Nick Bassiliades

Nick BassiliadesDr. Nick Bassiliades is a Full Professor at the School of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), Greece. His research interests include knowledge-based and rule systems, multiagent systems, ontologies / knowledge graphs / Semantic Web, Electric Vehicles charging scheduling and eXplainable AI. He has published more than 250 papers at journals, conferences, and books, has coauthored 5 books and co-edited 11 volumes. His published research has received ~6000 citations (h-index 36), while 7 of his papers have received awards. He was the Program Chair of 11 conferences / workshops, he has been member of the Program Committee of more than 150 and on the Organizational Committee of 9 conferences / workshops. He has been involved in 42 R&D projects leading 13 of them. He has been the general secretary of the board of the Greek Artificial Intelligence Society; he is a director of RuleML, Inc., and also a member of the Greek Computer Society, the IEEE, and the ACM. He is currently serving as the president of the IT Board of AUTh.

Publications

International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Business and Management (IJAIBM)
International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Business and Management (IJAIBM)
Mikael Berndtsson, Nick Bassiliades. Est. 2024.
The International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Business and Management (IJAIBM) provides a premier platform that showcases the latest research, breakthroughs, and...
Doc2KG: Transforming Document Repositories to Knowledge Graphs
Doc2KG: Transforming Document Repositories to Knowledge Graphs
Nikolaos Stylianou, Danai Vlachava, Ioannis Konstantinidis, Nick Bassiliades, Vassilios Peristeras. © 2022. 20 pages.
Document Management Systems (DMS) are used for decades to store large amounts of information in textual form. Their technology paradigm is based on storing vast quantities of...
An Open-Ended Web Knowledge Retrieval Framework for the Household Domain With Explanation and Learning Through Argumentation
An Open-Ended Web Knowledge Retrieval Framework for the Household Domain With Explanation and Learning Through Argumentation
Alexandros Vassiliades, Nick Bassiliades, Theodore Patkos, Dimitris Vrakas. © 2022. 34 pages.
The authors present a knowledge retrieval framework for the household domain enhanced with external knowledge sources that can argue over the information that it returns and...
A Tool for Transforming Semantic Web Rule Language to SPARQL Infererecing Notation
A Tool for Transforming Semantic Web Rule Language to SPARQL Infererecing Notation
Nick Bassiliades. © 2020. 29 pages.
Semantic web rule language (SWRL) combines web ontology language (OWL) ontologies with horn logic rules of the rule markup language (RuleML) family. Being supported by ontology...
A Modal Defeasible Reasoner of Deontic Logic for the Semantic Web
A Modal Defeasible Reasoner of Deontic Logic for the Semantic Web
Efstratios Kontopoulos, Nick Bassiliades, Guido Governatori, Grigoris Antoniou. © 2013. 28 pages.
Defeasible logic is a non-monotonic formalism that deals with incomplete and conflicting information, whereas modal logic deals with the concepts of necessity and possibility....
An Ontological Business Process Modeling Approach for Public Administration: The Case of Human Resource Management
An Ontological Business Process Modeling Approach for Public Administration: The Case of Human Resource Management
Ioannis Savvas, Nick Bassiliades, Kalliopi Kravari, Georgios Meditskos. © 2012. 29 pages.
In this chapter, an electronic model of Public Administration’s operation using an ontology as a means to a formalized representation of knowledge is presented. According to the...
An Ontological Business Process Modeling Approach for Public Administration: The Case of Human Resource Management
An Ontological Business Process Modeling Approach for Public Administration: The Case of Human Resource Management
Ioannis Savvas, Nick Bassiliades, Kalliopi Kravari, Georgios Meditskos. © 2012. 29 pages.
In this chapter, an electronic model of Public Administration’s operation using an ontology as a means to a formalized representation of knowledge is presented. According to the...
International Journal of Information Retrieval Research (IJIRR)
International Journal of Information Retrieval Research (IJIRR)
Zhongyu Lu. Est. 2011.
The International Journal of Information Retrieval Research (IJIRR) publishes original, innovative, and creative research in the retrieval of information. This journal focuses on...
A Modal Defeasible Reasoner of Deontic Logic for the Semantic Web
A Modal Defeasible Reasoner of Deontic Logic for the Semantic Web
Efstratios Kontopoulos, Nick Bassiliades, Guido Governatori, Grigoris Antoniou. © 2011. 26 pages.
Defeasible logic is a non-monotonic formalism that deals with incomplete and conflicting information, whereas modal logic deals with the concepts of necessity and possibility....
Rule-Based OWL Ontology Reasoning Systems: Implementations, Strengths, and Weaknesses
Rule-Based OWL Ontology Reasoning Systems: Implementations, Strengths, and Weaknesses
Georgios Meditskos, Nick Bassiliades. © 2009. 25 pages.
This chapter is focused on the basic principles behind the utilization of rules in order to perform reasoning about the Web Ontology Language (OWL), a Description Logic-based...
Visual Development of Defeasible Logic Rules for the Semantic Web
Visual Development of Defeasible Logic Rules for the Semantic Web
Efstratios Kontopoulos, Nick Bassiliades. © 2008. 29 pages.
This chapter is concerned with the visualization of defeasible logic rules in the Semantic Web domain. Logic plays an important role in the development of the Semantic Web and...
A Defeasible Logic Reasoner for the Semantic Web
A Defeasible Logic Reasoner for the Semantic Web
Nick Bassiliades, Grigoris Antoniou, Ioannis Vlahavas. © 2006. 41 pages.
Defeasible reasoning is a rule-based approach for efficient reasoning with incomplete and inconsistent information. Such reasoning is, among others, useful for ontology...
R-DEVICE: An Object-Oriented Knowledge Base for RDF Metadata
R-DEVICE: An Object-Oriented Knowledge Base for RDF Metadata
Nick Bassiliades, Ioannis Vlahavas. © 2006. 67 pages.
In this paper we present R-DEVICE, a deductive object-oriented knowledge base system for reasoning over RDF metadata. R-DEVICE imports RDF documents into the CLIPS production...
A Knowledge-Based Web Information System for the Fusion of Distributed Classifers
A Knowledge-Based Web Information System for the Fusion of Distributed Classifers
Grigorios Tsoumakas, Nick Bassiliades, Ioannis Vlahavas. © 2004. 37 pages.
This chapter presents the design and development of WebDisC, a knowledge-based web information system for the fusion of classifiers induced at geographically distributed...
Using Logic for Querying XML Data
Using Logic for Querying XML Data
Nick Bassiliades, Ioannis Vlahavas, Dimitros Sampson. © 2003. 35 pages.
In this chapter, we propose the use of first-order logic, in the form of deductive database rules, as a query language for XML data, and we present X-Device, an extension of the...