streamline their advising services. However, in such systems, uncertainty...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to thoroughly assemble, analyze and synthesize previous research to investigate and identify teaching staff competencies derived from the roles and tasks attributed to university professors.
Design/methodology/approach
In this literature review, the authors looked at both the conceptual framework exploring the...
This book is the main deliverable of the SmartDevOps project, and it is the first systematic approach to smart cities competences development. It offers curricula for developing the required knowledge coherently and systematically. The profession and skills presented were elaborated from various viewpoints, through laborious market research. This B...
According to market research, the number of smart cities is increasing rapidly. Information and communication technologies (ICT) provide the smart infrastructure that is the foundation for all the key themes related to a smart city, such as smart economy, smart governance, smart mobility, smart health, smart buildings, and smart water. As such, a s...
One of the biggest challenges in building sustainable smart cities of the future is skill management and development. Developing the digital skills of the municipalities’ workforce is crucial for all occupational profiles and specifically for those that are actively involved in the development and operation of digital services for a smart city. In...
Learning analytics have proved promising capabilities and opportunities to many aspects of academic research and higher education studies. Data-driven insights can significantly contribute to provide solutions for curbing costs and improving education quality. This paper adopts a two-phase machine learning approach, which utilizes both unsupervised...
This article aims to provide the reader with a comprehensive background for understanding current knowledge and research works on ontologies for software project management (SPM). It constitutes a systematic literature review behind key objectives of the potential adoption of ontologies in PM. Ontology development and engineering could facilitate s...
Modern software systems are growing increasingly complex, requiring increased complexity of software and software development process (SDP). Most software complexity measurement approaches focus on software features such as code size, code defects, number of control paths, etc. However, software complexity measurement should not only focus on code...
Agile development, which has been accepted by many organizations in the area of management and software engineering in the last two decades, nowadays, tends to become an emerging teaching and learning methodology in higher education. A great number of educational institutions are offering courses in programming and software engineering using agile...
The present research work proposes the development of an integrated framework for the personalization and parameterization of learning pathways, aiming at optimizing the quality of the offered services by the Higher Educational Institutions (HEI). In order to achieve this goal, in addition to the educational part, the EDUC8 framework encloses the s...
One of the main challenges to be confronted by modern tertiary sector, so as to improve quality is the personalization of learning, which has to be combined with a minimization of the respective costs. However, personalization requires continuous reconfiguration of the academic plans since the academic status of each student, educational options an...
Web services are application components that can be linked together for creating new functionality. As such, they support industry environments by binding together inhabitant services with distributed on demand services for implementing the business strategies. However, web services are operating in dynamic environments and an important issue durin...
One of the main challenges to be confronted in Higher Education, so as to increase quality, is the personalization of education services, since each student constitutes a unique case. In this paper, we present the conceptualization of the domain of Learning Pathways in Higher Education. We present the EDUC8 (EDUCATE) ontology, which models the need...
Smart city (SC) has emerged during the last 2 decades to a broad scientific domain and a dominant industrial market, which attract an interdisciplinary attention. All the scientific fields -from the information and communications technologies (ICT) to the economics and environmental studies or even the humanities- and all the industries -from the I...
One of the main challenges to be confronted by Higher Educational Institutions (HEI), so as to increase quality, is the provision of personalized education services in a wide range of educational settings, often beyond the course sequences historically offered to students. However, this personalization requires the continuous reconfiguration and ad...
Nowadays, many large software systems that are developed for business are mainly built from services leveraging the benefits of interoperability. However, the development of new technologies such as Cloud Computing, Internet of Things and Cyber Physical Systems create additional concerns that claim to be integrated into the existing approaches of m...
Smart cities have attracted an increasing international scientific and business attention and an enormous niche market is being evolved, which engages almost all the business sectors. Being engaged in the smart city market is not free-of-charge and corresponding investments are extensive, while they usually concern innovation development and always...
Teamwork has become an important research field and its contribution to organizational performance has attracted attention of researchers from several disciplines. The development and application of newly emerged technologies such as Industry 4.0, Internet of Things, and cyber physical systems create additional concerns for teamwork which claim to...
This paper presents a novel requirements prioritization (RP) method which complements ad-hoc ranking approaches and ordinal scale-based RP techniques with capabilities of handing the vague and subjective perceptions that stakeholders have when they rank candidate requirements. To consider the indeterminacy and the lack of knowledge of stakeholders,...
This article aims to provide the reader with a comprehensive background for understanding current knowledge and research works on ontologies for software project management (SPM). It constitutes a systematic literature review behind key objectives of the potential adoption of ontologies in PM. Ontology development and engineering could facilitate s...
Modern software systems are growing increasingly complex, requiring increased complexity of software and software development process (SDP). Most software complexity measurement approaches focus on software features such as code size, code defects, number of control paths, etc. However, software complexity measurement should not only focus on code...
The rise of Industry 4.0 and of smart factories along with all enabling technologies such as cloud computing, Internet of Things, multi agent systems, cyber physical systems, artificial intelligence, etc. will transform current factory workers to knowledge workers. Hard work and routine tasks will be executed by machines or robots, while tasks requ...
This paper aims to provide the reader with a comprehensive background for understanding current knowledge on Academic Advising Systems (AAS) and its impact on learning. It constitutes an overview of empirical evidence behind key objectives of the potential adoption of AAS in generic educational strategic planning. The researchers examined the liter...
Agile software engineering methods have recently emerged as a new and different way of developing software as compared to the traditional methodologies. Universities already started to teach agile software engineering, courses on agile methods at the undergraduate and graduate levels however the correct teaching approach is still under research. Th...
Information technology has the potential to greatly improve the quality of services offered by educational institutions. Personalized learning requires adaptive learning schemes since the student status and conditions inside an institution constantly change. In this paper, we present the EDUC8 (EDUCATE) system, which aims at providing a new approac...
Software projects are among the most complex endeavours today. The increased complexity had led to high numbers of software project failures in terms of time, cost quality etc. Software project complexity is one of the main reasons for these failures. Various approaches to measure software complexity have been proposed focusing on the software prod...
In this paper, we describe our ongoing work on modeling services in industry domains. Nowadays, many large software systems that are developed for industry are mainly built from services. Yet, modeling services and their interaction still remain a challenging task. Moreover, new emerged technologies such as cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT)...
More than a decade has passed since the conception of major Government e-strategies and significant outcomes have been delivered worldwide concerning information technology infrastructure and e-service deployment. Already, major e-Strategies have closed their lifecycles and have been reviewed. British “t-Government” and Obama's “Open Government Ini...
Traditional competition between cities appears to transit to a “smart” competition and to this end smart city ownership, organization and evolution are questioned. In this paper, a worldwide smart city classification is performed in order to address the preferred organization and the technological evolution of smart city. This classification's find...
Smart cities have attracted an increasing international scientific and business attention and an enormous niche market is being evolved, which engages almost all the business sectors. Being engaged in the smart city market is not free-of-charge and corresponding investments are extensive, while they usually concern innovation development and always...
ONSOCIAL Case Study B - commercial project
ONSOCIAL project project management and human resource management ontology.
The unprecedented development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has affected the entire range of enterprise applications and information systems for enterprises. Simultaneously, the business environment is becoming increasingly complex with the functional units that make it up to require a greater range of functionality and greate...
Software projects are complex endeavors that quite often fail to satisfy their initial objectives. As such the need to systematically study and assess the complexity of software projects is quite important. This study presents a systematic framework for assessing complexity of software projects that is based on the study of project management subje...
The aim of this paper is to identify and compare the evaluation models for social networks (SN) that can be installed in or utilized by a smart city. Evaluation purposes concern SN either selection or performance measurement. In this order, this paper investigates the SN domain with regard to the smart city. More specifically, it uses literature fi...
Antipatterns describe commonly occurring solutions to problems that generate negative consequences. By defining a vocabulary of terms for commonly occurring problematic processes and implementations within organisations, antipatterns help in the identification of poor design decisions and offer suggestions on how software can be refactored or impro...
Research studies have shown that very often software projects fail to meet their requirements
in terms of quality, time and cost restrictions. It is widely accepted that amongst the main
reasons for these failures is the increased complexity of modern software projects due to their
special characteristics. In most cases, the complexity of software...
Efficient allocation of human resources to the development tasks comprising a software project is a key challenge in software project management. To address this critical issue, a systematic human resource evaluation and selection approach can be proven helpful. In this paper, a fuzzy linguistic approach is introduced to evaluate the suitability of...
Smart cities have attracted the international scientific and business attention and a niche market is being evolved, which engages almost all the business sectors. In their attempt to empower and promote urban competitive advantages, local governments have approached the smart city context and they target habitants, visitors and investments. Howeve...
Proper selection and allocation of human resources to software development tasks is one of the key challenges in software development projects. In this paper we present a fuzzy linguistic approach that supports the selection of suitable human resources based on their skills and the required skills for each project task. The proposed approach uses 2...
One of the key challenges in software projects is the efficient allocation of human resources to software development tasks. To achieve this challenge, the proper human resource evaluation and selection is an important step. In this paper we present a fuzzy linguistic approach that utilizes 2-tuple fuzzy linguistic terms and supports the selection...
Project management is a well understood management method, widely adopted today, in order to give predictable results to complex problems. However, quite often projects fail to satisfy their initial objectives. This is why studying the factors that affect the complexity of projects is quite important. In this paper, we will present the complexity f...
Project management is a well understood management method, widely adopted today, in order to give predictable results to complex problems. It is based on the assumption that unique undertakings require flexible organizational structures and different skill sets, in order to be implemented successfully. It is evident that matching the required, by e...
Software Project Management is a knowledge intensive process that can benefit substantially from ontology development and ontology engineering. Ontology development could facilitate or improve substantially the software development process through the improvement of knowledge manage-ment, the increase of software and artefacts reusability, and the...
Project Management is a knowledge intensive process that can benefit substantially from ontology development and ontology engineering. Ontology development could facilitate or improve substantially the development process through the improvement of knowledge management, the increase project artefacts reusability, the establishment of internal consi...
The paper studies the adoption of Project Management (PM) practices in Greek public organiza-tions through the study of small-medium Greek Local Governmental Organizations (LGOs). Specif-ically, it studies how PM practices are applied to small-medium sized LGOs and the factors that are preventing the adoption and the implementation of these PM prac...
Traditional competition between cities appears to transit to a “smart” competition and to this end smart city ownership, organization and evolution are questioned. In this paper, a worldwide smart city classification is performed in order to address the preferred organization and the technological evolution of smart city. This classification's find...
The Unified Modelling Language (UML) is a language for specifying, visualising, constructing and documenting software systems. The UML proved to be extremely successful and it has achieved tremendous popularity making it the de facto industry standard for object oriented system development. As such, many researchers presented empirical studies on t...
Building high performing, effective teams is a prerequisite for successful project completion. This need is more profound and pervasive today with the recent shift to empirical software engineering paradigm and the employment of agile project management. In this paper, we present ONSOCIAL system, a system that attempts to capitalize knowledge accum...
Smart cities is a “booming” international phenomenon and they suggest both a novel economic and research domain, which is concerned from various perspectives, i.e. smart growth and urban planning; living labs; information and communications technologies (ICT) state-of-the-art topics etc. Although smart cities follow different forms they offer vario...
One of the most valuable resources for organizations today is knowledge developed and held within their teams during the execution of their projects. Although the need for maximal reuse of lessons learned and knowledge accumulated for keeping companies at the leading edge is evident, this knowledge is often lost because it can be difficult or impos...
More than a decade has passed since the conception of major Government e-strategies and significant outcomes have been delivered worldwide concerning information technology infrastructure and e-service deployment. Already, major e-Strategies have closed their lifecycles and have been reviewed. British “t-Government” and Obama’s “Open Government Ini...
Smart cities suggest a domain that attracts an increasing scientific, political and economic attention. However, this domain is still confusing, since various parties define or apply alternative perspectives. Scientists document a technological smart city evolution from a website form to modern ubiquitous and eco-friendly ones; city networks descri...
Smart cities have emerged for more than twenty years from their primary website form to modern ubiquitous and environmental sensitive ones and they encounter an extensive number of representative cases, with an international spread. Today they are considered living labs, areas of smart growth and favorable e-Government environments, while they stru...
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Contemporary Project and Portfolio Management Information Systems (PPMIS) have embarked from single-user, single-project management systems to web-based, collaborative, multi-project, multi-operational information systems which offer organization-wide management support. The variety of offered functionalities, along with the variation among each or...
The digital cities, from their online forms such as America-On-Line and Kyoto cases, to their ubiquitous forms such as Beijing, Hull (UK) and Trikala (Greece) cases, have achieved in simplifying citizen access to Local and Central Government services. Early digital cities succeed in delivering improved public services to citizens even with no digit...
The Internet has been experienced as the means for deliberation, for free social expression, for knowledge exchange, for enabling entrepreneurship. etc., while it has been capitalized by communities around the world for applications' development and for e-service deployment. In this paper Internet is considered as a supporting tool for communities'...
Features variety, variations among organisations’ needs and the plethora of powerful project and portfolio management (PPM) information systems in the market, make the selection process among various PPM information systems a complicated process. The large number of the evaluation criteria involved during the decision aggravates the problem. This p...
Questions
Question (1)
I am inviting you to participate in the following survey in the context of a research project focusing on “Software Project Complexity: Towards practical measurement”. The aim of this research is to develop a model, able to measure the management complexity of software projects, to be used by project managers in evaluating software project complexity at the early phases of a software project, having as direct result the minimization of software projects’ risks. After a thorough literature review, a number of project management complexity factors were identified, factors that were classified according to PMI project management subject areas as they are defined in Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK).
In this context, I would like to kindly invite you to evaluate the identified project management complexity factors by responding to the following questionnaire.
Survey Link: https://goo.gl/oXytyS
Also, I would like to inform you that this survey is anonymous and does not require any sensitive personal or business data. Beyond that, I would like to assure you that all answers will be confidential and the whole survey follows the ethics regulations of Staffordshire University.
With Kind Regards
Panos Fitsilis, Vyron Damasiotis
