Publications

The ICSA research group publishes its work in international journals, conferences, and books. The publications are listed below by type.

Publications in Journals

Gkoulis, D., Tsadimas, A., Kousiouris, G., Bardaki, C., Dimitrakopoulos, G., Anagnostopoulos, D., & Nikolaidou, M. (2026). Interpretable Multi-criteria Selection of Imputation Models to enhance Fault Tolerance in Real-time IoT Data Streams. Internet of Things, 102051.
Athanasia Kyrkili, Georgios Saltaouras, Vasiliki Bountziouka, Eirini Bathrellou, Michael Georgoulis, Mary Yannakoulia, Evangelia Charmandari, George Dimitrakopoulos, Meropi D Kontogianni, Dietary Patterns and Risk of Overweight/Obesity in Children and Adolescents in Western Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies With at Least 1 Year of Follow-Up, Nutrition Reviews, 2026;, nuag079, https://doi.org/10.1093/nutrit/nuag079
M. Georgoulis, I. Grapsa, G. Arnaoutis, et al., “Association Between Physical Activity and Indicators of Overweight/Obesity and Metabolically Unhealthy Obesity Risk in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review of Prospective Epidemiological Studies and Randomized Controlled Trials in Western Countries,” Obesity Reviews 27, no. 1 (2026): e70014, https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.70014
Zarkadas K, Dimitrakopoulos G. “Investigation of Electromagnetic Radiation Levels at DVB-T Transmission Points Operated by the Greek Public Broadcasting Service.” Electronics. 2025; 14(17):3519. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics14173519
Edgars Lielamurs, Ibrahim Sayed, Andrejs Cvetkovs, Rihards Novickis, Anatolijs Zencovs, Maksis Celitans, Andis Bizuns, George Dimitrakopoulos, Jochen Koszescha, Kaspars Ozols, “A Distributed Time-of-Flight Sensor System for Autonomous Vehicles: Architecture, Sensor Fusion, and Spiking Neural Network Perception”, Electronics 14 (7), 1375.
AN Sayed, F Bensaali, Y Himeur, G Dimitrakopoulos, I Varlamis, “Enhancing Building Sustainability: A Digital Twin Approach to Energy Efficiency and Occupancy Monitoring”, Energy and Buildings, 328, 115151, 2025.
Guntis V Strazds, Katrīna Viltrake, Gergely Hollósi, Laura Leja, Arnis Priedītis, Diāna Dupļevska, Makss Meiers, Christos Chronis, Iraklis Varlamis, George Dimitrakopoulos, Karlis Freivalds, IFAC-PapersOnLine, Elsevier, Vol. 59, Iss. 27, pp. 214-219, 2025.
C. Kotronis, M. Nikolaidou, A. Tsadimas, G.-D. Kapos, V. Dalakas, I. Routis, C. Bardaki, G. Dimitrakopoulos, D. Anagnostopoulos, “Engaging human participants in CPHS design: A multi-view approach transforming human criticalities to system design requirements”, Elsevier Internet of Things (IoT) journal, 101443, 2024.
K Zarkadas, A Smyrnaios, G Dimitrakopoulos, “Development of Graphical User Interface for Link Budget Analysis of Point-to-Point Communications at 5 GHz and 11 GHz”, Network 4 (4), 443-452, 2024.
Georgios Saltaouras, Athanasia Kyrkili, Eirini Bathrellou, Michael Georgoulis, Mary Yannakoulia, Vasiliki Bountziouka, Urška Smrke, George Dimitrakopoulos, Meropi D Kontogianni, “Associations between Meal Patterns and Risk of Overweight/Obesity in Children and Adolescents in Western Countries: A Systematic Review of Longitudinal Studies and Randomised Controlled Trials”, Children 2024, 11(9), 1100; https://doi.org/10.3390/children11091100.
C. Chronis, I. Varlamis, Y. Himeur, Aya N. Sayed, T. M. Al-Hasan, A. Nhlabatsi, F. Bensaali, G. Dimitrakopoulos, “A survey on the use of Federated Learning in Privacy-Preserving Recommender Systems,” IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society, 2024, doi: 10.1109/OJCS.2024.3396344.
T. M. Al-Hasan, A. N. Sayed, F. Bensaali, Y. Himeur, I. Varlamis, G. Dimitrakopoulos, “From Traditional Recommender Systems to GPT-based Chatbots: A Survey of Recent Developments and Future Directions”, Big Data and Cognitive Computing journal, 2024, 8(4), 36; https://doi.org/10.3390/bdcc8040036
Politi, E., Weissenfeld, A., Ntafalias, A., Chrysokentis, G., Katsarou, V., Fragiadakis, G., … & Papadopoulos, P. (2026). Designing Sustainable Business Models for Data Spaces: Insights from the Industrial Sector. IEEE Access.
Georgiadis, D., Tsaousi, E., Gasparic, I., Perko, A., Lonza, A., Politi, E., & Dimitrakopoulos, G. (2026). A Time-Aware In-Cabin Driver Monitoring Ontology with Hybrid Logical Reasoning. IEEE Access.
A. Stefanidou, E. Politi and G. Dimitrakopoulos, “Foundation Models in Autonomous Driving: A Review of Current Tasks and Applications,” IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, doi: 10.1109/OJITS.2025.3633871.
D. Georgiadis, E. Politi, S. Solmaz, G. Dimitrakopoulos et al., “A review of localization and sensing technologies for UAV swarms in SAR missions,” EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13634-025-01269-w
D. Georgiadis, K. Karathanasopoulou, E. Liotou, and G. Dimitrakopoulos, “LoRaWAN-based Emergency Framework for Vehicular Networks,” IEEE Networking Letters, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 205–209, Sept. 2025.
I. Vondikakis, E. Politi, D. Goulis, G. Dimitrakopoulos, M. Georgoulis, G. Saltaouras, M. Kontogianni, T. Brisimi, M. Logothetis, H. Kakoulidis, M. Prasinos, A. Anastasiou, I. Kakkos, E. Vellidou, G. Matsopoulos, D. Koutsouris, “Integrated Framework for Managing Childhood Obesity Based on Biobanks, AI Tools and Methods, and Serious Games,” Electronics, 2025.
A. Christos Maroudis, K. Karathanasopoulou, C. C. Stylianides, G. Dimitrakopoulos and A. S. Panayides, “Fairness-Aware Graph Neural Networks for ICU Length of Stay Prediction in IoT-Enabled Environments,” IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 64516–64533, 2025, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3560180.
E. Politi, C. Davalas, C. Chronis, G. Dimitrakopoulos, D. Michail, and I. Varlamis, “Real-Time Quality Monitoring and Anomaly Detection for Vision Sensors in Connected and Autonomous Vehicles,” IEEE Access, 2025, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3536524.
C. Stylianides, A. Nicolaou, W. A. Sulaiman, C.-A. Alexandropoulou, I. Panagiotopoulos, K. Karathanasopoulou, et al., “AI Advances in ICU with an Emphasis on Sepsis Prediction: An Overview,” Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction, 7(1), 6, 2025.
E. Politi, A. Stefanidou, C. Chronis, G. Dimitrakopoulos and I. Varlamis, “Adaptive Deep Reinforcement Learning for Efficient 3D Navigation of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles,” IEEE Access, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3508031.
D. Georgiadis, K. Karathanasopoulou, C. Bardaki, I. Panagiotopoulos, I. Vondikakis, T. Paktitis, and G. Dimitrakopoulos, “Performance Analysis of Energy-Efficient Path Planning for Sustainable Transportation,” Sustainability, 16(12), 4963, 2024.
I. V. Vondikakis, I. E. Panagiotopoulos and G. J. Dimitrakopoulos, “FedRSC: A Federated Learning Analysis for Multi-Label Road Surface Classifications,” IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 5, pp. 433–444, 2024, doi: 10.1109/OJITS.2024.3432176.
I. Panagiotopoulos, G. Dimitrakopoulos, and G. Keraite, “On Modelling and Investigating User Acceptance of Highly Automated Passenger Vehicles,” IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 5, pp. 70–84, 2024, doi: 10.1109/OJITS.2023.3346477.
G. Dimitrakopoulos, P. Varga, G. Schneider, T. Gutt, A. Hoess, H. Ehm, M. Tauber, K. Karathanasopoulou, A. Lackner, and J. Delsing, “Industry 5.0: Research Areas and Challenges with AI and Human Acceptance,” IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine, 2024, doi: 10.1109/MIE.2024.3387068.
E. Politi, P. Purucker, M. Larsen, R. J. Dos Reis, R. T. Rajan, S. D. Penna, J. F. Boer, P. Rodosthenous, G. Dimitrakopoulos, I. Varlamis and A. Höß, “Enabling Technologies for Navigation and Communication of UAS Operating in the Context of BVLOS,” Electronics, 2023. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13020340
C. Chronis, G. Anagnostopoulos, E. Politi, G. Dimitrakopoulos, and I. Varlamis, “Dynamic Navigation in Unconstrained Environments using Reinforcement Learning Algorithms,” IEEE Access, 2023.
I. Panagiotopoulos and G. Dimitrakopoulos, “Intelligent, In-Vehicle Autonomous Decision-Making Functionality for Driving Style Reconfigurations,” Electronics, 12(6), 1370, 2023. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12061370
I. Panagiotopoulos and G. Dimitrakopoulos, “Leveraging on Non-Causal Reasoning Techniques for Enhancing the Cognitive Management of Highly Automated Vehicles,” Autonomous Intelligent Systems, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 1–13, 2022.
I. Panagiotopoulos and G. Dimitrakopoulos, “Cognitive Selection of Driving Automation Levels in Highly Automated Vehicles Leveraging on Bayesian Networking Principles,” IET Intelligent Transport Systems, vol. 16, no. 9, pp. 1127–1142, 2022, doi: 10.1049/itr2.12184.
M. Nikolaidou, C. Kotronis, I. Routis, E. Politi, G. Dimitrakopoulos, D. Anagnostopoulos, et al., “Incorporating patient concerns into design requirements for IoMT-based systems: The fall detection case study,” Health Informatics Journal, 27(1), 1460458220982640, 2021.

Conference Publications

C. Chronis, I. Varlamis, G. Dimitrakopoulos, et al., “Adaptive Task Execution for Robots Using Scene Understanding and LLMs”, Computer Vision Conference, 2026.
A. Stefanidou, D. Georgiadis, K. Karathanasopoulou, E. Politi, E. Liotou, and G. Dimitrakopoulos, “Edge-Optimized Fisheye Sensing for UAV-Assisted Connected Mobility,” International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT), Thessaloniki, May 2026
P. Flegkas, K. Konsoulas, E. Liotou, “6G-NOW: A Network-of-Networks Architecture for Resilient Connected and Automated Mobility,” International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT), Thessaloniki, May 2026.
C. Sandionigi, O. Belorgeot, E. Chaumat, J. C. Crebier, G. Dimitrakopoulos, L. Froger, et al., “Multi-partner project: Ecodesign to reduce electronic waste,” date-conference-2026.
K. Gyftodimos, K. Chiotis, E. Politi, G. Dimitrakopoulos, and E. Liotou, “Temporal Transformer CAN Encoder with Federated Lightweight Heads for Anomaly Detection,” ITS European Congress, Istanbul, April 2026.
T. Paktitis, I. Panagiotopoulos, and G. Dimitrakopoulos, “Design of a long life bi-directional off-board battery electric vehicle charger,” Transport Research Arena, Budapest, 18–21 May 2026.
E. Panagiotopoulou, K. Santa, E. Politi, A. Anastasiou, G. Dimitrakopoulos, G. Dedoussis, O. Politi, T. Anagnostopoulos, G. Antonopoulos, P. Matzakos and I. Mlakar, “Mapping System Requirements to System Architecture in AI-Enabled Cancer Screening Platforms,” Proceedings of the ICICT 2026, London, accepted-submission 415.
T. Paktitis, D. Georgiadis, K. Karathanasopoulou, I. Panagiotopoulos and G. Dimitrakopoulos, “Development and Optimization of a Lightweight LSTM Model for Battery State-of-Charge Estimation,” 2026 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Computer, Data Sciences and Applications (ACDSA), Boracay Island, Philippines, 2026, pp. 1–7, doi: 10.1109/ACDSA67686.2026.11468004.
E. Tsaousi, E. Panagiotopoulou, E. Politi, T. Androutsou, S. Pitoglou, O. Giannakopoulou, et al., “Towards a Closed-Loop Gamified e-Learning Framework for Stress Management,” 2025 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation & Intelligent Computing (MoSICom), pp. 232–237, IEEE, 2025.
Kreouzi, M., Theodorakis, N., Anastasiou, A., Kalodanis, K., Sakagianni, A., Bazakidou, E., Boufeas, I. Z., Dimitrakopoulos, G., Karathanasopoulou, K., Nikolaou, M., & Feretzakis, G. (2026). “Advancing Dermatology Diagnostics with Vision Transformers for Binary Skin Lesion Classification.” In I. Rojas, F. Ortuño, F. Rojas Ruiz, L. J. Herrera, O. Valenzuela, & J. J. Escobar (Eds.), Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (pp. 91–104). Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-08455-2_8.
C. Chronis, I. Varlamis, K. Tserpes, G. Dimitrakopoulos, F. Bensaali, “Deploying Large AI Models”, Proceedings of Tenth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology: ICICT 2025, London, Volume 5, Pages, 403, Springer Nature, 2025.
Manolitsis I, Feretzakis G, Tzelves L, Anastasiou A, Dimitrakopoulos G, Kalles D, Katsimperis S, Verykios VS, Varkarakis I. “Machine Learning and Urinary Incontinence in Prostate Cancer: A Generalized Additive Model of Physical Activity and Recovery Patterns.” Stud Health Technol Inform. 2025 May 15;327:1408-1412. doi: 10.3233/SHTI250634. PMID: 40380737.
C. Chronis, I. Varlamis, D. Michail, K. Tserpes, G. Dimitrakopoulos, “From Perception to Action: Leveraging LLMs and Scene Graphs for Intuitive Robotic Task Execution”, in Proc. 2024 IEEE 10th International Conference on Big Data Computing Service and Machine Learning Applications (BigDataService).
A. Anastasiou et al., “PULSE – Personalized Understanding, Learning and working Stress Evaluation,” Proc. Institute for Sustainable Innovation and Technology Conference (ISIT), Marrakesh, Morocco, 2–4 October 2025.
A. Stefanidou, D. Georgiadis, E. Politi, and G. Dimitrakopoulos, “Energy-Constrained Multi-Agent 3D Path Planning for UAV Swarms via a Comparative Many-Visits TSP Approach,” 2025 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation & Intelligent Computing (MoSICom), pp. 174–179, IEEE, 2025.
A. Stefanidou, E. Politi, C. Meintanis, and G. Dimitrakopoulos, “A Comparative Study of DRL Algorithms for Path Planning of E-Scooters in AIoT Urban Environments,” 2025 IEEE Annual Congress on Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT), pp. 809–813, IEEE, 2025.
L. Bongiovanni, E. Armengaud, S. F. Jover, I. K. Yalcin, E. Rossini, M. Mamei, P. Burgio, S. Rodríguez-Jiménez, E. Politi, G. Dimitrakopoulos and B. Dilecce, “Smart City Pilots: Advancing Sustainable Mobility and Urban Innovation,” 2025 Smart Systems Integration Conference and Exhibition (SSI), pp. 1–6, IEEE, 2025.
F. Giannakopoulou, K. Karathanasopoulou, E. Politi and G. Dimitrakopoulos, “Gender-Sensitive Technology Acceptance Modelling of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Based on Failure Mode and Effect Analysis,” 2025 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation & Intelligent Computing (MoSICom), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2025, pp. 330–335, doi: 10.1109/MoSICom67153.2025.11398229.
K. Karathanasopoulou and G. Dimitrakopoulos, “ΑΙ-Enabled Driver Behavior Modelling based on Failure Mode and Effect Analysis,” Proc. 10th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Intelligent Systems (ICTIS), New York, USA, May 23–24, 2025.
T. Paktitis, I. Panagiotopoulos, and G. Dimitrakopoulos, “Enhancing authentication and security in unmanned aerial vehicles communication interactions,” Proceedings of the 16th ITS European Congress, Seville, Spain, 19–21 May 2025.
I. Vondikakis, E. Politi, C. Chronis, G. Dimitrakopoulos, M. Georgoulis, G. Saltaouras, M. Kontogianni, C. Nikitas, P. Kassari, E. Charmandari, I. Kouris, I. Kakkos, K. Mpromis, G. Matsopoulos and D. Koutsouris, “Behavioral Change through Serious Gaming Approaches for Childhood Obesity Interventions,” Medical Informatics Europe (MIE) 2025.
K. Karathanasopoulou, E. Tsaousi, D. Mitsiogianni, G. Dimitrakopoulos, and D. Georgiadis, “Technology Acceptance Modelling for Investigating the Uptake of Electric, Connected, Autonomous, and Shared Mobility Technologies,” Proc. 11th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems (VEHITS), Portugal, April 2025.
G. Dimitrakopoulos, H. Ehm and E. Tsaousi, “Enhanced Ontology Extraction: Integrating GPT AI with Human Knowledge on the Example of EU Standards related to Semiconductor Supply Chains,” Proceedings of the 2024 Winter Simulation Conference, Orlando, FL, USA, 2024.
I. V. Vondikakis, I. E. Panagiotopoulos and G. J. Dimitrakopoulos, “Enhancing Traffic Light Detection and Classification through Federated Learning,” 2024 IEEE 100th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2024-Fall), Washington DC, USA, 2024.
B. Abu Naim, Y. Ghafourian, M. Tauber, F. Lindner, C. Schmittner, E. Schoitsch, G. Schneider, O. Kattan, G. Reiner, A. Ryabokon, F. Flamigni, K. Karathanasopoulou and G. Dimitrakopoulos, “A Self-assessment Tool to Encourage the Uptake of Artificial Intelligence in Digital Workspaces,” Proc. 2024 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium, Seoul, Korea, May 2024.
A. Stefanidi, E. Politi, C. Chronis, G. Dimitrakopoulos and I. Varlamis, “Deep Reinforcement Learning for Path Planning of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles,” The 18th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV 2024).
D. Georgiadis, E. Politi, and G. Dimitrakopoulos, “Multi-criteria Knowledge-based Decision-making Functionality for Swarm of Drones,” Proc. IEEE Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS), Oakland, USA, April 2024.
K. Kokkalis, C. Chronis, E. Politi, G. Dimitrakopoulos, and I. Varlamis, “Predicting the Lifespan of Lithium-Ion Batteries using Machine Learning, Parameter Tuning and Model Ensembles,” 2024 IEEE 10th International Conference on Big Data Computing Service and Machine Learning Applications (BigDataService), pp. 122–129, IEEE, 2024.
S. Solmaz, P. Innerwinkler, M. Wojcik, T. Tong, E. Politi, G. Dimitrakopoulos, P. Purucker, A. Höß, and B. W. Schuller, “Robust Robotic Search and Rescue in Harsh Environments: An Example and Open Challenges,” Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Robotic and Sensors Environments (ROSE), Chemnitz, Germany, June 20–21, 2024.
G. Dimitrakopoulos et al., “On the Way to Realize the 5th Industrial Revolution: Achievements, Challenges and Research Areas,” NOMS 2023 – IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, Miami, FL, USA, 2023, pp. 1–6, doi: 10.1109/NOMS56928.2023.10154446.
E. Politi, P. Rodosthenous, R. J. Dos Reis, M. Larsen, I. Varlamis, and G. Dimitrakopoulos, “Analysis of the New Market Trends of UAVS for Safe BVLOS Operations,” Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 2716, no. 1, p. 012056, IOP Publishing, 2024.
D. Georgiadis, E. Politi and G. Dimitrakopoulos, “A Comparison of Power Allocation Mechanisms for 5G D2D Mobile Communication Networks,” 2023 Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS), Boston, MA, USA, 2023, pp. 1–7, doi: 10.1109/WTS202356685.2023.10131761.
E. Politi, A. Garyfallou, I. Panagiotopoulos, I. Varlamis, and G. Dimitrakopoulos, “Path Planning and Landing for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles using AI,” Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2022, Volume 1, pp. 343–357, Springer, 2022.
E. Politi, I. Varlamis, K. Tserpes, M. Larsen, and G. Dimitrakopoulos, “The Future of Safe BVLOS Drone Operations with Respect to System and Service Engineering,” 2022 IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE), pp. 133–140, IEEE, 2022.
C. Chronis et al., “Path Planning of Autonomous Drones using Reinforcement Learning,” Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 2526, 012088, 2023, doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/2526/1/012088.
E. Politi, I. E. Panagiotopoulos, I. Varlamis, and G. Dimitrakopoulos, “A Survey of UAS Technologies to Enable Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) Operations,” VEHITS, pp. 505–512, 2021.
E. Politi and G. Dimitrakopoulos, “Comparison of Evolutionary Algorithms for AUVs for Path Planning in Variable Conditions,” 2019 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI), IEEE, 2019.

Book Chapters

G. Dimitrakopoulos, I. Varlamis and L. Uden, “The Future of Intelligent Transport Systems”, ISBN: 9780128182819, Elsevier, 2020.
G. Dimitrakopoulos, “Current Technologies in Vehicular Communication”, ISBN 978-3-319-47244-7, Springer, New York, USA, 2017.
G. Dimitrakopoulos, A. Tsakanikas, and E. Panagiotopoulos, “Autonomous Vehicles: Technologies, Regulations, and Societal Impacts,” Elsevier, ISBN: 9780323901376, 2021.

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