Research
His research objectives include bridging the gap between theories and applications of data mining in critical sectors such as medicine and biology; accelerating and increasing the effectiveness of software maintenance and reducing its costs by improving quality and facilitating evolution; establishing novel ways of retrieving information from text.
His work has been published in journals including Methods of Information in Medicine, Data & Knowledge Engineering, Int’l Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, Intelligent Decision Technologies, Information Systems Frontiers, ACM SIG Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Explorations, Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, and Int'l conferences such as IEEE Int’l Conf. on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Information Technology in Biomedicine, LNCS, IEEE COMPSAC, IEEE APSEC, IEEE ICTAI, IEEE IWPC, IEEE CSMR, and IEEE ISSRE. A list of publications and citations can be found here.
Christos lead a number of research projects on software quality assurance using data mining, as well as on strategic maintenance and evolution of software. He was also involved as a principal investigator or co-investigator in a number of software and knowledge management projects. A list of research projects he has been involved with can be found here.
He is an Academic Collaborator at the Centre for Service Research. He lead the University of Manchester's involvement with the EPSRC funded Service-Oriented Software Research Network (SOSoRNet). He was a collaborator with the National Centre of Text Mining (NaCTeM). He organized the 1st SOSoRNet workshop, co-organized the Service-enabled Collaborative Enterprises- Joint event and also organized a special session at IEEE CSMR 07 and another session at CSMR 09. He was Program co-Chair for CSMR 08, guest editor for the Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice and has been PC member in over 20 international conferences..
