I am a second year PhD Student at the Computer Science Department of the University of Crete.

I am also a member of the Information Systems and Software Technology Laboratory of the
Institute of Computer Science at Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas (ICS-FORTH), from the February of 2008,
where my advisor is Yannis Tzitzikas.

My research interests include:
Information Retrieval Systems, Information Visualization, Virtual Reality, 3D Graphical User Interfaces,
3D Modeling and Rendering, Human Computer Interaction, Software Engineering, Parallel Systems.

Background

I was born on 1 December 1980, at New Smyrni, Athens, Greece.
I grew up there with my parents, two sisters and a lot of friends, dreaming to become an astronomer someday!

A few days after the fatal earthquake in Athens, in September 1999, I moved to Heraklion Crete,
in order to study Computer Science and I have stayed there since then.

In my spare time I like to take photographs. You can see some of my photos here.
Also I like reading literature, watching cinema, playing football and riding my Kawasaki Miramar.

Studies

I received my B.Sc. (2004) and M.Sc. (2007) from the Computer Science Department at the University of Crete.
I have also been a member of the Human Computer Interaction Laboratory of the Institute of Computer Science,
at the Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas (ICS-FORTH) from July 2001 to January 2008.

CV

Publications

• Conference Proceedings

  • S. Kopidaki, P. Papadakos and Y. Tzitzikas. STC+ and NM-STC: Two Novel Online Results Clustering Methods for Web Searching. In WISE '09: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering , Poznan, Poland, October 2009 (to appear). Acceptance percentage ?%.
  • P. Papadakos, S. Kopidaki, N. Armenatzoglou and Y. Tzitzikas. Exploratory web searching with dynamic taxonomies and results clustering. In ECDL '09: Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries, Corfu Island, Greece, September 2009. Acceptance percentage 21%.
  • A. Savidis, P. Papadakos, and G. Zargianakis. Immersive 3D Visualizations for Software-Design Prototyping and Inspection In ISVC '08: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Visual Computing, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, December 2008. Acceptance percentage 20%. (pdf)
  • P. Papadakos, Y. Theoharis, Y. Marketakis, N. Armenatzoglou and Y. Tzitzikas. Mitos: Design and Evaluation of a DBMS-based Web Search Engine. In Procs of the 12th Pan-Hellenic Conference on Informatics, Samos Island, Greece, August 2008. Acceptance percentage 49%. (pdf)
  • A. Mourouzis, D. Grammenos, M. Filou, P. Papadakos, and C. Stephanidis. Virtual Prints: An Empowering Tool for Virtual Environments. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, volume 3 of Human-centred computing : cognitive, social and ergonomic aspects , pages 1426-1430, Crete Island, Greece, 2003. Acceptance percentage ?%. (pdf)

• Workshop Proceedings

  • P. Papadakos. Exploratory web searching with dynamic taxonomies, results clustering and visualization In ECDL '09 DC: Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries Doctoral Consortium, Corfu Island, Greece, September 2009.
  • P. Papadakos, S. Kopidaki, N. Armenatzoglou and Y. Tzitzikas. Exploratory web searching with dynamic taxonomies and results clustering. In Procs of the 8th Hellenic Data Management Symposium (HDMS'2009), Athens, Greece, August 2009
  • A. Savidis, P. Papadakos, and G. Zargianakis. Rapid Visual Design with Semantics Encoding Through 3D CRC Cards. In SoftVis '08: Proceedings of the 4th ACM Symposium on Software Visualization, pages 193-196, Ammersee, Germany, 2008. ACM (pdf)
  • Y. Tzitzikas, N. Armenatzoglou, and P. Papadakos. FleXplorer: A Framework for Providing Faceted and Dynamic Taxonomy-based Information Exploration. In Procs of FIND'2008 (at DEXA '08) , Turin, Italy, Sept. 2008. (pdf)
  • A. Mourouzis, D. Grammenos, M. Filou, P. Papadakos, and C. Stephanidis Case Study: Sequential Evaluation of the Virtual Prints Concept and Pilot Implementation. In the Proceedings of the Workshop on Virtual Reality Design and Evaluation Nottingham, United Kingdom, January 2004. (pdf)
  • D. Grammenos, M. Filou, P. Papadakos, and C. Stephanidis Virtual Prints: Leaving Trails in Virtual Environments. In S. Muller and W. Sturzlinger, editors, Eighth Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments , pages 131-138, Barcelona, Spain, 2002. Eurographics Association. (pdf)

• Technical Reports

  • P. Papadakos, Y. Theoharis, Y. Marketakis, N. Armenatzoglou, and Y. Tzitzikas. Object-Relational Database Representations for Text Indexing. In CoRR, Information Retrieval, abs/0906.3112, June 2009. (pdf)
  • P. Papadakos, G. Vasiliadis, Y. Theoharis, N. Armenatzoglou, S. Kopidaki, Y. Marketakis, M. Daskalakis, K. Karamaroudis, G. Linardakis, G. Makrydakis, V. Papathanasiou, L. Sardis, P. Tsialiamanis, G. Troullinou, K. Vandikas, D. Velegrakis and Y. Tzitzikas. The Anatomy of Mitos Web Search Engine. In CoRR, Information Retrieval, abs/0803.2220, March 2008. (pdf)
  • P. Papadakos. Very Rapid Software-Design Prototyping With Interactive 3D CRC Cards . Master Thesis, University of Crete, November 2007. (pdf)