Georgios Lappas

Georgios Lappas
Associate Professor in Information Technology and Multimedia
Head of Department
Public Relations and Communication
Technological Educational Institution of Western Macedonia
Kastoria Campus
PO Box 30
GR52100 Kastoria GREECE
email: lappas@kastoria.teikoz.gr
Tel: +30 24670 87196
Fax: +30 24670 87063
Academic Degrees
Phd Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Phd Thesis: Combinatorial Optimization Algorithms Applied to Pattern Classification
MSc Applied Artificial Intelligence, University of Aberdeen, UK
MSc Thesis: Protein Modeling and Artificial Intelligence – Side Chain Placement
BSc Physics, University of Crete, Greece.
Research Interests
i) Artificial Intelligence (Pattern Recognition, Neural Networks, Machine Learning),
ii) ICTs in Communication (Multimedia, Web, Web 2.0, Social Media, Semantic Web,
Internet and Web Marketing, E-Government, Politics and the Web, E-
Campaigns)
iii) Combination of the above fields (Web Mining, Intelligent Web, Intelligent
Multimedia, Intelligent Social Computing).
Academic Activities
Editorial
- Co-Editor, Proceedings of the 2 nd International Conference on Political Marketing,
Kastoria, Greece, 31 March-2 April, 2005
- Guest Editor, WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications, Issue 5,
Volume 1, November 2004.
- Co-Editor, Proceedings of the 3 rd WSEAS International Conference on E-Activities, 24-26
October 2004, Rethymnon, Greece.
Member of Editorial Board,
-Journal of Information Technology and Politics,
-International Journal of Electronics, Computing and Engineering Education
- Journal of E-Government (till 2007).
Conferences Chairs and Session chairs:
- 9 th International Conference on Multimedia Systems and Signal Processing,
Hangzhou, China, 2009 (session chair)
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- 4 th International Conference on Politics and Information Systems: Technologies and
Applications, Orlando, USA, 2006 (session chair)
-2 nd International Conference in Political Marketing (ICPM 2005), Kastoria, Greece,
31 March – 2 April 2005 (conference co-chair)
-3 rd WSEAS International Conference on E-Activities, 24-26 October 2004,
Rethymnon, Greece (conference co-chair)
- 4 th International Conference on Soft Computing, Optimization, Simulation &
Manufacturing Systems (SOSM 2004) (session chair)
-1 st International Conference on Political Marketing (ICPM 2003), Kastoria, Greece,
2003 (conference co-chair)
Conferences PC Member:
ASONAM 2011: The International Workshop on Advances in Social Networks Analysis
and Mining, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, July 25-37, 2011.
IMETI 2011: 3 nd International Multi-Conference on Engineering and Technological
Innovation, Orlando, USA, June 29-July 2, 2011.
PISTA 2011: 8 th International Conference on Politics and Information Systems:
Technologies and Applications, Orlando, USA, June 29-July 2, 2011.
ICEME2011: International Conference on Engineering and Meta-Engineering, Orlando,
April 6-9, 2011.
JITP 2011: The Future of Computational Social Science: 3 rd Annual Journal of
Information Technology & Politics Thematic Conference (JITP 2011), 16-
17 May, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
IIH-MSP 2010: 6 th International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and
Multimedia Signal Processing, 15-17 October, Darmstadt, Germany
MSN-DS 2010: 2 nd Intenational Workshop on Mining Social Networks for Decision
Support, 9-11/August/2010, Odense, Denmark
IMETI 2010: 3 nd International Multi-Conference on Engineering and Technological
Innovation, Orlando, USA, June 29-July 2, 2010.
PISTA 2010: 8 th International Conference on Politics and Information Systems:
Technologies and Applications, Orlando, USA, June 29-July 2, 2010.
ICEME2010: International Conference on Engineering and Meta-Engineering, Orlando,
April 6-9, 2010.
SNMABA 2009: The International Workshop on Social Networks Analysis for Business
Applications, Vankouver, Canada, August 29-31, 2009.
MSN-DS 2009: 1 st Intenational Workshop on Mining Social Networks for Decision
Support, Athens, Greece, July 20-22, 2009
IMETI 2009: 2 nd International Multi-Conference on Engineering and Technological
Innovation, July 10-13, 2009, Orlando, USA.
PISTA 2009: 7 th International Conference on Politics and Information Systems:
Technologies and Applications, July 10-13, 2009, Orlando, USA.
IMETI 2008: 1 st International Multi-Conference on Engineering and Technological
Innovation, Orlando, USA, 2008
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PISTA 2008: 6 th International Conference on Politics and Information Systems:
Technologies and Applications, Orlando, USA, 2008.
WMEE 2008: 2 nd Web Mining Workshop on Web Mining for E-commerce and Eservices,
Melburne, Australia, 2008
PISTA 2007: 5 th International Conference on Politics and Information Systems:
Technologies and Applications, Orlando, USA, 2007
IPMC 2006: 3rd International Conference on Political Marketing, April 6-8, 2006,
Nicosia, Cyprus.
ICPM 2005: 2nd International Conference on Political Marketing 31 March – 2 April
2005, Kastoria, Greece.
Additional Referee:
Referee in Journals and Books:
- Advances in Artificial Intelligence (Hindawi Open Access Journal)
- Signal Processing: An International Journal (CSC Journals)
- Journal of Online Information Review, Emerald, Special Issue on “Web Mining
Applications in E-commerce and E-service”, 2009
- H. Rahman (ed.) Data Mining Applications for Empowering Knowledge Societies, IDEA
Group Publishing
Referee in Conferences:
CHI 2011: 28 th Annual Human-Computer Interaction Conference, May 7-12, 2011,
Vancouver, Canada.
S2ES 2011: The 2 nd International Symposium on Science 2 and Expansion of Science,
July 19-22, Orlando, Florida, USA
WMSCI 2011: 15 th World Multi-conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, July
19-22, Orlando, Florida, USA
DIS 2010: Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2010 International Conference, August
16-20, 2010, Arhus, Denmark.
CHI 2010: 28 th Annual Human-Computer Interaction Conference, April 10-15, 2010,
Atlanta, USA.
S2ES 2010: The International Symposium on Science 2 and Expansion of Science, June
29th - July 2nd, Orlando, Florida, USA
WMSCI 2010: 14 th World Multi-conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, June
29th - July 2nd, Orlando, Florida, USA
ICSIT2010 International Conference on Society and Information Technology, April 6 th -
9 th , 2010, Orlando, Florida, USA
IUI 2010: The 2010 ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces,
February 7-10, Hong Kong, China.
CSCW2010: The 2010 ACM on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, February 6-10,
2010, Savannah, Georgia, USA.
CHI 2009: 27 th Annual Human-Computer Interaction Conference, April 4-9, 2009,
Boston, USA.
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CHI 2008: 26 th ACM Annual Human-Computer Interaction Conference on Human
Factors in Computing Systems, April 5-10, Florence, Italy, 2008.
Projects and Evaluator
- Referee of the Swiss National Academy of Science for Research Grant Applications,
2008
- National Referee for Research Grant Applications in Technological Educational
Institutions (Archimedes III) founded by the European Union and the Greek
Government.
Selected Publications
G. Lappas, A. Kleftodimos, P. Yannas (2010) (Invited Talk), “Greek Parties and Web 2.0”,
ECCO Workshop, Oxford Internet Institute, 15-16 September, University of Oxford, UK.
G. Lappas, A. Kleftodimos (2010), “A Multimedia Application for Teaching A Multimedia
Course in Communication Studies”, International Journal of Electronics,
Computing and Engineering Education, (accepted, in print)
G. Lappas, P. Yannas. (2010), «Towards a South-Eastern European Local E-Government
Identity: The Greek Case», in Asim Balci, Coskun Can Aktan, Ozkan Dalbay (eds),
Explorations in eGovernment and eGovernance: Proceedings of the International
Conference on E-Government and E-Governance (ICEGEG 2010), Antalya, Turkey, 10-12
March, 2010, Volume 1, pp:159-168. ISBN: 978-605-5741-23-5.
Prodromos Yannas and Georgios Lappas (2010). Evaluating Local E-Government: A
Comparative Study of Greek Prefecture Websites, E-learning experiences and future,
Safeeullah Soomro (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-307-092-6, INTECH, Available from:
http://sciyo.com/articles/show/title/evaluating-local-e-government-a-comparative-study-ofgreek-prefecture-websites
A.A. Albrecht, A.V. Chashkin, C.S. Iliopoulos, O.M. Kasim-Zade, G. Lappas, K. Steinhofel.
(2010), “A Note on a priori Estimations of Classification Circuit Complexity”, Fundamenta
Informaticae, in press
G. Lappas (2009). “Machine Learning and Web Mining: Methods and Applications in
Societal Benefit Areas”, in Tatnall A. (ed.) Web Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies,
Tools and Applications, Information Science Reference, pp 1495-1515, ISBN 978-160566-
982-3.
G. Lappas (2009). “Designing Neural Networks for Tackling Hard Classification
Problems”, WSEAS Transactions on Systems, 6(6):743-752.
G. Lappas (2009). “Neural Networks and Multimedia Datasets: Estimating the Size of
the Neural Networks”, in S. Chen, Q. Li (eds), New Advances on Multimedia Systems
and Signal Processing, WSEAS Press, pp 237-242, ISBN 978-960-474-077-2
G. Lappas (2009). “Neural Networks and Multimedia Datasets: Estimating the Size of
the Neural Networks”, in Proceedings of the 9 th International Conference on
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Multimedia Systems and Signal Processing (MUSP 09), Hangzhou, China, 20-22
May, ISBN 978-960-474-079-6
G. Lappas, P. Yannas (2009), Designing Multimedia Applications for IT Courses in Public
Relations and Communication Studies, in Proceedings of the V International Conference on
Multimedia and Information and Communication Technologies in Education (m-ICTE2009),
Lisbon, 22-24 April.
G. Lappas (2008). “An Overview of Web Mining in Societal Benefit Areas”, Journal of
Online Information Review, 32(2):179-195.
G. Lappas (2008). “Machine Learning and Web Mining: Methods and Applications in
Societal Benefit Areas”, in H. Rahman (ed.) Data Mining Applications for Empowering
Knowledge Societies, IDEA Group Publishing, pp 76-95.
P.Yannas, G. Lappas, (2007). “E-Government and E-Democracy in Local Greek
Government”, in Gouliamos, K, Theoharous, A. (eds) Cultural Issues and Current Trends,
Haworth Press.
G. Lappas S. Chatzopoulos, P. Yannas, (2007), “Parliamentary Candidates Running on the
Web for the 2004 Greek National Elections”, Journal of Political Marketing, Vol. 7 Iss. 3-4,
pp. 256-277.
P. Yannas, G. Lappas (2007). “Evaluating Local E-Government: An Analysis of Greek
Prefecture Websites”, in Proceedings of the 2 nd IEEE International Conference on Digital
Information Management (ICDIM 07), October 28-31, Lyon, France, pp. 254-259.
P. Yannas, C. Bibitsos, G. Lappas (2007). “Logodosia ton Organismon Topikis
Autodioikisis kai Nea Dimosia Dioikisi: Periorismoi kai Proypotheseis gia tin symvoli tou
thesmou tis logodosias stin enisxisi tis topikis dimokratias”, in Proceedings of the 2 nd
Conference of Administrative Sciences, October 11-13, Chios, Greece.
A.A. Albrecht, A.V. Chashkin, C.S. Iliopoulos, O.M. Kasim-Zade, G. Lappas, K. Steinhofel.
(2007), “A Priori Estimation of Classification Circuit Complexity”, Texts in Algorithmics,
8:97-114.
G. Lappas (2007). “Estimating the Size of Neural Networks from the Number of Available
Training Data”, in Proceedings of the 17 th International Conference on Artificial Neural
Networks (ICANN 2007), Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Part
I, vol. 4668, pp 68-77, September 10-13, Porto, Portugal.
G. Lappas (2007). “An Overview of Web Mining in Social Benefit Areas”, in Proceedings of
the 9th IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology and the 4th IEEE
International Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (CEC-EEE
2007), 1 st Web Mining Workshop on Web Mining for E-commerce and E-services (WMEE
07), July 23-26, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 683-690.
P. Yannas, G. Lappas. (2006), “Web Candidates in the 2002 Greek Prefecture Elections”,
Journal of E-Government , Vol 3, No 1, pp 53-67.
G. Lappas, P.Yannas (2006). “A Framework to Evaluate Political Parties Websites”, in
Proceedings of the 4 th International Conference on Politics and Information Systems:
Technologies and Applications, Volume II, July 20-23, Orlando, USA, pp 226-231.
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G. Lappas, R.J. Frank, A. Albrecht, (2006). “A Computational Study on Circuit Size vs.
Circuit Depth”, International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, Vol. 15, No 2, pp 143-
162.
G. Lappas, P.Yannas (2006). “A Framework to Evaluate Political Parties Websites: A
Preliminary Approach”, Paper presented in the 3 rd International Conference in Political
Marketing, April 6-8, Nicosia, Cyprus.
P.Yannas, G. Lappas, (2006). “E-Government and E-Democracy in Local Greek
Government”, Paper presented in the 3 rd International Conference in Political Marketing,
April 6-8, Nicosia, Cyprus.
G. Lappas, K. Steinhofel, A. Albrecht, (2006). “Classification of Splice-junction Gene
Sequences by a Special Type of Threshold Circuits”, in C.S. Iliopoulos, K. Park, K.
Steinhofel, Algorithms in Bioinformatics, Texts in Algorithmics 6: 27-43.
G. Lappas (2005). “Generating Classification Circuits for Approximating Biological
Decision Problems”, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Numerical Analysis
and Applied Mathematics (ICNAAM 2005), Computational Biology: Algorithm and Models
Minisymposium, Wiley-VCH, September 16-20, Rhodes, Greece, pp 800-808.
P. Yannas, G. Lappas (2005), “Political Candidates on the Internet during the Local Elections
of 2002”, Communication Issues, 3, 2005, 115-124 (in Greek).
P.Yannas, G. Lappas, (2005). “Parliamentary Candidates Running on the Web for the 2004
Greek National Elections”, Proceedings.of 2 nd International Conference on Political
Marketing (ICPM 2005), 31 March – 2 April, Kastoria, Greece: Dept. of Public Relations &
Communication.
P. Yannas, G. Lappas (2005), “Web Campaign in the 2002 Greek Municipal Elections”,
Journal of Political Marketing, 4(1), 33-50.
P. Yannas, G. Lappas (2004), “E-Campaign in Greek Elections: 2000-2004”, WSEAS
Transactions in Information Science and Applications 5(1), pp. 1332-1337.
G. Lappas, K. Steinhofel, A. Albrecht, (2005). “Classification of Splice-junction Gene
Sequences by a Special Type of Threshold Circuits”, London Stringology Day, February 03-
04, London, UK.
P. Yannas, G. Lappas (2004), “E-Campaign in Greek Elections: 2000-2004”, Proceedings of
the 3 rd International Conference on E-Activities, October 24-26, Rethymnon, Greece.
A. Albrecht, G. Lappas (2004). “Classification Improvement by an Extended Depth LSA
Machine”, Transactions on Systems, 3(3), 1120-1125.
A. Albrecht, G. Lappas (2004). “On the Evaluation of Dividing Samples for Training an
Extended Depth LSA Machine”, Transactions on Systems, 3(3), 1251-1257.
A. Albrecht, G. Lappas (2004). “Classification Improvement by an Extended Depth LSA
Machine”, in Proc. of the 4th International Conference on Soft Computing, Optimization,
Simulation and Manufacturing Systems (SOSM '04), April 21-23, Miami, USA.
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A. Albrecht, G. Lappas (2004). “On the Evaluation of Dividing Samples for Training an
Extended Depth LSA Machine”, in Proc. of the 4th International Conference on Soft
Computing, Optimization, Simulation and Manufacturing Systems (SOSM '04), April 21-23,
Miami, USA.
A. Albrecht, G. Lappas (2004). “On the Evaluation of Dividing Samples for Training an
Extended Depth LSA Machine”, in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on
Neural Networks and Applications (NNA'04), March 25-27, Udine, Italy.
P. Yannas, G. Lappas (2003), “Web Candidates in Greek Prefecture Elections”, Proceedings
of Political Marketing Conference, 18-20 September, Middlesex UK 2003.
G. Lappas, V. Ambrosiadou (2003), “Binary and Multicategory Classification Accuracy of
the LSA Machine”, Proceedings of the International Conference of Computational Methods
in Sciences and Engineering (ICCMSE 2003), T.E. Simos editor, World Scientific
Publishing, pages 340-345, September, Kastoria 12-16, Greece.
G. Lappas (2003), “New Technology and Public Relations: Areas of Applications”,
European PR News, Volume 2, Number 1.
A. Albrect, G. Lappas, S. Vinterbo, C.K. Wong, L. Ohno-Machado (2002), “Two
Applications of the LSA Machine”, in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on
Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2002), volume 1, pages 184-189, November 18-22,
Singapore.
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