Honors and Awards

2024

  • Most Downloaded Paper of the Knowledge Engineering Review Journal for 2023, for the paper “Argumentation and Explainable Artificial Intelligence: a Survey”, with Alexandros Vassiliades and Nick Bassiliades (1st in the top ten list).

2022

  • Best Paper Award with Elisjana Ymeralli, Giorgos Flouris, Vasilis Efthymiou, Katerina Papantoniou, Georgios Petasis, Nikiforos Pittaras, Giannis Roussakis, Elias Tzortzakakis, at the 16th International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing (SEMAPRO 2022), for the paper “Representing Online Debates in the Context of E-Journalism”.

2021

  • Best Paper Award, with Alexandros Vassiliades, Giorgos Flouris, Antonis Bikakis, Nick Bassiliades and Dimitris Plexousakis, at the 4th International Conference on Logic and Argumentation (CLAR 2021) for the paper "A Multi Attack Argumentation Framework".
  • Best Paper Award, with Ioannis Chrysakis, Giorgos Flouris, Maria Makridaki, Yannis Roussakis, Georgios Samaritakis, Nikoleta Tsabanaki, Elias Tzortzakakis, Elisjana Ymeralli, Tom Seymoens, Anastasia Dimou and Ruben Verborgh at the 35th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2021), for the paper “A Rewarding Framework for Crowdsourcing to Increase Privacy Awareness”.

2018

  • Best Poster & Demo Award, with Vangelis Kritsotakis, Yannis Roussakis and Maria Theodoridou, at the 14th SEMANTiCS 2018 European conference on Semantic Technologies and AI, for the contribution “Assistive Query Building for Semantic Data”.

2012

  • Best Paper Award, with Abdelghani Chibani, Dimitris Plexousakis and Yacine Amirat) at the 6th International Symposium on Rules (RuleML'12), for the paper “A Production Rule-based Framework for Causal and Epistemic Reasoning”, which was invited for presentation in the Subarea Spotlight Track of the 26th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’12).

2009-2010

  • “Manasaki” Fellowship, by the University of Crete, for excellence in doctoral studies. 2008.

2008

  • Best Student Paper Award, with Dimitris Plexousakis at the 5th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence, SETN'08, for the paper “A Theory of Action, Knowledge and Time in the Event Calculus”.

2004-2010

  • Student/Researcher Scholarship by the Institute of Computer Science, FORTH.