Theodore Papatheodorou

Theodore Papatheodorou has held several academic and consulting positions in Greece and the United States. Since 1984 he has been a Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics of the University of Patras, the first Computer Science/Engineering Department in Greece. He developed the HPCLab of the University of Patras, which now employs about fifty faculty members, graduate researchers and computer engineers. Currently he is the Director of this laboratory. He also initiated the establishment of the Computer Technology Institute (CTI). As the first Director of CTI (1985-1990) he led the Institute’s development and R&D work. Prof. Papatheodorou has received wide recognition for his work and several international awards. Most recent distinctions include the Best Paper Award in Supercomputing, Dallas, Texas, November 2000, the first prize in the Moebius Competition (Hellenic Section) for the CD-ROM on the life of Melina Merkouri, and the selection of this CD-ROM in the top 4 in Europe (Europrix Competition – Cultural Section). He has authored numerous publications in several areas of Computer Engineering and Computer Science.

Publications

Enhancing Digital Repositories with Learning Object Metadata
Enhancing Digital Repositories with Learning Object Metadata
Andreas D. Alexopoulos, Georgia D. Solomou, Dimitrios A. Koutsomitropoulos, Theodore Papatheodorou. © 2011. 18 pages.
In this chapter the authors present the basic characteristics about some existing educational metadata schemata and application profiles. They focus on the widely adopted IEEE...
Combining Semantic Web and Web 2.0 Technologies to Support Cultural Applications for Web 3.0
Combining Semantic Web and Web 2.0 Technologies to Support Cultural Applications for Web 3.0
Tzanetos Pomonis, Dimitrios A. Koutsomitropoulos, Sotiris P. Christodoulou, Theodore Papatheodorou. © 2011. 13 pages.
The aim of this work is to help cultural web application developers to benefit from the latest technological achievements in Web research. The authors introduce a 3-tier...
Towards Web 3.0: A Unifying Architecture for Next Generation Web Applications
Towards Web 3.0: A Unifying Architecture for Next Generation Web Applications
Tzanetos Pomonis, Dimitrios A. Koutsomitropoulos, Sotiris P. Christodoulou, Theodore S. Papatheodorou. © 2010. 14 pages.
While the term Web 2.0 is used to describe the current trend in the use of Web technologies, the term Web 3.0 is used to describe the next generation Web, which will combine...
Digital Rights Management for E-Commerce Systems
Digital Rights Management for E-Commerce Systems
Lambros Drossos, Dimitrios Tsolis, Spyros Sioutas, Theodore Papatheodorou. © 2009. 404 pages.
With the proliferation of Internet access, e-commerce systems are increasingly important as a new and effective method to distribute, transact, and exploit digital multimedia...
Semantic Metadata Interoperability and Inference-Based Querying in Digital Repositories
Semantic Metadata Interoperability and Inference-Based Querying in Digital Repositories
Dimitrios A. Koutsomitropoulos, Georgia D. Solomou, Andreas D. Alexopoulos, Theodore S. Papatheodorou. © 2009. 17 pages.
Metadata applications have evolved in time into highly structured “islands of information” about digital resources, often bearing a strong semantic interpretation. Scarcely...
Web Engineering Resources Portal (WEP): A Reference Model and Guide
Web Engineering Resources Portal (WEP): A Reference Model and Guide
Sotiris P. Christodoulou, Theodore S. Papatheodorou. © 2005. 45 pages.
This chapter introduces the Web Engineering Resources Portal (WEP) as a basic reference model and guide for Web Engineers. WEP provides a general classification of Web...