Sotirios KoussourisSuite5 Data Intelligence Solutions
Sotirios Koussouris
PhD in Information Technology
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April 2012 - present
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Although 99% of toy manufacturing companies are SMEs, the toy market is dominated by a limited number of massive global brands. Therefore, SMEs should enhance their current business model in a way that would give them a competitive advantage. This paper presents work from the European-funded research project ToyLabs that aims to build on this ident...
ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and, in particular, software is more and more pervasive and it cannot be considered anymore as a minor element of a complex systems. In domains like cloud, big data, IoT (Internet of Things), CPS (Cyber-Physical Systems) it is the core element. We need to consolidate the software engineering discipline...
Costs of software development and deployment are decreasing due to numerous open source projects and novel Cloud-based services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), but competition increases due to lowering entry barriers. The need to bring developers closer to their customer becomes vital for success, especially involving users into the very early stages of softwa...
Weak macroeconomic conditions mean admittedly that government spending on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is reduced and consequently that ICT-related policies are scrutinized for their necessity, efficiency and impact on growth. At the same time, such conditions bring into the spotlight and set priority to measures targeting the...
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...
This paper deals with the process of crowdsourcing requirements elicitation in software engineering and the alignment of the customer needs during the development phase, through the usage of anonymous personas, and the support of the persona builder application that allows the extraction of such information through anonymized data. Having identifie...
Among the most important, and certainly most promising, trends of the last decade is this of digitization. Organizations, and mainly businesses, of various profiles invest lots of money and effort in order to digitize processes, products and offerings. The paper at hand aims to investigate whether the same applies to the public sector as well. A pa...
Nowadays organizations have been pushed to speed up the rate of industrial transformation to high value products and services. The capability to agilely respond to new market demands became a strategic pillar for innovation, and knowledge management could support organizations to achieve that goal. However, such knowledge management approaches tend...
The dawn of the new decade has proven to be particularly challenging, as technological developments and societal changes have affected each other in an unpredicted manner, due to the worldwide financial crisis. On the one hand, this situation has propelled changes in the whole socioeconomic system and on the other, it called for more effective, yet...
The main challenge addressed by the EU-funded project CloudTeams is bridging the communication and collaboration gap between software developers and end users during the whole software development process in order to develop better accepted software. CloudTeams solves the problem by bringing together software developers and end users into one platf...
Quantifying the actual impact of the proposed and implemented policies, with particular focus on citizens' prosperity, constitutes an important step towards holding policy makers and politicians in general accountable. However, concerns on the legitimacy of prosperity indicators that constitute the main tool towards quantifying and measuring prospe...
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...
Despite the availability of a myriad of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) based tools and methodologies for supporting governance and the formulation of policies, including modelling expected impacts, these have proved to be unable to cope with the dire challenges of the contemporary society. In this chapter we present the results of...
Nowadays, digital enterprises are confronted with disruptive technological advancements in their constant quest for innovation and creativity. In order to evolve towards new forms of enterprises, driven by constant business model transformation, a number of challenges need to be addressed from a research and practice perspective. In this paper, a g...
Prosperity indicators, following the view that " Indicators and performance measures have become an important element in policy initiatives relating to sustainability and to the re-invention of government " 1 , are nowadays considered one of the main instruments towards measuring and assessing the actual impact that policies and policy measures hav...
Today, a new age of engagement and collaboration has emerged with the proliferation of usergenerated content in social networks and generally the Web 2.0, rendering it particularly difficult for enterprises to monitor and act upon all content following conventional data mining methodologies. In this paper, we present our approach for a Future Inter...
The decision of joining a Dynamic Manufacturing Network is quite important for any enterprise, since it is related to many changes in the way it operates; however its outcomes in terms of economic and efficiency benefits are only visible once a manufacturing project is completed. This paper attempts to cultivate an understanding around the benefits...
Nowadays organizations have been pushed to speed up the rate of industrial transformation to high value products and services. The capability to agilely respond to new market demands became a strategic pillar for innovation, and knowledge management could support organizations to achieve that goal. However, such knowledge management approaches tend...
The circumstances for shifting to new kinds of economies and to new ways of doing business are compelling, with the concept of the sharing and circular economies opening up novel ways to reconcile the quest for growth and business value with the environmental prudence perspective: "doing more with less". The evolution of Sensing Enterprises is expe...
Enterprise Interoperability is one of the most crucial research domains of the modern information age, as it is directly linked with the competitiveness of enterprises as it defines at a large extent the ability of an enterprise to take advantage of the productivity gains offered by the ICT solutions available. However, although various solutions a...
This paper introduces an innovative approach for more factual, evidence-based and accountable policy analysis and evaluation, based on open public data, prosperity indicators, fuzzy cognitive maps and argumentation technology. The approach is inspired by the Policy Compass FP7 project and assumes to make better use of Europe’s open public data reso...
The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of (the theory and practice of) prosperity indicators for assessing the impact of governmental policies and the data sources associated to their calculation, touching also on the broad theme of Open Data which opens up new horizons for the calculation and exploitation of Social Indicators. Following a...
Dynamic Manufacturing Networks (DMNs) are increasingly deemed to be the evolution of typical supply chains in the manufacturing sector and a promising solution in the light of the enterprises’ effort to remain flexible and competitive in today’s rapid changing and demanding environment. The decision of joining a DMN however is quite important for a...
This paper introduces an innovative approach for more factual, evidence-based and accountable policy analysis and evaluation, based on open public data, prosperity indicators, fuzzy cognitive maps and argumentation technology. The approach is inspired by the Policy Compass FP7 project and assumes to make better use of Europe's open public data reso...
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As a plethora of technological ICT solutions invade the manufacturing domain under the umbrella of Future Internet, the need to ensure that such solutions are built in the right way and address the real needs of an enterprise becomes more and more crucial. In this context, this paper introduces an innovative way of performing Verification and Valid...
Enterprise Interoperability is one of the most crucial research domains of the modern information age, as it is directly linked with the competitiveness of enterprises as it defines at a large extent the ability of an enterprise to take advantage of the productivity gains offered by the ICT solutions available. However, although various solutions a...
Governments are striving to deliver more efficient and effective public services in order to achieve better public service quality, with reduced waiting times, improved cost effectiveness, higher productivity and more transparency. It’s an issue of doing things in new ways that requires fundamental change in the provision of public services in the...
Exiting the global economic crisis, the manufacturing domain seeks new ways to take a leap forwards, mostly by exploiting the latest advancements in ICT that promise a more productive, cost-effective and sustainable future. Distributed and flexible manufacturing configurations have been around the latest years, however the lack of an agile and resp...
Manufacturing enterprises nowadays urge for efficiency improvement, adaptability and production systems' sustainability. The formation of manufacturing networks is gaining ground as and effective and efficient solution; nevertheless, the effective end-to-end management of such a formation is more than challenging. The paper at hand aims to introduc...
The pressing need to deploy the information and communications technology in the public sector effectively and efficiently along with the complexity of the decision making process have thrust research towards the development of public services prioritization models. The purpose of this paper is to outline a general multicriteria decision support me...
This chapter deals with a workshop that was held in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Interoperability For Enterprise Systems And Applications (IESA’ 12) on March 20th 2012. The workshop, which was attended by an audience of more than 25 people included presentations from Factories of the Future (FoF) projects, alongside other co...
"Monitoring and Governance" is the most important phase of every Dynamic Manufacturing Network (DMN) lifecycle and aims at managing and controlling in a continuous way the operations of the network, resulting either in "small and corrective" actions towards the network's operation optimisation or to "larger and structural" changes, which are fed ba...
More and more manufacturing enterprises realize that, by operating as single enterprises in traditional supply chains, they cannot cope with the challenges of the modern demanding environment, and that they need to adopt new and innovative strategies in order to remain competitive. The establishment of Dynamic Manufacturing Networks (DMNs) brings t...
eGovernment for municipalities, a rather mature field when talking about the traditional and plain service delivery to citizens, is nowadays seeking ways to provide more quality based services to the citizens and to become more direct in terms of communication and interaction. In this direction, the most modern implementations are already coming up...
In a turbulent world where technological evolution has surpassed even the most imaginative scenarios predicted a few years ago, interoperability remains an intangible and elusive challenge. Associated with cost, risk and complexity reduction, Enterprise Interoperability can be defined as a capability of two or more enterprises, including all the sy...
Governments are striving to deliver more efficient and effective public services in order to achieve better public service quality, with reduced waiting times, improved cost effectiveness, higher productivity and more transparency. It's an issue of doing things in new ways that re quire s fundamental change in the provision of public services in th...
The role of government in the society is undergoing continuous change, accelerated in the recent years due to the widespread adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). The legitimacy of governments’ actions is increasingly put into question, and it is recognised that the emergence of new and complex problems requires governments...
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In a world where the technological progress has surpassed even the most imaginary predictions and the financial crisis presents unprecedented challenges for enterprises, Future Internet Enterprise Systems (FInES) can be an important enabler for boosting enterprise competitiveness, innovation and sustainability. This paper aims at investigating the...
History and the evolution of sciences have taught us that in order to come up with results that can benefit in a efficient manner the whole of society, research has to be steered and coordinated in such a way, as to foster and promote collaboration between researchers. Only such an organised attempt will result in addressing the main challenges of...
Looking back at the major developments of the previous years in the Internet and IT industry, it is more than certain that two of the most important innovations are cloud computing, which evidently takes processing power and IT provision to a whole new level, and Web2.0 service applications, that reveal the innovative thinking and development power...
The importance of public service delivery for improving the relationship between governments and their citizens has been recently
recognized as a major challenge for e-Government research. In this paper, we propose a new reference model and an associated
governance methodology where citizens’ opinions directly impact the service delivery decision-m...
In light of the contemporary societal challenges and the current technological trends that have revolutionized collaboration
and creativity, ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling has recently emerged to achieve a better, participative, evidence-based
and timely governance. Bringing together two separate worlds, i.e. the mathematical and complex s...
Declining electoral turnout and diminishing citizen interest in democracy have resulted in considerable activity in terms of pan-European eParticipation preparedness over the last five years. The European Commission (EC) has co-financed 21 eParticipation pilot projects within the eParticipation Preparatory Action since 2006. To assess and co-ordina...
Purpose
– As the society has long ago left the “industrial age” and entered the “information age”, people, enterprises and above all decision makers are constantly trying to get the best out of the opportunities and the technologies offered, for facilitating their life and their work. One of the most active and promising domains nowadays, is eParti...
Export Date: 24 May 2013, Source: Scopus, :doi 10.1080/19448953.2011.550783, Language of Original Document: English, Correspondence Address: Sotirios, K.; Decision Support Systems Laboratory, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Iroon Polytexneiou 9, 15780 Zografou, Greece; email: skous@epu.ntua.gr...
Enterprise Interoperability (EI) has been recognized as a well- acknowledged application domain in which substantial progress has been made through EU- and national funded research. However, the lack of scientific foundations seems to hinder unlocking its real value and full potential to all its stakeholders. Taking into consideration the fundament...
Enterprise Interoperability is perceived as a capacity of two or more enterprises, including all the systems within their boundaries and the external systems that they utilize or are affected by, in order to cooperate seamlessly, in an automated manner, in depth of time for a common objective. The different layers of Interoperability define in high...
Through the years, successful enterprises have been identified as the ones that were able to adapt their processes and ways of conducting business to the needs of their environment and the technological achievements of their times. This statement has not changed during recent years, but today, due to the major breakthrough of the internet and the p...
As the need for interoperability infrastructures and services is more and more stressed by researchers and practitioners in e-Government, Base Registries, as fully electronic, centralized repositories of information for classes of entities, pose as an infrastructure that can support aggregate electronic services delivery. In the presented approach,...
EGovernment for municipalities, a rather mature field when talking about the traditional and plain service delivery to citizens, is nowadays seeking ways to provide more quality based services to the citizens and to become more direct in terms of communication and interaction. In this direction, the most modern implementations are already coming up...
eGovernment for municipalities, a rather mature field when talking about the traditional and plain service delivery to citizens, is nowadays seeking ways to provide more quality based services to the citizens and to become more direct in terms of communication and interaction. In this direction, the most modern implementations are already coming up...
Pan-European policies envisioning a single European market and reduction of administrative burden call for effective, interoperable
implementation and transformation of cross-border business-to-government services. Despite the existence of dedicated tools
and methodologies that enable modelling and execution of cross-organizational business process...
Articulating semantic interoperability in e-Government remains in question as long as the international standardization efforts do not reach a consensus on how to semantically annotate and exchange data, but merely focus on the syntactic aspects by publishing sets of XML Schemas. As one-stop governmental services at national and cross-county level...
While e-participation systems are being deployed in many European member states, their operation in converging regions is still a problem. Socio-economic conditions, familiarisation with new democratic processes and low penetration of information technology still pose barriers for these e-participation applications and their successful deployment c...
The development and deployment of e-government service portals combines two of the most active, promising and upcoming research fields; providing governmental services to citizens with the use of modern technologies and achieving interoperability which will result in the seamless cooperation of existing heterogeneous systems. The final outcome of s...
The need for centralized e-Government strategies and policies is a fertile ground for the development of e-Government INTEROPERABILITY FRAMEWORKS (eGIFs). Integrated information systems and one-stop public services to citizens and businesses are heavily dependent on the resolution of the ever-expanding interoperability challenge and the satisfactio...
Interoperability is the key factor which will drive e-Business to the next level by offering fully automated transactions
among Enterprise Applications, such as Enterprise Resource Planning or Supply Chain Management systems. Nowadays, research
seems to have dealt with the problem of interoperability in various business domains, however the issue o...
Escalating economic and societal demands of today, along with the continuous advancements in ICT, push enterprises and organisations
to move towards networked paradigms and leverage electronic transactions in the everyday practice. Although technical solutions
providing for the necessary organisational, semantic, and technical interoperability mean...
The connectivity generated by the Internet is opening new opportunities in service delivery since administrations are forming
online alliances in order to deliver integrated value-adding services. However, due to lack of a step-by-step method for identification
and further processing of services, the development of such composite e-Government servi...
Asset quality refers to the likelihood that the bank’s earning assets will continue to perform and requires both a qualitative
and quantitative assessment. Decision problems like the “internal appraisal of banking products”, are problems with strong
multiple-criteria character and it seems that the methodological framework of Multiple Criteria Deci...
The number of enterprises that automate business transactions is constantly growing. Renowned scientists such as Malone cite the relentless march of improvements in the cost-performance ratio of information technology as main driver of this recent development. Benefits of performing transactions electronically include extending market reach, saving...
Research seems to have dealt with the problem of interoperability in various business domains, however the issue of interoperability in heterogeneous business domains – Enterprises, Governmental and Banking Institutions of different countries (cross-border) or Enterprises of different interests (cross-sector) -remains still a big challenge to be ta...
Today electronic transactions constitute a constantly growing business reality that promises advantages such as reduced transactional cost, seamless information flow, and better communication and collaboration with business partners. However, the creation of a system clearly oriented towards promoting interoperability of existing systems and facili...
Two of the most active research fields in information technology nowadays are Internet Services Portals used by governmental
organizations and Interoperability Patterns for achieving the seamless cooperation of heterogeneous existing systems. When
referring to e-Government applications in Local Administrations, the above mentioned research fields h...
Public Administration desks are in any country the most active point of transactions between the state governments and the citizens. This fact emphasises the importance of services offered by Public Administrations and in the modern technological era, it is essential for Information Technology to provide solutions for transforming these traditional...
Two of the most active research fields in Information Technology nowadays are systems used by governmental organizations for carrying out transactions with citizens and technologies that facilitate the interconnection and interoperability of heterogeneous existing systems. When referring to eGovernment systems, those two research fields are joined...
Two of the most active research fields in Information Technology nowadays are Internet Services Portals used by governmental organizations for carrying out transactions with the public, and Interoperability Patterns for achieving seamless cooperation of heterogeneous existing systems. When referring to e-Government applications in Local Administrat...
Ever since the adoption of Internet and the relevant Internet-Based technologies by enterprises into their everyday business practise the vision of totally automated electronic transactions has been the Holy Grail of their efforts. In spite of competitive advantages, such as reduced transactional cost, seamless information flow, and better communic...
Projects
Projects (4)
ASCLEPIOS aims to maximize and fortify the trust of users on cloud-based healthcare services by developing mechanisms for protecting both corporate and personal sensitive data.
ASCLEPIOS is exploiting this gap by using several modern cryptographic approaches to build a cloud-based eHealth framework that protects users’ privacy and prevents both internal and external attacks.
The main objective of the OSMOSE project is to develop a reference architecture, a middleware and some prototypal applications for the Sensing-Liquid Enterprise, by interconnecting Real, Digital and Virtual Worlds in the same way a semi-permeable membrane permits the flow of liquid particles through itself.
In concrete terms, the OSMOSE project designed and developed:
i. a Reference Architecture for modelling and managing shadow images of the same Sensing-Liquid Enterprise in the three interconnected worlds regarding both immaterial and material liquid flows under flexible security and privacy capability rules. A Triple A architecture is proposed where Actors (RW) Agents (DW) Avatars (VW), representing humans and smart objects, interact and negotiate;
ii. an Event-driven and Service-oriented Osmiotic Middleware (osmosis semi-permeable membranes) to constantly and automatically keep background consistency between the three worlds through the implementation of three pairs of basic processes: a) Virtualization RW-VW; b) Augmentation VW-RW; c) Digitalization RW-DW;
d) Actuation DW-RW; e) Simulation DW-VW; f) Enrichment VW-DW;
iii. a Liquid Stargate which allows human users to browse the relevant real-digital-virtual assets in an integrated multi world representation view, to configure the behaviour of their human RW Actors- DW Agents- VW Avatars and to support knowledge sharing and experiences / emotions exchange, by crossing seamlessly the three worlds’ gates;
iv. an innovative “Sensing-Liquid Maintenance & Support” application in the Aerospace Domain concerned with helicopters’ flight simulators operation (Agusta Westland pilot);
v. an innovative “Sensing-Liquid Quality Inspection & Control” application in the Automotive Domain concerned with camshafts supply and production traceability (EPC pilot).