Research
His research objectives include bridging the gap between theories and applications of data mining in critical industrial sectors such as banking, medicine and biology; accelerating and increasing the effectiveness of software maintenance and reducing its costs by improving quality, and facilitating program comprehension and evolution; establishing novel ways of retrieving information from text in order to improve classification.
His work has been published in Methods of Information in Medicine, Elsevier's Data & Knowledge Engineering, Int’l Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, Blackwell's Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, ACM SIGKDD Explorations, LNCS, IEEE IWPC, IEEE CSMR, IEEE COMPSAC, IEEE ISSRE, and IEEE APSEC. A list of recent publications and citations can be found here.
Christos is principal investigator or co-investigator in a number of research and development projects. A list of research projects he has been involved with can be found here.
He is a member of the Pennine Group, which advocates the "Software as a Service" (SaaS) strategic research initiative, aiming at developing technologies and methods for the rapid production and evolution of software systems and investigating the role of interdisciplinarity in software engineering. Currently, he is leading the University of Manchester's involvement with the EPSRC funded Service-Oriented Software Research Network (SOSoRNet). He was also a collaborator with the National Centre of Text Mining (NaCTeM). He organized the 1st SOSoRNet workshop, co-organized the Service-enabled Collaborative Enterprises- Joint event and also organized a special session at IEEE CSMR 07. He is Program co-Chair for IEEE CSMR 08.
