From Research to Applications: What Can We Extract with Social Media Sensing?

A. Bozas, S. Andreadis, D. Chatzakou, S. Symeonidis, O. Theodosiadou, P. Kyriakidis, A. Kokkalas, E. A. Stathopoulos, S. Diplaris, T. Tsikrika, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, and I. Kompatsiaris, "What Can We Extract with Social Media Sensing? - Insights from Research to Applications". SN COMPUT. SCI. 5, 484 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-024-02712-9
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Artificial Intelligence to counter Cyber-Terrorism

S. Bianchi, M. Mancuso, C. Paternoster, G. Kalpakis, T. Tsikrika, S. Vrochidis, D. Kozhuharova, and B. Jaeger. “Artificial Intelligence to counter Cyber-Terrorism. ” in Proceedings International Conference on Cybersecurity and Cybercrime,  5-7 December 2023, Vol. 10
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Tweaking EfficientDet for frugal training

G. Orfanidis, K. Ioannidis, S. Vrochidis and  I. Kompatsiaris, “Tweaking EfficientDet for frugal training. In Proccedings International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval 2023 (ICMR 2023), Thessaloniki, Greece, 12 - 15 June 2023
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A Faster Converging Negative Sampling for the Graph Embedding Process in Community Detection and Link Prediction Tasks

K. Loumponias, A. Kosmatopoulos, T. Tsikrika, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "A Faster Converging Negative Sampling for the Graph Embedding Process in Community Detection and Link Prediction Tasks.", In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Deep Learning Theory and Applications - DeLTA; ISBN 978-989-758-584-5; ISSN 2184-9277, SciTePress, pages 86-93. DOI: 10.5220/0011142000003277.
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Leveraging Cyber ranges for Prototyping, Certification and Training: The ECHO case

N. Mengidis, M. Bozhilova, C. Ceresola, C. Colabuono, M. Cooke, G. Depaix, A. Genchev, G. Koykov, W. Mees, M. Merialdo, A. Voulgaridis, T. Tsikrika, K. Votis, S. Vrochidis, “Leveraging Cyber Ranges for Prototyping, Certification and Training: The ECHO case” in Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR), July 27-29, 2022, pp. 299-304,  DOI:10.1109/CSR54599.2022.9850278.
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Ontology-based technologies for disaster preparedness, response and recovery

P. Masa, G.Tzanetis, S. Kintzios, G. Meditskos, S. Vrochidis, I. Vourvachis, L. Nerantzis, I. Kompatsiaris, " Ontology-based technologies for disaster preparedness, response and recovery", in the Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Civil Protection & New Technologies (SafeThessaloniki 2022), 29 September - 1 October 2022, Thessaloniki, Greece.
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The Threat of Behavioral Radicalization Online: Conceptual Challenges and Technical Solutions Provided by the PROPHETS (Preventing Radicalization Online through the Proliferation of Harmonized ToolkitS) Project

R. Karlović, H. Nitsch, S. E. Fikenscher, D. Osterman, S. Menexis, T. Tsikrika, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris,and A. Sahar (2022). "The Threat of Behavioral Radicalization Online: Conceptual Challenges and Technical Solutions Provided by the PROPHETS (Preventing Radicalization Online through the Proliferation of Harmonized ToolkitS) Project". In G. Markarian, R. Karlovic, H. Nitsch and K. Chandramouli (eds.) Security Technologies and Social Implications: A European Perspective. (accepted for publication).
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ICT in Healthcare: the role of IoT and the SECANT solution

M. Caballero, D. Kavallieros, A. Spyros, A. Tavernarakis, A. Tziouvaras, S. Bonacina, K. Chandrarmouli, M. Coroiu, L. Chen, T. Dounia, I. Giannoulakis, N. Gligoricx , E. Kafetzakis, T. Kasig, V. Koumaras, T. Krousarlis , K. Lapidaki, A. Markakis, S. Marin, M. Manulis, S. Menesidou, S. Nifakos, L. Meng, S. Mhiri, M. Nat, K. Ntafloukas, D. Oniga, D. Papamartzivanos, S. Papastergiou, K. Sanchez, C. Sakkas, K. Stelliou, L. Trujillo, T. Tsikrika, E. Venegas, S. Vrochidis, and D. Xydias. "ICT in Healthcare: the role of IoT and the SECANT solution", in Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR), 27-29 July, 2022, pp. 104-111.
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An Explainable Multimodal Fusion Approach for Mass Casualty Incidents

Z. Vasileiou, G. Meditskos, S. Vrochidis, N. Bassiliades, "An Explainable Multimodal Fusion Approach for Mass Casualty Incidents". In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Machine Learning and Knowledge Graphs At 33rd  International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2022, August 22-24, 2022, Vienna, Austria.
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BiasHash: A Bayesian Hashing Framework for Image Retrieval

M. Pegia, A. Moumtzidou, I.Gialampoukidis, B. T. Johnsson, S. Vrochidis, and I. Kompatsiaris "BiasHash: A Bayesian Hashing Framework for Image Retrieval", In the proceedings of the 2022 IEEE 14th Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Workshop (IVMSP 2022), 26-29 June 2022, Nafplio, Greece. DOI: 10.1109/IVMSP54334.2022.9816233
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Web Bot Detection Evasion Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

C. Iliou, T. Kostoulas, T. Tsikrika, V. Katos, S. Vrochidis, and I. Kompatsiaris, “Web Bot Detection Evasion Using Deep Reinforcement Learning”, In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2022), ACM, 23-26 Aug, 2022, DOI:10.1145/3538969.3538994.
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Cybersecurity in Next Generation Energy Grids: Challenges and Opportunities for Blockchain and AI Technologies

N., Mengidis, T., Tsikrika, S., Vrochidis, I., Kompatsiaris (2021) "Cybersecurity in Next Generation Energy Grids: Challenges and Opportunities for Blockchain and AI Technologies". In Tagarev T., Atanassov K.T., Kharchenko V., Kacprzyk J. (eds) Digital Transformation, Cyber Security and Resilience of Modern Societies. Studies in Big Data, vol 84. Springer, Cham. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65722-2_18.
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Cyber security certification programmes

E.-C. Davri, E. Darra, I. Monogioudis, A. Grigoriadis, C. Iliou, N. Mengidis, T. Tsikrika, S. Vrochidis, A. Peratikou, H. Gibson, D. Haskovic, D. Kavallieros, E. Chaskos, P. Zhao, S. Shiaeles, N. Savage, B. Akhgar, X. Bellekens, and M. Amine Ben Farah, "Cyber security certification programmes", in the proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (IEEE CSR) – Workshops, Virtual Conference, July 26 (Mon) – 28 (Wed), 2021, pp. 428-435, DOI:10.1109/CSR51186.2021.9527974.
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Severity level assessment from semantically fused video content analysis for physical threat detection in ground segments of space systems

G. Antzoulatos, G. Orfanidis, P. Giannakeris, G. Tzanetis, G. Kampilis-Stathopoulos, N. Kopalidis, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, and I. Kompatsiaris (2021). "Severity level assessment from semantically fused video content analysis for physical threat detection in ground segments of space systems", in 2nd International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Security for Critical Infrastructures Protection (CPS4CIP 2021), 4-8 October 2021.
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OntoAqua: Ontology-based Modelling of Context in Water Safety and Security

Α.-Μ., Koufakis, S., Tzanakis, A., Moumtzidou, G., Meditskos, A., Karakostas, S., Vrochidis, I., Kompatsiaris, "OntoAqua: Ontology-based Modelling of Context in Water Safety and Security", In proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development-KEOD 2021, Valletta, Malta, 25-27 October 2021.
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ECHO Federated Cyber Range: Towards Next-Generation Scalable Cyber Ranges

N. Oikonomou, N. Mengidis, M. Spanopoulos-Karalexidis, A. Voulgaridis, M. Merialdo, I. Raisr, K. Hanson, P. de La Vallee, T. Tsikrika, S. Vrochidis and K. Votis, "ECHO Federated Cyber Range: Towards Next-Generation Scalable Cyber Ranges", in the proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (IEEE CSR) – Workshops, Virtual Conference, Virtual, July 26 - 28, 2021.
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Towards Selecting Informative Content for Cyber Threat Intelligence

P. Panagiotou, C. Iliou, K. Apostolou, T. Tsikrika, S. Vrochidis, P. Chatzimisios, I. Kompatsiaris, "Towards Selecting Informative Content for Cyber Threat Intelligence", In the proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (IEEE CSR) – Workshops, Virtual Conference, July 26 (Mon) – 28 (Wed), 2021, pp. 354-359, DOI:10.1109/CSR51186.2021.9527909.
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Named Entity Recognition in Cyber Threat Intelligence Using Transformer-based Models

P. Evangelatos, C. Iliou, T. Mavropoulos, K. Apostolou, T. Tsikrika, S. Vrochidis and I. Kompatsiaris,"Named Entity Recognition in Cyber Threat Intelligence Using Transformer-based Models", in the proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (IEEE CSR) – Workshops, Virtual Conference, July 26 (Mon) – 28 (Wed), 2021, pp. 348-353, DOI:10.1109/CSR51186.2021.9527981.
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Sensor Data Fusion and Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles for the Protection of Critical Infrastructures

K. Ioannidis,G. Orfanidis, M. Krestenitis, S. Vrochidis, & I. Kompatsiaris, "Sensor Data Fusion and Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles for the Protection of Critical Infrastructures" , Terahertz (THz), Mid Infrared (MIR) and Near Infrared (NIR) Technologies for Protection of Critical Infrastructures Against Explosives and CBRN, Book Series: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics, Springer Netherlands, 2021, 3-17.
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Crowd Violence Detection from Video Footage

K. Gkountakos, K. Ioannidis, T.Tsikrika, S. Vrochidis, & Ι. Kompatsiaris, "Crowd Violence Detection from Video Footage". In 2021 International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI). IEEE June 2021.
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Web Bot Detection Evasion Using Generative Adversarial Networks

C. Iliou, T. Kostoulas, T. Tsikrika, V. Katos, S. Vrochidis, and I. Kompatsiaris, "Web Bot Detection Evasion Using Generative Adversarial Networks", In Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, IEEE, 26-28 July, 2021. DOI:10.1109/CSR51186.2021.9527915.
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ITI-CERTH participation in TRECVID 2020

K. Gkountakos, D. Galanopoulos, M. Mpakratsas, D. Touska, A. Moumtzidou, K. Ioannidis, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, V. Mezaris, I. Kompatsiaris, "ITI-CERTH participation in TRECVID 2020", Proc. TRECVID 2020 Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, Dec. 2020.
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OSINT and the Dark Web

G. Kalpakis, T. Tsikrika, N. Cunningham, C. Iliou, S. Vrochidis, J. Middleton, I. Kompatsiaris. "OSINT and the Dark Web". In Open Source Intelligence Investigation - From Strategy to Implementation, B. Akhgar, P. S. Bayerl, F. Sampson (Eds.), Springer, 3 January 2017.
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IoT and Semantic Web Technologies

A. Chatzimichail, E. A. Stathopoulos, D. Ntioudis, A. Tsanousa, M. Rousi, A. Mavropoulos, G. Meditskos, S. Vrochidis and I. Kompatsiaris. “IoT and Semantic Web Technologies”. Semantic IOT: Theory and Applications - Interoperability, Provenance and Beyond, Book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer, 2020, p. 3-33.
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TENSOR: Retrieval and Analysis of Heterogeneous Online Content for Terrorist Activity Recognition

B. Akhgar, P. Bertrand, C. Chalanouli, T. Day, I. Fragkiadakis, H. Gibson, D. Kavallieros, E. Kermitsis, I. Kompatsiaris, E. Kyriakou, G. Leventakis, E. Lissaris, S. Mille, D. Myttas, T. Tsikrika, S. Vrochidis, U. Williamson. "TENSOR: Retrieval and Analysis of Heterogeneous Online Content for Terrorist Activity Recognition". Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Se-curity Sciences: Secure Societies, 15 June 2017.
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Internet of Things Infrastructure for Security and Safety in Public Places

A. Chatzimichail, C. Chatzigeorgiou, A. Tsanousa, D. Ntioudis, G. Meditskos, F. Andritsopoulos, C. Karaberi, P. Kasnesis, D. Kogias, G. Gorgogetas, S. Vrochidis, C. Patrikakis, I. Kompatsiaris. “Internet of Things Infrastructure for Security and Safety in Public Places”. Special Issue, IoT Applications and Industry 4.0, Information, 10(11), 333, 28 October 2019.
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Concept extraction from patent images based on recursive hybrid classification

A. Moumtzidou, S. Vrochidis, and I. Kompatsiaris,"Concept extraction from patent images based on recursive hybrid classification", Proceedings of 6th Information Retrieval Facility Conference 2013 (IRFC 2013), Limassol, Cyprus, 7-9 October, 2013. Multidisciplinary Information Retrieval, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Vol. 8201, pp. 83-86. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41057-4_9
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ITI-CERTH participation to TRECVID 2013

F. Markatopoulou, A. Moumtzidou, C. Tzelepis, K. Avgerinakis, N. Gkalelis, S. Vrochidis, V. Mezaris, and I. Kompatsiaris, "ITI-CERTH participation to TRECVID 2013", in TRECVID 2013 Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, 2013.
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ITI-CERTH participation to TRECVID 2014

N. Gkalelis, F. Markatopoulou, A. Moumtzidou, D. Galanopoulos, K. Avgerinakis, N. Pittaras, S. Vrochidis, V. Mezaris, I. Kompatsiaris, I. Patras,"ITI-CERTH participation to TRECVID 2014", in Proc. TRECVID 2014 Work-shop, Orlando, FL, USA, November 2014.
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VERGE: A Multimodal Interactive Video Search Engine

A. Moumtzidou, K. Avgerinakis, E. Apostolidis, F. Markatopoulou, K. Apostolidis, T. Mironidis, S. Vrochidis, V. Mezaris, Y. Kompatsiaris, I. Patras,"VERGE: A Multimodal Interactive Video Search Engine", in Proc. 21st Int. Conf. on MultiMedia Modeling (MMM15), Sydney, Australia, Jan. 2015. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14442-9_23
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The Sensor to Decision Chain in Crisis Management

J. Mossgraber, D. Hilbring, H. van der Schaaf, P. Hertweck, E. Kontopoulos, P. Mitzias, I. Kompatsiaris, S. Vrochidis, A. Karakostas, "The Sensor to Decision Chain in Crisis Management", In Int. Conf. on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM'18).
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Concept Detection on Multimedia Web Resources about Home Made Explosives

G. Kalpakis, T. Tsikrika, F. Markatopoulou, N. Pittaras, S. Vrochidis, V. Mezaris, I. Patras, and I. Kompatsiaris, "Concept Detection on Multimedia Web Resources about Home Made Explosives", in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Multimedia Forensics and Security (MFSec 2015), held in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, Toulouse, France, 2015. DOI: 10.1109/ARES.2015.85
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A Framework for the Discovery, Analysis, and Retrieval of Multimedia Homemade Explosives Information on the Web

T. Tsikrika, G. Kalpakis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, I. Paraskakis, I. Kavasidis, J. Middleton, and U. Williamson, "A Framework for the Discovery, Analysis, and Retrieval of Multimedia Homemade Explosives Information on the Web", in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Multimedia Forensics and Security (MFSec 2015), held in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, Toulouse, France, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1109/ARES.2015.86
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ITI-CERTH participation to TRECVID 2015

F. Markatopoulou, A. Ioannidou, C. Tzelepis, T. Mironidis, D. Galanopoulos, S. Arestis-Chartampilas, N. Pittaras, K. Avgerinakis, N. Gkalelis, A. Moumtzidou, S. Vrochidis, V. Mezaris, I. Kompatsiaris, I. Patras, "ITI-CERTH participation to TRECVID 2015", in Proc. TRECVID 2015 Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, Nov. 2015.
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Ontology-based Representation of Crisis Management Procedures for Climate Events

E. Kontopoulos, P. Mitzias, J. Mossgraber, P. Hertweck, H. van der Schaaf, X. Hilbring, F. Lombardo, D. Norbiato, M. Ferri, A. Karakostas, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris,"Ontology-based Representation of Crisis Management Procedures for Climate Events", in 1st International Workshop on Intelligent Crisis Management Technologies for Climate Events (ICMT 2018), collocated with the 15th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2018).
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1st International Workshop on Search and Mining Terrorist Online Content & Advances in Data Science for Cyber Security and Risk on the Web

T. Tsikrika, B. Akhgar, V. Katos, S. Vrochidis, P. Burnap, M. L. Williams, "1st International Workshop on Search and Mining Terrorist Online Content & Advances in Data Science for Cyber Security and Risk on the Web". In Proceedings of the Tenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2017), pp. 823-824, Cambridge, UK, February 2017.
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ITI-CERTH participation in TRECVID 2018

K. Avgerinakis, A. Moumtzidou, D. Galanopoulos, G. Orfanidis, S. Andreadis, F. Markatopoulou, E. Batziou, K. Ioannidis, S. Vrochidis, V. Mezaris, I. Kompatsiaris, "ITI-CERTH participation in TRECVID 2018", in Proc. TRECVID 2018 Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, Nov. 2018.
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ITI-CERTH participation in TRECVID 2016

F. Markatopoulou, A. Moumtzidou, D. Galanopoulos, T. Mironidis, V. Kaltsa, A. Ioannidou, S. Symeonidis, K. Avgerinakis, S. Andreadis, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, A. Briassouli, V. Mezaris, I. Kompatsiaris, I. Patras, "ITI-CERTH participation in TRECVID 2016", in Proc. TRECVID 2016 Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, Nov. 2016.
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ITI-CERTH participation in TRECVID 2017

F. Markatopoulou, A. Moumtzidou, D. Galanopoulos, K. Avgerinakis, S. Andreadis, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Tachos, S. Vrochidis, V. Mezaris, I. Kompatsiaris, I. Patras, "ITI-CERTH participation in TRECVID 2017", in Proc. TRECVID 2017 Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, Nov. 2017.
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VERGE in VBS 2019

S. Andreadis, A. Moumtzidou, D. Galanopoulos, F. Markatopoulou, K. Apostolidis, T. Mavropoulos, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, V. Mezaris, I. Kompatsiaris, I. Patras, "VERGE in VBS 2019", Proc. 25th Int. Conf. on Multimedia Modeling (MMM2019), Thessaloniki, Greece, Springer LNCS vol. 11296, pp. 602-608, Jan. 2019.
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Smart Interconnected Infrastructure for Security and Safety in Public Places

A. Chatzimichail, C. Chatzigeorgiou, F. Andritsopoulos, C. Karaberi, G. Meditskos, P. Kasnesis, D. Kogias, G. Gorgogetas, A. Tsanousa, S. Vrochidis, C. Patrikakis and I. Kompatsiaris, "Smart Interconnected Infrastructure for Security and Safety in Public Places", International Workshop on IoT Applications and Industry 4.0, co-located with the International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, Santorini Island, Greece May 29-31, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/DCOSS.2019.00069
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Towards to integrate a multi-layer Machine Learning Data Fusion approach into Crisis Classification and Risk Assessment of extreme natural events

G. Antzoulatos, I. Koulalis, A. Karakostas, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, “Towards to integrate a multi-layer Machine Learning Data Fusion approach into Crisis Classification and Risk Assessment of extreme natural events”. In "Technology Development for Security Practitioners", edited by B. Akhgar, D. Kavallieros, E. Sdongos, Book series: Security Informatics and Law Enforcement, Springer, 2021.
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