Best Research Track PC Member 2024
Giorgos Flouris received the "Best Research Track PC Member" during the 23rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-24), Baltimore 2024.

 

Best Poster 2024
The poster "Implementing Usage Control Policies Using Reification with RDF-Star and SPARQL-Star" by Ines Akaichi, Giorgos Flouris, Irini Fundulaki and Sabrina Kirrane was awarded as the "Best Poster" in poster Proceedings of the 23rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-24), Baltimore 2024.

 

Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention 2024
Giorgos Flouris received the "Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention" from Aminer in recognition of outstanding and vibrant contributions in the field of Knowledge Engineering between 2014 and 2023. Awarded on March 03, 2024.

 

Most Downloaded Paper of the Knowledge Engineering Review Journal for 2023
The paper " Argumentation and Explainable Artificial Intelligence: a Survey" by Alexandros Vassiliades, Nick Bassiliades and Theodore Patkos was reported as the "Most Downloaded Paper of the Knowledge Engineering Review Journal for 2023".

 

Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention 2023
Giorgos Flouris received the "Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention" from Aminer in recognition of outstanding and vibrant contributions in the field of Knowledge Engineering between 2013 and 2022. Awarded on January 30, 2023.

 

Best Paper Award at the 16th International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing (SEMAPRO-22)
The paper entitled "Representing Online Debates in the Context of E-Journalism" by Elisjana Ymeralli, Giorgos Flouris, Vasilis Efthymiou, Katerina Papantoniou, Theodore Patkos, Georgios Petasis, Nikiforos Pittaras, Giannis Roussakis and Elias Tzortzakakis received the Best Resource Paper Award at the 16th International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing (SEMAPRO-22).

 

Best Resource Paper Award at the 21st International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2022)
The paper entitled "LODChain: Strengthen the Connectivity of your RDF Dataset to the Rest LOD Cloud" by M. Mountantonakis and Y. Tzitzikas received the Best Resource Paper Award at the 21st International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2022). Webpage: https://demos.isl.ics.forth.gr/LODChain/

 

Grand Challenge Audience Award at the 16th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-Based Systems (DEBS 2022)
The paper entitled "Efficient Processing of High-Volume Tick Data for the DEBS 2022 Grand Challenge" by Stefanos Kalogerakis, Antonis Papaioannou and Kostas Magoutis, accepted for publication in the DEBS’22 Grand Challenge track and presented by Antonis Papaioannou, received the Grand Challenge Audience Award at ACM DEBS 2022, 27-30 June 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark. The paper reports on research performed in the context of the STREAMSTORE project, funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) (project HFRI-FM17-1998).

 

Best Poster Award at the ACM SIGOPS European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2022)
The poster entitled "Streamstore: Aligning stream-processing systems with externally-managed state" by Antonis Papaioannou and Kostas Magoutis, presented by Antonis Papaioannou, received the Best Poster Award at the ACM SIGOPS European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2022), 5-8 April 2022, Rennes, France. The award was decided by voting of conference participants out of an attendance of about 300 in-person and 50 online attendees.  The poster reports on research performed in the context of the STREAMSTORE project, funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) (project HFRI-FM17-1998).

 

SA Best Paper Award at the 4th International Conference on Logic and Argumentation (CLAR 2021)
The paper entitled "A Multi Attack Argumentation Framework" by Alexandros Vassiliades, Giorgos Flouris, Theodore Patkos, Antonis Bikakis, Nick Bassiliades and Dimitris Plexousakis received the Best Paper Award at the 4th International Conference on Logic and Argumentation, 20-22 October 2021, Hangzhou, China. This is work conducted in the context of the SoCoLA project, funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) and the General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT).

 

Best Paper Award in the 35th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2021)
The paper entitled as "A Rewarding Framework for Crowdsourcing to Increase Privacy Awareness" by Ioannis Chrysakis, Giorgos Flouris, Maria Makridaki, Theodore Patkos, Yannis Roussakis, Georgios Samaritakis, Nikoleta Tsabanaki, Elias Tzortzakakis, Elisjana Ymeralli, Tom Seymoens, Anastasia Dimou and Ruben Verborgh, received the Best Paper Award in the 35th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2021), Calgary, Canada, Virtual Conference, July 19th-20th 2021.

 

Best Paper Award at the 14th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (MTSR 2020)
The paper entitled "On the Evolution of Semantic Warehouses: The Case of Global Record of Stocks and Fisheries", by Yannis Marketakis, Yannis Tzitzikas, Aureliano Gentile, Bracken van Niekerk, and Marc Taconet, received one of the two Best Paper Awards at the 14th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (MTSR 2020), Virtual Conference, 2-4 December 2020.

 

Best Demo Paper Award nomination at ESWC 2020
The paper entitled "LODsyndesisIE: Entity Extraction from Text and Enrichment using Hundreds of Linked Datasets” (Demo Paper)", by M. Mountantonakis and Y. Tzitzikas, was nominated for Best Demo Paper Award at the 17th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC''2020), June 2020.

 

International Distinction of Doctoral Thesis at Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA 2020)
Michalis Mountantonakis (Department of Computer Science of the University of Crete and Information Systems Laboratory of the Institute of Computer Science of FORTH)  is the winner of the 2020 SWSA Distinguished Dissertation Award for his dissertation: “Services for Connecting and Integrating Big Number of Linked Datasets” from  Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA), November 2020.

 

Best Long Paper Award at the 42nd European Conference on Information Retieval 2020
The paper entitled "Bias goggles: Graph-based Computation of the Bias of Web Domains through the Eyes of Users", by Panagiotis Papadakos and Giannis Konstantakis, received the Best Long Paper Award at the 42nd European Conference on Information Retieval, Lisbon, Portugal, Apr 14-17, 2020.

 

Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention from Aminer 2020
Giorgos Flouris received the "Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention" from Aminer in recognition of outstanding and vibrand contributions in the field of Knowledge Engineering between 2009 and 2019. Awarded in March 16, 2020.

 

Best Poster Presentation Award-ICS at the 12th FORTH RETREAT 2019
The poster entitled "Services for Connecting and Integrating Big Number of Datasets", by Michalis Mountantonakis and Yannis Tzitzikas, received the Best Poster Presentation Award-ICS at the 12th FORTH RETREAT 2019, Patra, Oct 15-16, 2019.

 

Recognized Reviewer Award at the 41th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2019)
Prof. Yannis Tzitzikas received the Recognized Reviewer Award at the 41th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2019), Cologne, Germany, 14-18 April, 2019.

 

Top-3 Recognition (by H2B Hub & K. Tsaousis) at the 2nd Match & Develop a Startup Heraklion 2019
The recommendation system "Le Sommelier", by N.Tsampanaki, Th.Patkos, G.Flouris and D.Plexousakis, received the Top-3 Recognition (by H2B Hub & K. Tsaousis) at the 2nd Match & Develop a Startup Heraklion, 15 & 22-24 February, 2019.

 

Nomination from the Computer Science Department to participate in Roche Continents 2019
Michalis Mountantonakis was nominated from the Computer Science Department and participated in Roche Continents 2019, upon review of applications. Each year 100 top-talented science and arts students are nominated by professors of European institutions and invited to apply to Roche Continents.

 

Best Demo and Poster Award at the 14th European conference on Semantic Technologies and AI (SEMANTiCS-18)
The demo/poster entitled “Assistive Query Building for Semantic Data” , by Vangelis Kritsotakis, Yannis Roussakis, Theodore Patkos and Maria Theodoridou, received the Best Demo and Poster Award (blind review),  at the 14th European conference on Semantic Technologies and AI (SEMANTiCS-18), Vienna, 2018.

 

The paper entitled "Assessing Linked Data Versioning Systems: The Semantic Publishing Versioning Benchmark", by Papakonstantinou Vassilis, Irini Fundulaki and Giorgos Flouris, received the Best Workshop Paper award at the 12th International Workshop on Scalable Semantic Web Knowledge Base Systems (SSWS-18) held within the 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2018), Monterey, California,  Oct 8-12, 2018

 

Outstanding Journal Reviewer by Elsevier 2018
Ioannis Chrysakis received the Outstanding Journal Reviewer award by Elsevier. Awarded for the journal entitled as: Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web. February 2018.

 

Best Doctoral Consortium Paper Award at the International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning (RuleML+RR 2017)
The paper entitled “ArgQL: A Declarative Language for Querying Argumentative Dialogues”, by Dimitra Zografistou, Giorgos Flouris and Dimitris Plexousakis, received the Best Doctoral Consortium Paper Award at the International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning (RuleML+RR 2017), London, 2017.

 

 2nd Prize at the RDA Europe - BlueBRIDGE Datathon 2017
The system "A tool for integrating the data for fisheries and agriculture into a unique database by exploiting Linked Data" by Michalis Mountantonakis, Panagiotis Lionakis and George Nikitakis, received the 2nd Prize at the RDA Europe - BlueBRIDGE Datathon on Fisheries and Aquaculture, Heraklion, Crete,  June 2017.

 

Best Student Paper Award at the 14th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2015)
The paper entitled "A Flexible Framework for Understanding the Dynamics of Evolving RDF Datasets", by Yannis Roussakis, Ioannis Chrysakis, Kostas Stefanidis, Giorgos Flouris and Yannis Stavrakas, received the Best Student Paper Award at the 14th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2015), Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 11-15 October 2015.

 

Best Reviewer Award at the 36th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2014)
Yannis Tzitzikas received the Best Reviewer Award (one of the four winners) at the 36th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2014), Amsterdam 13-16 April, 2014.

 

 1st prize at Hack4Med 2014
The system "Ithaca: From Open Data to Linked Open Data" by Michalis Mountantonakis and Pavlos Fafalios received the 1st prize for the "Best Homer Federation Open Data reuse app", the 2nd prize for the "Most useful application for a public sector administration" and the 1st prize for the “Best Solution for Crete” in Hack4Med, the HOMER project Hackathon, held in the University of Crete, Department of Computer Science, Heraklion, 16-17 May 2014.

 

1st prize at the Blue Hackathon 2013
The system "Theophrastus: A Semantic Exploration Tool for Marine Taxonomists" , by Panagiotis Papadakos and Pavlos Fafalios, received 1st prize at the Blue Hackathon 2013, held in the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), Heraklion, Greece, 1-2 July 2013.

 

Best Paper Award at the 6th International Symposium on Rules (RuleML''12)
The paper entitled "A Production Rule-based Framework for Causal and Epistemic Reasoning", by Theodore Patkos, Abdelghani Chibani, Dimitris Plexousakis and Yacine Amirat, received the Best Paper Award at the 6th International Symposium on Rules (RuleML''12), Montpellier, France, Aug 27-29, 2012.

 

Top-cited article award for the years 2005-2010 for the journal “Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence” by Elsevier 2010
The paper entitled "Qualitative Analysis of User-based and Item-based Prediction Algorithms for Recommendation Agents", by M. Papaggelis and D. Plexousakis, in the Journal of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 18 (7), pp. 781-789, 2005, received the Top-cited article award for the years 2005-2010 for the journal “Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence” published by Elsevier, 2010.

 

Best Student Paper Award at the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009)
The paper entitled "On Detecting High-Level Changes in RDF/S KBs", by Vicky Papavassiliou, Giorgos Flouris, Irini Fundulaki, Dimitris Kotzinos and Vassilis Christophides, received the Best Student Paper Award at the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009), Washington, DC,  Oct 25-29, 2009.

 

Best Student Paper Award at the 5th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SETN ''08)
The paper entitled "A Theory of Action, Knowledge and Time in the Event Calculus", by Theodore Patkos and Dimitris Plexousakis, received the Best Student Paper Award (blind review) at the 5th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SETN ''08), Syros, Greece, Oct 2-4, 2008.

 

Best Paper Award at Best Paper Award at the 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007)
The paper entitled "On the Foundations of Computing Deltas between RDF models", by D. Zeginis, Y. Tzitzikas and V. Christophides, received the Best Paper Award at the 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007), Korea, Nov. 2007.

 

Best Paper Award at the 3rd European Starting AI Researcher Symposium (STAIRS-06)
The paper entitled "On Generalizing the AGM Postulates", by Giorgos Flouris, Dimitris Plexousakis and Grigoris Antoniou, received the Best Paper Award at the 3rd European Starting AI Researcher Symposium (STAIRS-06), 2006.

 

Best Paper Award at the 2nd International Conference on the Semantic Web (ISWC 2003)
The paper entitled "Viewing the Semantic Web through RVL Lenses", by A. Maganaraki, V. Tannen, V. Christophides and D. Plexousakis, received the Best Paper Award at the 2nd International Conference on the Semantic Web (ISWC 2003), Sanibel Island, Florida, October 2003.