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Dr Thanassis Tiropanis 

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~at1o07/

Director of Enterprise for the School of Electronics and Computer Science

Impact Champion for Computer Science

Thanassis is associate professor with the Web and Internet Science Group, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton and is interested in decentralised data architectures, distributed linked data infrastructures, linked data for higher education, social networks and social machines.

Prior to that he was assistant professor with the Athens Information Technology Institute (AIT) in Greece working on Web technologies and e-learning. Prior to AIT, Thanassis was a research fellow with University College London (UCL) where he worked on network and service management research for telecommunication services. He was visiting associate professor at the department of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore in 2017-2019.

He holds a PhD in computer science from UCL, and a DipIng in computer engineering and informatics from the University of Patras, Greece. He is a fellow and a chartered IT professional with the BCS, a senior member of IEEE, a fellow of the Higher Education academy in the UK, a member of the ACM and a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece.

Research

Research interests

Distributed and decentralised infrastructures, IoT analytics, Data (and Web) Observatories, Web Science, Internet science, linked data, open data, peer-to-peer infrastructures, semantic Web, social machine analytics, social machines, online social networking, virtual communities. 

Publications

Christou, Ioannis T., Efremidis, Sofoklis, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Kalis, A. (2007) Grid-based virtual laboratory experiments for a graduate course on sensor networks. IEEE Transactions on Education, 50 (1), 17-26. (doi:10.1109/TE.2006.886447).

Ghinea, Gheorghita, Stergioulas, Lampros, Chen, Sherry Y., Tiropanis, Thanassis and Tsekeridou, Sofia (2007) Editorial. Special issue on: Ubiquitous e-Learning Solutions over Heterogeneous Networks. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 11 (7), 505-606. (doi:10.1007/s00779-007-0182-z).

Stergioulas, Lampros, Telonis, Panagiotis, Manolessos, Yiannis, Tiropanis, Thanassis, Pappa, Dimitra, Moatsos, Michalis, Ghinea, Gheorghita, Mamoukaris, Kyriakos and Makropoulos, Constantinos (2004) Broadband access satellite enabled education: the BASE2 project. WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications, 1 (5), 1394-1399.

Tiropanis, Thanassis (2003) Business roles and negotiation models for Web service based provision. Web2003 - The Second Workshop on E-Business, Seattle, USA. 13 - 14 Dec 2003. 7 pp .

Tiropanis, Thanassis and Kanellopoulos, Dimitris (2008) A schema-based P2P network to enable publish-subscribe for multimedia content in open hypermedia systems. International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology, 4 (1), 21-43. (doi:10.1504/IJWET.2008.016103).

Tiropanis, Thanassis, Tsekeridou, Sofia, Serif, Tacha, Stergioulas, Lampros and Ghinea, Gheorghita (2007) Empowering geographically isolated communities with instant access to learning and training through satellite. EDEN 2007 Annual Conference, , Naples, Italy. 12 - 15 Jun 2007. 6 pp .

Lewis, David, Feeney, Kevin, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Courtenage, Simon (2004) An active, ontology-driven network service for Internet collaboration. Ding, Ying, Fensel, Dieter, Lara, Rubén, Lausen, Holger, Stollberg, Michael and Han, Sung-Kook (eds.) In Proceedings of the ECAI 2004 Workshop on Application of Semantic Web Technologies to Web Communities, Valencia, Spain, August 23-27 2004. vol. 107, Sun SITE Central Europe. 15pp .

Sotiriou, Sofoklis, Orphanakis, Michalis, Savas, Stavros, Tsolakidis, Costas, Sotiriou, Menelaos, Tsiopoulos, Evaggelos, Prevedourou, Didoe, Tiropanis, Thanassis, Mpithas, Sotiris, Prevedouros, Georgios, Tavlaki, Elena, Agapiou, George and Nikoyiannis, Anastasios (2004) Zeus: "satellite network of rural schools". In New Challenges and Partnerships in an Enlarged European Union - Open, Distance and e-Learning in Support of Modernisation, Capacity Building and Regional Development. Proceedings of the EDEN 2004 Annual Conference - Budapest, Hungary. European Distance and E-Learning Network. pp. 491-496 .

Telma, Mota, Hellemans, Patrick, Tiropanis, Thanassis, Canal, Gianni and Lago, Patricia (1999) TINA as a virtual market place for telecommunication and information services: the VITAL experiment. In TINA '99 - Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture Conference Proceedings, 1999. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. pp. 96-106 . (doi:10.1109/TINA.1999.789972).

Tiropanis, Thanassis (1998) Offering Role Mobility in a TINA Environment. In Intelligence in Services and Networks: Technology for Ubiquitous Telecom Services. 5th International Conference on Intelligence in Services and Networks, IS&N’98 Antwerp, Belgium, May 25–28, 1998 Proceedings. vol. 3457/2, Springer. pp. 89-100 .

Lewis, David and Tiropanis, Thanassis (1998) Integrating TINA into an Internet-Based Services Market. In Intelligence in Services and Networks: Technology for Ubiquitous Telecom Services. 5th International Conference on Intelligence in Services and Networks, IS&N’98 Antwerp, Belgium, May 25–28, 1998 Proceedings. vol. 3457/2, Springer. pp. 183-192 .

Cabell, Quincy, Kirstein, Peter T., Pagtzis, Theodore, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Wang, Lichun (1999) The Use of TINA Principles in the Management of Internet Multimedia Conferences. In Intelligence in Services and Networks. Paving the Way for an Open Service Market: 6th International Conference on Intelligence and Services in Networks, IS&N'99, Barcelona, Spain, April 1999. Proceedings. vol. 3457/2, Springer..

Lewis, David, Tiropanis, Thanassis, McEwan, Alistair, Redmond, Cliff, Wade, Vincent P. and Bracht, Ralf (1997) Experiences in Integrated Multi-Domain Service Management. In Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP TC6/WG6.4/WG6.6 International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services; IFIP Conference Proceedings; Vol. 112. Chapman and Hall, Ltd. London, UK. pp. 249-260 .

Tiropanis, Thanassis, David, Lewis, Shi, Rong and Richter, Alexander (1997) A service engineering approach to inter-domain TMN system development. In Proceedings of the fifth IFIP/IEEE international symposium on Integrated network management V : integrated management in a virtual world: integrated management in a virtual world. Chapman and Hall, Ltd., London, UK. pp. 165-176 .

Lewis, David, Tiropanis, Thanassis, Shi, Rong and Richter, Alexander (1996) Applying Service Engineering Principles to TMN Systems. In Proceedings of the Telecommunications Information Networking Conference 1996, TINA '96, Heidelberg, Germany, October 1996. VDE-Verlag GmbH, Berlin. pp. 265-266 .

Lewis, David, Tiropanis, Thanassis, Bjerring, Lennart H. and Hall, Jane (1995) Experiences in Multi-domain Management Service Development. In, Bringing Telecommunication Services to the People — IS&N '95; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 998. (Autonomic Communication, 3457/2) Springer, pp. 172-184.

Lewis, David and Tiropanis, Thanassis (1995) Multi-service management in a multi-provider environment. In, Telecommunications, 1995. Fifth IEE Conference on. Institution of Engineering and Technology, pp. 292-296.

Lewis, David, Tiropanis, Thanassis, McEwan, Alistair, Redmond, Cliff, Wade, Vincent and Bracht, Ralf (1997) Inter-Domain Integration of Services and Service Management. In, Intelligence in Services and Networks: Technology for Cooperative Competition. (Autonomic Communication, 3457/2) Springer, pp. 283-291.

Tiropanis, Thanassis (2007) Trends for community-aware learning services over wireless infrastructure by the example of Greece. International Conference on “Information and Communication Technologies of e-Learning” by KAZRENA (Kazakhstani Research and Educational Networking Association), Almaty, Kazakhstan. 04 - 05 Oct 2007.

Tiropanis, Thanassis, Malbon, Chris and Karp, Hervé (1998) A generic component for managing service roles s.n. (In Press)

Tiropanis, Thanassis (2001) Automating SLA negotiation: a policy-based approach. Tele Management World Conference, Nice, France.

Tiropanis, Thanassis (2001) Using a generic policy-based infrastructure for implementing business processes. Tele Management World Conference, Las Vegas, United States.

Christou, Ioannis T., Tiropanis, Thanassis, Tsekeridou, Sofia and Roussos, Konstantinos (2008) Grid-Based Interactive Virtual Scientific Experiments for Distributed Virtual Communities. In, The Learning Grid Handbook. IOS Press.

Tiropanis, Thanassis (2001) Architectural considerations for managing mobility. University College London, Computer Science, Doctoral Thesis.

Tsekeridou, Sofia, Tiropanis, Thanassis, Christou, Ioannis and Vakilzadeh, Haleh (2008) Toward Virtual Campuses: Collaborative Virtual Labs & Personalized Learning Services in a Real-Life Context. In Proceedings of the Seventh IASTED International Conference on Web-based Education 2008. ACTA Press..

Serif, Tacha, Ghinea, Gheorghita, Stergioulas, Lampros, Chen, Sherry Y., Tiropanis, Thanassis and Tsekeridou, Sofia (2009) Satellite-based delivery of educational content to geographically isolated communities: a service based approach. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 13 (3), 229-241. (doi:10.1007/s00779-007-0185-9).

Tsekeridou, Sofia, Tiropanis, Thanassis, Rorris, Dimitris, Constantinos, Makropoulos, Serif, Tacha and Stergioulas, Lampros (2008) Satellite-enabled educational services specification and requirements analysis based on user feedback. International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, 4 (2/3), 272-284. (Submitted)

Tiropanis, Thanassis, Davis, Hugh, Millard, David and Weal, Mark (2009) Semantic Technologies for Learning and Teaching in the Web 2.0 era - A survey. WebSci'09: Society On-Line, , Athens, Greece. 18 - 20 Mar 2009.

Tiropanis, Thanassis (2005) Advanced learning management systems for distance education. In Broadband and satellite communications in schools: Challenges and opportunities for the educational community in rural areas; Proceedings of the First Conference of the Network of Multigrade Education (NEMED). NEMED Consortium. pp. 45-50 .

Kyriacou, Demetris, Davis, Hugh and Tiropanis, Thanassis (2009) Evaluating Three Scrutability and Three Privacy User Privileges for a Scrutable User Modelling Infrastructure. First and Seventeenth International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP2009), Trento, Italy. 21 - 25 Jun 2009.

Tiropanis, Thanassis, Davis, Hugh, Millard, David, Weal, Mark, White, Su and Wills, Gary (2009) Semantic Technologies in Learning and Teaching (SemTech) - JISC Report.

Kyriacou E, Demetris, Davis, Hugh and Tiropanis, Thanassis (2009) A (multi'domain'sional) Scrutable User Modelling Infrastructure for Enriching Lifelong User Modelling. Lifelong User Modelling Workshop (in conjunction with conference UMAP 2009), Trento, Italy.

Tiropanis, Thanassis, Davis, Hugh, Millard, David, Weal, Mark and White, Su (2009) Linked Data as a Foundation for the Deployment of Semantic Applications in Higher Education. SWEL'09: Ontologies and Social Semantic Web for Intelligent Educational Systems, AIED'09 Conference, Brighton, United Kingdom.

Tiropanis, Thanassis, Davis, Hugh, Millard, David, Weal, Mark and White, Su (2009) A roadmap for semantic technology adoption in UK higher education. Association for Learning Technology (ALT-C 2009), 16th International Conference, 8-10 September 2009, Manchester, UK, University of Manchester. 07 - 09 Sep 2009. p. 26 .

Tiropanis, Thanassis and Dimitriou, Tassos (2009) Use of ID-Based Cryptography for the Efficient Verification of the Integrity and Authenticity of Web Resources. In, Security and Privacy in Communication Networks-5th International ICST Conference, SecureComm 2009, Athens, Greece, September 14-18, 2009, Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. Springer.

Tiropanis, Thanassis (2006) Notes on Semantic Web Services (Greek language). (In Press)

Alowisheq, Areeb, Millard, David and Tiropanis, Thanassis (2009) EXPRESS: EXPressing REstful Semantic Services using domain ontologies. 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009), Doctoral Consortium, Chantilly, United States. 24 - 29 Oct 2009. pp. 941-948 .

Tiropanis, Thanassis, Davis, Hugh, Millard, Dave and Weal, Mark (2009) Semantic technologies for learning and teaching in the Web 2.0 era. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 24 (6), 49-53. (doi:10.1109/MIS.2009.121).

Rebenich, Till, Gravell, Andrew and Tiropanis, Thanassis (2010) Motivating University Students Using a Location-Aware Time Management System with Social Networking Features. World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications 2010, Toronto, Canada. 27 Jun - 01 Jul 2010.

White, Su, MacNeill, Sheila, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Davis, Hugh (2009) Semantic technologies in education: exploring the practitioners’ perspective. Association for Learning Technology (ALT-C 2009), 16th International Conference, 8-10 September 2009, Manchester, UK, University of Manchester. 07 - 09 Sep 2009. p. 47 .

Rebenich, Till, Gravell, Andrew and Tiropanis, Thanassis (2010) Survey of Students' Technology Use for Time Management. World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications 2010, Toronto, Canada. 27 Jun - 01 Jul 2010.

Sarker, Farhana, Davis, Hugh and Tiropanis, Thanassis (2010) The role of institutional repositories in addressing higher education challenges. SemHE '10: The Second International Workshop on Semantic Web Applications in Higher Education, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.

Sarker, Farhana, Davis, Hugh and Tiropanis, Thanassis (2010) A review of Higher Education challenges and data infrastructure responses. International Conference for Education Research and Innovation (ICERI2010), , Madrid, Spain. 15 - 17 Nov 2010. 10 pp .

Christou, Ioannis, Tiropanis, Thanassis, Tsekeridou, Sofia and Roussos, Konstantinos (2010) Grid-based interactive virtual scientific experiments for distributed virtual communities. International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning, 20 (6), 443-464.

Cerri, Stefano, Davis, Hugh, Tiropanis, Thanassis, Weal, Mark and White, Su (2012) Web science. In, Seel, Norbert M. (ed.) Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning. (Springer Reference, 1) New York, US. Springer.

Tiropanis, Thanassis, Davis, Hugh and Cerri, Stefano (2012) Semantic technologies and learning. In, Seel, Norbert (ed.) Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning. New York, US. Springer.

Rebenich, Till, Gravell, Andrew and Tiropanis, Thanassis (2011) Evaluating a Web-Based Information System for Managing Master of Science Summer Projects. ITiCSE 2011, 16th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Darmstadt, Germany. 26 - 28 Jun 2011. pp. 123-127 .

White, Su, Croitoru, Madalina, Bazan, Stéphane, Cerri, Stefano, Davis, Hugh C, Folgieri, Raffaella, Jonquet, Clement, Scharffe, François, Staab, Steffen, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Vafopoulos, Michalis (2011) Negotiating the Web Science Curriculum through Shared Educational Artefacts. ACM WebSci '11, , Koblenz, Germany. 13 - 16 Jun 2011.

Aljohani, Naif, Davis, Hugh and Tiropanis, Thanassis (2011) HCI as a Differentiator Between Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning. Fifth International Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies (NGMAST), Cardiff, United Kingdom. 13 - 15 Sep 2011. (Submitted)

Alowisheq, Areeb, Millard, David and Tiropanis, Thanassis (2011) Resource Oriented Modelling: Describing Restful Web Services Using Collaboration Diagrams. The 8th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications, Seville, Spain. 17 - 20 Jul 2011.

Leedham, James and Tiropanis, Thanassis (2011) Opportunistic Social Networks for Academia. 1st International Workshop on Mobile and Online Social Networks (MOSN 2011), co-located with the 5th International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS 2011), Milan, Italy. 05 - 07 Sep 2011.

Wang, Xin, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Davis, Hugh (2011) Evaluating graph traversal algorithms for distributed SPARQL query optimization. Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST 2011), Hangzhou, China. 04 - 07 Dec 2011. 16 pp .

Aljohani, Naif, Davis, Hugh and Tiropanis, Thanassis (2011) Comparison Between Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning From The Prospective Of Human-Computer Interaction. 10th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning- mLearn 2011, Beijing, China. 17 - 20 Oct 2011.

Alowisheq, Areeb, Millard, David and Tiropanis, Thanassis (2011) Web Service Scenarios s.n. (In Press)

Ruiz-Calleja, Adolfo, Tiropanis, Thanassis, Vega-Gorgojo, Guillermo and Asensio-Pérez, Juan I. (2012) Exploiting the Web of Data to provide descriptions of ICT tools: a preliminary report about SEEK-AT-WD. LiLe-2012 at WWW-2012: 2nd International Workshop on Learning and Education with the Web of Data, Lyon, France. 16 Apr 2012.

Ruiz-Calleja, Adolfo, Vega-Gorgojo, Guillermo, Alowisheq, Areeb, Asensio-Pérez, Juan Ignacio and Tiropanis, Thanassis (2012) Supporting educators to discover and select ICT tools with SEEK-AT-WD. In Proceedings of EC-TEL 2012: Seventh European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning. 21st Century Learning for 21st Century Skills. Springer.. (In Press)

Tiropanis, Thanassis, Millard, David and Davis, Hugh C. (2012) Guest editorial: special section on semantic technologies for learning and teaching support in Higher Education. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 5 (2), 102-103. (doi:10.1109/TLT.2012.13).

Phethean, Christopher, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Harris, Lisa (2012) Measuring the performance of social media marketing in the charitable domain. ACM Web Science 2012 (WebSci 2012), , Evanston, United States. 22 - 24 Jun 2012. 6 pp .

Hall, Wendy, Shadbolt, Nigel, Tiropanis, Thanassis, O'Hara, Kieron and Davies, Tim (2012) Open data and charities (Nominet Trust State of the Art Reviews) Oxford, GB. Nominet Trust 87pp.

Gaskell, Paul, McGroarty, Frank and Tiropanis, Thanassis (2016) Signal diffusion mapping: optimal forecasting with time varying lags. Journal of Forecasting, 35 (1), 70-85. (doi:10.1002/for.2365).

Yip, Michael, Shadbolt, Nigel, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Webber, Craig (2012) The digital underground economy: a social network approach to understanding cybercrime. Digital Futures 2012: The Third Annual Digital Economy All Hands Conference, , Aberdeen, United Kingdom. 22 - 24 Oct 2012. 3 pp .

Allison, Colin, Miller, Allan, Oliver, Iain, Michaelson, Rosa and Tiropanis, Thanassis (2012) The Web in Education. Computer Networks, 56 (18), 3811-3824. (doi:10.1016/j.comnet.2012.09.017).

Hall, Wendy and Tiropanis, Thanassis (2012) Web evolution and Web Science. [in special issue: The WEB we live in] Computer Networks, 56 (18), 3859-3865. (doi:10.1016/j.comnet.2012.10.004).

Phethean, Christopher, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Harris, Lisa (2012) Measuring the megaphone: how are charities using social media for marketing? Digital Futures 2012 - The 3rd Annual Digital Economy All Hands Conference, , Aberdeen, United Kingdom. 23 - 25 Oct 2012. 2 pp .

Muhammad, Imran, David, Millard and Tiropanis, Thanassis (2012) Impact of consolidating Web based social networks on derived trust factors. Human Journal.

Jones, Keith, Geraniou, Erini and Tiropanis, Thanassis (2013) Patterns of collaboration: towards learning mathematics in the era of the semantic web. In, Martinovic, Dragana, Freiman, Viktor and Karadag, Zekeriya (eds.) Visual Mathematics and Cyberlearning. (Mathematics Education in the Digital Era, 1) London, GB. Springer, pp. 1-21. (doi:10.1007/978-94-007-2321-4_1).

Khan, Arshad, Martin, David J. and Tiropanis, Thanassis (2013) Using semantic indexing to improve searching performance in web archives. The First International Conference on Building and Exploring Web Based Environments (WEB2013), Sevilla, Spain. 27 Jan - 01 Feb 2013.

Wang, Xin, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Davis, Hugh C. (2013) LHD: optimising linked data query processing using parallelisation. Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2013), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 13 May 2013.

Dini, Paolo and Tiropanis, Thanassis (2013) The evolving dynamics of the internet layered architecture - innovation, net neutrality and the interdependence of structure and function. The 1st International Conference on Internet Science. 08 - 10 Apr 2013.

Byrne Evans, Maire, O'Hara, Kieron, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Webber, Craig (2013) Crime applications and social machines: crowdsourcing sensitive data. SOCIAM: The Theory and Practice of Social Machines, , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Hall, Wendy, Tiropanis, Thanassis, Tinati, Ramine, Booth, Paul, Gaskell, Paul, Hare, Jonathon and Carr, Les (2013) The Southampton University Web Observatory. 1st International workshop on Building Web Observatories, ACM Web Science 2013, 1-3 May 2013.

Phethean, Christopher, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Harris, Lisa (2013) Rethinking measurements of social media use by charities: a mixed methods approach. Web Science 2013, , Paris, France. 02 - 04 May 2013.

Sarker, Farhana, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Davis, Hugh C. (2013) Exploring student predictive model that relies on institutional databases and open data instead of traditional questionnaires. Linked Learning 2013: 3rd International Workshop on Learning and Education with the Web of Data (LILE2013), , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 12 - 16 May 2013. pp. 413-418 .

Sarker, Farhana, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Davis, Hugh C. (2013) Students’ performance prediction by using institutional internal and external open data sources. CSEDU 2013 : 5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, , Aachen, Germany. 05 - 07 May 2013. 8 pp .

Tiropanis, Thanassis, Hall, Wendy, Shadbolt, Nigel, De Roure, David, Contractor, Noshir and Hendler, Jim (2013) The Web Science Observatory. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 28 (2), 100-104.

Gaskell, Paul, McGroarty, Frank and Tiropanis, Thanassis (2013) An investigation into correlations between financial sentiment and prices in financial markets. In WebSci '13 Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference. ACM. pp. 99-108 . (doi:10.1145/2464464.2464510).

Tinati, Ramine, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Carr, Leslie (2013) An approach for using Wikipedia to measure the flow of trends across countries. Web Observatories Workshop (WOW), WWW2013: 22nd International World Wide Web conference, 2013, , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 12 - 16 May 2013.

Phethean, Christopher, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Harris, Lisa (2013) Automated analysis of charities’ communication styles on Twitter. DE2013: Open Digital, , Salford, United Kingdom. 04 - 06 Nov 2013.

Hall, Wendy, Tiropanis, Thanassis, Tinati, Ramine, Wang, Xin, Luczak-Rösch, Markus and Simperl, Elena (2014) The Web Science Observatory - the challenges of analytics over distributed linked data infrastructures. ECRIM News, (96), 29-30.

Wang, Xin, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Davis, Hugh C. (2014) Optimising linked data queries in the presence of co-reference. 11th Extended Semantic Web Conference 2014 (ESWC 2014), Anissaras, Greece. 24 - 28 May 2014. 15 pp .

Tinati, Ramine, Gaskell, Paul, Tiropanis, Thanassis, Phillipe, Olivier and Hall, Wendy (2014) Examining Wikipedia across linguistic and temporal borders. In WWW '14 Companion: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web. ACM. pp. 445-450 . (doi:10.1145/2567948.2576931).

Tiropanis, Thanassis, Rowland-Campbell, Anni and Hall, Wendy (2014) Government as a social machine in an ecosystem. SOCM 2014: 2nd International Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Social Machines. 06 Apr 2014. pp. 903-904 . (doi:10.1145/2567948.2578837).

Zhang, Lei, Tiropanis, Thanassis, Hall, Wendy and Myaeng, Sung-Hyon (2014) Introducing the Omega-machine. SOCM 2014: 2nd International Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Social Machines. 06 Apr 2014. pp. 905-908 . (doi:10.1145/2567948.2578838).

Tiropanis, Thanassis, Wang, Xin, Tinati, Ramine and Hall, Wendy (2014) Building a connected Web Observatory: architecture and challenges. 2nd International Workshop on Building Web Observatories (B-WOW14), ACM Web Science Conference 2014, , Bloomington, United States. 22 - 25 Jun 2014. 10 pp .

Phethean, Christopher, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Harris, Lisa (2014) Taking the relationship to the next level: a comparison of how supporters converse with charities on Facebook and Twitter. ACM Web Science Conference 2014 (WebSci14), , Bloomington, United States. 23 - 26 Jun 2014. pp. 271-272 . (doi:10.1145/2615569.2615648).

Tiropanis, Thanassis, Hall, Wendy, Hendler, Jim and de Larrinaga, Christian (2014) The Web Observatory: a middle layer for broad data. Big Data, 2 (3), 129-133. (doi:10.1089/big.2014.0035).

Guillermo, Vega-Gorgojo, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Millard, David E. (2016) The opportunity of linked data for the european higher education Area. International Journal of Information and Education Technology, 6 (1), 58-64. (doi:10.7763/IJIET.2016.V6.659).

Sarker, Farhana, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Davis, Hugh C. (2014) Linked data, data mining and external open data for better prediction of at-risk students. 2nd International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT) 2014, , Metz, France. 03 - 05 Nov 2014. pp. 652-657 . (doi:10.1109/CoDIT.2014.6996973).

Wang, Xin, Papaioannou, Thanasis G., Tiropanis, Thanassis and Morando, Federico (2015) EINS Evidence Base: A Semantic Catalogue for Internet Experimentation and Measurement. 2nd International Conference on Internet Science.

Tiropanis, Thanassis, Hall, Wendy, Crowcroft, Jon, Contractor, Noshir and Tassiulas, Leandros (2015) Network Science, Web Science, and Internet Science. Communications of the ACM, 58 (8), 76-82. (doi:10.1145/2699416).

Phethean, Christopher, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Harris, Lisa (2015) Engaging with charities on social media: comparing interaction on Facebook and Twitter. Tiropanis, Thanassis, Vakali, Athena, Sartori, Laura and Burnap, Pete (eds.) In Internet Science: Second International Conference, INSCI 2015, Brussels, Belgium, May 27-29, 2015, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing. pp. 15-29 . (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-18609-2_2).

Tinati, Ramine, Wang, Xin, Brown, Ian, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Hall, Wendy (2015) A streaming real-time web observatory architecture for monitoring the health of social machines. Social Machines Workshop (SOCM) 2015. World Wide Web Conference, Florence, Italy. 17 - 21 May 2015. 6 pp . (doi:10.1145/2740908.2743977).

Leanne, Fry, Hall, Wendy, Koronios, Andy, Mayer, Wolfgang, O'Hara, Kieron, Rowland-Campbell, Anni, Stumptner, Markus, Tinati, Ramine, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Wang, Xin (2015) Governance in the age of social machines: the web observatory. The Australia and New Zealand School of Government, 1-34.

Wang, Xin, Tinati, Ramine, Mayer, Wolfgang, Rowland-Campbell, Anni, Tiropanis, Thanassis, Brown, Ian, Hall, Wendy, O’Hara, Kieron, Stumptner, Markus and Koronios, Andy (2015) Building a web observatory for south Australian government: supporting an age friendly population. 3rd International workshop on Building Web Observatories (BWOW). 10 pp .

Phethean, Christopher, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Harris, Lisa (2015) Assessing the value of social media for organisations: the case for charitable use. 2015 ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci'15), , Oxford, United Kingdom. 28 Jun - 01 Jul 2015. 9 pp . (doi:10.1145/2786451.2786457).

Tinati, Ramine, Wang, Xin, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Hall, Wendy (2015) Building a real-time web observatory. IEEE Internet Computing, 19 (6), 36-45. (doi:10.1109/MIC.2015.94).

Wang, Xin, Staab, Steffen and Tiropanis, Thanassis (2016) ASPG: generating OLAP queries for SPARQL benchmarking. Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST2016), Singapore, Singapore. 02 - 04 Nov 2016. 15 pp . (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-50112-3_13).

Hewitt, Sarah, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Bokhove, Christian (2016) The problem of identifying misogynist language on Twitter (and other online social spaces). Web Science 2016 (WebSci ’16), , Hannover, Germany. 22 - 25 May 2016.

Phethean, Christopher, Simperl, Elena, Tiropanis, Thanassis, Tinati, Ramine and Hall, Wendy (2016) The role of data science in web science. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 31 (3), 102-107. (doi:10.1109/MIS.2016.54).

Lawrence, William, Sung, Ming-Chien, Ma, Tiejun, Johnson, Johnnie and Tiropanis, Thanassis (2016) The role of mobile app use in the decision making behavior of spread traders. International Conference on Advanced Computing, Communication and Information Sciences (ICACCI), Cebu City, Philippines. 26 - 28 May 2016.

Siow, Eugene, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Hall, Wendy (2016) Interoperable & efficient: linked data for the internet of things. INSCI 2016, 3rd International conference on Internet Science, Florence, Italy. 11 - 13 Sep 2016. pp. 161-175 . (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-45982-0_15).

Siow, Eugene, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Hall, Wendy (2016) SPARQL-to-SQL on internet of things databases and streams. Groth, Paul, Simperl, Elena, Gray, Alasdair, Sabou, Marta, Krötzsch, Markus, Lecue, Freddy, Flöck, Fabian and Gil, Yoalnda (eds.) In The Semantic Web – ISWC 2016: 15th International Semantic Web Conference, Kobe, Japan, October 17–21, 2016, Proceedings, Part I. vol. 9981, Springer. pp. 515-531 . (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-46523-4_31).

Beeston, Gareth, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Harris, Lisa et al. (2015) Establishing expert consensuses on the value of open data in open social innovation ideation. The World Open Innovation Conference, 1-34.

Wang, Xin, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Tinati, Ramine (2016) WDFed: exploiting big data on the Web using metadata and RESTful APIs. MTSR2016: 10th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference, Gottingen, Germany. 22 - 25 Nov 2016.

Siow, Eugene, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Hall, Wendy (2016) PIOTRe: Personal Internet of Things Repository. International Semantic Web Conference Posters & Demos, Kobe, Japan. 16 - 20 Oct 2016. 4 pp . (In Press)

Khan, Arshad, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Martin, David (2015) Exploiting semantic annotation of content with Linked Data to improve searching performance in web repositories. 9th Russian Summer School in Information Retrieval (RuSSIR 2015), Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 23 - 27 Aug 2015.

Khan, Arshad, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Martin, David (2016) Exploiting semantic annotation of content with linked open data (LOD) to improve searching performance in web repositories of multi-disciplinary research data. 9th Russian Summer School, RuSSIR 2015, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 23 - 27 Aug 2015. pp. 130-145 . (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-41718-9_7).

Madaan, Aastha, Tiropanis, Thanassis, Srinivasa, Srinath and Hall, Wendy (2016) Observlets: empowering analytical observations on web observatory. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference Companion on World Wide Web, Montreal, Canada. 10 - 14 Apr 2016. pp. 775-780 . (doi:10.1145/2872518.2890593).

Khan, Arshad, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Martin, David (2017) Crowd-annotation and LoD-based semantic indexing of content in multi-disciplinary web repositories to improve search results. In ACSW '17 Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference. ACM. 12 pp . (doi:10.1145/3014812.3014867).

Wang, Xin, Madaan, Aastha, Siow, Boon Lin Eugene and Tiropanis, Athanassios (2017) Sharing databases on the Web with Porter Proxy. Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion (WWW '17 Companion): WOW17: Workshop on Web Observatories, Social Machines and Decentralisation, , Perth, Australia. 03 - 07 Apr 2017. pp. 1673-1676 .

Siow, Boon Lin Eugene, Tiropanis, Athanassios and Hall, Wendy (2017) Ewya: an interoperable fog computing infrastructure with RDF stream processing. Kompatsiaris, I. (ed.) In Internet Science. INSCI 2017. vol. 10673, Springer. pp. 245-265 . (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-70284-1_20).

Alrajebah, Nora, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Carr, Leslie (2017) Cascades on online social networks: a chronological account. Kompatsiaris, I. (ed.) In Internet Science. INSCI 2017. Springer. pp. 393-411 . (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-70284-1_31).

Munson, Jo, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Lowe, Michelle (2017) Online grocery shopping: Identifying change in consumption practices. INSCI 2017, The 4th International Conference on Internet Science, , Thessaloniki, Greece. 22 - 24 Nov 2017.

Alrajebah, Nora, Carr, Leslie, Luczak-Roesch, Markus and Tiropanis, Thanassis (2017) Deconstructing diffusion on Tumblr: structural and temporal aspects. In WebSci '17 Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Web Science Conference. ACM. pp. 319-328 . (doi:10.1145/3091478.3091491).

Munson, Jo, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Lowe, Michelle (2017) Online grocery shopping: Identifying change in consumption practices. Kompatsiaris, I. (ed.) In Internet Science. INSCI 2017. vol. 10673, Springer. pp. 192-211 . (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-70284-1_16).

Madaan, Aastha, Wang, Xin, Hall, Wendy and Tiropanis, Thanassis (2018) Observing data in IoT worlds: What and how to observe? In Living in the Internet of Things: Cybersecurity of the IoT - A PETRAS, IoTUK and IET Event. Institute of Engineering and Technology, IET. 7 pp . (In Press)

Siow, Eugene, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Hall, Wendy (2018) Analytics for the Internet of Things: A survey. ACM Computing Surveys, 51 (4), [74]. (doi:10.1145/3204947).

Shen, Tiancheng, Jia, Jia, Shen, Guangyao, Feng, Fuli, He, Xiangnan, Luan, Huanbo, Tang, Jie, Tiropanis, Thanassis, Chua, Tat Seng and Hall, Wendy (2018) Cross-domain depression detection via harvesting social media. In Proceedings of the 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2018. vol. 2018-July, International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence. pp. 1611-1617 . (doi:10.24963/ijcai.2018/223).

Greco, Luca, Ritrovato, Pierluigi, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Xhafa, Fatos (2018) IoT and Semantic Web technologies for event-detection in natural disasters. Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience, 1-12, [e4789]. (doi:10.1002/cpe.4789).

Wilson, Caroline L, Tiropanis, Thanassis, Rowland-Campbell, Anni and Leanne, Fry (2016) Ethical and legal support for innovation on web observatories. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Data-Driven Innovation on the Web (DDI '16). ACM. pp. 1-5 . (doi:10.1145/2911187.2914579).

Alrajebah, Nora, Carr, Leslie and Tiropanis, Thanassis (2018) The platform effect: Analysing user activity on tumblr. Bodrunova, S. (ed.) In Internet Science: INSCI 2018. vol. 11193 LNCS, Springer. pp. 154-168 . (doi:10.1007/978-3-030-01437-7_13).

Price, Simon, Hall, Wendy, Earl, Graeme, Tiropanis, Thanassis, Tinati, Ramine, Wang, Xin, Gandolfi, Eleonora, Gatewood, Jane, Boateng, Richard, Denemark, David, Groflin, Alexander, Loader, Brian, Schmidt, Maxine, Billings, Marilyn, Spanakis, Gerasimos, Suleman, Hussein, Tsoi, Kelvin, Wessels, Bridgette, Xu, Jie and Birkin, Mark (2019) Worldwide universities network (WUN) web observatory: applying lessons from the web to transform the research data ecosystem. In WWW '17 Companion: Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion. International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee. pp. 1665-1667 . (doi:10.1145/3041021.3051691).

Tiropanis, Thanassis (2019) Data observatories: decentralised data and interdisciplinary research. In Internet y Ciencia: Análisis Desde la Complejidad Estructural y Dinámica. 10 pp .

Ntoutsi, Eirini, Fafalios, Pavlos, Gadiraju, Ujwal, Iosifidis, Vasileios, Nejdl, Wolfgang, Vidal, Maria-Esther, Ruggieri, Salvatore, Turini, Franco, Papadopoulos, Symeon, Krasanakis, Emmanouil, Kompatsiaris, Ioannis, Kinder-Kurlanda, Katharina, Wagner, Claudia, Karimi, Fariba, Fernández, Miriam, Alani, Harith, Berendt, Bettina, Krügel, Tina, Heinze, Christian, Broelemann, Klaus, Kasneci, Gjergji, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Staab, Steffen (2020) Bias in data‐driven artificial intelligence systems: An introductory survey. WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 10 (3), 1-14, [e1356]. (doi:10.1002/widm.1356).

Imran, Muhammad, Khattak, Hasan Ali, Millard, David, Tiropanis, Thanassis, Bashir, Tariq and Ahmed, Ghufran (2020) Calculating trust using multiple heterogeneous social networks. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal, 2020, [8545128]. (doi:10.1155/2020/8545128).

Hasselbring, Wilhelm, Carr, Leslie, Hettrick, Simon, Packer, Heather and Tiropanis, Thanassis (2020) Open source research software. Computer. (doi:10.1109/MC.2020.2998235).

Hasselbring, Wilhelm, Carr, Leslie, Hettrick, Simon, Packer, Heather and Tiropanis, Thanassis (2020) From FAIR research data toward FAIR and open research software. it - Information Technology, 62 (1), 39-47. (doi:10.1515/itit-2019-0040).

Priestley, Maria, Sluckin, T.J. and Tiropanis, Thanassis (2020) Innovation on the Web: the end of the S-curve? Internet Histories, 4 (4), 390-412. (doi:10.1080/24701475.2020.1747261).

Priestley, Maria (2020) Longitudinal study of Web-related patents. Code Ocean doi:10.24433/CO.9866432.v1 [Dataset]

Hewitt, Sarah, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Bokhove, Christian (2020) The reception of education reforms through the Blogosphere. In WebSci '20: 12th ACM Conference on Web Science. ACM. pp. 194-201 . (doi:10.1145/3394231.3397909).

Oppenlaender, Jonas, Tiropanis, Thanassis and Hosio, Simo (2020) CrowdUI: supporting web design with the crowd. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 4 (EICS), [76]. (doi:10.1145/3394978).

(2020) Longitudinal study of Web-related patents. Code Ocean doi:10.24433/co.9866432.v1 [Dataset]

Tiropanis, Thanassis, Poulovassilis, Alexandra, Chapman, Age and Roussos, George (2021) Search in a Redecentralised Web. In Computer Science Conference Proceedings: 12th International Conference on Internet Engineering & Web Services (InWeS 2021).

Tiropanis, Thanassis (2022) Data observatories: decentralised data and interdisciplinary research. In, Gonzalez, Wenceslao J (ed.) The Internet and Philosophy of Science. Routledge.

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