JOHN K. SOLDATOS

Biographical Information

Summary
Prof. John Soldatos, (born in Athens, Greece in 1973), obtained his Bachelor/MSc degree in 1996 and his Phd (dealing with Broadband networks traffic control and programmable networks & services) in 2000, both from the ECE Department of the National Technical University of Athens. Dr. Soldatos has had a very active role in a number of research projects, which were co-funded by the EU in the scope of the ACTS, ESPRIT and IST frameworks. Specifically from 1996 to 2002, he has actively participated in EXPERT AC-094, WATT AC-235, IMPACT AC-324, Chameleon EP 20597 CATCH-2004 IST-1999-11103, LION IST-19990-11387 projects, and recently in the CHIL-FP6-506909 project. He has also had an active involvement in several (more than six) projects of the General Secretariat for Research and Technology. Dr. Soldatos has also considerable experience in several enterprise IT projects, where he worked for leading Greek enterprises (INTRACOM S.A, IBM Hellas S.A, PEGASUS S.A, OTE S.A, TEMAGON S.A). Dr. Soldatos was engaged in these projects as senior developer, IT systems architect, team leader, technical project manager. Dr. Soldatos was (in 2000) the technical manager for the software development of the portal http://www.e-go.gr. Furthermore, he has been involved in several large scale industry projects (both public and private sector) as a principal IT consultant. Dr. Soldatos has extensively lectured in NTUA, AIT, while he has also given a host of invited lectures to other Greek and international universities. He has also conducted numerous corporate training courses (over 20 seminars) with topics relating to implementation and technical management of large scale IT projects (main topics being J2EE, Oracle, RUP/XP). As a result of his research activities he has co-authored more than 90 papers published in international journals (more than 22) and conference proceedings. Moreover, he has been involved in numerous pre-sales activities for both national and EU tenders. In the scope of these activities he has also attracted (as principal investigator) multi-million euro research grants for both NTUA (prior to 2003) and AIT (contributed to 2.9 M€ in the period 2003-2007). Overall, throughout his career Dr. Soldatos has had active involvement in the preparation of nearly 80 proposals/tenders (for EU funded research, public sector and private sector RFPs). Dr. Soldatos is with Athens Information Technology since March 2003, where he is currently an Associate Professor. In Athens Information technology, he is instructor/responsible for courses in the scope of all three AIT academic programs, namely MSIN (in collaboration with the Carnegie Mellon University), MSITT and MBIT. His current research interests are in Grid Computing, Middleware and Networking for Pervasive and Autonomic Computing, Broadband Traffic Control and Management. Dr. Soldatos serves as a reviewer in major journals in these areas (e.g., Journal of Grid Computing, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Communications Surveys), while he has also served as organizing chair, tutorial chair, and technical programme committee member in a host of related conferences. Recently, he served as TPC co-chair of the 18th IEEE PIMC (Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications) conference, a “flagship” IEEE conference held September 3 – 7, 2007, in Athens, Greece.

Main Achievements at AIT (May 2003-September 2007):

• Leading Contributor (consortium setup / proposal editor) and principal investigator to attracting research grants over 1.700.000,00 € (1,7 M€ ) since 2003 and contributor (proposal editor) to another 1.200.000,00 € (1,2 M€ ) i.e. 2.900.000,00 € (2,9 M€ ) in total, specifically:
• Instigator, Principal Investigator and Editor of FP7 successful proposal ASPIRE (Integrated Project on RFID Middleware), (approx. 655.000,00 EURO for AIT) – Technical Manager of the whole project.
• AIT’s Principal Investigator and main contributor of FP7 successful proposal HERMES (STREP proposal on smart housing and ambient services for aged users (ICT and ageing)), (approx. 576.350,00 EURO for AIT) – Technical Director of the whole project.
• Instigator, Principal Investigator and Editor of FP7 successful proposal my-e-Director 2012 (STREP proposal on context-aware multi-camera selection and tailored streaming), (approx. 365.000,00 EURO for AIT)
• Contributor and proposal co-editor of CHIL Integrated Project (EU FP6 funding, top ranking among 100’s of IST first call proposals, 1.147.234 EURO for AIT)
• Main contributor and AIT’s principal investigator of GSRT co-funded project PRIAMOS (approx. 100.000,00 EURO for AIT, GSRT measure 3.3)
• Main contributor to GSRT co-funded projects Dioskouroi (AIT’s principal investigator) (Scientific Responsible, top IT/Telecom proposal in GSRT ΕΠΑΝ 8.3.6) & Prosto (GSRT measure ΕΠΑΝ 8.3.6 funding) (approx. 15000,00 EURO for AIT).
• Key-Role in the AIT-CTIF collaboration for research and common educational and PhD programmes.
• Research Papers with AIT affiliation: 18 published /accepted in International Journals (IEEE, Elsevier, Kluwer), more than 24 published / accepted in International Conferences.
• Editor of 1 Book with AIT affiliation.
• Teaching: Fully responsible for a load of 10,5 full degree courses (MSIN, MSITT, MBIT) since joining AIT, specifically Information Systems Modeling (Fall ‘04, Fall ’05, Fall ’06, Fall’07) (co-instructor) (MSIN), Database Systems (Fall ‘04, Fall ’05, Fall ’06, Fall’07 (co-instructor)) (MsITT), Enterprise Systems Programming (Summer ’05, Summer ’06, Summer ’07) (MsITT), Management of Information Systems (Spring ’06, Spring ‘07) (MBIT). Received top evaluation (from the students, over 4.2/5.0 for all above courses).
• Professional Training: Fully responsible for a load of 14 distinct high-tech corporate training seminars since joining AIT, on the following topics: Enterprise Java, Java EE, EJB, Java EE Patterns, Java EE Performance, Oracle, Java EE Technical Management, Web Services. Courses to INTRACOM (Oct ’04 & April ‘05), Intrasoft International (July ’04, July ’06), Enterprise Java Seminars (Nov ’05 – 3 modules), Software Engineering / RUP / XP (co-instructor Spring ’06), Management of Information Systems (May ’06), OTE Academy / Cosmote / Intrasoft International / Intracom (Feb ’07 – 3 modules), OTE Academy / Cosmote (April ’07), Intrasoft International (Jun ’07).
• Summer School: Coordinator of 5 AIT Summer Schools (weekly or bi-weekly) (see: http://www.ait.gr/summer/), namely: 1st AIT Summer School on Emerging ICT Technologies (July 2005), 2nd AIT Summer School on Next Generation Computing Systems (July 2006), 1st ‘Meet Your Future’ Summer School (June 2006), 3rd AIT Summer School on Recent Advances on Telecommunications, Networking, and Distributed Computing Systems, Next Generation Computing Systems (July 2006), 2nd ‘Meet Your Future’ Summer School (June 2007).
• Technical Manager of the RFID ASPIRE project (approx. 7M€, largest recent EU investment on RFID).
• Technical Director of the HERMES project.
• CHIL Project Implementation / Execution: Technical Manager for AIT work in WP2/WP3/WP7 (see below for systems developed), CHIL architecture, CHIL ‘Smart Room’ setup, CHIL middleware and service development, CHIL project reporting & administration.
• PRIAMOS Project Implementation / Execution: AIT’s Technical Manager.
  Grid Computing: Grid Resource Management Based on Dynamic Predictions System (EMPEROR), Administration / Setup of Grid programming testbed, Author of Technical Report ‘Enterprise Grid Computing: Drivers and Applications’.
• Network Management: The XMLNET system (http://www.telecom.ntua.gr/xmlnet).
• Design/Preparation/Conduction of Courses (for the Dioskouroi & PROSTO Programmes) and Research Seminars, delivery of over 140 hours of such courses.

• eBusiness Forum, Z6 study group ‘Grid Computing for E-Business’), in collaboration with the Greek Research and Technology Network (GRNET): Rapporteur for this study group.
• The group investigated potential applications of Grid Computing to the Greek industry. It consulted on best practices for enterprise grid deployment, migration strategies (from existing infrastructures), potential applications and pilot deployment.
  
  

• Technical Team Leader responsible for implementing Loyalty Management Software Systems. The implementations were based on J2EE technology (Borland Enterprise Server 5.2, EJB2.0, EJB Patterns, Oracle 8.1.7, JBuilder 9.0)
• Two main projects: (a) Olympiakos F.C Members Management, (b) INTRACOM S.A (iSelect) Loyalty Management Product.
  
  

• Technical Manager / Team Leader of a four member group (of engineers) designing and implementing a medium scale WWW Portal, enabling administration, updating, management and monitoring tasks related to building and activating OTE access network(s).
• Implementation based on MS Internet Information Server(as WWW Server), ASP (Active Server Pages) for delivering dynamic content and MySQL RDBMS.
  ΟΤΕ approved the implementation of similar applications/portals.
  
  

• Design and implementation of a prototype application for building Dialog Forms for Natural Language Understanding, supported by NTUA and IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
• The first phase prototype implementation was carried out (entirely by Dr. Soldatos) using MS Visual C++ 6.0 (with extensive use of MFC).
  
  

• Project Manager / Technical Manager/ Team Leader (6 engineers) for the software implementation of the information portal E-GO (http://www.e-go.gr) (one of the biggest (11 thematic categories, more than 50 services) and most important in Greece).
• The project was carried out using J2EE technology (iPlanet Web Server, BEA WebLogic Application Server, Oracle 8.1.6 RDBMS) from a group of six developers led by Dr. Soldatos.
  The (software development) project was completed within 7 months, which is a very short period for a project/portal of that scale.
  

• Participated as Software Engineer in the implementation of a novel platform for designing, building and executing Portable Hypermedia Applications based on C++ and Python programming languages.
• The project was co-funded by the ESPRIT Chameleon EP 20597 research project, which resulted in the implementation of one of the first SMIL viewers for Windows 95/98/ΝΤ.
  The project was a forerunner of the SMIL language, later adopted by the W3C consortium as a synchronized multimedia/hypermedia language.
  

• User Requirements, Analysis, Design, Implementation (Customization) of ORAMA (by Q&R) ERP systems, based on Oracle RDBMS and tools (RAD methodology).
  

Research Experience – Main Research and Development Projects

Most Recent - New Projects (Under Negotiation with EC)
Projects under negotiation (pending their start 01/01/2008) (for AIT):

• FP7-215417 ASPIRE (Advanced Sensors and lightweight Programmable middleware for Innovative Rfid Enterprise applications) (FP7-ICT-2007-1 - ICT-2007-1.3)(starting 01/01/2008): Programmable RFID middleware and low-cost hardware for added-value RFID applications. Related Technologies: Java, Pervasive Computing Middleware, Context-Awareness, Smart spaces, A/V processing technologies.
  

• FP7 HERMES 216709 (Cognitive Care and Guidance for Active Aging) (starting 01/01/2008): Pervasive context-aware human centric technology for memory aids and cognitive training.
  

• FP7 My-e-Director 2012 215248 (Real-Time Context-Aware and Personalized Media Streaming Environments for Large Scale Broadcasting Applications) (starting 01/01/2008): Real time person tracking and scene analysis for personalized sports broadcasting – The user becomes the director. Related Technologies: A/V processing technologies, Scene Analysis, Person Tracking, Context-Awareness.
  

Dr. John Soldatos is the Scientific Coordinator for AIT.

Past & Running Projects
During 2003-2006 as Senior Researcher and Technical Manager for AIT:

• PRIAMOS (GSRT Measure 3.3, on Audio-Video Processing, Project Code: 26) (September 2006- now): Research on software / middleware infrastructures for pervasive and ubiquitous computing. Design / implementation of techniques and tools easing the development and integration of context-aware components that rely on perceptual processing. Implementation of security/surveillance and meeting support applications. Related Technologies: Java, Semantic Web (OWL), Pervasive Distributed Systems.
• CHIL FP6-506909 (January 2004- now): Research on software / middleware infrastructures for pervasive and ubiquitous computing. Design / implementation of an autonomous system supporting the integration of numerous perceptual components / interfaces towards high level services supporting human-to-human communication. Design /implementation of high performance middleware establishing a ubiquitous sensing infrastructure for in-door environments based on a variety of sensors. Related Technologies: Java, Pervasive Distributed Systems, Software Agents.
• DIOSKOUROI Human Network (GSRT, measure 8.3.6) (November 2003- now): Organization and conduction of courses on IT/Telecommunications (e-health/e-government) for appropriate target groups.
• PROSTO Human Network (GSRT, measure 8.3.6) (November 2003- now): Organization and conduction of courses on IT/Telecommunications/Telematics for appropriate target groups.
  

• LION (Layers Interworking Optical Networks) IST-1999-11387 (May2002-December 2002): Research on adapting and using existing network control protocols (PNNI, MPLS), for controlling ASON / ASTN networks. Study of resilience schemes for Optical Networks, with emphasis on mutli-layer resilience.
• CATCH-2004 (Converse in Athens, Cologne and Helsinki IST-1999-11103)(January 2000-January 2001): Leader of WP5 (work-package 5) targeting the development of multilingual databases and the implementation of data access methods (in a J2EE environment). The databases constituted the backend tier of a multilingual, multimodal and multi device information retrieval system.
• IMPACT (IMplementation of Agents for CAC on an ATM testbed) AC-324 (March 1998 – March 2000): Java based implementation of a prototype system for network control and resource management for ΑΤΜ networks based on intelligent agents technology. The implementation was carried out on real network testbeds. Dr. Soldatos was managing WP1.
  WATT (WWW Windows for ACTS Trials and Testbeds ) AC-235 (September 1996-October 1998): Production of tools (Java Applets) enabling remote on-line real time monitoring of networking experiments, through the WWW. Moreover courses on ATM technology were organized. Dr. Soldatos undertook a major part of the project management.
• EXPERT (EXperimental Platform for Engineering Research and Trials) AC-094 (September 1997-April 1998): Devising, designing, and implementing experiments on a big experimental ΑΤΜ network (supported by Swisscom in Basel).
• ΠΕΝΕΔ 99ΕΔ 92: Traffic Control and Resource Management towards fulfilling QoS constraints.
• Multimedia World (February 1996 - September 1996): Implementation (with 3 more NTUA software engineers) of an application for Desktop Computer Supported Collaborative Work (for PCs - Windows 95/NT, MS Visual C++). Included all services (audio, video, slideshow, pointer, whiteboard, FTP-File Transfer, etc.). No similar application existed for Win32 at that time.
  

• Instigator, Principal Investigator and Editor of FP7 successful proposal ASPIRE (Integrated Project on RFID Middleware), (approx. 655.125,00 EURO for AIT) – Technical Manager of the whole project.
• AIT’s Principal Investigator and main contributor of FP7 successful proposal HERMES (STREP proposal on smart housing and ambient services for aged users (ICT and ageing)), (approx. 576.350,00 EURO for AIT) – Technical Director of the whole project.
• Instigator, Principal Investigator and Editor of FP7 successful proposal my-e-Director 2012 (STREP proposal on context-aware multi-camera selection and tailored streaming), (approx. 365.000,00 EURO for AIT)
• Main contributor and proposal co-editor of CHIL Integrated Project (EU FP6 funding, top ranking among 100’s of IST first call proposals, 1.147.234 EURO for AIT)
• Main contributor and AIT’s principal investigator of GSRT co-funded project PRIAMOS (approx. 100.000,00 EURO for AIT, GSRT measure 3.3)
• Main contributor and AIT’s principal investigator of GSRT co-funded projects Dioskouroi (Scientific Responsible, top IT/Telecom proposal in GSRT ΕΠΑΝ 8.3.6) & Prosto (GSRT measure ΕΠΑΝ 8.3.6 funding) (approx. 15000,00 EURO for AIT).
  

• NTUA’s principal investigator for the following successful proposals/projects: ACTS-324 IMPACT, IST-1999-11014 SHUFFLE, IST-1999-10921 MANTRIP, IST-1999-11103 CATCH 2004.
  

• Over 35 Proposals Submitted (in most Soldatos proposal editor / coordinator) in FP6/FP7/GSRT/Other National & International Tenders
  

• 10 FP6 & FP7 Integrated Projects (IP): CHIL, PERFECT, PLATyPus, REMGrid, CHIL-II, ASPIRE, PETALI, SILHOUETTE, SMILING, SeenOnTV.
• 17 FP6 & FP7 STREP: ARROW, U-Butler, GEMBRACE, EMINENT, GNOSI, AMPERE, RESTORE, GRIDIT, GRAIL, MARVELOUS, U-STABILITY, eCare, my-e-Director 2012, HERMES, EMPRESSO, ANPHORA, ABUNDANT, SUPERVISE
• 1 FP6 NoE: NET-GROWN
• 1 FP6 eContent: PROGRESS
• 1 FP6 eContentPlus: UREQA
• 4 GSRT: PRIAMOS, PROSTO, Dioskouroi, Olympos
• 1 Proposal to Information Society (EKDAA training)
  

• Preparation of over 30 proposals for the FP4/FP5 frameworks (over 20), GSRT (over 5) industry RFPs (5), public sector tenders (over 10)
  

1. ‘Advanced Level Training in J2EE/EJB’, to Intrasoft International (July 2004, 20h)
2. ‘Advanced Level Training in J2EE/EJB’ to INTRACOM (October 2004, 20h)
3. ‘Enterprise Java for Managers’, to INTRACOM / Intrasoft International (April 2005, 16 h)
4. ‘Enterprise Java Systems and Technologies’ to INTRACOM / Intrasoft International (November 2005, 26h)
   a. Enterprise Java Overview
   b. Enterprise Java for Technical Managers
   c. Enterprise Java for Architects and Senior Developers
5. ‘Software Engineering / RUP / XP’ to Intrasoft International (January 2006, 8 h)
6. Management of Information Systems’ to INTRACOM / Eurobank (May 2006, 12 h).
7. Java SE Prerequisites for Java EE & Training in Java EE’ to Intrasoft International (July 2006, 16h).
8. Enterprise Java in three modules (Java EE Overview, Java EE for Technical Managers, Java EE for Developers and Architects) to Intrasoft International, Intracom TELECOM, Intracom IT Services, Comsote, OTE Academy (February 2007, 30h).
   a. Enterprise Java Overview
   b. Enterprise Java for Technical Managers
   c. Enterprise Java for Architects and Senior Developers
9. ‘Java EE Web Services) to Intrasoft International, OTE Academy (Arpil 2007, 5h (co-instructor)).
10. ‘Software Engineering / RUP / XP’ to Intrasoft International (June 2007, 3h (co-instructor))
    

1. ‘Training in Java/J2EE’ , in-house GNT Systems (25 h)
2. ‘Introductory Java Training’, NTUA (20h)
   

1. Over 100 hours of courses (Dr. Soldatos is eligible for KEK certification).
2. Topics: Technological subjects/tutorials & hands-on training related to IT and Telecommunications).
   

Teaching Experience

Teaching at Athens Information Technology (2003-2007)

Master of Science in Information Networking (MSIN) in collaboration with the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)

• Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2007: Information Systems Modeling (AIT/MSIN)
  

• Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2007: Database Systems (AIT/MsITT),
• Summer 2005, Summer 2006, Summer 2007: Enterprise Systems Programming (AIT/MsITT),
  

1. Spring 06’, Spring 07’ Management of Information System (AIT/MBIT).
   

2. Lectures in NTUA for the postgraduate MBA programme ‘Technoeconomical Systems’ (2002).
3. Lectures in NTUA (in the scope of the courses ‘Microprocessors’ (1997), ‘Network Programming’ (1999-2000) and ‘Digital Television’ (1998-2000) of the Electrical Engineering Department’s Programme), Teaching Assistant for these courses.

4. Invited Lectures in the University of the Aegean, in the scope of the postgraduate program 'Technologies and Management of Information and Communication Systems', organized by the 'Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering' (Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006).

Teaching at University of the Ioannina (2000)

5. Visiting Lecture/Seminar on ATM & Broadband Networking, in the scope of the postgraduate programme, of the Physics Department, University of Ioannina (2000).

6. Lectures related to ATM, Web based network management and Video Conferencing in four Romanian Universities(Bucharest, Trigoviste, Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara) (May 1998).

1. Lazar Adzigogov “Host Load Prediction for Scheduling in the scope of a Grid Infrastructure”. MSIN 2003-2004, Thesis.
2. Aliki Dona, “OODBMS Systems for persistent storage in J2EE applications”, MSIN 2003-2004, Thesis.
3. Markelos Vlassopoulos, ‘Information Providers for Grid Scheduling Services’, MSIN 2003-2004, Thesis.
4. Ipokratis Pandis, ‘Middleware Architectures for Ubiquitous Computing’, MSIN 2003-2004, Thesis.
5. Grigoris Gregoriou, ‘Autonomous Agents for Ubiquitous and Context-Aware Computing’, MSIN 2003-2004, Thesis.
6. Nikos Dimakis, ‘What happened while I was away? A ubicomp service in the AIT Smart Space’, MSIN 2004-2005, Thesis.
7. Athanasion Barlas, ‘Designing and Implementing Management Interfaces for Asterisk Call Centers’, MSIN 2004-2005, Thesis.
8. Siamak Azodolmolky, ‘Middleware Framework for Resource Management in Smart Spaces’, MSIN 2004-2005, Independent Study.
9. Nikos Dimakis, ‘Ambient Camera Selection in Ubiquitous Computing Services’, MSIN 2004-2005, Independent Study.
10. Theocharis Kampouris, ‘Real-Time Prediction of Resource Streams’, MSIN 2004-2005, Independent Study.
11. Sotiris Michalakos, ‘Low-Level Interface to an RFID Reader: API and Practical Applications”, MSITT 2005-2006, Independent Study.
12. Achilleas Anagnostopoulos, ‘Low-Level Interface to an RFID Reader: API and Practical Applications”, MSITT 2005-2006, Independent Study.
13. Sotiris Michalakos, ‘Virtualized Interface for MIAME Microarray Experiments over Data Grids”, MSITT 2005-2006, Thesis (in progress).
14. Vassilis Vosiolis, ‘Tools for visual development of RFID applications”, MSITT 2005-2006, Thesis (in progress).
15. Kyriakos Gelntzakis, ‘VoiceXML services for Voice portals’, MSITT 2004-2005, Thesis.
16. Lysandros Kafkalas, ‘Managing Resources in Smart Spaces’, MSITT 2004-2005, Thesis (in progress).
17. George Christianos, ‘The business value of CRM systems and the ALBA case study’, MBIT 2005-2006, Thesis (started May’07).
18. Tereza Papasarantoboulou, “Managing Innovative Business Cases based on RFID technology”, MBIT 2005-2006, Thesis (started June’07).
19. Markos Sikalidis, ‘Managing RFID Reader Networks’, MSITT 2006-2007, Thesis.
20. Kostas Goudelas, ‘Application Level Eventing in RFID Reader Networks’, MSITT 2006-2007, Thesis.
21. Mohammad Nasr, ‘Framework for Human Centric Applications in Smart Spaces’, MSIN 2006-2007, Independent Study.

Summer Schools Organization

Coordinator of 5 AIT Summer Schools (weekly or bi-weekly) (see: http://www.ait.gr/summer/), namely:

• 1st AIT Summer School on Emerging ICT Technologies (July 2005)
  2nd AIT Summer School on Next Generation Computing Systems (July 2006)
• 1st ‘Meet Your Future’ Summer School (June 2006)
  3rd AIT Summer School on Recent Advances on Telecommunications,
• Networking, and Distributed Computing Systems, Next Generation Computing Systems (July 2007)
• 2nd ‘Meet Your Future’ Summer School (June 2007).
   

Dr. Soldatos undertook the management of the programme, the scientific organization/content, the coordination of the review of the applications, as well as direct communication with the applicants.
All summer schools were very positively evaluated by the vast majority of the participants.

Sample Experience with Conference Organization & Meeting/Event Management
 

• Organizing Co-Chair and TPC co-chair 18th IEEE PIMC (Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications), September 3rd – 7th, 2007, Athens, Greece. Major event, 1200 participants.
• Organizing Program Committee Co-Chair, 3rd IFIP Conference on AIAI (Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations), June 7th-9th, 2006, Athens, Greece.
• Tutorial Chair, 14th IST Mobile and Wireless Summit, Mykonos, Greece, June 4-8th, 2006.
• Organizing Committee Co-Chair, EXPERT ATM Traffic Symposium, Mykonos island, 1997.
• Workshop Co-Chair for the DPSN04’ workshop, held May 14th, 2004, in the scope of IFIP Networking 2004 conference.
• Technical Programme Committee Member in over 15 events (conferences, workshops, symposia) e.g., :
• WATT Symposium, Cluj Napoca, September 1998.
• Workshop on ‘User-centred design and evaluation of services for human-human communication and collaboration’, October 7, 2005 - Trento, Italy, in conjunction with the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces 2005 (ICMI'05)
• Workshop ‘World Class Solutions: Networking the Globe’, held in the scope of IEEE GlobeCom 2006, November 27th – December 1st, 2006.
• ICDT'06, International Conference on Digital Telecommunications, August 30 - September 2, 2006, Cap Esterel, Côte d’Azur, France.
  

• Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, PL/SQL, FORTRAN, Pascal, COBOL, Lisp, Python.
• Markup-Scripting Languages: HTML, XML, XSLT, DHTML (Javascript & CSS, VBScript), VoiceXML.
• RDBMS Systems (emphasis on Software development): Oracle, mySQL, MSAccess.
• Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, UNIX, Sun Solaris, Linux.
• WWW Servers: iPlanet WWW Server, Microsoft Internet Information Server, Apache, Microsoft Personal Web Server.
• WWW Server Side Programming: Java Server Pages (JSP), Active Server Pages (ASP).
• Application Servers and Enterprise Middleware (J2EE): Tomcat-Jakarta + Axis, Borland Enterprise Server, IBM's Web Sphere, BEA Weblogic, Sun One App Server, Oracle Application Server (and Oracle Sensor Edge Server), Jboss AS (and JBoss Portal).
• Distributed Programming: Sockets, Java RMI, CORBA, W3C Web Services (SOAP, WSDL, UDDI), Grid / OGSA Programming (Globus 3.2).
• Programming Patterns, EJB specific patterns, Integrated Development / Software Engineering Tools (Microsoft Developer Studio, JBuilder, Rational Rose, Oracle Developer, Oracle JDeveloper, Oracle Designer, Sun One Studio…).
• Network technologies/protocols/services: TCP/IP, UDP, ATM, VOIP, SNMP, CMIP, JMAPI, JAIN, MPLS, GMPLS, IPv6,…
• RFID, pervasive computing and sensor-based services.
  

• September 1996-June 2000, in the scope of the abovementioned research projects, Dr. Soldatos was among the administrators of a small (few nodes) pilot network (hosted at NTUA Telecom Lab) consisting of FORE ATM Swicthes, CISCO Ethernet switches, Linux boxes, Linux PC Routers etc, where he designed and conducted research experiments.
• From 1996 till 2001 he was a student Member of the IEEE, and since 1996 he is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece. He subscribes to several international journals and magazines dealing with IT and Telecommunications.
  

• For GSRT (Greek Secretarial for Research and Technology) proposals and running projects
• For Business plans submitted to GSRT (Greek Secretarial for Research and Technology).
• For EU proposals and running projects
  

• IEEE Communication Magazine Reviewer, IEEE Communication Surveys and Tutorials Reviewer, Elsevier Computer Communications Reviewer, Reviewer for the Journal of Grid computing, Reviewer for several international conferences (e.g., IFIP Networking 2004, IFIP Networking 2005, Globecom).
• Guest Editor in the International Journal of Wireless Information Networks (November 2007).
  

Education

• Phd (December1996-November2000): Phd, in the area of “Networks supporting Integrated Services and Interactive Multimedia Applications” in the Computer Science Division of NTUA’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. The thesis concerned advanced frameworks for broadband network control and their implementation through network programmability concepts. Most theoretical/mathematical findings were validated through simulation, but also through experiments on real pilot networks.
• Bachelor /MSc (September 1991 – September 1996): From the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of NTUA, with an overall performance 8, 82/10 (top 4%).
• High School: 1st Lyceum of Kifisia (1991) with a performance “Excellent” (20/20). Classified 11th (8th among first time participants) for the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of NTUA, through the process of General Hellenic Examinations.
  

Foreign Languages

English: Fluent (Business Level), Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English (June 1996)
German: Zertificat I (GrundStuffe) (June 1990)

Research Papers and Books
Journal Papers (Published / Accepted)

1. J. Soldatos, E. Vayias and N. Mitrou : "CAC and Traffic Shaping for end-to-end Performance control in ATM: the two-class paradigm", 'Journal of Computer Networks and ISDN Systems', special issue on "Performance Modelling and Evaluation of ATM Networks", vol. 34, Juy 2000, pp.65-83.
2. E. Vayias, J. Soldatos, J. Bigham, L. Cuthbert and Z.Luo 'Intelligent Agents for ATM Network Control and Resource Management : Experiences and Results from an implementation on a network testbed', Journal of Systems and Network Management (JSNM), in the special issue on 'Intelligent Agents for Telecommunications Management', Vol. 8, No.3, September 2000.
3. K. Kontovasilis, G. Kormentzas, N. Mitrou, J. Soldatos and E. Vayias, "A Framework for Designing ATM Network Management Systems by way of Abstract Information Models and Distributed Object Architectures", in Computer Communications, Elsevier, The Netherlands, vol. 24 (2001), pp.641-653.
4. Ε. Vayias, J. Soldatos, N. Mitrou, "Packet-Level Traffic Control for the Internet: a Framework and its Experimental Validation", Journal of Performance Evaluation, Elsevier (publ.), vol. 941, pp. 1-20, 2002.
5. K. Kontovasilis, G. Kormentzas, A.Kourtis, N. Mitrou, J. Soldatos and E. Vayias, "A Web-based Database System for Providing Technical Information on ATM Networking Platforms", Journal of Computing and Information Technology - CIT 11, 2003, 1, pp.1-10.
6. Sanchez-Lopez, S.; Sole-Pareta, J.; Comellas, J.; Soldatos, J.; Kylafas, G.; Jaeger, M., 'PNNI-based control plane for automatically switched optical networks', in IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology (joint IEEE/OSA publication), vol. 21, Issue 11, November 2003, pp.2673-2682.
7. J.Soldatos, E. Vayias, P. Stathopoulos, and N.Mitrou, “Enforcing Effective Rates for Packet-Level QoS Control in IP Networks: Theory and Validation based on Real Traffic Data”, Telecommunication Systems Journal, Kluwer, ISSN 1018-4864, Vol 27., pp. 9-31, September 2004.
8. L. Polymenakos and J. Soldatos, "Multimodal Web Applications: Design Guidelines and an Implementation Framework", International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology (IJWET), Vol.2, No.1, 2005, ISSN 1476-1289).
9. G. Kylafas and J.Soldatos, "An Automatically Switched Optical Networks Simulator", Computer Communications Journal (Elsevier) (publ), Vol.28/2 pp. 224-235.
10. J.Soldatos, E.Vayias, G.Kormentzas "On the Building Blocks of QoS in Heterogeneous IP networks", IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, Vol.7, No.1, 1st Quarter 2005.
11. Dimitris Alexopoulos and John Soldatos, “XMLNET: A Cost Effective Network Management Architecture based on XML technologies”, Journal of Systems and Network Management (Kluwer/Springer),Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 1-27, December 2005.
12. E. Vayias, J. Soldatos, G. Kormentzas, ‘Traffic Shaping based on an Exponential Token Bucket for Quantitative QoS: Implementation and Experiments on DiffServ Routers’, COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS 29 (6): 781-797 MAR 31 20 Computer Communications, Vol. 29, No.6, March 2006, pp.781-797, special issue on 'End-to-End QoS Provisioning Advances'.
13. L. Adgigogov, J.Soldatos, L.Polymenakos, 'EMPEROR: An OGSA Grid Meta-scheduler based on Dynamic Resource Predictions', Journal of Grid Computing, Vol. 3, No. 1-2. (June 2005), pp. 19-37 (Kluwer, editors-in-chief: Ian Foster, Peter Kacsuk).
14. J. Soldatos, I. Pandis, K. Stamatis, L. Polymenakos, J. Crowley, 'Agent based Middleware Infrastructure for Autonomous Context-Aware Computing Services', Computer Communications 30 (2007) pp. 577-591, special Issue on Emerging Middleware for Next Generation Networks.
15. John Soldatos and Dimitris Alexopoulos, 'Web Services based Network Management: Approaches and the WSNET System', International Journal of Network Management (IJNM), Volume 17, Issue 1 (January/February 2007), pp.33-50.
16. John Soldatos, Kostas Stamatis, Siamak Azodolmolky, Ippokratis Pandis, and Lazaros Polymenakos, "Semantic Web Technologies for Ubiquitous Computing Resource Management in Smart Spaces", International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology, 3(4):353-373, 2007.
17. Aristodemos Pnevmatikakis, John Soldatos, Fotios Talantzis and Lazaros Polymenakos, ‘Robust Multimodal Audio-Visual Processing for Advanced Context Awareness in Smart Spaces’, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal (Springer) , DOI 10.1007/s00779-007-0169-9 (2007).
18. Alexander Paar, Jurgen Reuter, John Soldatos, Kostas Stamatis, Lazaros Polymenakos, ‘A Formally Specified Ontology Management API as a Registry for Ubiquitous Computing Systems’, The International Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, and Complex Problem-Solving Technologies (Applied Intelligence), 2007 (Springer), to appear (2007).
19. J. Soldatos, N. Dimakis, K. Stamatis, L.Polymenakos ‘A Breadboard Architecture for Pervasive Context-Aware Services in Smart Spaces: Middleware Components and Prototype Applications’, accepted for publication in the Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal (Springer London), ISSN 1617-4909 (Print), Issue Volume 11, Number 3 / March, 2007, Pages 193-212..
20. Alexandros Kallantzis, John Soldatos and Sergios Lambropoulos, "Linear versus Network Scheduling: a Critical Path Comparison", Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, Americal Society of Civil Engineers, Volume 133, Issue 7, pp. 483-491 (July 2007).
21. Dimitris Alexopoulos, John Soldatos, George Kormentzas and Charalabos Skianis, ‘UbiXML: Programmable Management of Ubiquitous Computing Resources’, accepted for publication in the International Journal of Network Management (Springer) (IJNM).
22. Emanuel Protonotarios, Sofoklis Kyriazakos, Jorge Pereira, John Soldatos, Haris Kehagias and Nikolaos Papaoulakis ‘IEEE PIMRC '07 Conference in Athens, Greece: Mastering ‘Wireless Entropy’, IEEE Communications Magazine, to appear Nov. 2007 (invited paper).
23. Nikolaos Dimakis, Georgios Gekas, Theofilos Karachristos, Ghassan Karame, Stamatis Tsolakidis, John Soldatos and Lazaros Polymenakos, ‘A Backbone of Middleware Components Supporting a Set of Prototype Context-Aware Services’, accepted for publication in the International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (Inderscience).

24. Achilleas Anagnostopoulos, John Soldatos and Sotiris G. Michalakos, ‘REFiLL: A Lightweight Programmable Middleware Platform for Cost Effective RFID Application Development’, submitted for publication to the Pervasive and Mobile Computing.
25. Nikolaos Dimakis, John Soldatos, Lazaros Polymenakos, Jan Cuřín, Pascal Fleury, Jan Kleindienst, ‘Non-Proprietary Integrated Development of Context-Aware Applications in Smart Spaces’, submitted for publication to the IEEE Pervasive Computing.
26. Sophie De Maesschalck, Didier Colle, Piet Demeester, Ilse Lievens, Antonio Manzalini, Marco Quagliotti, John Soldatos et.al ‘Advantages of Intelligent Optical Networks’, submitted to the Optical supplement of the IEEE Communications Magazine, under revision.
    Journal Editorials
27. K. Karpouzis, J. Soldatos and D. Tzovaras, ‘Introduction to the special issue on emerging multimodal interfaces’, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Journal Editorial, DOI 10.1007/s00779-007-0174-z.

28. "Emerging Artificial Intelligence Applications in Computer Engineering”, Real Word AI Systems with Applications in eHealth, HCI, Information Retrieval and Pervasive Technologies", Volume 160 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Editors: I. Maglogiannis, K. Karpouzis, M. Wallace and J. Soldatos, October 2007, approx. 408 pp., hardcover ISBN: 978-1-58603-780-2.
29. Book on 4G Wireless Communications, River Publishers, Editors: S. Kyriazakos, J. Soldatos, G. Karetsos, work in progress.

30. M.S. Hansen, P.V. Jensen, J. Soldatos and E. Vayias, "Low-Level Control of Network Elements from an Agent Platform" Chapter 12 In: A.L.G. Hayzelden and R.A. Bourne(eds.) "Agent Technology for Communication Infrastructures" John Wiley & Sons(2001), ISBN: 0471498157.
31. Vayias, E., Soldatos, J., Mitrou, N., "An approach to Network Control and Resource Management based on Intelligent Agents", in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, J. Delgado, G. Stamoulis, A. Mullery, D. Prevedourou, K. Start (eds.), 7th Int'l Conf. on Intelligence in Services and Networks (IS&N2000) Proceedings, (Springer-Verlag), pp. 191-208.
32. Vergados D., Vayias E., Soldatos J., Drakoulis D. and Mitrou N., 'IP-based Convergence of Fixed and Cellular Networks and Services in the Light of Liberalization', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, G. Goos, J. Hartmanis,and J. van Leeuwen (eds.), Interworking 2000 Proceedings, (Springer-Verlag), ISSN 0302-9743, pp. 51-64.
33. J. Soldatos, G. Kylafas, J.Pikramenos, B.Lianos, Sergio Sanchez and Josep Pareta, 'Implementing PNNI Signaling in the Optical Control Plane', in WSEAS TRANSACTIONS on CIRCUITS, Issue 1, Volume 2, ISSN 1109-2734.
34. Dimitris Alexopoulos and John Soldatos, 'Programmable Network Management based on the Web Services paradigm', in WSEAS Transactions on Computers, Issue 1, Vol.3, January 2004, p.250-255
35. Alexander Paar, Jurgen Reuter, John Soldatos, Kostas Stamatis, Lazaros Polymenakos, ‘A Formally Specified Ontology Management API as a Registry for Ubiquitous Computing Systems’, 3rd IFIP conference in Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, AIAI 2006, (Springer), Series: IFIP, Vol. 204, Maglogiannis, Ilias; Karpouzis, Kostas; Bramer, Max (Eds.), 2006, XVIII, 744 p., 272 illus., Hardcover. ISBN: 0-387-34223-0.
36. Dimitris Alexopoulos, George Kormentzas and John Soldatos, ‘XML Systems for Intelligent Management of Pervasive Computing Resources’, 3rd IFIP conference in Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, AIAI 2006, (Springer), Series: IFIP, Vol. 204, Maglogiannis, Ilias; Karpouzis, Kostas; Bramer, Max (Eds.), 2006, XVIII, 744 p., 272 illus., Hardcover. ISBN: 0-387-34223-0.
37. Aristodemos Pnevmatikakis, John Soldatos, Fotios Talantzis and Lazaros Polymenakos, ‘Robust Multimodal Audio-Visual Processing for Advanced Context Awareness in Smart Spaces’, 3rd IFIP conference in Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, AIAI 2006, (Springer), Series: IFIP, Vol. 204, Maglogiannis, Ilias; Karpouzis, Kostas; Bramer, Max (Eds.), 2006, XVIII, 744 p., 272 illus., Hardcover. ISBN: 0-387-34223-0.
38. N. Dimakis, J. Soldatos and L. Polymenakos, “Ontology-Based Management of Pervasive Systems”, in "Emerging Artificial Intelligence Applications in Computer Engineering”, Real Word AI Systems with Applications in eHealth, HCI, Information Retrieval and Pervasive Technologies", Volume 160 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Editors: I. Maglogiannis, K. Karpouzis, M. Wallace and J. Soldatos, October 2007, approx. 408 pp., hardcover ISBN: 978-1-58603-780-2.
39. Nikolaos Dimakis, John Soldatos and Lazaros Polymenakos, ‘Introduction to the CHIL Architecture’, chapter of the CHIL project book (to be published by Springer).
40. Nikolaos Dimakis, John Soldatos and Lazaros Polymenakos, ‘Perceptual Component Data Models and APIs’, chapter of the CHIL project book (to be published by Springer).
41. Nikolaos Dimakis, John Soldatos and Lazaros Polymenakos, ‘Memory Jog Services’, chapter of the CHIL project book (to be published by Springer).

42. N. Mitrou, V. Vayias, J. Soldatos, K. Kavidopoulos, G. Branis, K. Kontovasilis, G. Kormentzas, C. Vaduva, "Remote Monitoring of Networks through Gateway Programming over the Internet", UK Performance Engineering Workshop, Ilkley, July 1997.
43. John Zissopoulos, John Soldatos, Evaghelos Vayias, George Branis, Nikolas Mitrou, "An Architecture for Group Communications-Support Networked Multimedia Applications", Proc. of the 4th IEEE Workshop on High Performance Communication Systems, Chalkidiki, June 1997.
44. E. Vayias, J. Soldatos, N. Mitrou, G. Kormentzas, K. Kontovassilis, "Monitoring Networks over the Web: Classification of approaches and an implementation", Proc. of the International Conference on Telecommunications, ICT '98 , Chalkidiki, Greece, June 1998, vol. IV, pp.451-456.
45. C. Vaduva, T. Belicki, E. Vayias, J. Soldatos, “A Tool for on-line remote monitoring and off-line analysis of network behaviour”, in Proc. Network Information Processing Systems ‘97 (NIPS ’97) IFIP TC6 Conference, Sofia, October 1997, pp. 138-151.
46. J. Soldatos, E. Vayias and N. Mitrou: "CAC and Traffic Shaping for end-to-end Performance control in ATM: the two-class paradigm", Proc. of the IfIP ATM '98 WorkShop, July 1998.
47. J. Soldatos, E. Vayias, G. Kormentzas, K. Kontovassilis, N. Mitrou "ATM Management : Issues and Solutions for the Heterogeneous Environment", Proc. of the 2nd Ifip/IEEE Conference on Managing Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS '98) Versailles France 1998.
48. J. Soldatos, D. Vergados , E. Vayias , and N. Mitrou, "The Design of an Object-Oriented Simulation Tool for evaluating ATM Network Resource Control Schemes", Proc. of the <>2nd IEEE Conference in ATM (ICATM'99), Colmar, France, June 1999.
49. G. Kormentzas, K. Kontovasilis, A. Kourtis, J. Soldatos, E. Vayias, and N. Mitrou, "A System for Managing Heterogeneous Cellular Wireless Platforms over the Web", Proc. of the 4th ACTS Mobile Communication Summit , Sorrento, Italy, June 1999.
50. G. Kormentzas, K. Kontovasilis, A. Kourtis, J. Soldatos, E. Vayias, and N. Mitrou, "Managing Heterogeneous Cellular Wireless Systems Using Abstract Information Models'", Proc. of the 4th ACTS Mobile Communication Summit , Sorrento, Italy, June 1999.
51. K. Kontovasilis, Kormentzas G., Kourtis, A., Mitrou N., Soldatos J., Vayias E, "A Web based-System for Providing Information about Prototype ATM Platforms, Associated Research Projects and Related Trials", in the Proc.of the 21st International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces (ITI '99), Pula, Croatia, June 15-18, 1999.
52. J.Soldatos, G.Kormentzas, E.Vayias, K. Kontovasilis, N.Mitrou, "An Intelligent Agents-Based Prototype Implementation of an Open Platform Supporting Portable Deployment of Traffic Control Algorithms in ATM Networks", Proc. of the 7th COMCON Conference, July '99 Athens Greece.
53. G. Kormentzas, J.Soldatos, E.Vayias, K.Kontovassilis, N.Mitrou," An ATM Switch-Independent MIB for Portable Deployment of Traffic Control Algorithms", Proc. of the 7th COMCON Conference, July '99 Athens Greece.
54. Hansen, M., Jensen, P., Soldatos, J., Vayias, E., "Low-level control of network elements from an Agent Platform", Proc. of the IMPACT'99 Workshop ,ISBN-0904188647, pp. 23-30, 1999..
55. Vayias, E., Soldatos, J., Mitrou, N., "Open and Flexible Control and Resource Management for ATM Networks using Intelligent Agents", in Proc. of 6th International Conference on Intelligence in Networks (ICIN2000),pp. 205-209.
56. M. Hansen, John Soldatos, Evangelos Vayias, 'Low-Level Control of ATM Network Elements using Agent Technology', in the Proc. of the 4th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics SCI 2000 and The 6th International Conference on Information Systems, Analysis and Synthesis ISAS, 23-26 July 2000.
57. Vayias, E., Soldatos, J., Mitrou, M., "Packet-Level Traffic Control for the Internet: a Framework and its Experimental Validation", in IFIP Technical Proceedings, 8th IFIP Workshop on Performance Modelling and Evaluation of ATM & IP Networks (IFIP ATM & IP 2000), Ilkley UK, July 2000.
58. C. Gizelis, D. Vergados, E. Verentziotis, J. Soldatos, E. Vayias, "Management architecture in tactical communication networks", MILCOM 2000 - IEEE Military Communications Conference, no. 1, October 2000 pp. 100-104.
59. Gizelis C, Stathopoulos P., Vergados D., Soldatos J., Vayias E., ‘Designing a Network Management Tool for Monitoring ATM Networks’, in the Proc. of the CAINE 2000, conference.
60. D. Vergados, D.Drakolis, E. Vayias, J. Soldatos, and N. Mitrou, "The IP Revolutions and Potential Gais for ISP/Mobile/Fixed Operators in the Liberalization of Teleommunications", in the Proc. of the Joint 4th International Conference in ATM and High Speed Internet (ICATM01), Colmar, France, June, 2001.
61. G.Kormentzas, D. Vergados, J.Soldatos and G.Stassinopoulos, “An Open Signaling Protocol for Wireless Host Mobility”, in the Proc. of PROMS 2001 Conference pp. 145-154.
62. G. Kormentzas, J. Soldatos and D. Vergados, "Building a Programmable Wireless Military Network Using Software Agents", Classified MILICOM, October 2001.
63. D. Vergados, J. Soldatos, G. Kormentzas, E. Vayias, F. Lazarakis, C. Gizelis and G. Stassinopoulos, "Programming Military Networks: A Review of Alternative Technologies", In Proc. 8th International Conference on Advances in Communications and Control, Crete, Greece, June 2001.
64. D.Vergados, C. Anagnostopoulos, I. Anagnostopoulos, J. Soldatos, E. Kayafas,V. Loumos and G. Stassinopoulos, 'Neural Networks for Routing Optimization in Wideband Networks', in the Proc. of the EUROGEN 2001 conference, September 2001, Athens, Greece.
65. George Karetsos, John Soldatos, Haitham Cruickshank, Evaggelos Kollias, Alex Galis, Mario Moreira and Moshe Sidi, ‘A Framework for Management, Testing and Reconfiguration of IP Based Networks using Mobile Software Agents’, in the Proc. of the 8th International Conference on Advances in Communications and Control, Crete, Greece 25-29 June 2001.
66. Soldatos J., Vergados D., Protopsaltis N., Lykou C., Kormentzas G., Anagnostopoulos C. and Theologou M., "Applying Mobile IP over Wireless ATM Communication Networks", Fall VTC 2001, USA.
67. Yannis Despotopoulos, George Patikis, John Soldatos, Lazaros Polymenakos, Jan Kleidienst and Jaroslav Gergic, "Accessing and Transforming Dynamic Content based on XML: Alternative Techniques and a Practical Implementation", in the Proc. of the Third International Conference on Information Integration and Web based Applications and Services, Linz Austria, 10-12 September 2001.
68. Jaroslav Gergic, Jan Kleidienst, Yannis Despotopoulos, John Soldatos, George Patikis, Apostolos Anagnostou and Lazaros Polymenakos, "An Approach to Lightweight Deployment of Web Services", in the Proc. of the 14th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE '02) , Ischia, Italy, July, 15-19, 2002.
69. J. Pikrammenos, G. Sarkis, J. Soldatos, V. Anagnostopoulos, "Hidden Layer Authentication Using Smart Card for Web-based WLANS", in the Proc. of the 18th IFIP International Information Security Conference, May 26-28, 2003.
70. J. Soldatos, G. Kylafas, J.Pikramenos, B.Lianos, Sergio Sanchez and Josep Pareta, 'Implementing PNNI Signaling in the Optical Control Plane', in the WSEAS Transactions, of the WSEAS EHACS (Electronics, Hardware, Wireless and Optical Communications) 2003 conference, Rethimno, Greece, August 11-13, 2003.
71. Lazaros Polymenakos and John Soldatos, 'An Authoring Framework for Dialog Forms Development in Conversational Applications', in the Proc. of the International Conference on Recent Advanced in Natural Language Processing (RANLP '03), Borovets, Bulgaria, September, 10-12, 2003.
72. Dimitris Alexopoulos and John Soldatos, ‘Programmable Network Management based on the Web Services paradigm’, accepted for publication in the Proc. of the 4th WSEAS conference, Spain, December 19-21 2003.
73. G.Kylafas, J.Soldatos and G.Pikramenos, 'Multilayer Resilience Strategies for Automatic Switched Optical Networks', in the Proc. of the International Conference on Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking (NEW2AN'04), February, 2-6, 2004.
74. John Soldatos and Dimitris Alexopoulos, ‘Cost effective IP networks Management based on XML Authoring’, in the Proc. of the Terena Network Conference, TNC 2004, Rhodes, Greece, June 2004.
75. John Soldatos, Lazaros Polymenakos, George Kormentzas, 'Programmable Grids Framework enabling QoS in an OGSA context', in the Proc. of the 1st International Workshop on 'Active and Programmable Grids Architectures and Components', held in the scope of ICCS'04, Krakow, Poland, June 7-9, 2004.
76. John Soldatos, Evangelos Vayias, Lazaros Polymenakos, ‘Grid Donors Resources Utilization Analysis towards Optimal Job Scheduling’, in the Proc. of the DPSN ’04, workshop, held in the scope of IFIP Networking 2004, Athens, May 14th 2004.
77. John Soldatos, Lazaros Polymenakos, Aristodemos Pnevmatikakis, Fotis Talantzis, Kostas Stamatis and Michael Carras, 'Perceptual Interfaces and Distributed Agents supporting Ubiquitous Computing Services', in the Proc. of the Eurescom Summit 2005, April 2005, pp. 43-50.
78. Azodolmolky, N. Dimakis, V. Mylonakis, G. Souretis, J. Soldatos, A.Pnevmatikakis, L. Polymenakos, 'Middleware for In-door AmbientIntelligence: The PolyOmaton System', in the Proc. of the 2nd NGNM workshop, Networking 2005, Waterloo, Canada, May, 6th 2005.
79. Ippokratis Pandis, John Soldatos, Alexander Paar, Jürgen Reuter, Michael Carras, Lazaros Polymenakos, ‘An Ontology-based Framework for Dynamic Resource Management in Ubiquitous Computing Environments’, in the Proc. of the 2nd International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, Northwestern Polytechnical University of Xi'an, P.R.China, December 16-18, 2005.
80. Alexander Paar, Jürgen Reuter, John Soldatos, Kostas Stamatis, Lazaros Polymenakos, ‘A Formally Specified Ontology Management API as a Registry for Ubiquitous Computing Systems’, 3rd IFIP conference in Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, AIAI 2006, June 2006.
81. Dimitris Alexopoulos, George Kormentzas and John Soldatos, ‘XML Systems for Intelligent Management of Pervasive Computing Resources’, in the Proc. of the 3rd IFIP conference in Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, AIAI 2006, June 2006.
82. John Soldatos, ‘Software Agents in Ubiquitous Computing: Benefits and the CHIL Case Study’, invited paper in the Proc. of the Software Agents in Information Systems and Industrial Applications (SAISIA 06’) workshop, Karlsruhe, Germany, February 9th-10th, 2006.
83. J. Soldatos, P. Dimitropoulos, A. Anagnostopoulos and S.Michalakos ‘Lightweight Programmable Middleware for Cost Effective RFID Application Development’, in the Proc. of the 15th IST Mobile and Wireless Communication Summit, Myconos Greece, June 4-8, 2006 (invited paper).
84. S. Zoi, P. Stathopoulos, P. Papageorgiou, N. Mitrou, J. Soldatos, 'PRIAMOS: A system for the real time extraction of multimedia semantics and its integration in advanced surveillance and conferencing applications', in the Proc. of the Semantic Web Annotations for Multimedia (SWAMM) workshop, in the scope of the 15th International World Wide Web Conference.
85. C. Kechagias, S. Kyriazakos, D. Dres, D. Drakoulis, J. Soldatos and I. Stamoulis, ‘On the Design of an Enhanced Integrated Emergency Call Handling System’, in the Proc. of the 15th IST Mobile and Wireless Communication Summit, Myconos Greece, June 4-8, 2006.
86. Aristodemos Pnevmatikakis, John Soldatos, Fotios Talantzis and Lazaros Polymenakos, ‘Robust Multimodal Audio-Visual Processing for Advanced Context Awareness in Smart Spaces’, 3rd IFIP conference in Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, AIAI 2006, (Springer), Series: IFIP, Vol. 204, Maglogiannis, Ilias; Karpouzis, Kostas; Bramer, Max (Eds.), 2006, XVIII, 744 p., 272 illus., Hardcover. ISBN: 0-387-34223-0.
87. Axel Burkle, Wilmuth Muller, Uwe Pfirrmann, Manfred Schenk, Nikolaos Dimakis, John Soldatos, Lazaros Polymenakos, ‘An Agent-Based Architecture for Context-Aware Services Supporting Human Interaction’, in the Proc. of the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-06), December 18-22, 2006, Hong Kong.
88. Nikolaos Dimakis, John Soldatos, Lazaros Polymenakos, Manfred Schenk, Uwe Pfirrmann, Axel Burkle, ‘Perceptive Middleware and Intelligent Agents Enhancing Service Autonomy in Smart Spaces’, in the Proc. of the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-06), December 18-22, 2006, Hong Kong.
89. Nikolaos Dimakis, Vasileios Mylonakis, John Soldatos and Lazaros Polymenakos, ‘Reaching Outside the Smart Space: The Memory Jog Gateway’, in the Proc. Of the 15th International Conference in Computing (CIC’06), Mexico, November 2006.
90. Nikolaos Dimakis, Lazaros Polymenakos, John Soldatos, "Enhancing Learning Experiences through Context-Aware Collaborative Services: Software Architecture and Prototype System," WMUTE, pp. 50-57, Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technology in Education - (WMTE'06), 2006.
91. Ilias Maglogiannis, Aris Chatzioannou, John Soldatos, Vassilis Mylonakis, John Kanaris, ‘An Application Platform Enabling High Performance Grid Processing of Microarray Experiments", in the Proc. of the 20th IEEE International Symposium on Computer Based Medical Systems (CBMS2007), Maribor, Slovenia, June 20-22, 2007.
92. John Soldatos, Ilias Maglogiannis, Aris Chatzioannou, Vassilis Mylonakis, John Kanaris, ‘Application Architecture for High Performance Microarray Experiments over the Hellas-Grid Infrastructure’, in the Proc. of the EGEE User Forum, Manchester, United Kingdom, May 9-11, 2007.
93. Axel Bürkle, Wilmuth Müller, Uwe Pfirrmann, Nikolaos Dimakis, John Soldatos and Lazaros Polymenakos, 'Agents Serving Human Interaction', in the SESAMI-II (Tools, Architectures and Infrastructures) special session of the 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI'07), Beijing P.R. China, 22-27 July 2007.
94. Nikos Zarokostas, Panagiotis Dimitropoulos and John Soldatos, "RFID Middleware Design for enhancing traceability in the Supply Chain Management", in the Proc. of the 18th IEEE Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Athens, Greece, September 3-7, 2007.
95. Sofoklis Kyriazakos, Neeli Prasad, John Soldatos and Nikos Papadakis, "Adaptive Platform for Smart Wireless Living", in the Proc. 10th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, Special Session on "Telehealth / Telemedicine", December 3-6, 2007, Jaipur, India,
    

96. Soldatos J. "Τεχνολογία Πλέγματος (GRID): Επισκόπηση, Προσδοκίες, Πραγματικότητα" , INTRACOM Insight Magazine, June 2004.
97. Soldatos J. " Συστήματα Πληροφορικής N-Tier και Τεχνολογία Enterprise Java Beans (EJB)" , INTRACOM Insight Magazine, March 2005.
98. Polymenakos L., Soldatos J. "Τι έγινε όσο έλειπα?" , Executive Knowhow Magazine, November 2005.
99. Soldatos J., Polymenakos L. "Τεχνολογία Πλέγματος (GRID) και Επιχειρήσεις", Executive Knowhow Magazine, January 2006.
100. Soldatos J. " Υπολογιστικά Συστήματα και Διαλογισμικό Επόμενης Γενιάς: Διάχυτες, Πανταχού Παρούσες Υπολογιστικές Υπηρεσίες και Περιρρέουσα Ευφυεία" , Netweek Magazine, February 2006.
101. Soldatos J. "Το Σύστημα EMPEROR: Πρόβλεψη του χρόνου εκτέλεσης προγραμμάτων για δυναμική δρομολόγηση σε ένα υπολογιστικό πλέγμα (Grid)" , PC-Magazine, March 2006.
102. Soldatos J. "" Utility Computing και Ελληνικές Επιχειρήσεις" , Netweek Magazine, April 2006.

103. J.Soldatos and Lazaros Polymenakos, 'Enterprise Grids: Drivers and Implications', Athens Information Technology Report, December 2003.
104. J.Soldatos, 'Τεχνολογίες Πλέγματος (Grid): Προοπτικές και Εφαρμογές στο Η-Επιχειρείν', ebusinessforum Z6 working group deliverable (coordinated by L. Polymenakos), February 2005.

105. Co-Author and co-editor in more than 100 deliverables and technical reports of EC co-funded projects.

Sample Citations to above papers (from researchers that are by no way related to the authors)

Citations of: J. Soldatos, E. Vayias and N. Mitrou : "CAC and Traffic Shaping for end-to-end Performance control in ATM: the two-class paradigm", 'Journal of Computer Networks and ISDN Systems', special issue on "Performance Modelling and Evaluation of ATM Networks", vol. 34, July 2000, pp.65-83.

1. D. Trujillo, E. Casilari, A. Diaz Estrella and F. Sandoval, "A proposal of traffic shaping to improve policing functions in communication networks" in the Proc. of IASTED International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks, Benalmadena (Malaga, Spain), September , 2002, pp. 371-375.
2. Hsiang-Ren Shih 'A dynamic regulation scheme with schedduler feedback information for multimedia network', Msc. Thesis, NSYSU, 2000.
3. Shih HR, Hou CL, Lin IC, Lee SJ,'A dynamic regulation scheme with schedduler feedback information for multimedia network', ADVANCES IN MUTLIMEDIA INFORMATION PROCESSING - PCM 2001, PROCEEDINGS LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 2195: 700-707 2001.
4. Abbas Jamalipour et. al., 'Measurement-based admission control scheme with priority and service classes for application in wireless IP networks', in the International Journal of Communication Systems, Volume 16, Issue 6 , Pages 535 - 551.
   

Citations of E. Vayias, J. Soldatos, J. Bigham, L. Cuthbert and Z.Luo 'Intelligent Agents for ATM Network Control and Resource Management : Experiences and Results from an implementation on a network testbed', Journal of Systems and Network Management (JSNM), in the special issue on 'Intelligent Agents for Telecommunications Management', Vol. 8, No.3, September 2000:

5. Raouf Boutaba, Youssef Iraqi, and Ahmed Mehaoua, 'A Multi-Agent Architecture for QoS Management in Multimedia Networks', in the Journal of Systems and Network Management, Vol. 11, No. 1, Mar 2003, Special Issue on E-Business Management.
6. C. Bohoris, 'Network Performance Management Using Mobile Software Agents', Phd Thesis, University of Surrey, June 2003.

Citations of Jaroslav Gergic, Jan Kleidienst, Yannis Despotopoulos, John Soldatos, George Patikis, Apostolos Anagnostou and Lazaros Polymenakos, "An Approach to Lightweight Deployment of Web Services", in the Proc. of the 14th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE '02), Ischia, Italy, July, 15-19, 2002:

7. L. Davis, R.Gamble "Understanding Services for Integration Management" in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Publisher: Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, ISSN: 0302-9743, Volume 2959 / 2004, pp.84-93.
8. Thomas, A.and Venter, L.M. 'Propagating Trust In The Web Services Framework', in the Proc. ISSA2004, 'Enabling Tomorrow Conference', Eds: HS Venter, JHP Eloff, L Labuschagne and MM Eloff, ISBN: 1-86854-522-9, July 2004, Information Security South Africa (ISSA).
9. Paulo Guilherme Vita, 'Challenges in the Adoption and Diffusion of Web Services in Financial Institutions', Paper CISL# 2004-07, June 2004, Composite Information Systems Laboratory (CISL), Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 021421.
10. Abbas HeydarNoori, Farhad Mavaddat and Farhad Arbab, 'Towards an Automated Deployment Planner for Composition of Web Services as Software Components', in the Proc. of the 2nd International Workshop on Formal Aspects of Component Software, FACS'05, UNU-IIST, Macao October 24-25, 2005 pp. 279-293.
11. Ingo Scholtes and Peter Sturm, 'WEB FEDERATES - TOWARDS A MIDDLEWARE FOR HIGHLY SCALABLE PEER-TO-PEER SERVICES', in the Proc. of the International COnference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST), April 11-13, 2006, Setubal, Portugal.

Citations of Sanchez-Lopez, S.; Sole-Pareta, J.; Comellas, J.; Soldatos, J.; Kylafas, G.; Jaeger, M., 'PNNI-based control plane for automatically switched optical networks', in IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology (joint IEEE/OSA publication), vol. 21, Issue 11, November 2003, pp.2673-2682:

12. Cincotti G, "Design of optical full encoders/decoders for code-based photonic routers" in JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY 22 (7): pp.1642-1650 JULY 2004.
13. W. Yao and B. Ramamurthy, "Dynamic Traffic Grooming using Fixed-Alternate Routing in WDM Mesh Optical Networks", Traffic Grooming Workshop, held in the scope of Broadnets 2004 (http://www.broadnets.org/).
14. Jing Wua, Michel Savoiea, and Hussein Mouftahb,'Recovery from control plane failures in the LDP signalling protocol', Optical Switching and Networking, Volume 2, Issue 3 , November 2005, Pages 148-162, doi:10.1016/j.osn.2005.07.001.
15. Gabriella Cincotti, 'Full Optical Encoders/Decoders for Photonic IP Routers', Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 22, Issue 2, pp. 337- , February 2004.

Citations of: J.Soldatos, E.Vayias, G.Kormentzas, "On the Building Blocks of QoS in Heterogeneous IP networks", IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, Vol.7, No.1, 1st Quarter 2005:

16. María E. Villapol, Eric A. Gamess, Neudith Morales, 'A Proposal to Improve Network Throughput Using a QoS Building Blocks Approach at Central University of Venezuela', in the Proc. of the 3rd International Latin American Networking Conference, LANC 2005 (sponsored by IFIP TC6 and ACM SIGCOMM), October 10-13, 2005, pp. 48-57., cites: J.Soldatos, E.Vayias, G.Kormentzas, "On the Building Blocks of QoS in Heterogeneous IP networks".
17. Oladayo Salami, H Anthony Chan, "The pursuit of efficient IP resource management has been," icniconsmcl, p. 8, International Conference on Networking, International Conference on Systems and International Conference on Mobile Communications and Learning Technologies (ICNICONSMCL'06), 2006.
18. O. Salami, H.A. Chan, and M.E. Dlodlo, 'A Scalable QoS Guaranteeing Scheme for Scheduling IP Traffic', In the Proceeding (508) of the Communication Systems and Applications Conference, 2006 (ACTA press).
19. ETSI Technical Specification, 'Satellite Earth Stations and Systems (SES); Broadband Satellite Multimedia (BSM) Services and Architectures: QoS Functional Architecture, ETSI Draft TS 102 462 V0.4.2 (2006-01).
20. Salami, O. and Chan, H. A., "Multi-stage Queuing and Scheduling of IP traffic built on Network Processors for QoS provisioning," Proceedings of South Africa Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC), Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, 11-14 September 2005, vol. 2, pp. 39-40.
21. Seungchul Park, 'DiffServ Quality of Service Support for Multimedia Applications in Broadband Access Networks', in the Proc. of the 2006 International Conference on Hybrid Information Technology - Vol2 (ICHIT'06) pp. 513-518.
22. Wndong Wang, Boadband Network Research Center, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, the paper is main rerefence material for the course 'QoS Issues in Heteregeneous IP Networks'.

23. Wladimir S. Meyer, Milton R. Ramirez, Jano M. Souza, 'Spatial Query Broker in a Grid Environment', in the Proc. of GeoInfo 2006 (VIII Brazilian Symposium on GeoInformatics), November 19-22, 2006.
24. Youcef Derbal, 'Entropic Grid Scheduling', Journal of Grid Computing, Publisher Springer Netherlands ISSN 1570-7873 (Print) 1572-9814 (Online), Issue Volume 4, Number 4 / December, 2006, Pages 373-394.
25. Erik Elmroth and Johan Tordsson, 'Grid Resource Brokering Algorithms Enabling Advance Reservations and Resource Selection Based on Performance Predictions', in "Future Generation Computer Systems, The International Journal of Grid Computing: Theory, Methods and Applications". Elsevier.

Citations of J. Soldatos, I. Pandis, K. Stamatis, L. Polymenakos, J. Crowley, 'Agent Based Middleware Infrastructure for Autonomous Context-Aware Computing Services', accepted for publication to the Journal of Computer Communications, special Issue on Emerging Middleware for Next Generation Networks.

26. José Viterbo, Carolina Felicíssimo, Jean-Pierre Briot, Markus Endler and Carlos Lucena, 'Applying Regulation to Ubiquitous Computing Environments', Second Workshop on Software Engineering for Agent-oriented Systems, SEAS (Florianópolis), October, 2006
27. Mikko Perttunen, Marko Jurmu, Jukka Riekk, ‘A QoS Model for Task-Based Service Composition’, in the Proc. of the 4th International Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services (part of IM 2007), 21-25 May 2007, Munich, Germany.
28. Felicissimo, Carolina and Choren, Ricardo and Briot, Jean-Pierre and Lucena, Carlos and Chopinaud, Caroline and El Fallah Seghrouchni, Amal, "Providing contextual norm information in open multi-agent systems", In Agent Oriented Information Systems IV: Proc. of the 8th International Bi-Conference Workshop, AOIS 2006, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Manuel Kolp, Alessandro Garcia, Aditya Ghose, Paolo Bresciani, Brian Henderson-Sellers, and Haris Mouratidis (eds), Springer-Verlag.

Citations of other papers:

29. S. Thurairasa, "Programmable networks and Open Signalling", Report in the course ELG 5125 "Quality of Service Management for Distributed Applications" (Fall 2003), School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE), University of Ottawa, cites the paper "An open signaling protocol for wireless host mobility", George Kormentzas, D. Vergados, J. Soldatos, and G. Stassinopoulos.
30. F. Lohan and I. Defee, Integrated web-based management system for a heterogeneous multimedia system, Proc. of the 7th WSEAS International Multiconference on Circuits, Systems, Communications and Computers, July 2003, pp. 392-397, Corfu Island, Greece, refers to E. Vayias, J. Soldatos, N. Mitrou, G. Kormentzas, K. Kontovassilis, "Monitoring Networks over the Web: Classification of approaches and an implementation"
31. Kim H., Jang. D. et. al. 'EXIMA (tm) Supply at INEX 2002: Using an Object-relational DBMS for XML Retrieval', in the Proc.of the Initatiative for Evaluation of XML Retrieval, 2002 (INEX 2002), cites Y. Despotopoulos, G. Patikis, J. Soldatos, L. Polymenakos et. al. "Accessing and Transforming Dynamic Content based on XML: Alternative Techniques and a Practical Implementation".
32. Cheolhyo Lee, "Dynamic End-to-End Call Admission Control for Multi-Layer QoS Constraints in Wireless Networks," Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering North Carolina State University, Technical Report, TR-01-2003, May 2003, cites Ε. Vayias, J. Soldatos, N. Mitrou, "Packet-Level Traffic Control for the Internet: a Framework and its Experimental Validation", Journal of Performance Evaluation, Elsevier (publ.), vol. 94