Vassilis Komianos

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Vasileios Komianos received his B.Sc. in  Informatics and Telecommunications from the Department of Technology of Informatics and  Telecommunications, Technological Educational Institute of Epirus, Greece. In 2013, he received his M.Sc. in Informatics, in the subject area of information systems, from the Department of  Informatics, Ionian University, Greece and in 2017 his PhD in Digital Cultural Heritage from the same Department under the supervision of Associate Professor Konstantinos Oikonomou. His PhD is mostly focused on content personalization approaches in cultural heritage environments where various approaches depending on the considered type of environment (real, virtual, mixed) are designed, tested and evaluated. His current research interests include immersive applications (virtual/augmented/mixed reality) on arts and cultural heritage, smart tourism applications and assistive technologies in the smart cities context. 

During his PhD research, Vasileios Komianos studied numerous aspects of the digital cultural heritage field including implementation approaches for cultural heritage virtual environments, cultural information management and dissemination systems, content recommendation and personalization approaches, navigation issues in cultural heritage environments and space topologies for automated design of personalized cultural exhibitions. An important aspect of his PhD research is focused on cultural route recommendations provided by custom developed route planning algorithms. In addition, supplementary studies were focused on: (i) virtual and mixed reality applications; (ii) museums’ design for exhibitions of virtual and mixed reality applications;  (iii) mixed reality open-air museums; (iv) virtual reality festivals; and (v) plans for adoption of augmented reality technologies in galleries. 

Vasileios Komianos has wide work experience by participating in EU and national funded development projects and by providing research and development services for the private sector in the field of informatics and digital cultural heritage. He has work experience as a software developer in: (i) e-government applications; (ii) cultural heritage applications; (iii) geographic information systems and services; (iv) agricultural field. Moreover, he has work experience in information technology, computer networks and telecommunications services in business environments. 

Relevant Projects & Work Experience: 

2019 - present “Corfu Virtual Exhibition Site for Tourism-Culture-Environment” (MIS 5031252), which is partially funded by European and National Greek Funds (ESPA) under the Regional Operational Programme “Ionian Islands 2014-2020”. The project is implemented by Ionian University and Vasileios Komianos has actively participated in the project proposal, its design and implementation.

2019 - present “Immersive adventure game to showcase local creativity, art and tradition in Corfu” (MIS 5031253), which is partially funded by European and National Greek Funds (ESPA) under the Regional Operational Programme “Ionian Islands 2014-2020”. The project is implemented by Ionian University and Vasileios Komianos has actively participated in the project proposal, its design and implementation.

2018 - present Teaching in Ionian University, Corfu, Greece. Area of interest: Mixed Reality Systems

2017 – 2020 IT and Telecommunications engineer in Corfu International Airport. 

2017 “A Pilot Wireless Sensor Networks System for Synchronized Monitoring of  Climate and Soil Parameters in Olive Groves”, partially funded by European  and National Greek Funds (ESPA) under the Regional Operational  Programme “Ionian Islands 2014-2020”.

2013-2015 ”Buildings, Culture and Environment in a Virtual World of the Ionian Islands  for Touristic Promotion - IIVW”, partially funded by European and National  Greek Funds (ESPA) under the Regional Operational Programme ”Western  Greece-Peloponnese-Ionian Islands 2007-2013”. 

2015 “Innovation, Culture and Creativity for a New Economy - ICE”, European  Territorial Cooperation Programme (ETCP) Greece-Italy 2007-2013. 

2012-2014 “Social Network for Tourism Operators - SONETTO” INTERREG IV  Greece-Italy. 

2006-2007 “Creation of a Complete Electronic Multi-language Lexicography of  Government Terms”, Operational Programme for Education and Initial  Vocational Training II/ Cofinanced Development Programmes 2000-2006. 

Relevant Publications: 

[1] K.   Kontopanagou,    A.   Tsipis,    V.   Komianos, A   framework   for   exploring churches/monuments/museums  of  Byzantine  cultural  influence  exploiting  immersive  technologies  in  real-time  networked  environments, Technologies  9  (2021)57

[2] K. Bezas, V. Komianos, G. Koufoudakis, G. Tsoumanis, K. Kabassi, and K. Oikonomou, ‘‘Structural health monitoring in historical buildings: A network approach,’’ Submitted in Heritage, vol. -, no. -, pp. –, 2020. 

[3] A. Zervopoulos, A. Tsipis, A. G. Alvanou, K. Bezas, A. Papamichail, S. Vergis, A. Stylidou, G. Tsoumanis, V. Komianos, G. Koufoudakis, et al., ‘‘Wireless sensor network synchronization for precision agriculture applications,’’ Agriculture, vol. 10, no. 3, p. 89, 2020. 

[4] S. Vergis, V. Komianos, G. Tsoumanis, A. Spiggos, and K. Oikonomou, ‘‘Implementation of a low-cost vehicle traffic monitoring system in the town of corfu,’’ in 2019 4th South-East Europe Design Automation, Computer Engineering, Computer Networks and Social Media Conference (SEEDA-CECNSM), pp. 1–6, IEEE, 2019. 

[5] K. Bezas, V. Komianos, K. Oikonomou, G. Koufoudakis, and G. Tsoumanis, ‘‘Structural health monitoring in historical buildings using a low cost wireless sensor network,’’ in 2019 4th South-East Europe Design Automation, Computer Engineering, Computer Networks and Social Media Conference (SEEDACECNSM), pp. 1–4, IEEE, 2019. 

[6] A. G. Alvanou, A. Zervopoulos, A. Papamichail, K. Bezas, S. Vergis, A. Stylidou, A. Tsipis, V. Komianos, G. Tsoumanis, G. Koufoudakis, et al., ‘‘Cabius: Description of the enhanced wireless campus testbed of the ionian university,’’ Electronics, vol. 9, no. 3, p. 454, 2020. 

[7] V. Komianos and K. Oikonomou, ‘‘Adaptive exhibition topologies for personalized virtual museums,’’ in IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, vol. 364, p. 012011, IOP Publishing, 2018.  

[8] S. Vergis, V. Komianos, G. Tsoumanis, A. Tsipis, and K. Oikonomou, ‘‘A lowcost vehicular traffic monitoring system using fog computing,’’ Smart Cities, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 138–156, 2020. 

[9] V. Komianos and K. Oikonomou, ‘‘A prototype system for automatic design of virtual exhibitions integrating cultural assets from public repositories.,’’ in VIPERC@ IRCDL, pp. 107–118, 2019. 

[10] V. Komianos, E. Kavvadia, and K. Oikonomou, ‘‘Cultural heritage recommendations and user navigation in large scale virtual environments.,’’ IJCIStudies, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 151–172, 2015. 

[11] A. Tsipis, K. Oikonomou, V. Komianos, and I. Stavrakakis, ‘‘Qoe-aware rendering service allocation in fog-assisted cloud gaming environments,’’ in 2020 5th SouthEast Europe Design Automation, Computer Engineering, Computer Networks and Social Media Conference (SEEDA-CECNSM) (Accepted, pending publication), pp. –, IEEE, 2020. 

[12] A. Tsipis, V. Komianos, and K. Oikonomou, ‘‘A cloud gaming architecture leveraging fog for dynamic load balancing in cluster-based mmos,’’ in 2019 4th South-East Europe Design Automation, Computer Engineering, Computer Networks and Social Media Conference (SEEDA-CECNSM), pp. 1–6, IEEE, 2019. 

[13] A. Tsipis, K. Oikonomou, V. Komianos, and I. Stavrakakis, ‘‘Performance evaluation in cloud-edge hybrid gaming systems,’’ in Third International Balkan Conference on Communications and Networking 2019 (BalkanCom’19), Skopje, North Macedonia, 2019. 

[14] V. Komianos, E. Moustaka, M. Andreou, E. Banou, S. Fanarioti, and K. L. Kermanidis, ‘‘Predicting personality traits from spontaneous modern greek text: Overcoming the barriers,’’ in IFIP International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, pp. 530–539, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012. 

[15] V. Komianos, E. Kavvadia, and K. Oikonomou, ‘‘Efficient and realistic cultural heritage representation in large scale virtual environments,’’ in IISA 2014, The 5th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications, pp. 1–6, IEEE, 2014. 

[16] V. Komianos and K. Oikonomou, ‘‘Constrained interest-based tour recommendations in large scale cultural heritage virtual environments,’’ in 2015 6th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA), pp. 1–6, IEEE, 2015. 

[17] V. Komianos, G. Tsoumanis, E. Kavvadia, and K. Oikonomou, ‘‘A framework for cultural heritage content organisation, dissemination and communication in largescale virtual environments,’’ International Journal of Computational Intelligence Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 71–93, 2016. 

[18] K. O. Evangelos Koutsoumpidis, Vasileios Komianos, ‘‘Evaluation of virtual agents’ effectiveness in history class,’’ The European Journal of Education and Applied Psychology, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 14–29, 2017. 

[19] A. Latos, V. Komianos, and K. Oikonomou, ‘‘Interaction and information communication in virtual museums,’’ in IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, vol. 364, p. 012038, IOP Publishing, 2018. 

[20] A. Zervopoulos, K. Skiadopoulos, K. Giannakis, K. Oikonomou, V. Komianos, and G. Tsoumanis, ‘‘Constructing virtual backbones over low-cost wireless networks for smart tourism services,’’ in 2019 10th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA), pp. 1–8, IEEE, 2019. 

[21] K. Kabassi, A. Amelio, V. Komianos, and K. Oikonomou, ‘‘Evaluating museum virtual tours: The case study of italy,’’ Information, vol. 10, no. 11, p. 351, 2019.

[22] A. Zervopoulos, V. Komianos, K. Skiadopoulos, G. Tsoumanis, A. Spiggos, K. Giannakis, and K. Oikonomou, ‘‘Constructing minimal maintenance virtual backbones over low-cost wireless networks,’’ in 2019 4th South-East Europe Design Automation, Computer Engineering, Computer Networks and Social Media Conference (SEEDA-CECNSM), pp. 1–6, IEEE, 2019. 

[23] A. Tsipis, K. Oikonomou, V. Komianos, and I. Stavrakakis, ‘‘Elastic distributed rendering service placement in capacitated cloud/fog gaming systems,’’ in 2019 10th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA) (Accepted, pending publication), pp. –, IEEE, 2020.