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Dimitrios Kourtesis holds a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science and an MSc (Distinction) in Software Engineering and Telecommunications from the University of Sheffield, and a PhD in Computer Science. Before joining SEERC as a research associate in 2006, he wad working in the electronic media industry for a period of six years.
His current research activities are related to the interface between Service Oriented Computing, Cloud Computing, and Semantic Web technologies. His primary expertise is in the areas of Semantic Web technologies for Web service description and discovery, formal methods for model-based service testing and monitoring, governance and quality assurance in cloud application platforms, and ontology-driven information systems. He has been involved in a number of research projects pertaining to these areas (e.g. RELATE, S-Cube, CAST, OrganiK, FUSION, and MusicURI), and has published and served as reviewer in related conferences and journals.
He is a registered Chartered Engineer (Engineering Council UK), a registered European Engineer (FEANI), and a member of the British Computer Society (BCS), the Greek Computer Society (ΕΠΥ Macedonia-Thrace Chapter), the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Supervisors: Dr Anthony Simons and Dr Iraklis Paraskakis
PhD Research
- PhD Topic: Policy-based governance in open service delivery networks
- Supervisors: Dr Iraklis Paraskakis
Participation in
Research Projects
- RELATE-ITN - Trans-European Research Training Network on Engineering and Provisioning of Service Based Cloud Applications
- CAST - Enabling Customisation of SaaS Applications by Third Parties
- OrganiK - An Organic Knowledge Management System for Small European Knowledge-intensive Companies
- S-Cube - Software Services and Systems Network (Associate Partner)
- FUSION - Business Process FUSION based on Semantically-enabled Service-Oriented Business Applications
