Assoc.Prof.Dr. Dimitrios Karras

Office A-036
Email dkarras@epoka.edu.al
Office Phone -
Other Phones Work - 0699710885

Primary Appointment
Professor - Computer Engineering

Honors and Awards

• Invited Project evaluator / panelist for international Research and Development Projects of Informatics and Telecommunicatons, including evaluation of Centers of Excellence (contracts with PriceWaterhouseCoopers Chile, authorized by INNOVA CHILE CORFO, for the installation at Chile of International Centres of Excellence in Informatics/Telecommunications/Biotechnology/Natural Recources Management), 17/02/2011 & 15-16/06/2011, Santiago, Chile

• BEST RESEARCH PAPER AWARD, at the 9th Industrial Conference on Data Mining ICDM´2009 July 20 - 22, 2009, Leipzig, Germany for the paper "On Cellular Network Channels Data Mining and Decision Making through Ant Colony Optimization and Multi Agent Systems Strategies", P.M. Papazoglou, D.A. Karras, R.C. Papademetriou

• BEST RESEARCH PAPER AWARD, at the 2nd KES International Symposium on Agent and Multiagent Systems: Technologies and Applications, 27-28 March 2008, Incheon, Korea for the paper “On the Multi-threading Approach of Efficient Multi-Agent Methodology for Modelllng Cellular Communications Bandwidth Management”, by P.M. Papazoglou, D.A. Karras, R.C. Papademetriou

• Keynote Speaker and General Chair, at the IEEE International Conference ICMIC 2018, 3rd International Conference on Measurement, Information and Control (ICMIC 2018), August 24-26, 2018, Northeast Forestry University, technical co-sponsored by IEEE Harbin Section, held in Harbin , CHINA, , http://www.icmic2018.org/ICMIC2018/ShowClass.asp?ClassID=90 talk title “Dealing with Uncertainty in Complex Control Engineering and Intelligent Systems Computations: On the prospects of Interval Analysis in the Design of Complex Intelligent Control Systems.”

• Plenary Speaker, at the 18th International Conference on SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, PARALLEL and DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS (SEPADS '18), http://www.wseas.org/cms.action?id=16530, Cambridge, UK, February 16-18, 2018, talk title “The Intelligent Systems Approach in Addressing Cyber Security and Privacy Challenges of Uncertainty”

• Plenary Speaker, at the IARAS conference, International Conference on Computer Science & Communications, https://www.iaras.org/iaras/conferences/Athens, Greece, December 28-30, 2017, talk title “An Intelligent Systems Approach of Business Process Modelling towards a framework for integrating Analytical Management Techniques with BPM”

• Plenary Speaker, at the 13th International Conference onCOMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE, MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS and CYBERNETICS (CIMMACS '17), http://www.wseas.org/cms.action?id=15542, Rome, Italy, December 15-17, 2017, talk title “On Applying Efficient Deep Learning Methods in Control And Mobile Robotics”

• Tutorial Speaker, at the International Workshop NG2CT’2017 (Next Generation Computing and Communication Technologies), https://www.facebook.com/groups/1917593545121301/permalink/1921028628111126/Sousse, Tunisia, from 25 to 27 August 2017, talk title “Dealing with Uncertainty in Knowledge Engineering and Intelligent Systems Computations and the prospects of Interval Analysis”

• Plenary Speaker, at the 17th International Conference on SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY and ARTIFICIAL VISION (ISCGAV '17), http://www.wseas.org/cms.action?id=15176,Corfu Island, Greece, August 24-26,2017, talk title “New Algorithms for Computer Vision Improved Applications Based on Deep Learning Machines”

• Plenary Speaker, at the INASE conference, MEROSTA 2017 (The 2017 International Conference on Mechatronics and Robotics, Structural Analysis), http://www.inase.org/conferences/2017/crete/merosta.htmHeraklion, Crete, Greece, July 14-17, 2017, talk title “A Comprehensive Overview of Advances in Deep Learning Methods, Applications and Trends”

• Plenary Speaker, at the INASE conference, ETE 2017 (The 2017 International ConferenceonEducational Technologies and Education), http://www.inase.org/conferences/2017/athens/ete.htm Athens, Greece, April 9-11, 2017, talk title “Dealing with Uncertainty in Knowledge Representation”

• Plenary Speaker, at the 12th International Conference on APPLIED ELECTROMAGNETICS, WIRELESS and OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS (ELECTROSCIENCE '17), http://wseas.org/cms.action?id=14360, Berlin, Germany, March 31-April 2, 2017, talk title “Recent Advances in Multi-Agent Simulation Systems for Scalable Wireless Sensor Networks ”

• Plenary Speaker, at the IEEE International Conference DevIC 2017, Kalyani Govt. Engg. Colleg., India, on 23-24 March, 2017, IEEE Kalyani Government Engineering College, http://sites.ieee.org/sb-kgec/devic-2017/plenary-speakers/ , http://sites.ieee.org/sb-kgec/devic-2017/devic-2017-photos/ talk title “Recent Advances in Simulation Tools for Wireless Sensor Networks towards Designing Scalable and Energy Efficient Systems and Algorithms for Addressing Real World Applications based on Low Cost Distributed Hardware Implementations: A Layered Approach”

• Plenary Speaker, at the IEEE International Conference ICCSNT 2016, 5th International Conference on Computer Science and Network Technology, December 10-11, 2016, Changchun Normal University, Changchun, CHINA, , http://www.iccsnt.org/ICCSNT2016/ShowArticle.asp?ArticleID=393 talk title “On Load Balancing Strategies and Algorithms in the Integral Design of Survivability-supported Traffic Engineering in Multi-service QoS Networks”

• Plenary Speaker, at the International Conference AMCSE 2016: International Conference Applied Mathematics, Computational Science and Systems Engineering, Rome, Italy, November 5-7, 2016, talk title “Network Load Balancing Algorithms: An Overview and New Algorithms with Emphasis on Realistic NS3 Modelling of DICOM Medical Imaging Load Distribution in EHR Health Care Management”

• Plenary Speaker, at the 17th International Conference on NEURAL NETWORKS (NN '16), http://www.wseas.org/wseas/cms.action?id=13473, Rome, Italy, October 21-23, 2016, talk title “Interval Analysis Strategies and Applications in Multilayer Neural Computing”

• Plenary Speaker, at the INASE conference, MEROSTA 2016 (The 2016 International Conference on Mechatronics and Robotics, Structural Analysis), http://www.inase.org/conferences/2016/corfu/merostaplenary1.htm, Corfu, Greece, July 14-16, 2016, talk title “On Evolutionary Optimization Strategies in Efficient Traffic Engineering Design For Improving QoS in MultiService Networks”

• Plenary Speaker, at the 16th International Conference on NEURAL NETWORKS (NN '15), http://www.wseas.org/cms.action?id=10054, Rome, Italy, November 7-9, 2015, talk title “On Efficient New Schemes for Optimal Integration of Pattern Classifiers Based on Similarity Analysis of Robust Hierarchical Features”

• Plenary Speaker, at the World Congress DSA 2013, The Frontiers in Intelligent Data and Signal Analysis, Invited Talk World Congress DSA 2013, “Combining Pattern Classification Systems through Similarity Analysis of stable hierarchical Features”, New York, USA, July 13-25, 2013, http://www.worldcongressdsa.de/invited_talk_karras2013.html

• Plenary Speaker, at the 2th NAUN Int. Conf. on Circuits, Systems, Communications, Computers and Applications (CSCCA '13), http://naun.org/cms.action?id=4316, Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 25-27, 2013, talk title “Recent Advances in Technologies, Protocols, Implementation and Simulation Tools of Sensor Networks towards Designing Scalable and Energy Efficient Architectures and Algorithms for Addressing Coverage, Localization and Information Fusion in Real World Applications Based on Low Cost Distributed Hardware Implementations and Open Source Simulators: A Layered Approach”, http://www.wseas.us/e-library/conferences/2013/Dubrovnik/TELECIRC/TELECIRC-00.pdf

• Plenary Speaker, at the 1st NAUN International Conference on Optimization Techniques in Engineering (OTENG '13), http://naun.org/cms.action?id=5620, Antalya, Turkey, October 8-10, 2013, talk title “On New Visualization Tools, Data Mining Methods and Mathematical Techniques in the Analysis of the Weight Space of Neural Networks Solving Complex Real World Tasks for Pattern Recognition, Control and Function Approximation”, http://www.wseas.us/e-library/conferences/2013/Antalya/OTEMA/OTEMA-00.pdf

Research Interests

intelligent systems

machine learning

intelligent distributed and multiagent systems

pattern recognition

communications and cybersecurity

image/signal processing and systems

biomedical systems