Athena Vakali

@csd.auth.gr

School of Informatics
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki



                    

https://researchid.co/avakali

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Science Applications

11553

Scholar Citations

44

Scholar h-index

133

Scholar i10-index

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Negotiation strategies in ubiquitous human-computer interaction: a novel storyboards scale & field study
    S Yfantidou, G Yfantidou, P Balaska, A Vakali
    Multimedia Tools and Applications, 1-35 2024

  • Analyzing Large-Scale Political Discussions on Twitter: The Use Case of the Greek Wiretapping Scandal (# ypoklopes)
    I Dimitriadis, DP Giakatos, S Karamanidis, P Sermpezis, K Kiki, A Vakali
    Journalism and Media 5 (3), 1348-1363 2024

  • Using Self-supervised Learning Can Improve Model Fairness
    S Yfantidou, D Spathis, M Constantinides, A Vakali, D Quercia, F Kawsar
    Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and 2024

  • Dynamics between Bitcoin Market Trends and Social Media Activity
    G Vlahavas, A Vakali
    FinTech 3 (3), 349-378 2024

  • Every vote you make: Attachment and state culture predict bipartisanship in US Congress
    D Gruda, P Hanges, E Mikneviciute, D Karanatsiou, A Vakali
    Personality and Individual Differences 222, 112576 2024

  • Unsupervised clustering of bitcoin transactions
    G Vlahavas, K Karasavvas, A Vakali
    Financial Innovation 10 (1), 25 2024

  • Evaluating Fairness in Self-supervised and Supervised Models for Sequential Data
    S Yfantidou, D Spathis, M Constantinides, A Vakali, D Quercia, F Kawsar
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.01640 2024

  • CALEB: A Conditional Adversarial Learning Framework to enhance bot detection
    I Dimitriadis, G Dialektakis, A Vakali
    Data & Knowledge Engineering 149, 102245 2024

  • Stress Beats: a continuum of learning methods for personalized stress detection
    V Parousidou, S Yfantidou, C Karagianni, A Vakali
    2023 IEEE International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent 2023

  • Enable care of older cancer survivors with digital health technologies: the LifeChamps project
    A Billis, P Lagakis, G Petridis, I Dimitriadis, A Gounaris, A Vakali, ...
    2023 IEEE 19th International Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN), 1-4 2023

  • MINDSET: A benchMarking suIte exploring seNsing Data for SElf sTates inference
    C Karagianni, E Paraschou, S Yfantidou, A Vakali
    2023 IEEE 10th International Conference on Data Science and Advanced 2023

  • Uncovering Bias in Personal Informatics
    S Yfantidou, P Sermpezis, A Vakali, R Baeza-Yates
    Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous 2023

  • The state of algorithmic fairness in mobile human-computer interaction
    S Yfantidou, M Constantinides, D Spathis, A Vakali, D Quercia, F Kawsar
    Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer 2023

  • 14 Years of Self-Tracking Technology for mHealth—Literature Review: Lessons Learned and the PAST SELF Framework
    S Yfantidou, P Sermpezis, A Vakali
    ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare 4 (3), 1-43 2023

  • ENCOVIZ: An open-source, secure and multi-role energy consumption visualisation platform
    E Voulgaris, I Dimitriadis, DP Giakatos, A Vakali, A Papakonstantinou, ...
    2023 14th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems 2023

  • Heartdis: a generalizable end-to-end energy disaggregation pipeline
    I Dimitriadis, N Virtsionis Gkalinikis, N Gkiouzelis, A Vakali, ...
    Energies 16 (13), 5115 2023

  • Don’t go chasing narcissists: A relational-based and multiverse perspective on leader narcissism and follower engagement using a machine learning approach
    D Gruda, D Karanatsiou, P Hanges, J Golbeck, A Vakali
    Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 49 (7), 1130-1147 2023

  • Bias in internet measurement platforms
    P Sermpezis, L Prehn, S Kostoglou, M Flores, A Vakali, E Aben
    2023 7th Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA), 1-10 2023

  • Pypoll: a python library automating mining of networks, discussions and polarization on twitter
    DP Giakatos, P Sermpezis, A Vakali
    Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023, 208-211 2023

  • Beyond accuracy: a critical review of fairness in machine learning for mobile and wearable computing
    S Yfantidou, M Constantinides, D Spathis, A Vakali, D Quercia, F Kawsar
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.15585 2023

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Cloud computing: Distributed internet computing for IT and scientific research
    MD Dikaiakos, D Katsaros, P Mehra, G Pallis, A Vakali
    IEEE Internet computing 13 (5), 10-13 2009
    Citations: 1285

  • Community detection in social media: Performance and application considerations
    S Papadopoulos, Y Kompatsiaris, A Vakali, P Spyridonos
    Data mining and knowledge discovery 24, 515-554 2012
    Citations: 834

  • Large scale crowdsourcing and characterization of twitter abusive behavior
    A Founta, C Djouvas, D Chatzakou, I Leontiadis, J Blackburn, G Stringhini, ...
    Proceedings of the international AAAI conference on web and social media 12 (1) 2018
    Citations: 748

  • Insight and perspectives for content delivery networks
    G Pallis, A Vakali
    Communications of the ACM 49 (1), 101-106 2006
    Citations: 662

  • Content delivery networks: Status and trends
    A Vakali, G Pallis
    IEEE Internet Computing 7 (6), 68-74 2003
    Citations: 627

  • Mean birds: Detecting aggression and bullying on twitter
    D Chatzakou, N Kourtellis, J Blackburn, E De Cristofaro, G Stringhini, ...
    Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on web science conference, 13-22 2017
    Citations: 516

  • Sentiment analysis leveraging emotions and word embeddings
    M Giatsoglou, MG Vozalis, K Diamantaras, A Vakali, G Sarigiannidis, ...
    Expert Systems with Applications 69, 214-224 2017
    Citations: 470

  • Content delivery networks
    R Buyya, M Pathan, A Vakali
    Springer Science & Business Media 2008
    Citations: 368

  • Urban planning and smart cities: Interrelations and reciprocities
    LG Anthopoulos, A Vakali
    The Future Internet: Future Internet Assembly 2012: From Promises to Reality 2012
    Citations: 306

  • A unified deep learning architecture for abuse detection
    AM Founta, D Chatzakou, N Kourtellis, J Blackburn, A Vakali, I Leontiadis
    Proceedings of the 10th ACM conference on web science, 105-114 2019
    Citations: 275

  • Behind the cues: A benchmarking study for fake news detection
    G Gravanis, A Vakali, K Diamantaras, P Karadais
    Expert Systems with Applications 128, 201-213 2019
    Citations: 234

  • Intrusion detection in RBAC-administered databases
    E Bertino, E Terzi, A Kamra, A Vakali
    21st Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC'05), 10 pp.-182 2005
    Citations: 212

  • Cluster-based landmark and event detection for tagged photo collections
    S Papadopoulos, C Zigkolis, Y Kompatsiaris, A Vakali
    IEEE Multimedia Magazine 18 (1), 52-63 2011
    Citations: 192

  • Detecting cyberbullying and cyberaggression in social media
    D Chatzakou, I Leontiadis, J Blackburn, ED Cristofaro, G Stringhini, ...
    ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB) 13 (3), 1-51 2019
    Citations: 139

  • A systematic review for smart city data analytics
    V Moustaka, A Vakali, LG Anthopoulos
    ACM Computing Surveys (cSuR) 51 (5), 1-41 2018
    Citations: 138

  • A clustering-based prefetching scheme on a Web cache environment
    G Pallis, A Vakali, J Pokorny
    Computers & Electrical Engineering 34 (4), 309-323 2008
    Citations: 137

  • Measuring# GamerGate: A tale of hate, sexism, and bullying
    D Chatzakou, N Kourtellis, J Blackburn, E De Cristofaro, G Stringhini, ...
    Proceedings of the 26th international conference on world wide web companion 2017
    Citations: 130

  • Content delivery networks: State of the art, insights, and imperatives
    M Pathan, R Buyya, A Vakali
    Content Delivery Networks, 3-32 2008
    Citations: 126

  • LDAP: framework, practices, and trends
    V Koutsonikola, A Vakali
    IEEE Internet Computing 8 (5), 66-72 2004
    Citations: 122

  • PDetect: A clustering approach for detecting plagiarism in source code datasets
    L Moussiades, A Vakali
    The computer journal 48 (6), 651-661 2005
    Citations: 108