Position | Associate Professor |
Bachelor | 1992, Informatics BSc, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece |
Master’s degree | 1999, Object-Oriented Software Technology MSc, University of Brighton, UK |
PhD degree | 2012, Quality Assurance of Component-Based Software Systems PhD, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece |
Professional and teaching experience | Teaching experience
He has 25 years of teaching experience, of which 9 years have been recognized from his practice as a secondary education teacher prior to his appointment to the TEI of Thessaly. 16/2/2004 – 24/3/2014, Professor of Applications, Department of Informatics Engineering TE, TEI of Thessaly 24/3/2015 – 25/2/2019, Assistant Professor, Department of Informatics Engineering TE, TEI of Thessaly 26/2/2019-, Associate Professor, General Department, University of Thessaly Professional-research experience (some indicative projects): 1/8/2010-30/6/2012, Reuse of Open Source Software for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (European FP7 OPEN-SME project), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 1/6/2014- 30/9/2015, FLOSS Excellence Units, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 4/2/2014-30/9/2015, Framework for the description of skills characteristics in the field of information technology in Spain, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 4/12/2014-31/8/2017, Multilingual evaluation and skills-based education system, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 1/12/2012-30/11/2015, “SPRINT-SMEs – Exploring methodologies for improving software development processes implemented in Greek small and medium-sized enterprises of software development”, ARCHIMIDIS III, TEI of Thessaly 1/1/2012-30/11/2015, “Enterprise architecture for digital cities (EADIC)”, ARCHIMIDIS III, TEI of Thessaly 1/1/2005-31/12/2006, Archimedes III – Model-based Integrated Environment to Support Simulation in Software Project Management (MISSION-SPM), TEI of Thessaly 1/12/2008-1/4/2009, Scientific Officer for the project “Evaluation Support System of teaching associates of TEI of Larissa”, TRC Thessaly 17/7/2009-31/5/2010, Scientific Officer for the project “Extension of the Information System for The Management of Applications and Support of the Evaluation of teaching Associates of TEI of Larissa”, TRC Thessaly |
Scientific / research interests | Software Technology, Software Architecture, Software Architecture Applications, Software Components and Services, Open Source Software. |
Selected publications | Mahdi Bohlouli, Nikolaos Mittas, George Kakarontzas, Theodosios Theodosiou, Lefteris Angelis and Madjid Fathi: “Competence assessment as an expert system for human resource management: A mathematical approach”, Expert Systems with Applications,
Vol. 70, Pages 83–102, 15 March 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2016.10.046 George Kakarontzas and Vassilis C. Gerogiannis, “Handling Uncertainty During Services Ranking”, International Journal of Computing Services, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 45-57, July-September 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.29268/stsc.2016.4.3.4 Eleni Constantinou, George Kakarontzas, Ioannis Stamelos: An automated approach for noise identification to assist software architecture recovery techniques. Journal of Systems and Software 107: 142-157 (2015), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2015.05.065 George Kakarontzas, Eleni Constantinou, Apostolos Ampatzoglou, Ioannis Stamelos: “Layer Assessment of Object-Oriented Software: A Metric Facilitating White-Box Reuse”, Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 86, no. 2, pp. 349–366, Elsevier, February 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2012.08.041 George Kakarontzas, Ilias K. Savvas, Ioannis Stamelos: “Agents, clusters and components: A synergistic approach to the Grid Scheduling Process”, Future Generation Computer Systems, vol. 27, no. 8, pp. 999-1010, Elsevier, October 2011, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2011.05.002 Complete list of publications: https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/k/Kakarontzas:George |
Courses taught during 2019-20 | Object-oriented programming |
Additional information | Best Paper Awards: George Kakarontzas and Ilias K. Savvas, “Agent-Based Resource Discovery and Selection for Dynamic Grids”, IEEE Computer Society Press, WETICE 2006/Emerging Technologies for Next-generation GRID, ETNGRID 2006, pages 195-200, Manchester, U.K., June 2006 |