Areas of Expertise and Research Interests

Scientific Fields
• Symbolic/Logic-based Artificial Intelligence
• Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Non-monotonic Reasoning
• Causal Reasoning and Action Theories
• Computational Argumentation
• Intelligent Software Agents
• Semantic Web

Application Domains
• Logic Programming (Prolog, ASP)
• Cognitive Robotics
• Social Robotics/Human-Robot Interaction
• Ambient Intelligence
• Context-aware Computing
• Collective Intelligence

Awards and Distinctions

• 2022    Best Paper Award, with Elisjana Ymeralli, Giorgos Flouris, Vasilis Efthymiou, Katerina Papantoniou, Georgios Petasis, Nikiforos Pittaras, Giannis Roussakis, Elias Tzortzakakis, at the 16th International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing (SEMAPRO 2022), for the paper “Representing Online Debates in the Context of E-Journalism”.
• 2021    Best Paper Award, with Alexandros Vassiliades, Giorgos Flouris, Antonis Bikakis, Nick Bassiliades and Dimitris Plexousakis, at the 4th International Conference on Logic and Argumentation (CLAR 2021), Hangzhou, China, for the paper “A Multi Attack Argumentation Framework”.
• 2021    Best Paper Award, with Ioannis Chrysakis, Giorgos Flouris, Maria Makridaki, Yannis Roussakis, Georgios Samaritakis, Nikoleta Tsabanaki, Elias Tzortzakakis, Elisjana Ymeralli, Tom Seymoens, Anastasia Dimou and Ruben Verborgh at the 35th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2021), for the paper “A Rewarding Framework for Crowdsourcing to Increase Privacy Awareness”.
• 2018    Best Poster & Demo Award, with Vangelis Kritsotakis, Yannis Roussakis and Maria Theodoridou, at the 14th SEMANTiCS 2018 European conference on Semantic Technologies and AI, for the contribution “Assistive Query Building for Semantic Data”.
• 2012    Best Paper Award with Abdelghani Chibani, Dimitris Plexousakis and Yacine Amirat) at the 6th International Symposium on Rules (RuleML'12), for the paper “A Production Rule-based Framework for Causal and Epistemic Reasoning”, which was invited for presentation in the Subarea Spotlight Track of the 26­th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’12)  
• 2009 - 2010    “Manasaki” Fellowship, by the University of Crete, for excellence in doctoral studies.
• 2008     Best Student Paper Award (with Dimitris Plexousakis) at the 5th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence, SETN'08, for the paper “A Theory of Action, Knowledge and Time in the Event Calculus”.

Short CV

Theodore Patkos is a Principal Researcher (Grade B) at FORTH-ICS. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Crete since 2010 studying formal methods for commonsense reasoning in dynamic environments. In the past, he also worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Laboratoire Images, Signaux et Systèmes Intelligents (LiSSi) in Paris, France. He received his degree in Computer Science from the Department of Informatics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a MSc degree from the Computer Science Department of the University of Crete.

Theodore Patkos has extensive expertise in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially on Classical AI (Symbolic/Logic-based AI using formal methods). His research touches upon basic and applied aspects of AI and revolves around the fields of knowledge representation and non-monotonic reasoning, logic programming, contextual, causal and commonsense reasoning, computational argumentation, and rational software agents, with application in Cognitive and Social Robotics, Ambient Intelligence, human-machine interaction and collective intelligence. He has served as PI and as a researcher in European and national projects, and supervised or co-supervised more than 30 PhD, MSc and Graduate students. He has co-authored more than 70 scientific papers in peer-reviewed books, journals and conferences, including TPLP, AMAI, IJCAI, KR, AAMAS and LPAR, receiving 5 best paper and 1 best poster awards. He is a member of the Hellenic Association for Artificial Intelligence (EETN) and a visiting instructor at the post-graduate program of the Computer Science Department of the University of Crete, Greece.

Full CV : https://www.csd.uoc.gr/~patkos/pdfs/PatkosCV.pdf
Publications List: https://www.csd.uoc.gr/~patkos/publications.html
DBLP: https://dblp.org/pid/09/804.html