Nektarios Georgalas 

Research in Data Management

ADDRESS: 
BT Exact

Adastral Park

Orion Building Ground Floor pp13
Martlesham Heath
Ipswich, IP5 3RE
UK

Telephone: +44 1473 606598
E-mail: Nektarios.Georgalas@bt.com

 

Curriculum Vitae
 

Past and Current Projects

  • “Building Better OSS”, Business Systems Research Lab, BT Exact
  • “Valuing BT OSS, Business Systems Research Lab, BT Exact
  • Cybervote, Business Systems Research Lab, BT Exact
  • ANDROID,  ProgNet Lab, BTexact Technologies
  • "Exploitation of ISP Caches", Internet and Multimedia Applications, BT Labs
  • "Policy-Based Service Provisioning", BT Labs
  • "Data Management Research", Distributed Information Systems Group, BT Labs
  • "Database Technologies for Large Scale Databases in Telecommunication", EURESCOM project P817

Thesis
Enterprise Data and Knowledge Integration using Repository Technology
MPhil thesis, Information System Engineering Group, Department of Computation, UMIST, Manchester, UK, 1998

Patents

  • “Distributed Computer”, IPD Case No 30446, European Patent Off ref: ….(Nektarios Georgalas)
  • “Data Storage System Interface”, IPD Case No A30106, European Patent Off. Ref: 02253228 (Nektarios Georgalas, Mike Fisher, Clare Bradford)
  • “Resource Creation Method and Tool”, IPD Case NoA25910, European Patent Off. Ref: 00302757.0 (Nektarios Georgalas)
  • “Resource Modelling”, IPD Case No A25985, European Patent Off. Ref: 00302735.6 (Nektarios Georgalas)
  • “Data Management Systems including billing for Use”, IPD Case No A25733, European Patent Off. Ref: 99308488.8 (Stephen McKearney, Nektarios Georgalas)

Publications

Articles in Journals:

Yang K., Todd C., Li J., Georgalas N., Azmoodeh M.. A Location-based Service Advertisement Algorithm for Pervasive Service Discovery in Wireless Networks, accepted by International Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (JWCMC), John Wiley Publishers

 

Yang K., Ou S., Azmoodeh M., Georgalas N., Model-based service discovery —prototyping experience of an OSS scenario, BT Technology Journal, Volume 24, Issue 02, April 2006, Pages: 145-150, ISSN: 1358-3948, Springer, The Netherlands

 

Yang K., Ou S., Azmoodeh M., Georgalas N., Policy-based model-driven engineering of pervasive services and the associated OSS, BT Technology Journal, Volume 23, Issue 03, July 2005, Pages: 162-174, ISSN: 1358-3948, Springer, The Netherlands

 

Georgalas N., Bagley C., Using policies in highly configurable component-based NGOSS, BT Technology Journal, Volume 23, Issue 03, July 2005, Pages: 149-161, ISSN: 1358-3948, Springer, The Netherlands

 

Azmoodeh M., Georgalas N., Fisher S., Model-driven systems development and integration environment, BT Technology Journal, Volume 23, Issue 03, July 2005, Pages: 96-110, ISSN: 1358-3948, Springer, The Netherlands

 

Lionel S., Prnjat O., Liabotis I., Olukemi T., Ching A., Fisher M., Mckee P., Georgalas N., Yoshii H., Active Robust Resource Management in Cluster Computing Using Policies, Journal of Network and Systems Management (Special Issue on “Policy Based Management of Networks and Services”), Volume 11, Issue 3, September 2003, Pages: 329 – 350, ISSN: 1064-7570, Plenum Press, New York, USA

 

Loosemore P., Georgalas N., ANDROID - A Manageable Approach to Active Networks, Journal of The Communications Network, Volume 2, Issue 2, April-September 2003, Pages: 16-24, ISSN: 1477-4739, TCN Journal Ltd, Welling, Kent, UK

Chapters in Books:

Avouris N., Georgalas N., DVAL: An Agent-based co-operation support system in an Academic Environment, in "Advances in Informatics", edited by D.I. Fotiadis, S.D. Nikolopoulos, World Scientific Publishing, ISBN 981-02-4192-5, April 2000.

Georgalas N., The Model Of Object Primitives: Representation of Object Structures based on State Primitives and Behaviour Policies, in "Succeeding with Object Databases: A Practical Look at Today's Implementations with Java and XML", edited by Roberto Zicari and Akmal Chaudhri, John Willey and Sons Publishers, ISBN 0471383848, 2000

Georgalas N., An Information Management Environment based on the Model of Object Primitives, in "Information Modelling in the New Millenium", edited by Matti Rossi and Keng Siau, Idea Group Publishing, ISBN 1-878289-77-2, 2001

Refereed Papers in Conferences and Workshops:

 

Achilleos A., Georgalas N., Yang K., An Open Source Domain-Specific Tools Framework to Support Model Driven Development of OSS,

Proceeding of 2007 European Conference on Model Driven Architecture - Foundations and Applications (ECMDA-FA 2007), LNCS 4530, Springer – Verlag, Haifa, Israel, 11-15 June, 2007

 

Georgalas N., Ou S., Azmoodeh M., Yang K.,  Towards a Model-Driven Approach for Ontology-Based Context-Aware Application Development: A Case Study,

Proc. of 4th International IEEE Workshop on Model-based Methodologies for Pervasive and Embedded Software (MOMPES 2007), IEEE Press, Braga, Portugal, 31 March, 2007

 

Ou S., Georgalas N., Azmoodeh M., Yang K., Sun X., A Model Driven Integration Architecture for Ontology-Based Context Modelling and Context-Aware Application Development

Proceedings of Second European Conference on Model Driven Architecture - Foundations and Applications (ECMDA-FA 2006), LNCS 4066, Springer-Verlag, Bilbao, Spain, 10-13 July, 2006

 

Zach M., Parker D. Nielsen J., Fahy C., Carroll R., Lehtihet E., Georgalas N., Marin R., Serrat J., Towards a framework for network management applications based on peer-to-peer paradigms The CELTIC project Madeira
Proceedings of IEEE/IFIP Network Operations & Management Symposium (NOMS 2006), Application Session, Vancouver, Canada, 3-7 April, 2006

 

Carroll R., Lehtihet E., Fahy C., van der Meer S., Georgalas N., Cleary D., Applying the P2P paradigm to management of large-scale distributed networks using a Model Driven Approach,

Proceedings of IEEE/IFIP Network Operations & Management Symposium (NOMS 2006), Application Session, Vancouver, Canada, 3-7 April, 2006

 

Zach M., Parker D., Fallon L., Unfried C., Ponce de Leon M., van der Meer S., Georgalas N., Nielsen J., CELTIC Initiative Project Madeira: A P2P Approach to Network Management

Proceedings of the Eurescom Summit 2005 on Ubiquitous Services and Applications, Heidelberg, Germany, 27-29 April 2005

 

Georgalas N., Azmoodeh M., Ou S., Model Driven Integration of Standard Based OSS Components

Proceedings of the Eurescom Summit 2005 on Ubiquitous Services and Applications, Heidelberg, Germany, 27-29 April 2005

 

Georgalas N., Azmoodeh M., Clark T., Evans A., Sammut P., Willans J., MDA-Driven Development of standard-compliant OSS components: the OSS/J Inventory Case-Study

Proceedings of the Second European Workshop on Model Driven Architecture with emphasis on Methodologies and Transformations (EWMDA 2004), Canterbury, UK, 7-8 September 2004 (Technical Report No 17-04, Computing Laboratory, University of Kent)

 

Georgalas N., Azmoodeh M., Using MDA in Technology-independent Specifications of NGOSS Architectures

Proceedings of the First European Workshop of Model Driven Architecture with emphasis on Industrial Applications (MDA-IA 2004), Enschede, The Netherlands, 17-18 March 2004 (CTIT Technical Report TR-CTIT-04-12, University of Twente, ISSN 1381 – 3625)

 

Georgalas N., QuDAS: A QoS-based Brokering Architecture for Data Services

Proceedings of the VLDB2001 Workshop on “Databases in Telecommunications” (DBTel), LNCS 2209, Springer-Verlag, Rome, Italy, 10 September 2001

 

Georgalas N., The Model of Object Primitives

Proceedings of the EPSRC PREP2001 Conference, Keele University, UK, 9-11 April 2001

 

Georgalas N., Policy-driven Customisation of Personalised Services
Proceedings of Policy Workshop 1999, HP-Laboratories, Bristol, U.K., 15-17 November 1999

 

Avouris N., Georgalas N., DVAL: An Agent-based co-operation support system in an Academic Environment
Proceedings of the 7th Hellenic Conference on Informatics, Ioannina, Greece, 26-29 August 1999

Georgalas N., The Role of Repositories in Integrating Information Systems and Enterprise Knowledge
Proceedings of the UKAIS99 Conference of the UK Academy for Information Systems in "Information Systems: The Next Generation", McGraw Hill, York, UK, 7-9 April 1999

Georgalas N., A Framework that uses Repositories for Information Systems and Knowledge Integration
Proceedings of the ASSET99 Symposium on Application-Specific Systems and Software Engineering Technology, IEEE Computer Society, Dallas, Texas, 24-27 March 1999

Georgalas N., Can Operational Data become the driving force for Business Change?
Proceedings of the NIT98 Conference on New Information Technology, Athens, Greece, 8-10 October 1998

Georgalas N., Academic Libraries Distributed over the Web
Proceedings of the EURO-MED NET 98 Conference on the "Role of the Internet and the World Wide Web in developing the Euro-Mediterranean Information Society”, Nicosia, Cyprus, 4-7 March 1998

Georgalas N., A Framework to Integrate Business Operational Data
Research students workshop 1998, Department of Computation, UMIST, Manchester, UK, 28-29 January 1998

Georgalas N., Integration of Enterprise Knowledge with Business Operational Data to assist the Requirements Engineering process
1st RENOIR workshop, Bommerholtz, Dortmund, Germany, organised by the Univesity of Dortmund, 5-7 January, 1998

Georgalas N., Integrating Distributed Data Over Their Semantic Identity
Proceedings of the AIS97 Conference on Heterogeneous Database Interoperability and Data Warehousing, Indianapolis, Indiana US, August 15-17, 1997

Invited Talks:

Georgalas N., “What is the added value of MDA in industry?”, MDA-IA 2004 industrial panel, 18 March 2004 (presentation)

Georgalas N., “Building better OSS: a telco’s perspective”, OMG Information Day 2003 on “Integrating the Enterprise”, Stockholm, Sweden, 4 March, 2003 (abstract, presentation)

Georgalas N.,  “Do you, TELCOS, know what your data is worth? Technological and research trends in data management for telcos”, TelecomIT2000 Conference, Frankfurt, Germany, 11-12 October, 2000 (abstract, presentation)

 

Georgalas N., “Open Data Management Systems”, UNICOM seminar on “Web Information Systems and Legacy Databases", London, UK, 8 December, 1998 (presentation)

Technical Reports:

Georgalas N., Integration of Business Operational Data using a Schema Integration Technique
internal report, Information Systems Engineering Group, Department of Computation, UMIST, Manchester, UK, 1997

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