Research Interests

My research interests include Complex Social Networking Analysis, Social Networking Data Mining & Analysis, Semantically Enriched Social Network Modeling & Analysis, Collective Intelligence, and Enterprise Microblogging.

I am currently working on a complex social networking analysis under the scope of enterprise collaboration environments. I am actively investigating the synergy between the underlying network graph and published content under a complex semantics umbrella. My current efforts focus on a higher resolution representation that will enable semantically enriched description of social network users, their interests and their relationships to other users. Such multifaceted representation will enable the definition of complex query operators which will enhance current social networking functionality, while at the same time solving scalability and real-time performance issues.

My Diploma thesis, was motivated by Wikipedia, the wikis largest and most famous example. It started as an attempt to enumerate Wikipedia's flaws that derive from its centralized architecture. The final outcome, a distributed wiki, provides a distributed functionality where many different users cooperate in order to maintain/sustain stored information. This application could be the base for an infrastructure that would boost the creation of numerous applications for social networks, based on which users would not only read and update web pages but would also contribute computer and communication resources in order to maintain a social network collaboratively.