Research Interests
- Incentive Mechanisms Design, Social Networks, Trust Modeling, Multiagent Systems, Game Theory, Challenges that arise in electronic communities in which the offered services are provided by the users (these communities include e-commerce, peer to peer networks, recommendation systems etc).
Conferences
- G. Kastidou, K. Larson and R. Cohen, "Exchanging Reputation Information Between Communities: A Payment-Function Approach", In the Proc. of the 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2009), pp 195-200, July 2009.
- G. Kastidou, and R. Cohen , R.; "An Approach for Delivering Personalized Ads in Interactive TV Customized to Both Users and Advertisers", EuroiTV Conference; May 2006. (Course Project) (Invited for a book chapter)
Workshops
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G. Kastidou, R. Cohen and K. Larson, Graph-Based Approach for Promoting Honesty in Community-Based Multiagent Systems, Eighth International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems (COIN 2009)
- G. Kastidou and R. Cohen, "Trust-oriented Utility-based Community Structure in Multi-agent Systems", Workshop on Economic Models for Distributed Systems held in conjunction with the SIGAPP Mardigras Conference, Louisiana, USA, January 2008. (Invited for a book chapter )
- G. Kastidou , E. Pitoura, and G. Samaras, "A Scalable Hash-Based Mobile Agent Location Management Mechanism", In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Mobile Distributed Computing (MDC'03), held in conjunction with the 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'03), pp. 472-478, 2003, May 2003. (Bachelor Thesis)
Book Chapters:
- G. Kastidou and R. Cohen, “Trust-oriented Utility-based Community Structure in Multiagent Systems book chapter in Economic Models and Algorithms for Distributed Systems; D. Neumann, M. Baker, J. Altmann and O. Rama, eds; Nielsen Books; accepted 2009, to appear 2010; (Also appeared in EDMS2008)
- G. Kastidou, and R. Cohen, “An Approach for Delivering Personalized Advertisements in Interactive TV Customized to Both Users and Advertisers”, book chapter in Interactive Digital Television: Technologies and Applications, IDEA Group, April 2007. (Also appreared in EuroiTV2006 )
- E. Pitoura, G. Samaras, and G. Kastidou, "Locating Mobile objects", Mobile Computing Handbook M. Ilyas and I. Mahgoub (Editors), CRC Press, 2004.
Posters:
- G. Kastidou , and R. Cohen, "Improving the Performance of Electronic Communities by Sharing Reputastion Ratings of Users", Grace Hopper Conference, Keystone, CO, USA, October 2008 .
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