Yannis Manolopoulos
Open University of Cyprus
Speech Title: Recommending Systems in Scholar Publishing
Yannis Manolopoulos is Professor of the Open University of Cyprus, as well as Professor Emeritus of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Moreover, he is Member of Academia Europaea, London. He has been with the University of Toronto, the University of Maryland at College Park, the University of Cyprus and the Hellenic Open University. He has served as Vice-Rector of the Open University of Cyprus, President of the Board of the University of Western Macedonia in Greece and Vice-President of the Greek Computer Society. Currently, he is Member of the Board of the Research and Innovation Foundation of Cyprus. His research interest focuses in Data Management. He has co-authored 6 monographs and 10 textbooks (in Greek), as well as >350 journal and conference papers. He has received >17500 citations from >2600 distinct academic institutions from >100 countries (h-index=60 according to Google Scholar, d-index=61 according to Research.com). He has also received 5 best paper awards from SIGMOD, ECML/PKDD, MEDES (2) and ISSPIT conferences. Currently, he serves in the Editorial Boards of the following journals (among others): Digital (Editor-in-Chief), The Computer Journal (Deputy Editor), Information Systems, World Wide Web, Expert Systems, Data Science & Analytics.
Prof. Hans Guesgen
Massey University, New Zealand
Hans Guesgen is a professor of computer science at Massey University, New Zealand. His research interests include smart environments, ambient intelligence (ubiquitous computing with artificial intelligence), knowledge representation, and spatio-temporal reasoning, with more than 100 refereed papers in these areas. He holds a doctorate in computer science of the University of Kaiserslautern, and a higher doctorate (Habilitation) in computer science of the University of Hamburg, Germany. Hans is a senior member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and an honorary fellow of the Munich University of Applied Sciences. He has been a member of the programme committees of more than 70 international conferences and workshops, and has served as a referee for the Australian Research Council, the US National Science Foundation, the NZ Foundation for Research Science & Technology, and more than 70 international journals and conferences.
Prof. Fuhua (Oscar) Lin
Athabasca University Alberta, Canada
I am a Full Professor of School of Computing and Information Systems, Faculty of Science and Technology, of Athabasca University, Canada. I am coordinating Research Cluster "Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning" of Faculty of Science and Technology of Athabasca University. I am currently working on two projects. One is an NSERC-funded project entitled “Eliciting Adaptive Sequences for Online Learning” (2021-2025). Another is an AU Research Centre funded IDEA Lab project --- LTI-enabled interoperable infrastructure for integrating Open Educational Resources (OER) and Adaptive Learning Systems (ALS) (2021-2022). Moreover, I am working on intelligent systems (e.g., scheduling algorithms for autonomous vehicles and well operations in oil and gas sector) using Multiagent Systems and Reinforcement Learning. I served as Program Director of MSc in Information Systems (2005-2009), Chair of the School of Computing and Information Systems (2010-2015), and then Associate Dean of Faculty of Graduate Studies (2016-2018) of Athabasca University. Also, I served as Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (2008-2010). I obtained his PhD from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1998. I am a member of AIED and a member of EDM, a senior member of ACM and a senior member of IEEE. Prior to joining AU, I was a Research Officer of Institute of Information Technology at National Research Council of Canada. I was a postdoctoral fellow of the University of Calgary during 1998-1999.