Prof Alex Poulovassilis

Positions held:

Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science & Information Systems

Overview
Overview

Web profiles
- Department of Computer Science and Information Systems profile
Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching

Supervision

Supervisions within Birkbeck:

4

Current doctoral researchers
- RICHARD BROWNLOW
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Principal Supervisor
  
  Title of thesis:
  Computer Science and Information Systems Research
Doctoral alumni since 2013-14
- MIRKO MICHELE DIMARTINO
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Joint Principal Supervisor, Oct 2013
  
  Title of thesis:
  Integrating and Querying Linked Data Sets Through Ontological Rules
  
  Awarded:
  2020
- RICCARDO FROSINI
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Joint Principal Supervisor
  
  Title of thesis:
  Computer Science and Information Systems Research
  
  Awarded:
  2018
- PETRA SELMER
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Joint Principal Supervisor
  
  Awarded:
  2017
Publications
Publications
Article
- Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Katerinchuk, Valeri and Candlin, Fiona (2023) Designing a system to chart the development of the UK museum sector: an iterative approach. Journal of Systems and Information Technology ISSN 1328-7265.
- Frosini, Riccardo and Poulovassilis, Alex and Wood, Peter and Calì, Andrea (2022) Optimisation techniques for flexible SPARQL queries. ACM Transactions on the Web 16 (4), pp. 1-44. ISSN 1559-1131.
- Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Larsson, Nick and Candlin, Fiona and Larkin, Jamie and Ballatore, Andrea (2020) Creating a Knowledge Base to research the history of UK Museums through Rapid Application Development. ACM Journal of Computing and Cultural Heritage 12 (4), pp. 1-27. ISSN 1556-4673.
- Candlin, Fiona and Larkin, Jamie and Ballatore, Andrea and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2020) The missing museums: accreditation, surveys, and an alternative account of the UK sector. Cultural Trends 29 (1), pp. 50-67. ISSN 0954-8963.
- Candlin, Fiona and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2020) Understanding and managing patchy data in the UK museum sector. Museum Management and Curatorship 35 (4), pp. 446-459. ISSN 0964-7775.
- Mavrikis, M. and Geraniou, E. and Gutierrez-Santos, Sergio and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2019) Intelligent analysis and data visualisation for teacher assistance tools: the case of exploratory learning. British Journal of Educational Technology 50 (6), pp. 2920-2942. ISSN 0007-1013.
- Yakovets, N. and Wang, L. and Fletcher, G.H.L. and Taverner, C. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2018) Histogram Domain Ordering for Path Selectivity Estimation. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), Vienna, March 26-29, 2018. pp. 493-496. ISSN 2367-2005.
- Frosini, R. and Calì, Andrea and Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Wood, Peter T. (2017) Flexible query processing for SPARQL. Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability 8 (4), pp. 533-563. ISSN 1570-0844.
- Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Selmer, Petra and Wood, Peter T. (2016) Approximation and relaxation of semantic web path queries. Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web 40, pp. 1-21. ISSN 1570-8268.
- Gutierrez-Santos, Sergio and Mavrikis, M. and Geraniou, E. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2016) Similarity-based grouping to support teachers on collaborative activities in exploratory learning environments. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (99), ISSN 2168-6750.
- Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Gutierrez-Santos, Sergio and Mavrikis, M. (2015) Graph-based modelling of students' interaction data from exploratory learning environments. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. CEUR Workshop Proceedings 1446, pp. 46-51. ISSN 1613-0073.
- Brownlow, Richard and Capuzzi, Stefano and Helmer, Sven and Martins, Luciana and Normann, Immanuel and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2015) An ontological approach to creating an Andean Weaving Knowledge Base. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage 8 (2), ISSN 1556-4673.
- Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Xhafa, F. and O'Hagan, T. (2015) Event-based awareness services for P2P groupware systems. Informatica 26 (1), pp. 135-157. ISSN 0868-4952.
- Selmer, Petra and Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Wood, Peter T. (2015) Implementing flexible operators for regular path queries. CEUR Workshop Proceedings 1330, pp. 149-156. ISSN 1613-0073.
- Martin, Nigel and Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Wang, J. (2014) A methodology and architecture embedding quality assessment in data integration. Journal of Data and Information Quality 4 (4), ISSN 1936-1955.
- Calì, Andrea and Frosini, R. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Wood, Peter T. (2014) Flexible querying for SPARQL. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8841, pp. 473-490. ISSN 0302-9743.
- Gutierrez-Santos, Sergio and Geraniou, E. and Pearce-Lazard, D. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2012) Design of teacher assistance tools in an exploratory learning environment for algebraic generalisation. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies 5 (4), pp. 366-376. ISSN 1939-1382.
- Noss, R. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Geraniou, E. and Gutierrez-Santos, Sergio and Hoyles, C. and Kahn, K. and Magoulas, George D. and Mavrikis, M. (2012) The design of a system to support exploratory learning of algebraic generalisation. Computers & Education 59 (1), pp. 63-81. ISSN 0360-1315.
- Gutierrez-Santos, Sergio and Geraniou, E. and Pearce-Lazard, D. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2012) Design of teacher assistance tools in an exploratory learning environment for algebraic generalization. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies 5 (4), pp. 366-376. ISSN 1939-1382.
- Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Selmer, Petra and Wood, Peter T. (2011) Flexible querying of lifelong learner metadata. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies 5 (2), pp. 117-129. ISSN 1939-1382.
- Papamarkos, G. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Wood, Peter T. (2011) Performance modelling of event-condition-action rules in P2P networks. Journal of Computer and System Sciences 77 (4), pp. 621-636. ISSN 0022-0000.
- Zamboulis, Lucas and Martin, Nigel and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2010) Query performance evaluation of an architecture for fine-grained integration of heterogeneous grid data sources. Future Generation Computer Systems 26 (8), pp. 1073-1091. ISSN 0167-739X.
- de Freitas, Sara and Rebolledo-Mendez, G. and Liarokapis, F. and Magoulas, George D. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2010) Learning as immersive experiences: using the four-dimensional framework for designing and evaluating immersive learning experiences in a virtual world. British Journal of Educational Technology 41 (1), pp. 69-85. ISSN 0007-1013.
- Naz, T. and Dorn, J. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2010) Configurable meta-search in the job domain. International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology 6 (1), pp. 33. ISSN 1476-1289.
- Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Kargas, G. and Kerkides, P. (2008) Comments on the paper "Application of the "Proportionate partitioning" method suggested by Poulovassilis and Kargas (2000) for determination of the domain distribution function" by Mualem and Beriozkin (2008). Transport in Porous Media 75 (2), pp. 223-226. ISSN 0169-3913.
- Siepen, J.A. and Belhajjame, K. and Selley, J.N. and Embury, S.M. and Paton, N.W. and Goble, C.A. and Oliver, S.G. and Stevens, R. and Zamboulis, Lucas and Martin, Nigel and Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Jones, P. and Côté, R. and Hermjakob, H. and Pentony, M.M. and Jones, D.T. and Orengo, C.A. and Hubbard, S.J. (2008) ISPIDER Central: an integrated database web-server for proteomics. Nucleic Acids Research 36 (2), pp. W485-W490. ISSN 0305-1048.
- De Freitas, Sara and Harrison, Ian and Magoulas, George and Mee, A. and Mohamad, F. and Oliver, M. and Papamarkos, G. and Poulovassilis, Alex (2006) The development of a system for supporting the lifelong learner. British Journal of Educational Technology 37 (6), pp. 867-880. ISSN 0007-1013.
- Papamarkos, G. and Poulovassilis, Alex and Wood, Peter (2006) Event-condition-action rules on RDF metadata in P2P environments. Computer Networks 50 (10), pp. 1513-1532. ISSN 1389-1286.
- Bar-Ilan, J. and Levene, Mark and Mat-Hassan, M. Levene, Mark and Poulovassilis, Alex, eds. (2004) Dynamics of search engine rankings: case study. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. CEUR Workshop Proceedings 703, pp. 3-13. ISSN 1613-0073.
- Levene, Mark and Poulovassilis, Alex (2004) Report on the 3rd web dynamics workshop, at WWW 2004. SIGMOD Record 33 (3), pp. 91-95. ISSN 0163-5808.
- Bailey, J. and Poulovassilis, Alex and Wood, Peter (2002) Analysis and optimisation of event-condition-action rules on XML. Computer Networks 39 (3), pp. 239-259. ISSN 1389-1286.
- Levene, Mark and Poulovassilis, Alex (2002) Report on the web dynamics workshop at WWW 2002. SIGMOD Record 31 (3), pp. 72-76. ISSN 0163-5808.
- Levene, Mark and Wood, P.T. Levene, Mark and Poulovassilis, Alex, eds. (2002) XML structure compression. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. CEUR Workshop Proceedings 702, pp. 56-69. ISSN 1613-0073.
- Levene, Mark and Wheeldon, R. and Bitmead, J. Levene, Mark and Poulovassilis, Alex, eds. (2001) A web site navigation engine. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. CEUR Workshop Proceedings 701, pp. 4-5. ISSN 1613-0073.
- Poulovassilis, Alex and Levene, Mark (1994) A nested-graph model for the representation and manipulation of complex objects. ACM Transactions on Information Systems 12 (1), pp. 35-68. ISSN 1046-8188.
- Levene, Mark and Poulovassilis, Alex and Benkerimi, K. and Schwartz, S. and Tuv, E. (1993) Implementation of a graph-based data model for complex objects. SIGMOD Record 22 (4), pp. 26-31. ISSN 0163-5808.
Book
- Calì, Andrea and Wood, Peter T. and Martin, Nigel and Poulovassilis, Alexandra, eds. (2017) Data Analytics: 31st British International Conference on Databases, BICOD 2017, London, UK, July 10–12, 2017, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 10365, Springer. ISSN 0302-9743. ISBN 9783319607948.
- Levene, Mark and Poulovassilis, Alex (2004) Web dynamics: adapting to change in content, size, topology and use. Springer. ISBN 354040676X.
Book Review
- Levene, Mark and Poulovassilis, Alex (2001) Web dynamics.
Book Section
- Lawton Smith, Helen and Henry, C. and Ezkowitz, H. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2020) Introduction: pipeline break. In: Lawton Smith, Helen and Henry, C. and Ezkowitz, H. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (eds.) Gender, Science and Innovation. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. pp. 1-14. ISBN 9781786438966.
- Henry, C. and Lawton Smith, Helen and Meschitti, Viviana and Foss, L. and McGowan, P. (2020) Networking, gender and academia: an ecosystems approach. In: Lawton Smith, Helen and Etzkowitz, H. and Henry, C. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (eds.) Gender, Science and Innovation. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. pp. 146-167. ISBN 9781786438966.
- Lawton Smith, Helen and Meschitti, Viviana and Le Roux, Jeanne and Panton, Mark and Baines, Ning and Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Henry, C. (2020) Gender differences in the commercialisation of research: a study in UK universities. In: Lawton Smith, Helen and Etzkowitz, H. and Henry, C. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (eds.) Gender, Science and Innovation. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. pp. 242-260. ISBN 9781786438966.
- McBrien, P. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2019) A Conceptual Modelling Approach to Visualising Linked Data. In: Panetto, H. and Debruyne, C. and Hepp, M. and Lewis, D. and Agostino Ardagna, C. and Meersman, R. (eds.) Proceedings of On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems, OTM 2018 Conferences. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer. pp. 227-245. ISBN 9783030332457.
- Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2018) Applications of flexible querying to graph data. In: Fletcher, G.H.L. and Hidders, Jan and Larriba-Pey, J.L. (eds.) Graph Data Management: Fundamental Issues and Recent Developments. Data-Centric Systems and Applications (DCSA). Springer. pp. 97-142. ISBN 9783319961927.
- McBrien, P. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2018) Towards data visualisation based on conceptual modelling. In: Trujillo, J.C. and Davis, K.C. and Du, X. and Li, Z. and Ling, T.W. and Li, G. and Lee, M.L. (eds.) Conceptual Modeling: 37th International Conference, ER 2018, Xi'an, China, October 22–25, 2018, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer. pp. 91-99. ISBN 9783030008468.
- du Boulay, B. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Holmes, W. and Mavrikis, M. (2018) Artificial intelligence and big data to close the achievement gap. In: Luckin, R. (ed.) Enhancing Learning and Teaching with Technology: What the research says. London, UK: UCL Institute of Education Press. ISBN 9781782772262.
- Al-Tawil, M. and Dimitrova, V. and Thakker, D. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2017) Evaluating knowledge anchors in data graphs against Basic Level Objects. In: Cabot, J. and de Virgilio, R. and Torlone, R. (eds.) Web Engineering: 17th International Conference, ICWE 2017, Rome, Italy, June 5-8, 2017, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Rome, Italy: Springer. ISBN 9783319601311.
- Lawton Smith, Helen and Etzkowitz, Henry and Meschitti, Viviana and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2017) Female academic entrepreneurship: Reviewing the evidence and identifying the challenges. In: Henry, C. and Nelson, T. and Lewis, K. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Global Female Entrepreneurship. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138015180.
- Grawemeyer, Beate and Karoudis, Konstantinos and Magoulas, George D. and Pinto, M. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2017) Design and evaluation of adaptive feedback to foster ICT information processing skills in young adults. In: WWW '17: Companion Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion. New York, U.S.: ACM. pp. 369-377. ISBN 9781450349147.
- Frosini, Riccardo (2017) Optimisation techniques for flexible querying in SPARQL 1.1. In: Calì, Andrea and Wood, Peter T. and Martin, Nigel and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (eds.) Data Analytics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer. pp. 106-110. ISSN 0302-9743. ISBN 9783319607948.
- Dimartino, Mirko and Calì, Andrea and Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Wood, Peter T. (2016) Query rewriting under linear EL knowledge bases. In: Ortiz, M. and Schlobach, S. (eds.) Web Reasoning and Rule Systems: 10th International Conference, RR 2016, Aberdeen, UK, September 9-11, 2016, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. New York, U.S.: Springer. pp. 61-76. ISBN 9783319452753.
- Mavrikis, M. and Gutierrez-Santos, Sergio and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2016) Design and evaluation of teacher assistance tools for exploratory learning environments. In: LAK '16 Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge. New York, U.S.: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 168-172. ISBN 9781450341905.
- Gutierrez-Santos, Sergio and Capuzzi, Stefano and Kahn, Ken and Karkalas, Sokratis and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2016) Scalable monitoring of student interaction indicators in exploratory learning environments. In: Proceedings of the 25th International Conference Companion on World Wide Web. Geneva, Switzerland: International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee. pp. 917-922. ISBN 9781450341448.
- Wells, M. and Wollenschlaeger, Alex and Lefevre, D. and Magoulas, George D. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2016) Analysing engagement in an online management programme and implications for course design. In: LAK '16 Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge. New York, U.S.: Association for Computing Machinery. ISBN 9781450341905.
- Fletcher, G.H.L. and Peters, J. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2016) Efficient regular path query evaluation using path indexes. In: Pitoura, E. and Maabout, S. and Koutrika, G. and Marian, A. and Tanca, L. and Manolescu, I. and Stefanidis, K. (eds.) 19th International Conference on Extending Database Technology Bordeaux, France, March 15–18, 2016 Proceedings. Bordeaux, France: OpenProceedings.org. pp. 636-639. ISBN 9783893180707.
- Sumrall, J.M. and Fletcher, G.H.L. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Svensson, J. and Vejlstrup, M. and Vest, C. and Webber, J. (2016) Investigations on path indexing for graph databases. In: Desprez, F. and Dutot, P.-F. and Kaklamanis, C. and Marchal, L. and Molitorisz, K. and Ricci, L. and Scarano, V. and Vega-Rodriguez, M.A. and Varbanescu, A.L. and Hunold, S. and Scott, S.L. and Lankes, S. and Weidendorfer, J. (eds.) Euro-Par 2016: Parallel Processing Workshops. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Grenoble, Switzerland: Springer. pp. 532-544. ISBN 9783319589428.
- Mavrikis, M. and Zhu, Z. and Gutierrez-Santos, Sergio and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2015) Visualisation and analysis of students’ interaction data in exploratory learning environments. In: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web. New York, U.S.: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 1419-1424. ISBN 9781450334730.
- Dimartino, M.M. and Calì, Andrea and Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Wood, Peter T. (2015) Peer-to-peer semantic integration of linked data. In: Fischer, P.M. and Alonso, G. and Arenas, M. and Geerts, F. (eds.) EDBT/ICDT 2015 Workshops. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. CEUR. pp. 213-220. ISSN 1613-0073.
- Dimartino, Mirko and Calì, Andrea and Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Wood, Peter T. (2015) Implementing peer-to-peer semantic integration of linked data. In: Maneth, S. (ed.) Data Science. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. New York, U.S.: Springer. pp. 41-45. ISSN 0302-9743. ISBN 9783319204239.
- Alasiry, Areej and Levene, Mark and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2014) Mining named entities from search engine query logs. In: Almeida, A. and Bernardino, J. and Ferreira Gomes, E. (eds.) Proceedings of the 18th International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium. IDEAS '14. Porto, Portugal: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 46-56. ISBN 9781450326278.
- Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2013) Database research challenges and opportunities of big graph data. In: Gottlob, G. and Grasso, G. and Olteanu, D. and Schallhart, C. (eds.) Big Data. Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag. pp. 29-32. ISSN 0302-9743. ISBN 9783642394676.
- Alasiry, Areej and Levene, Mark and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2012) Detecting candidate named entities in search queries. In: Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval - SIGIR '12. New York, USA: ACM Publications. pp. 1049-1050. ISBN 9781450314725.
- Alasiry, Areej and Levene, Mark and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2012) Extraction and evaluation of candidate named entities in search engine queries. In: Wang, X.S. and Cruz, I. and Delis, A. and Huang, G. (eds.) Web Information Systems Engineering - WISE 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag. pp. 483-496. ISSN 0302-9743. ISBN 9783642350634.
- Wang, J. and Martin, Nigel and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2012) An ontology-based quality framework for data integration. In: Niedrite, L. and Strazdina, R. and Wangler, B. (eds.) Workshops on Business Informatics Research. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag. pp. 196-208. ISSN 1865-1348. ISBN 9783642292309.
- Pearce-Lazard, D. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Geraniou, E. (2010) The design of teacher assistance tools in an exploratory learning environment for mathematics generalisation. In: Wolpers, M. and Kirschner, P.A. and Scheffel, M. and Lindstaedt, S. and Dimitrova, V. (eds.) Sustaining TEL: From Innovation to Learning and Practice. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag. pp. 260-275. ISSN 0302-9743. ISBN 9783642160202.
- Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Wood, Peter T. (2010) Combining approximation and relaxation in semantic web path queries. In: Patel-Schneider, P.F. and Pan, Y. and Hitzler, P. and Mika, P. and Zhang, L. and Pan, J.Z. and Horrocks, I. and Glimm, B. (eds.) The Semantic Web – ISWC 2010. Lecture Notes In Computer Science. Berlin, Germany: Springer. pp. 631-646. ISSN 0302-9743. ISBN 9783642177453.
- Xhafa, Fatos and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2010) Requirements for distributed event-based awareness in P2P groupware systems. In: International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops. Washington, USA: IEEE Computer Society. pp. 220-225. ISBN 9780769540191.
- Hurtado, C.A. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Wood, Peter T. (2009) Finding Top-k approximate answers to path queries. In: Andreasen, T. and Yager, R.R. and Bulskov, H. and Christiansen, H. and Larsen, H.L. (eds.) Flexible Query Answering Systems. Lecture Notes In Computer Science. Berlin, Germany: Springer. pp. 465-476. ISSN 0302-9743. ISBN 9783642049569.
- Hurtado, C.A. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Wood, Peter T. (2009) Ranking approximate answers to semantic web queries. In: Aroyo, L. and Traverso, P. and Ciravegna, F. and Cimiano, P. and Heath, T. and Hyvonen, E. and Mizoguchi, R. and Oren, E. and Sabou, M. and Simperl, E. (eds.) The Semantic Web: Research and Applications. Lecture Notes In Computer Science. Berlin, Germany: Springer. pp. 263-277. ISSN 0302-9743. ISBN 9783642021206.
- Labeke, N. and Magoulas, George D. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2009) Searching for “people like me” in a lifelong learning system. In: Cress, U. and Dimitrova, V. and Specht, M. (eds.) Learning in the Synergy of Multiple Disciplines. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag. pp. 106-111. ISSN 0302-9743. ISBN 9783642046360.
- Pearce, D. and Geraniou, E. and Gutierrez-Santos, Sergio and Mavrikis, M. and Cocea, Mihaela and Hoyles, C. and Kahn, K. and Magoulas, George D. and Noss, R. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Winters, N. (2009) An eco-friendly intelligent environment for exploring mathematical generalisation. In: Dimitrova, V. and Mizoguchi, R. and du Boulay, B. and Graesser, A. (eds.) Building Learning Systems that Care: From Knowledge Representation to Affective Modelling. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications: Artificial Intelligence in Education. Amsterdam, Netherlands: IOS Press. pp. 804-804. ISBN 9781607500285.
- Pearce, D. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2009) The conceptual and architectural design of a system supporting exploratory learning of mathematics generalisation. In: Cress, U. and Dimitrova, V. and Specht, M. (eds.) Learning in the Synergy of Multiple Disciplines. Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag. pp. 22-36. ISSN 0302-9743. ISBN 9783642046353.
- Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2009) Data integration architectures and methodology for the life sciences. In: Liu, L. and Özsu, M.T. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer US. pp. 585-590. ISBN 9780387355443.
- de Freitas, Sara and Rebolledo-Mendez, G. and Liarokapis, F. and Magoulas, George D. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2009) Developing an evaluation methodology for immersive learning experiences in a virtual world. In: Conference in Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications. New York, USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. pp. 43-50. ISBN 9780769535883.
- Keenoy, K. and Christophides, V. and Papamarkos, G. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Kotzinos, D. and Rigaux, P. and Spyratos, N. and Wood, Peter T. (2008) Personalisation services for self e-learning networks. In: Salerno, S. and Gaeta, M. and Ritrovato, P. and Capuano, N. and Orciuoli, F. and Miranda, S. and Pierri, A. (eds.) The Learning Grid Handbook: Concepts, Technologies and Applications: The Future of Learning. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS Press. pp. 157-172. ISBN 9781586038298.
- de Freitas, Sara and Harrison, I. and Magoulas, George D. and Papamarkos, G. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra and van Labeke, N. and Mee, A. and Oliver, M. (2008) L4All: a web-service based system for lifelong learners. In: Salerno, S. and Gaeta, M. and Ritrovato, P. and Capuano, N. and Orciuoli, F. and Miranda, S. and Pierri, A. (eds.) The Learning Grid Handbook: Concepts, Technologies and Applications: The Future of Learning. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS Press. pp. 143-155. ISBN 9781586038298.
- Hurtado, C.A. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Wood, Peter T. (2008) Query relaxation in RDF. In: Spaccapietra, Spaccapietra (ed.) Journal on Data Semantics X. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Germany: Springer. pp. 31-61. ISSN 0302-9743. ISBN 9783540776871.
- Labeke, N. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Magoulas, George D. (2008) Using similarity metrics for matching lifelong learners. In: Woolf, B. and Aimeur, E. and Nkambou, R. and Lajoie, S. (eds.) Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag. pp. 142-151. ISSN 0302-9743. ISBN 9783540691327.
- Williams, D. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2008) Combining data integration and IE techniques to support partially structured data. In: Kapetanios, E. and Sugumaran, V. and Spiliopoulou, M. (eds.) Natural Language and Information Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag. pp. 175-186. ISSN 0302-9743. ISBN 9783540698586.
- Zamboulis, Lucas and Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Roussos, George (2008) Flexible data integration and ontology-based data access to medical records. In: IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. ISBN 9781424428441.
- Zamboulis, Lucas and Martin, Nigel and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2007) Bioinformatics service reconciliation by heterogeneous schema transformation. In: Cohen Boulakia, S. and Tannen, V. (eds.) Data Integration in the Life Sciences. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Germany: Springer. pp. 89-104. ISBN 9783540732549.
- Zamboulis, Lucas and Fan, Hao and Belhajjame, Khalid and Siepen, Jennifer and Jones, Andrew and Martin, Nigel and Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Hubbard, Simon and Embury, Suzanne and Paton, Norman (2006) Data access and integration in the ISPIDER proteomics grid. In: Leser, U. and Naumann, F. and Eckman, B. (eds.) Data Integration in the Life Sciences. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Germany: Springer. pp. 3-18. ISBN 9783540365938.
- Hurtado, C.A. and Poulovassilis, Alex and Wood, Peter (2006) A relaxed approach to RDF querying. In: Cruz, I.F. and Decker, S. and Allemang, D. and Preist, C. and Schwabe, D. and Mika, P. and Uschold, M. and Aroyo, L. (eds.) ISWC 2006: The Semantic Web. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer. pp. 314-328. ISBN 9783540490296.
- Poulovassilis, Alex and Papamarkos, G. and Wood, Peter (2006) Event-condition-action rule languages for the semantic web. In: Grust, T. and Hopfner, H. and Illarramendi, A. and Jablonski, S. and Mesiti, M. and Muller, S. and Patranjan, P.-L. and Sattler, K.-U. and Spiliopoulou, M. and Wijsen, J. (eds.) EDBT 2006: current trends in database technology. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer. pp. 855-864. ISBN 9783540467908.
- Fan, Hao and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2005) Using schema transformation pathways for data lineage tracing. In: Jackson, M. and Nelson, D. and Stirk, S. (eds.) Database: Enterprise, Skills and Innovation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag. pp. 133-144. ISSN 0302-9743. ISBN 9783540269731.
- Maibaum, M. and Zamboulis, Lucas and Rimon, G. and Orengo, C.A. and Martin, Nigel and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2005) Cluster based integration of heterogeneous biological databases using the AutoMed toolkit. In: Ludascher, B. and Raschid, L. (eds.) Data Integration in the Life Sciences. Lecture Notes In Computer Science. Berlin, Germany: Springer. pp. 191-207. ISSN 0302-9743. ISBN 9783540279679.
- Bailey, J. and Papamarkos, G. and Poulovassilis, Alex and Wood, Peter (2004) An event-condition-action language for XML. In: Levene, Mark and Poulovassilis, Alex (eds.) Web Dynamics: Adapting to Change in Content, Size, Topology and Use. Springer. pp. 223-248. ISBN 9783642073779.
- Keenoy, K. and Poulovassilis, Alex and Christophides, V. and Rigaux, P. and Papamarkos, G. and Magkanaraki, A. and Stratakis, M. and Spyratos, N. and Wood, Peter (2004) Personalisation services for self e-learning networks. In: Koch, N. and Fraternali, P. and Wirsing, M. (eds.) ICWE 2004: Web Engineering. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer. pp. 215-219. ISBN 9783540225119.
- Levene, Mark and Poulovassilis, Alex (2004) Web dynamics: setting the scene. In: Levene, Mark and Poulovassilis, Alex (eds.) Web Dynamics: Adapting to Change in Content, Size, Topology and Use. Springer. pp. 1-18.
- Levene, Mark and Wheeldon, R. (2004) Navigating the world wide web. In: Levene, Mark and Poulovassilis, Alex (eds.) Web Dynamics: Adapting to Change in Content, Size, Topology and Use. Springer. pp. 117-152.
- Maibaum, M. and Rimon, G. and Orengo, C.A. and Martin, Nigel and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2004) BioMap: gene family based integration of heterogeneous biological databases using AutoMed metadata. In: Proceedings. 15th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications, 2004.. Piscataway, U.S.: IEEE Computer Society. pp. 384-388. ISBN 769521959.
- Papamarkos, G. and Poulovassilis, Alex and Wood, Peter (2004) An event-condition-action language for RDF. In: Levene, Mark and Poulovassilis, Alex (eds.) Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Web Dynamics. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. CEUR-WS.org. pp. 62-75.
- Zoumboulakis, M. and Roussos, George and Poulovassilis, Alex (2004) Active rules for sensor databases. In: Labrinidis, A. and Madden, S. (eds.) DMSN 2004: Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 98-103. ISBN 9781450377959.
- Zoumboulakis, M. and Roussos, George and Poulovassilis, Alex (2004) Active rules for wireless networks of sensors & actuators. In: Stankovic, J.A. and Arora, A. and Govindan, R. (eds.) SenSys 2004: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems. Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 263-264. ISBN 9781581138795.
- McBrien, P. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2003) Data integration by bi-directional schema transformation rules. In: Dayal, U. and Ramamritham, K. and Vijayaraman, T.M. (eds.) Proceedings 19th International Conference on Data Engineering (Cat. No.03CH37405). Piscataway, U.S.: IEEE Computer Society. pp. 227-238. ISBN 078037665X.
- Papamarkos, G. and Poulovassilis, Alex and Wood, Peter (2003) Event-condition-action rule languages for the semantic web. In: Cruz, I.F. and Kashyap, V. and Decker, S. and Eckstein, R. (eds.) SWDB 03: The first International Workshop on Semantic Web and Databases. SWDB. pp. 309-327.
- Bailey, J. and Poulovassilis, Alex and Wood, Peter (2002) An event-condition-action language for XML. In: Lassner, D. and De Roure, D. and Iyengar, A. (eds.) WWW 2002: Proceedings of the Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference. Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 486-495. ISBN 9781581134490.
- Tuv, E. and Poulovassilis, Alex and Levene, Mark (1992) A storage manager for the hypernode model. In: Gray, P.M.D. and Lucas, R.J. (eds.) Advanced Database Systems: 10th British National Conference on Databases. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer. pp. 59-77. ISBN 9783540556930.
- Levene, Mark and Poulovassilis, Alex (1990) The hypernode model and its associated query language. In: Maor, J. and Peled, A. (eds.) Next Decade in Information Technology: Proceedings of the 5th Jerusalem Conference on Information Technology. IEEE Computer Society. pp. 520-530. ISBN 818620781.
Conference Item
- Fletcher, G.H.L. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Selmer, P. and Wood, Peter T. (2019) Approximate querying for the Property Graph Language Cypher. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 2019, Los Angeles, U.S.
- Grawemeyer, Beate and Wollenschlaeger, Alex and Gutierrez-Santos, Sergio and Holmes, W. and Mavrikis, M. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2017) Using graph-based modelling to explore changes in students’ affective states during exploratory learning tasks. 3rd International Workshop on Graph-based Educational Data Mining (GEDM 2017), at EDM 2017, 2017, Wuhan, China
- Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Al-Tawil, M. and Frosini, Riccardo and Dimartino, Mirko and Dimitrova, V. (2016) Combining flexible queries and knowledge anchors to facilitate the exploration of knowledge graphs. 5th International Workshop on Intelligent Exploration of Semantic Data (IESD 2016), 2016, Co-located with the 15th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2016), Kobe, Japan
- Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Zamboulis, Lucas and Wang, J. (2008) Ontology-assisted data transformation and integration. 4th International VLDB Workshop on Ontology-based Techniques for DataBases in Information Systems and Knowledge Systems, 2008, Auckland, New Zealand
- Grawemeyer, Beate and Wollenschlaeger, Alex and Gutierrez-Santos, Sergio and Holmes, W. and Mavrikis, M. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra Using graph-based modelling to explore changes in students’ affective states during exploratory learning tasks. Educational Data Mining Conference (EDM) 2017, Wuhan, China
Editorial
- Levene, Mark and Poulovassilis, Alex (2006) Guest editorial: special issue on web dynamics. Computer Networks 50 (10), pp. 1425-1429. Elsevier. ISSN 1389-1286.
- Levene, Mark and Poulovassilis, Alex (2002) Web dynamics. Computer Networks 39 (3), pp. 221-223. Elsevier. ISSN 1389-1286.
Other
- Candlin, Fiona and Larkin, Jamie and Ballatore, Andrea and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2020) Mapping Museums 1960-2020: a report on the data. London, UK: Birkbeck, University of London.

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