Yorghos Voutos

• MsC Geoinformatics, BsC Environmental Technology
• PhD Student at Ionian University

The present study discusses the design and development of a digital repository for the preservation and dissemination of the cultural and natural heritage of Zakynthos Island (Greece). Following a crowdsourcing approach, the platform allows users to actively contribute to its content while aiming to integrate scattered information from other relati...

Integration of new technologies into the learning process lies among the objectives of the contemporary educational approach related to historical periods. Thus, students familiar with the use of technology approach the traditional history lesson by participating in modern educational games of historical content. To intrigue them more into deepenin...

Exploring a community is an important aspect of social network analysis because it can be seen as a crucial way to decompose specific graphs into smaller graphs based on interactions between users. The process of discovering common features between groups of users, entitled “community detection”, is a fundamental feature for social network analysis...

Voice loss constitutes a crucial disorder which is highly associated with social isolation. The use of multimodal information sources, such as, audiovisual information, is crucial since it can lead to the development of straightforward personalized word prediction models which can reproduce the patient’s original voice. In this work we designed a m...

In recent years and after continuous training of educators, the design of flexible educational scenarios is gradually evolving and being integrated into the teaching practice, which is related to the proposed ways of implementing pre-selected modules from the curriculum of a subject and can be applied to distance learning. In this context and durin...

The 21st century is characterized by the extended involvement of people, sometimes – when taken to the edge - forming a new kind of addiction, on the production and “consumption” of digital data, especially in the form of multimedia content. In this context, computer games have evolved to become one of the most familiar and widespread forms of digi...

Climate change could exacerbate floods on agricultural plains by increasing the frequency of extreme and adverse meteorological events. Flood extent maps could be a valuable source of information for agricultural land decision makers, risk management and emergency planning. We propose a method that combines various types of data and processing tech...

There is a significant number of agricultural systems with rich and special biodiversity, characterized as high-nature-value farming systems (HNV) in the Ionian Islands region. These agro-ecosystems cover a significant area in this region and are divided in olive groves and vineyards which, in some cases, cover a significant part of the protected a...

Digital repositories and cultural content delivery systems built on top of them are integral parts in the current form of cultural landscape. In these systems netizen engagement is paramount and it can take many forms ranging from participation to digital fora to custom multimedia creation. One important engagement manifestation is the annotation o...

The proliferation of smart things and the subsequent emergence of the Internet of Things has motivated the deployment of intelligent spaces that provide automated services to users. Context-awareness refers to the ability of the system to be aware of the virtual and physical environment, allowing more efficient personalization. Context modeling and...

Mining social web text has been at the heart of the Natural Language Processing and Data Mining research community in the last 15 years. Though most of the reported work is on widely spoken languages, such as English, the significance of approaches that deal with less commonly spoken languages, such as Greek, is evident for reasons of preserving an...

Computer games play an increasingly important role in cultural heritage preservation. They keep tradition alive in the digital domain, reflect public perception about historical events, and make history, and even legends, vivid, through means such as advanced storytelling and alternative timelines. In this context, understanding the respective unde...

Evaluating in the digital realm the similarity between two cultural objects relies on a number of factors. The latter can be subdivided to three categories, each describing a different set of properties. Specifically, the first such category pertains to generic attributes which usually are domain oblivious. For instance, for literature works standa...

With the advent of Semantic Web and the recent advances in the field of knowledge discovery more effort is placed not only on constructing or automatically discovering ontologies but also on determining similarities between ontologies. The latter is usually achieved by a higher order metric taking as input two ontologies in an enhanced graph form a...

Short-term property rentals are perhaps one of the most common traits of present day shared economy. Moreover, they are acknowledged as a major driving force behind changes in urban landscapes, ranging from established metropolises to developing townships, as well as a facilitator of geographical mobility. A geolocation ontology is a high level inf...

Digital culture is a mainstay of the emerging 6V era as both the digitization of existing cultural data and the creation of original native digital cultural content directly lead to the generation of large data volumes which may well be bursty, unstructured or semi-structured, and inherently multimodal. One way to address the increased complexity a...

Smart agriculture is increasingly becoming a paramount financial sector with important implications on a global scale. The real time weather and soil status monitoring as well as the desired higher food quality are major drivers behind this technological, ecological, and financial trend. This work explores the enticing prospect of combining IoT and...

The term intelligent agriculture, or smart farming, typically involves the incorporation of computer science and information technologies into the traditional notion of farming. The latter utilizes plain machinery and equipment used for many decades and the only significant improvement made over the years has been the introduction of automation in...

It took some time indeed, but the research evolution and transformations that occurred in the smart agriculture field over the recent years tend to constitute the latter as the main topic of interest in the so-called Internet of Things (IoT) domain. Undoubtedly, our era is characterized by the mass production of huge amounts of data, information an...

Nowadays, the well-known Resource Description Framework (RDF) forms a rather general method for web resources' conceptual description or even for generic information modeling. However, RDF's capabilities are challenged once used to effectively represent non-thematic metadata, e.g, in the form of spatial and temporal objects deriving primarily from...

Modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have evolved into an ever developing digital ecosystem. In such a sophisticated system information is typically transmitted through interconnected software and hardware structures, better described as the well-known concept of Internet of Things (IoT). Embedded physical devices are producing d...

We live in an era where typical measures towards the mitigation of environmental degradation follow the identification and recording of natural parameters closely associated with it. In addition, current scientific knowledge on the one hand may be applied to minimize the environmental impact of anthropogenic activities, whereas informatics on the o...

Solid waste collection and transportation constitutes one of the most significant environmental and socio-economic worldwide problems. The constant global population growth with a consequent increase in human needs leads to the aggravation of the phenomenon. The objective of this study is to determine the optimal routes for waste collection and tra...

Integrated and sustainable urban solid waste management is one of the most important environmental problems in Europe and worldwide. According to modern legislations and newly promoted practices and trends in Europe as well as internationally, a complex way of urban solid waste management tends to prevail. This management method combines the Proces...