Data management research at the technical university of crete

The Technical University of Crete (TUC, www.tuc. gr) founded in 1977 in Chania, Crete is the youngest of the two technical universities in Greece (the other being the National Technical University of Athens). The purpose of this state institution is to provide high-quality undergraduate as well as graduate studies in modern engineering fields demanded by the Greek and international job market, to conduct research in cutting edge technologies as well as to develop links with the Greek and European industry. Today, the Technical University of Crete comprises five Engineering Schools (Electronic and Computer Engineering, Production Engineering and Management, Mineral Resources Engineering, Environmental Engineering, and Architecture). The School of Electronic and Computer Engineering (ECE) at TUC (www.ece.tuc.gr) has achieved an excellent reputation for its research and teaching internationally. The department accepts about 150 undergraduate students each year and employs 28 full-time faculty members. More than 75% of the ECE faculty members have obtained their Ph.D. degrees in top-rated foreign Universities, and several held academic or research positions abroad for many years prior to joining TUC. Faculty credits include multiple best paper awards at the ACM and IEEE Society level, professional recognition in terms of associate editor and technical committee member appointments, and leadership in conference organization here and abroad. Many TUC ECE graduates have pursued graduate studies at TUC and abroad. Their ranks include faculty members at top-rated North-American and European Universities, researchers at University, Government, and Industrial Research Labs, and successful professional engineers across Greece and Europe. Data-management research at TUC revolves around a broad and diverse range of topics, ranging from fundamental algorithmic techniques (e.g., for managing streaming and probabilistic data) and tools for big-data analytics, to cloud database architectures, digital libraries, and the semantic web. In this short article, we present an overview of some recent and ongoing data-management research efforts at TUC-ECE. We structure our discussion by grouping our research activities under each of the three main data-management research labs at TUCECE: The Software Technology and Network Applications (SoftNet) Lab (www.softnet.tuc.gr, headed by Prof. Minos Garofalakis), the Intelligent Systems Lab (www.intelligence.tuc.gr, headed by Prof. Euripides G.M. Petrakis), and the Distributed Multimedia Information Systems and Applications (MUSIC) Lab (www. music.tuc.gr, headed by Prof. Stavros Christodoulakis).

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