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Curriculum Vitae
Personal Details
Surname
First name
Sex
Lazarinis
Fotios
Male
Date of birth 21/12/1973
Place of birth
Nationality
Home address -
Telephone -
e-mail
web page
Academic Studies
Agrinio, Greece
Greek
lazarinf@teimes.gr
www.lazarinis.gr
1996-1997 MSc in Advanced Information Systems
Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow,
Glasgow, Scotland
Grade A
Thesis
Combining Information Extraction with Information Retrieval
1991-1995 BSc in Informatics
Department of Informatics, University of Athens, Athens
Grade 8.02/10
Final year project Implementation of a Database Management System on the Parsytec
massively parallel system GCel 3/512 running PARIX
(Unix like operating system).
Professional Experience
Jan 1996-now
- Freelance programmer (Web, Databases and Multimedia applications)
- Programmer at the computer centre of the Hellenic Ministry of Defence (Ingres
DBMS, C, Embedded SQL)
- Web Programmer in Atypon Systems (HTML, Lex, Yacc, C, Java, ASP, SQL
Server, Access, Oracle, Perl, IIS, Apache Web Server)
- Multimedia and Database Programmer in 01 Pliroforiki
Educational Experience in Higher Institutes
2001-2005
Part time lecturer in the Technological and Educational Institute of Mesolonghi,
Greece, teaching:
1. Data Structures and File Organisations
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2. Operating Systems
3. Multimedia
4. Security of Information Systems
5. Information Retrieval
6. Programming I & II
1996-1997
Pascal lab assistant in the Department of Computing Science, Univ. of Glasgow.
Educational Experience in Secondary Schools/Vocational centres
Sep 2000-now
Computing Science Teacher at 5 th High School of Agrinion, Hellas
Sep 2000-now
Trainer at Vocational training centres teaching:
1. Sound Processing
2. Multimedia Programming
3. Word Processing
4. Operating Systems Windows NT & 2000, Unix/Linux
5. C and C++ Programming
6. Java
7. Computer Networks
8. Computer Graphics Principles
Published Books
14 books about Algorithms, Networks, Multimedia, Internet and ICT skills. All books
concern secondary educational institutes or vocational training centres.
Publications in International Conferences/Journals
Information retrieval
1. Lazarinis F., Forming an instructional approach for teaching web searching to non-
English users, Program: electronic libraries (accepted)
2. Lazarinis F., Search engines and the Greek language: Do they have an understanding,
Journal of Information Science, (accepted)
3. Lazarinis F., Engineering and utilizing a stopword list in Greek Web retrieval, Journal of
the American Society for Information Science and Technology (accepted)
4. Lazarinis F., Lemmatization and stopword elimination in Greek Web searching, (submitted)
5. Lazarinis F., How do Greek searchers form their Web queries 3 rd WEBIST conference
(accepted)
6. Lazarinis F., (2006), Evaluating the searching capabilities of Greek e-commerce
sites, Online Information Review Journal (accepted)
7. Lazarinis, F., (2006), Searching the Greek web space: an instructional approach
for effective utilization of search engines, Journal of Science Education, 7, 28-30.
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8. Lazarinis, F., Automatic Extraction of Knowledge from Greek Web Documents,
DIR’06 Information Retrieval Workshop, 2005, 33-37.
9. Lazarinis F., Do search engines understand Greek or user requests “sound Greek”
to them, Open Source Web Information Retrieval Workshop in conjunction with
IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence & Intelligent
Agent Technology, 2005 43-46
10. Lazarinis F., A Rule Based Tool for Mining Textual Data from Greek Calls for
Papers, 2 nd Balkan Conference in Informatics, 2005, 126-133
11. Lazarinis F., Evaluating User Effort in Greek Web Searching, 10 th Pan-Hellenic
Conference in Informatics, 2005 99-109
12. Lazarinis F., Combining Information Retrieval with Information Extraction for
Efficient Retrieval of Calls for Papers”, BCS-IRSG’98, Grenoble, France, 1998,
pp. 162-174.
13. Lazarinis F., An analysis of the technological features of Greek Cultural and Tourism
web sites, Conference International Critical Issues in Leisure & Tourism
Education, 2006 (on print)
14. Lazarinis F., Evaluating the technologies and services of tourism and cultural web
sites, International Conference of Trends, Impacts and Policies on Tourism Development,
2006.
Educational technology
15. Lazarinis F., A hypermedia environment for managing online courseware based on
adaptable templates, International Conference on Virtual Learning, 2006 (accepted)
16. Lazarinis F., Designing an enhanced e-assessment tool for end user ICT certifications,
International Conference on Virtual Learning, 2006 (accepted)
17. Lazarinis F., Evaluation of ICT adult training programs by learners, The Future of
E: Advanced Educational Technologies for a Future e-Europe 2006 (accepted)
18. Lazarinis F., A Template Based System for Automatic Construction of Online
Courseware for Secondary Educational Schools, Educational Technology & Society,
2004, 7 (3), 112-123.
19. Lazarinis F., Retalis S., Engineering an interoperable adaptive hypermedia testing
tool supporting user adaptable strategies, 3rd IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Applications & Innovations, special session Adaptive Learning Systems
Engineering, LNCS 2006, vol 204, pp 393-400.
20. Lazarinis F., The role of ICT Certification in Tourism and Cultural Professions,
Critical Issues in Leisure & Tourism Education, 2006 (on print)
21. Lazarinis F., Proposing a Discrete Role Architectural Model for Categorised
Online Learning Sites, ICICTE, 2002, pp. 611-618.
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22. Lazarinis F., Retalis S., Analyze Me: Open Learner’s Model in an Adaptive Web
Testing System, International Journal Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2006,
(submitted)
e-Tourism
23. Lazarinis F., Stefanidis S, Kougiourouki O., e-travelling: A Generic Paradigm for
Developing Tourism Web Sites, Scientific : Rethinking of Education and Training
for Tourism, University of Zagreb, Croatia, 2002 pp. 369-379.
24. Lazarinis F., The importance of ICT Certification in Tourism and Cultural Professions,
International Conference of Trends, Impacts and Policies on Tourism Development,
2006 (on print)
25. Lazarinis F., Kougiourouki O., A Database Framework for Agencies Offering Diverse
Tourism Services via the WWW”, Tourism Today Journal, 2003, 3, 202-211
26. Stefanidis S, Lazarinis F., et al., e-travelling: A System of Promoting and Administering
Tourist Services on the Internet”, International Conference: Tourism on
Islands and Specific Destinations, University of the Aegean, Chios, 2000.
National Conferences or Journals
17 papers related to educational technology and adult education
References to my work
Educational technology
1. Hadjerrouit, S., Creating Web-Based Learning Systems: An Evolutionary Development
Methodology, Proceedings of the 2006 Informing Science and IT Education
Joint Conference, 2006, 119-144
Information retrieval
2. Matsuo et al., Mining Messages in an Electronic Message Board by Repetition of
Words, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, 2002
3. Shepherd et al., The Role of User Profiles for News Filtering, Journal of the
American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2001
e-Tourism
4. Kanellopoulos, D., Intelligent wireless web services for tourism: a review of the
enabling technologies, International Conference of Trends, Impacts and Policies
on Tourism Development, 2006 (on print)
Seminars
1. Oct 2005: 10 hour seminar “Teleteatching”, Technological Educational Institute of
Mesolonghi, Greece
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2. 14-16.02.2003: 2-day seminar “Pedagogy and New Technologies”, Brussels, Belgium.
3. 09-13.09.2002: 30-hour Comenius 2.2 seminar “Application of Informatics in the
Education Activity”, University of Roma, Italy.
4. Sep 2000: 40-hour Pedagogical Seminar, University of Patras, Greece.
5. Jan-Mar 1994: 250-hour EU financed seminar “Utilization of Case Tools in Industry”,
University of Athens, Greece.
Foreign Languages
English (fluent)
Italian (fluent)
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