Eleni Karatza   Title Emeritus Professor Email karatza at domain csd.auth.gr Address Department of Informatics Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 54124 Thessaloniki, GREECE
Studies - Research Interests - Awards - Publications - Invited Talks - Research collaborators -Alumni- Scientific Activities - Visiting Researcher - Membership of Professional Societies

Studies

Bachelor Degree in Mathematics (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki).

Ph.D. Degree in Modelling and Simulation of Parallel Processing Systems (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki).

Research Interests

Computer Systems Modelling and Simulation, Performance Evaluation of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Multiprocessor Scheduling, Cluster Computing, Mobile Computing, Scheduling in Distributed Systems, Grid Computing, Distributed Ubiquitous Computing, High performance computing, Energy-efficient scheduling in large distributed systems and the grid, Cloud computing.
 

Best paper Awards

• The Best Paper Award at The Sixth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2021), December 6-9, 2021.
  G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza,
  "Scheduling Real-Time IoT Workflows in a Fog Computing Environment Utilizing Cloud Resources with Data-Aware Elasticity".
• The Best Paper Award of the 2021 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS'21), July 19-20, 2021.
  G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza,
  "Orchestrating bag-of-tasks applications with dynamically spawned tasks in a distributed environment".
• The Best Paper Award (Computer Systems Category) of the 2018 International Conference on Computer, Information and Telecommunication Systems (CITS 2018), Colmar, France, 11-13 July 2018.
  G. L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza,
  "Task Group Scheduling in Distributed Systems".
• The Best Paper Award (Computers Category) of the 2012 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, SPECTS 2012, Genoa, Italy, July 8-11, 2012.
  K. Karaoglanoglou, and H. Karatza,
  "Directing Requests and Acquiring Knowledge in a Large-Scale Grid System".
• The Best Student Paper Award (local) of the 16th IEEE International Symposium on Computer Communications, June 28-July 1, 2011, Corfu, Greece.
  I. Moschakis and H.D. Karatza
  "Performance and Cost evaluation of Gang Scheduling in a Cloud Computing System with Job Migrations and Starvation Handling".
• The Best Paper Award of the 10th International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS 2007), San Diego, California, 2007.
  Helen Karatza
  "Performance of Gang Scheduling Policies in the Presence of Critical Sporadic Jobs in Distributed Systems".
• The Best Paper Award of 39th Annual Simulation Symposium (ANSS 2006), Huntsville, Alabama, 2006.
  Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis and Helen D. Karatza
  "Swarm-based Active Tunable Routing for Overhead Reduction in Multiservice networks".

Other Awards - Recognition

• Included in world's top-scientists in "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators" 2023.
  Source:
  https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/6
  
• A recipient of Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) Elsevier 2023 Outstanding Editors Award.
• A recipient of Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) Elsevier annual (2021) Outstanding Editors Award.
• Included in world's top-scientists in "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators" 2021.
  Source:
  https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/3
  
• Included in world's top-scientists in "Data for updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators" 2020.
  Source:
  Dataset: http://dx.doi.org/10.17632/btchxktzyw.2
  Article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918
  
• Editor of the Year (2017) for the Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier.
• Distinguished Service Award in Recognition of Significant Contributions to and Distinguished Service in Support of the Society Resulting in the Growth, Prestige and Success of SCS Journals and the Overall Organization (Helen Karatza, Former Editor-in-Chief for SCS Journals), 2009.
• Award for leadership and contributions for the success of the 2008 Spring Simulation Multiconference, April 14-17, Ottawa, Canada, The Society for Modeling and Simulation International.

Publications

Invited Talks

Research collaborators

• Stavrinides Georgios, BSc, MSc, PhD, Research collaborator.

• Papazachos Zafeirios, BSc, Msc, PhD, Research collaborator.

• Dimitrios Tychalas, BSc, MSc, PhD, Research collaborator.

• Ilias Mavridis, BSc, MSc, PhD, Research collaborator.

Research topics:

• Modeling and Simulation of Parallel and Distributed Systems
• Performance Modelling/Evaluation - Queueing Network Models
• Load-Balancing and Load-Sharing
• Distributed Real-Time Systems
• Fault-Tolerant Parallel and Distributed Systems
• Scheduling in Parallel and Distributed Systems
• Coscheduling of Applications on Multiple Processors
• Scheduling in Distributed Shared-Memory Systems
• Scheduling of Parallel Applications within Distributed Systems (e.g. Clusters)
• Scheduling Methods for Networks of Workstations
• Scheduling of Heterogeneous Processors
• Peer-to-Peer Systems
• Grid/Cluster Computing
• Scheduling algorithms for Grid systems
• High performance computing
• Energy-efficient scheduling in large distributed systems and the grid
• Resource discovery in Grids
• Resource allocation strategies in Grid systems
• Distributed Ubiquitous Computing

Alumni Students