VASSILIKI KOUTSONIKOLA


Position	Laboratoty Teaching Staff
Bachelor	2001, BSc in Computer Science, AUTH, Greece
Master’s degree	2003, MSc in Information Systems, University of Macedonia, Greece
PhD degree	2009, Clustering Techniques of Web Data, AUTH, Greece
Professional and teaching experience	2019-today: Laboratoty Teaching Staff, University of Thessaly 2017-2019: Laboratoty Teaching Staff, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, ΤΕΙ of Thessaly 2013-2016, Teacher of Computer Science in Primary Education 2003-2013, Teacher of Computer Science in Secondary Education 2001-2003, Technical Staff of Network Operation Center, AUTH
Scientific / research interests	Web Information Systems, Web data clustering, Sentiment Analysis, Web data management, directory services and network-based data organization.
Selected publications	Vassiliki Koutsonikola and Athena Vakali, LDAP: Framework, Practices, and Trends, IEEE Internet Computing, 8(5): 66-72, Sept.-Oct. 2004. Sophia Petridou, Vassiliki Koutsonikola, Athena Vakali, Georgios Papadimitriou, Time Aware Web Users Clustering, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 20(5): pp. 653-667, May 2008. Vassiliki Koutsonikola and Athena Vakali, A Clustering-Driven LDAP framework, ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), 5(3): pp. 1-34, 2011. Vassiliki Koutsonikola, Athena Vakali, Eirini Giannakidou and Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Clustering Social Tagging System Users: A topic and time based approach, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE09), Poznań, Poland, October 5-7, 2009, published by Springer-Verlag Lecturer Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5802, pp. 75-86 Vassiliki Koutsonikola, Sophia Petridou, Athena Vakali, Hakim Hacid, and Boualem Benatallah, Correlating Time-related Data Sources with Co-clustering, Proc. of the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2008), September 2008, New Zealand, published by Springer-Verlag Lecturer Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5175, pp. 264-279
Courses taught during 2019-20	Introduction to Programming (Lab)