Welcome

Panagiotis (Panos) Bouros I am an assistant professor at the Institute of Computer Science of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in Germany. I am also the founder and the head of JGU's Data Management research group. My research interests are in data management and query processing with a special focus on non-traditional data types such as spatial and temporal data, text and graphs, and on modern parallel hardware. Prior to my position at JGU, I was with the Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University (AU) working with Prof. Ira Assent (2015-2017), the Department of Computer Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HUB) working with Prof. Dr. Ulf Leser (2013-2015), the Department of Computer Science, University of Hong Kong (HKU) working with Prof. Nikos Mamoulis (2011-2013) and the Department Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens (UoA) working with Prof. Afrodite Tsalgatidou (2005). I received my Doctorate degree on Computer Science (Data Management) in 2011 from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece. My thesis titled "Evaluating Queries over Route Collections", was supervised by Prof. Timos Sellis and Prof. Yannis Vassiliou. I received my Diploma degree on Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2003 also from NTUA. My diploma thesis titled "Query Language for Hierarchical Structures" (in greek), was supervised by Prof. Timos Sellis. My CV (April 25, 2025) is available here.

Publications

Journal Articles

1. Panagiotis Bouros, George Christodoulou, Christian Rauch, Artur Titkov, Nikos Mamoulis, Querying Interval Data on Steroids, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE)
2. Panagiotis Bouros and Nikos Mamoulis, Relevance queries for interval data, to appear in the Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data (PACMMOD), Vol 3, No 3, June 2025
   To be presented at the 2025 ACM International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD'25), Berlin, Germany, June 22-27, 2025
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3. Achilleas Michalopoulos, Dimitrios Tsitsigkos, Panagiotis Bouros, Nikos Mamoulis and Manolis Terrovitis, Efficient Distance Queries on Non-point Data, ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems (ACM TSAS), Vol 11, No 1, March 2025
4. Dimitrios Tsitsigkos, Panagiotis Bouros, Konstantinos Lampropoulos, Nikos Mamoulis and Manolis Terrovitis, Two-layer Space-oriented Partitioning for Non-point Data, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE), Vol 36, No 3, March 2024
5. George Christodoulou, Panagiotis Bouros and Nikos Mamoulis, LIT: Lightning-fast In-memory Temporal Indexing, Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data (PACMMOD), Vol 2 No 1, February 2024
   Presented at the 2024 ACM International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD'24), Santiago, Chile, June 9-15, 2024
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6. George Christodoulou, Panagiotis Bouros and Nikos Mamoulis, HINT: A Hierarchical Interval Index for Allen Relationships, International Journal on Very Large Data Bases (VLDBJ), Vol 33, No 1, January 2024
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7. Zhifeng Bao, Panagiotis Bouros, Reynold Cheng, Byron Choi, Anton Dignös, Wei Ding,Yixiang Fang, Boyang Han, Jilin Hu, Arijit Khan, Wenqing Lin, Xuemin Lin, Cheng Long, Nikos Mamoulis, Jian Pei, Matthias Renz, Shashi Shekhar, Jieming Shi, Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou, Sibo Wang, Xiao Wang, Xue Wang, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong, Da Yan, Xifeng Yan, Bin Yang, Dezhong Yao,Ce Zhang, Peilin Zhao, Rong Zhu, A Summary of ICDE 2022 Research Session Panels, Bulletin of the Technical Community on Data Engineering (IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin), Vol 47 No 4, December 2023
8. Panagiotis Bouros, Nikos Mamoulis, Dimitrios Tsitsigkos and Manolis Terrovitis, In-Memory Interval Joins, International Journal on Very Large Data Bases (VLDBJ), Vol 30, No 4, July 2021
9. Theodoros Chondrogiannis, Panagiotis Bouros, Johann Gamper, Ulf Leser and David B. Blumenthal, Finding k-Shortest Paths with Limited Overlap, International Journal on Very Large Data Bases (VLDBJ), Vol 29, No 5, September 2020
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10. Shuyao Qi, Panagiotis Bouros and Nikos Mamoulis, Top-k Spatial Distance Joins, International Journal on Advances of Computer Science for Geographic Information Systems (GeoInformatica), Vol 24, No 3, July 2020
11. Konstantinos Theocharidis, John Liagouris, Nikos Mamoulis, Panagiotis Bouros, Manolis Terrovitis, SRX: Efficient Management of Spatial RDF Data, International Journal on Very Large Data Bases (VLDBJ), Vol 28, No 5, October 2019
12. Panagiotis Bouros and Nikos Mamoulis, Spatial Joins: What's next?, SIGSPATIAL Special, Vol 11, No 1, March 2019
13. Fabian Fier, Nikolaus Augsten, Panagiotis Bouros, Ulf Leser and Johann-Christoph Freytag, Set Similarity Joins on MapReduce: An Experimental Survey, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), Vol 11, No 10, 2018
    Presented at the 44th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'18), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 27-31, 2018
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14. Shuyao Qi, Dimitris Sacharidis, Panagiotis Bouros and Nikos Mamoulis, Snapshot and Continuous Points-based Trajectory Search, International Journal on Advances of Computer Science for Geographic Information Systems (GeoInformatica), Vol 21, No 4, October 2017
    
15. Panagiotis Bouros and Nikos Mamoulis, A Forward Scan based Plane Sweep Algorithm for Parallel Interval Joins, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), Vol 10, No 11, July 2017
    Presented at the 43rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'17), Munich, Germany, August 28 - September 1, 2017
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16. Panagiotis Bouros, Nikos Mamoulis, Shen Ge and Manolis Terrovitis, Set Containment Join Revisited, International Journal on Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), Vol 49, No 1, October, 2016
    
17. Willi Mann, Nikolaus Augsten and Panagiotis Bouros, An Empirical Evaluation of Set Similarity Join Techniques, Proceedings of VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), Vol 9, No 9, May 2016
    Presented at the 42nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'16), New Delhi, India, September 5-9, 2016
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18. John Liagouris, Nikos Mamoulis, Panagiotis Bouros and Manolis Terrovitis, An Effective Encoding Scheme for Spatial RDF Data, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), Vol 7, No 12, August 2014
    Presented at the 40th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'14), Hangzhou, China, September 1-5, 2014
    [slides] [long version]
19. Panagiotis Bouros, Shen Ge and Nikos Mamoulis, Spatio-Textual Similarity Joins, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), Vol 6, No 1, November 2012
    Presented at the 39th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'13), Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy, August 26-30, 2013
    [slides]
20. Panagiotis Bouros, Dimitris Sacharidis, Theodore Dalamagas, Spiros Skiadopoulos and Timos Sellis, Evaluating Path Queries over Frequently Updated Route Collections, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE), Vol 24, No 7, July 2012
    [long version]

Refereed proceedings

1. Panagiotis Bouros, Theodoros Chondrogiannis and Daniel Kowalski, Fast Geosocial Reachability Queries, Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT'25), Barcelona, Spain, March 25-28, 2025
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2. Panagiotis Bouros, Artur Titkov, George Christodoulou, Christian Rauch and Nikos Mamoulis, HINT on Steroids: Batch Query Processing for Interval Data, Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT'24), Paestum, Italy, March 25-29, 2024
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3. Arjanit Arifi, Panagiotis Bouros and Theodoros Chondrogiannis, A Study on ETA Prediction using Machine Learning and Recovered Routes, Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Big Mobility Data Analytics (BMDA) in conjunction with the 29th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT'24), Paestum, Italy, March 25, 2024
   [slides] [video]
4. Achilleas Michaolopoulos, Dimitrios Tsitsigkos, Panagiotis Bouros, Nikos Mamoulis and Manolis Terrovitis, Efficient Nearest Neighbor Queries on Non-point Data, Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL'23), Hamburg, Germany, November 13-16, 2023
   [slides] [poster]
5. Abed Al Rahman Sansour, Panagiotis Bouros and Theodoros Chondrogiannis, Towards Generating Realistic Geosocial Networks, Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location-Based Recommendations, Geosocial Networks, and Geoadvertising (LocalRec) in conjunction with the 31st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL'23), Hamburg, Germany, November 13, 2023
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6. Theodoros Chondrogiannis, Johann Bornholdt, Panagiotis Bouros and Michael Grossniklaus, History Oblivious Route Recovery on Road Networks, Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL'22), Seattle, WA, USA, November 1-4, 2022
   [slides] [video]
7. Claudia Perez Martinez, Panagiotis Bouros and Theodoros Chondrogiannis, RODGEN: An Interactive Interface for Road Network Generation, Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL'22), Seattle, WA, USA, November 1-4, 2022
   [demo] [video]
8. George Christodoulou, Panagiotis Bouros and Nikos Mamoulis, HINT: A Hierarchical Index for Intervals in Main Memory, Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD'22), Philadelphia, PA, USA, June 12-17, 2022
   [video] [source code]
9. Artur Titkov and Panagiotis Bouros, Spatially Combined Keyword Searches, Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT'22), Edinburgh, UK, March 29 - April 1, 2022
   [slides] [video]
10. Christian Häcker, Panagiotis Bouros, Theodoros Chondrogiannis and Ernst Althaus, Most Diverse Near-Shortest Paths, Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL'21), Beijing, China, November 2-5, 2021
    [slides] [video]
11. Theodoros Chondrogiannis, Panagiotis Bouros and Winfried Emser, Simulation-based Evacuation Planning for Urban Areas, Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL'21), Beijing, China, November 2-5, 2021
    [video] [demo] [source code]
12. Dimitrios Tsitsigkos, Konstantinos Lampropoulos, Panagiotis Bouros, Nikos Mamoulis and Manolis Terrovitis, A Two-layer Partitioning for Non-point Spatial Data, Proceedings of the 37th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (IEEE ICDE'21), Chania, Greece, April 19-22, 2021
    [slides] [video]
13. Shuyao Qi, Panagiotis Bouros and Nikos Mamoulis, Top-k String Similarity Joins, Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM'20), Vienna, Austria, July 7-9, 2020
    [video]
14. Panagiotis Bouros, Konstantinos Lampropoulos, Dimitrios Tsitsigkos, Nikos Mamoulis and Manolis Terrovitis, Band Joins for Interval Data, Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT'20), Copenhagen, Denmark, March 30 - April 2, 2020
    [slides] [video]
15. Camila F. Costa, Theodoros Chondrogiannis, Mario A. Nascimento and Panagiotis Bouros, RAMMEN: An Interactive Tool for Evaluating Choices and Changes in Transportation Networks, Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT'20), Copenhagen, Denmark, March 30 - April 2, 2020
    [video] [demo] [source code]
16. Dimitrios Tsitsigkos, Panagiotis Bouros, Nikos Mamoulis and Manolis Terrovitis, Parallel In-Memory Evaluation of Spatial Joins, Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL'19), Chicago, Illinois, USA, November 5-8, 2019
    [slides] [poster] [long version]
17. Theodoros Chondrogiannis, Mario A. Nascimento and Panagiotis Bouros, Relative Reachability Analysis as a Tool for Urban Mobility Planning: Position Paper, Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science (IWCTS) in conjunction with the 27th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL'19), Chicago, Illinois, USA, November 5, 2019
18. Panagiotis Bouros, Ira Assent, Jacob Høxbroe Jeppesen and Thomas Skjødeberg Toftegaard, Processing Satellite Imagery for Decision-Making in Precision Agriculture, Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Big Data Visual Exploration and Analytics (BigVis) in conjunction with the 22nd International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT'19), Lisbon, Portugal, March 26, 2019
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19. Theodoros Chondrogiannis, Panagiotis Bouros, Johann Gamper, Ulf Leser and David B. Blumenthal, Finding k-Dissimilar Paths with Minimum Collective Length, Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL'18), Seattle, Washington, USA, November 6-9, 2018
    [slides] [poster] [long version]
20. Panagiotis Bouros and Nikos Mamoulis, Interval Count Semi-Joins, Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT'18), Vienna, Austria, March 26-29, 2018
    [poster]
21. Dimitris Sacharidis, Panagiotis Bouros and Theodoros Chondrogiannis, Finding The Most Preferred Path, Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL'17), Redondo Beach, California, USA, November 7-10, 2017
    [slides]
22. Theodoros Chondrogiannis, Panagiotis Bouros, Johann Gamper and Ulf Leser, Exact and Approximate Algorithms for Finding k-Shortest Paths with Limited Overlap, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT'17), Venice, Italy, March 21-24, 2017
    [slides] [source code]
23. Anja Kunkel, Astrid Rheinländer, Christopher Schiefer, Sven Helmer, Panagiotis Bouros and Ulf Leser, PIEJoin: Towards Parallel Set Containment Joins, Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM'16), Budapest, Hungary, July 18-20, 2016
24. Theodoros Chondrogiannis, Panagiotis Bouros, Johann Gamper and Ulf Leser, Alternative Routing: k-Shortest Paths with Limited Overlap, Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL'15), Seattle, Washington, USA, November 3-6, 2015
    [slides] [poster] [source code]
25. Shuyao Qi, Panagiotis Bouros, Dimitris Sacharidis and Nikos Mamoulis, Efficient Point-based Trajectory Search, Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD'15), Hong Kong SAR, China, August 26-28, 2015
    Received the Best Paper Award.
    [slides]
26. Panagiotis Bouros, Dimitris Sacharidis and Nikos Bikakis, Regionally Influential Users in Location-Aware Social Networks, Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS'14), Dallas, Texas, USA, November 4-7, 2014
    [slides] [poster]
27. Dimitris Sacharidis and Panagiotis Bouros, Routing Directions: Keeping it Fast and Simple, Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS'13), Orlando, Florida, USA, November 5-8, 2013
    [slides] [long version]
28. Shuyao Qi, Panagiotis Bouros and Nikos Mamoulis, Efficient Top-k Spatial Distance Joins, Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD'13), Munich, Germany, August 21-23, 2013
    [slides]
29. Panagiotis Bouros, Dimitris Sacharidis, Theodore Dalamagas and Timos Sellis, Dynamic Pickup and Delivery with Transfers, Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD'11), Minneapolis, MN, USA, August 24-26, 2011
    [slides]
30. Manolis Terrovitis, Panagiotis Bouros, Panos Vassiliadis, Timos Sellis and Nikos Mamoulis, Efficient Answering of Set Containment Queries for Skewed Item Distributions, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT'11), Uppsala, Sweden, March 22-24, 2011
    [slides]
31. Panagiotis Bouros and Yiannis Vassiliou, Evaluating Path Queries over Route Collections, Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'10) PhD Workshop, Long Beach, CA, USA, March 5, 2010
    [slides]
32. Panagiotis Bouros, Spiros Skiadopoulos, Theodore Dalamagas, Dimitris Sacharidis and Timos Sellis, Evaluating Reachability Queries Over Path Collections, Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM'09), New Orleans, LA, USA, June 2-4, 2009
    [slides] [long version]
33. Panagiotis Bouros, Theodore Dalamagas, Spiros Skiadopoulos and Timos Sellis, Evaluating "Find a Path" Reachability Queries, Proceedings of the Workshop on Spatial and Temporal Reasoning (STRWS) in conjunction with the 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'08), Patras, Greece, July 22, 2008
    [slides]
34. Dimitris Sacharidis, Panagiotis Bouros and Timos Sellis, Caching Dynamic Skyline Queries, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM'08), Hong Kong, China, July 9-11, 2008
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35. Theodore Dalamagas, Panagiotis Bouros, Theodore Galanis, Magdalini Eirinaki and Timos Sellis, Mining User Navigation Patterns for Personalizing Topic Directories, Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM) in conjunction with the 16th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'07), Lisbon, Portugal, November 9, 2007
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36. Panagiotis Bouros, Aggeliki Fotopoulou and Nicholas Glaros, An interactive environment for creating and validating syntactic rules, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP'05), Borovets, Bulgaria, September 21-23, 2005
    [poster]
37. Aggeliki Koukoutsaki, Theodore Dalamagas, Timos Sellis and Panagiotis Bouros, PatMan: A Visual Database System to Manipulate Path Patterns and Data in Hierarhical Catalogs, Proceedings of the International Workshop of the EU Network of Excellence DELOS on Audio-Visual Content and Information Visualization in Digital Libraries (AVIVDiLib'05), Cortona, Italy, May 4-6, 2005
38. Panagiotis Bouros, Theodore Dalamagas, Timos Sellis and Manolis Terrovitis, PatManQL: A language to manipulate patterns and data in hierarchical catalogs, Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Pattern Representation and Management (PaRMa) in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT'04), Heraklion, Crete, Greece, March 18, 2004
    [slides]

Editorials

1. Clio Andris, Panagiotis Bouros, Yaron Kanza, Matthias Renz and Dimitris Sacharidis, Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Location-based Recommendations, Geosocial Networks and Geoadvertising (LocalRec), Atlanta, GA, USA, October 29, 2024
   [report]
2. Panagiotis Bouros, Tamraparni Dasu, Yaron Kanza, Matthias Renz and Dimitris Sacharidis, Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Location-based Recommendations, Geosocial Networks and Geoadvertising (LocalRec), Hamburg, Germany, November 13, 2023
   [report]
3. Panagiotis Bouros, Tamraparni Dasu, Yaron Kanza, Matthias Renz and Dimitris Sacharidis, Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Location-based Recommendations, Geosocial Networks and Geoadvertising (LocalRec), Seattle, WA, USA, November 1, 2022
   [report in SIGSPATIAL Special, Vol 14, No 1]
4. Panagiotis Bouros, Tamraparni Dasu, Yaron Kanza, Matthias Renz and Dimitris Sacharidis, Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Location-based Recommendations, Geosocial Networks and Geoadvertising (LocalRec), Beijing, China - online event, November 2, 2021
   [report in SIGSPATIAL Special, Vol 13, No 1-3]
5. Panagiotis Bouros, Tamraparni Dasu, Yaron Kanza, Matthias Renz and Dimitris Sacharidis, Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Location-based Recommendations, Geosocial Networks and Geoadvertising (LocalRec), Seattle, WA, USA - online event, November 3, 2020
   [report in SIGSPATIAL Special, Vol 12, No 3]
6. Panagiotis Bouros, Amr Magdy, Matthias Renz, Mohamed Sarwat and Andreas Züfle, Proceedigns of the 6th International ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Managing and Mining Enriched Geo-Spatial Data (GeoRich), Portland, OR, USA, June 14, 2020
7. Panagiotis Bouros, Tamraparni Dasu, Yaron Kanza, Matthias Renz and Dimitris Sacharidis, Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Location-based Recommendations, Geosocial Networks and Geoadvertising (LocalRec), Chicago, IL, USA, November 5, 2019
   [report in SIGSPATIAL Special, Vol 11, No 3]
8. Walid G. Aref, Michela Bertolotto, Panagiotis Bouros, Christian S. Jensen, Ahmed Mahmood, Kjetil Nørvåg, Dimitris Sacharidis and Mohamed Sarwat, Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD), Vienna, Austria, August 19-21, 2019
9. Panagiotis Bouros, Matthias Renz and Dimitris Sacharidis, Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Recommendations for Location-Based Services and Social Networks (LocalRec), Seattle, WA, USA, November 6, 2018
   [report in SIGSPATIAL Special, Vol 10, No 3]
10. Panagiotis Bouros, Matthias Renz and Dimitris Sacharidis, Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Recommendations for Location-Based Services and Social Networks (localRec), Redondo Beach, CA, USA, November 7, 2017
    [report in SIGSPATIAL Special, Vol 9, No 3]
11. Panagiotis Bouros and Mohamed Sarwat, Proceedings of the 4th International ACM Workshop on Managing and Mining Enriched Geo-Spatial Data (GeoRich), Chicago, IL, USA, May 14, 2017
12. Panagiotis Bouros, Neal Lathia, Matthias Renz, Francesco Ricci and Dimitris Sacharidis, Proceedings of the RecSys Workshop on Location-Aware Recommendations (LocalRec), Vienna, Austria, September 16-20, 2015
    [report in RecSys'15 proceedings]

Technical Reports

• Dimitrios Tsitsigkos, Konstantinos Lampropoulos, Panagiotis Bouros, Nikos Mamoulis and Manolis Terrovitis, A Two-level Spatial In-Memory Index, CoRR, May 2020
• Shuyao Qi, Panagiotis Bouros and Nikos Mamoulis, Efficient top-k Joins on Complex Data Types, TR-2015-03, Department of Computer Science, HKU, Hong Kong SAR, China, December 2015
• Panagiotis Bouros, Semantic Web Services: A conceptual comparison of OWL-S, WSMO and METEOR-S approaches, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA, Greece, 2005

Academic Experience

Teaching

• Instructor on Data Structures and Database Management Systems course, EBS Universität, Fall 2024
• Instructor on Database Systems course, Institute of Computer Science, JGU, Summer 2018-2025
• Instructor on Database Systems II/Non-Standard Database Systems course, Institute of Computer Science, JGU, Winter, 2019/20-2023/24
• Instructor on Database Systems lab (Praktikum), Institute of Computer Science, JGU, Winter 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, Summer 2021-2025
• Instructor on Non-Standard Database Systems seminar, Institute of Computer Science, JGU, Summer 2020-2024
• Instructor on Database Systems seminar, Institute of Computer Science, JGU, Winter 2018/19
• Instructor on Databases course, Department of Computer Science, AU, Fall 2015 (Q1).
• Assistant on Indexing of Disk-based Data course, Department of Computer Science, AU, Spring 2017 (Q3)
• Assistant on Multidimensional Databases course, Department of Computer Science, AU, Spring 2016 (Q3)
• Assistant on Databases course, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA, Fall 2006-2009
• Lab instructor on Computer Programming course, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA, Fall 2005
• Assistant on Software Engineering course, Department of Computer Science, UoA, Fall 2005
• Assistant on System Analysis course, Department of Computer Science, UoA, Spring 2005

(co)-Supervising or Advising Students (first by type, then by completion year)

• Christian Rauch, Temporal Information Retrieval (wokring title), Doctorate thesis, Institute of Computer Science, JGU
• Achilleas Michalopoulos, Partitioning and Indexing Techniques for Scalable Spatial Query Evaluation, Doctorate thesis, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina (UoI)
• Panagiotis Simatis, Indexing and query processing complex data (working title), Doctorate thesis, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina (UoI)
• Sebastian Hemberger, Indexing composite interval data, Bachelor thesis, Institute of Computer Science, JGU, 2024
• Dimitrios Tsitsigkos, Join Operators for Complex Data, Doctorate thesis, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UoI & "Athena" Research and Innovation Center, 2024
• Dennis Scheck, Generating and visualizing complex interval data, Bachelor thesis, Institute of Computer Science, JGU, 2024
• Joshua Kempter, A user interface for displaying, exploring and searching through systems neuroscience data, Bachelor thesis, Institute of Computer Science, JGU, 2024
• Samia Mubarika Goraya, Comparing State-of-the-Art NLP Techniques for Information Extraction from Systems Neuroscience Publications, Master thesis, Institute of Computer Science, JGU, 2024
• Tobias Laures, Academic Social Networks: Evolution of Scientific Communities during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Master thesis, Institute of Computer Science, JGU, 2024
• Giorgos Kotsinas, Ranking Queries over Range Data, Master thesis, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UoI, 2024
• Jan Raider, A user interface for visualizing interval indexing (working title), Bachelor thesis, Insitute of Computer Science, JGU, 2024
• Patrick Götz, Systems neuroscience data (working title), Bachelor thesis, Institute of Computer Science, JGU, 2024
• Julius Hoffmann, A Graphical Interface for Managing Geosocial networks, Bachelor thesis, Institute of Computer Science, JGU, 2024
• Timo Suk, Route Inference as a Tool for Generating Training Data for ML-based tasks, Master thesis, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Kostanz (UoK), 2024
• Yazhou Pan, Processing spatial keyword search queries, Bachelor thesis, Insitute of Computer Science, JGU, 2023
• Lina Khidair, An interactive graphical user interface for systems neuroscience graph data, Bachelor thesis, Insitute of Computer Science, JGU, 2023
• Huu Duy Nguyen, Path Diversification for Evacuation Planning, Bachelor thesis, Institute of Computer Science, JGU, 2023
• Nina Röckelein, Measuring the Attractiveness of Transportation Modes using Relative Reachability and Mobility Patterns, Bachelor thesis, Department of Computer and Information Science, UoK, 2023
• Abed Al Rahman Sansour, A Graphical User Interface for generating Geosocial networks, Bachelor thesis, Insitute of Computer Science, JGU, 2023
• George Christodoulou, Managing Big and Complex Data in Main Memory, Doctorate thesis, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UoI, 2023
• Arjanit Arifi, Training ETA models with recovered routes, Bachelor thesis, Insitute of Computer Science, JGU, 2023
• Maximilian Zerbe, Spatio-textual Outlier Detection, Bachelor thesis, Insitute of Computer Science, JGU, 2023
• David Betz, Extending the EURASIM Interface for Evacuation Planning in Urban Areas, Bachelor thesis, Institute of Computer Science, JGU, 2023
• Adrian Kissinger, Selecting geospatial data on maps for routing applications, Bachelor thesis, Insitute of Computer Science, JGU, 2023
• Judith Kunz, Finding Similarity Through Dissimilarity: Utilizing path dissimilarity for role extraction in networks, Master thesis, Department of Computer and Information Science, UoK, 2022
• Samia Mubarika Goraya, Generating complex and composite data, Bachelor thesis, Institute of Computer Science, JGU, 2022
• Claudia Berenice Perez Martinez, A Graphical Interface for Road network Generation, Bachelor thesis, Institute of Computer Science, JGU, 2022
• Lisa-Patricia Barth, App-Based Specification and Visualization of User Preferences in Routing, Master thesis, Institute of Computer Science, JGU, 2022
• Yannic Marcel Moog, Extending k-Shortest Paths with Limited Overlap, Bachelor thesis, Institute of Computer Science, JGU, 2021
• Daniel-Valentin Kowalski, Evaluating GeoSocial Reachability Queries, Bachelor thesis, Institute of Computer Science, JGU, 2021
• Marc Araujo Conde, A Database with Amnesia, Bachelor thesis, JGU, 2021
• Christian Häcker, k Most Diverse Near-Shortest Paths, Bachelor thesis, Institute of Computer Science, JGU, 2021
• Fabian Fier, Managing big complex data types, Doctorate thesis, Department of Computer Science, HUB, 2020
• Artur Titkov, Spatially Combined Text Searches, Bachelor thesis, Institute of Computer Science, JGU, 2020
• Mohamed Masarwa, Monitoring Geo-Social Influence in Location-Aware Social Networks, Bachelor thesis, Institute of Computer Science, JGU, 2019
• Matthias Sawatzky, A Web Application for Analysis and Comparison of k-Shortest Paths with Limited Overlap Algorithms on Road Networks, Bachelor thesis, Insitute of Computer Science, JGU, 2019
• Alina Gerhards, Equi-joins on GPU, Master thesis, Institute of Computer Science, JGU, 2019
• Theodoros Chondrogiannis, Efficient Algorithms for Route Planning Problems on Road Networks. Doctorate thesis, Faculty of Computer Science, UNIBZ, Italy, 2017
• Shuyao Qi, Advanced Ranking Queries on Composite Data, Doctorate thesis, Depertment of Computer Science, HKU, 2016
• Jens C. B. Madsen and Benjamin Petersen, Continuous Monitoring of Geo-Socially Influential Users, Department of Computer Science, AU, 2016
• Tobias Sommer, Outlier detection on spatio-temporal data, Graduate student project, Department of Computer Science, AU, 2016
• Florian Hönicke, Optimizing Set Similarity Joins on MapReduce, Diploma thesis, Department of Computer Science, HUB, Germany, 2015
• John Liagouris, Web Data Management with Applications in Privacy (in greek), PhD thesis, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA, 2015
• Anja Kunkel, Set Containtment Joins using Two Prefix Trees, Undergraduate student project (Studienarbeit), Department of Computer Science, HUB, Germany, 2014
• Shen Ge, Advanced analysis and join queries in multidimensional spaces, Doctorate thesis, Department of Computer Science, HKU, 2012
• Dora Kontogianni, GRAPHIT-DB: Graph Data Management System (II) (in greek), Diploma thesis, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA, 2009
• Vassilis Giannopoulos, P-Miner+: Portal Catalogs Administration Supporting Usage Data Mining Processes (in greek), Diploma thesis, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA, 2009
• John Liagouris and Trifon Farmakakis, DataBase supported Reasoning System (DBRS) (in greek), Diploma thesis, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA, 2008
• Lemonia Boula, GRAPHIT-DB: Graph Data Management System (I) (in greek), Diploma thesis, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA, 2007
• Theodore Galanis, P-Miner: Portal Catalogs Administration Supporting Usage Data Mining Processes (in greek), Diploma thesis, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA, 2006

Projects

• Big Data: In-Memory Databases and Data Analytics, Junior professorship funded by the Carl-Zeiss Foundation, 2018-2022
• Future Cropping, funded by Innovation Fund Denmark, J. nr. 5107-00002B, 2016-2017
• METRIK: Model-Based Development of Technologies for Self-Organizing Decentralized Information Systems in Disaster Management, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), grant no GRK 1324, 2013-2015.
• Spatio-textual Joins, funded by the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong, HKU 714212E, 2011-2013
• Tree-structured Data Source Integration on the Semantic Web, Scientific and technological cooperation between RTD organizations in Greece, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Malaisia and Singapore, 2007
• DL.org: Coordination action on digital library interoperability, best practices and modeling foundations, funded by the European Union, 2009
• DILIGENT: A Testbed Digital Library Infrastructure on Grid Enabled Technology, funded by the European Union, 2007
• Web data mining and management based on the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks paradigm, funded by the Greek Ministry of Development, 2007-2008
• SQO-OSS: Source Quality Observatory for Open Source Software, funded by the European Union, 2006-2008
• SODIUM: Service Oriented Development In a Unified Environment, funded by the European Union, 2005
• INTEROP: Interoperability research and networked enterprises applications and software, funded by the European Union, 2005

Service

Journal Reviewer

VLDBJ (x7), ACM TODS (x2), IEEE TKDE (x4), GeoInformatica (x2), DKE, IS (x2), WWWJ, ACM TSAS (x3), DAPD (x2), JCST, TJSS

Member of Program Committee

VLDB'26, VLDB'25, EDBT'25, ACM SIGSPATIAL'25, IEEE DASFAA'25, SSTD'25, CDF4MD@IEEE MDM'25, VLDB'24, ACM SIGSPATIAL'24, IEEE DASFAA'24, EDBT'24 PhD, IEEE MDM'24 (meta-reviewer), SISAP'24, CDF4MD@IEEE MDM'24, VLDB'23, ACM SIGSPATIAL'23, IEEE DASFAA'23, SSTD'23, SISAP'23, IEEE ICDE'22, ACM SIGSPATIAL'22, IEEE DASFAA'22, SISAP'22, IEEE ICDE'21, ACM SIGSPATIAL'21, SSTD'21, DASFAA'21, SISAP'21, TIME'21, IEEE ICDE'20, ACM SIGMOD'20 demos, ACM SIGSPATIAL'20, ACM CIKM'20 short papers, SISAP'20, TIME'20, ACM SIGSPATIAL'19, SISAP'19, VLDB'18, EDBT'18, ACM SIGSPATIAL'18, SISAP'18, ACM SIGSPATIAL'17, IEEE BigDataService'17, Smart City BigData@IEEE BigDataService'17, IEEE ICDE'16, ACM CIKM'16, ACM SIGSPATIAL'16, IEEE BigDataService'16, SISAP'16, GeoRich@ACM SIGMOD'16, ACM CIKM'15, ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS'15, IEEE DASFAA'15, IEEE BigDataService'15, SISAP'15, GeoRich@ACM SIGMOD'15, ACM CIKM'14, ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS'14, IEEE ICDM'14 demos, SISAP'14, iiWAS'14, BASNA'14, GeoRich@SIGMOD'14, ACM CIKM'11 Posters

External Reviewer

ACM SIGMOD'17, VLDB'17, VLDB'16, ACM SIGKDD'16, ACM SIGMOD'15, IEEE ICDE'15, EDBT'15, ACM SIGMOD'14, ACM SIGKDD'14, ACM SIGMOD'13, IEEE ICDE'13, ACM SIGKDD'13, SSTD'13, IEEE DASFAA'13, IEEE DASFAA'11, ACM SIGMOD'11, ACM CIKM'11, SSTD'11, TPDL'11, IEEE ICDE'10, SETN'10, DEXA'10, EGOVIS'10, VLDB'09, EDBT'09, ACM CIKM'09, ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS'09, BPM'09, PCI'07, PersDL'07, PSI'06, DaWak'06, HDMS'06, DEXA'05, EC-Web'05, I3E'05, ICWS'05

Member of Organizing Committee

IEEE BigData'25 (Vice co-chair, Big Data Search and Mining), ACM SIGSPATIAL'24, LocalRec@ACM SIGSPATIAL'24, ACM SIGSPATIAL'23, LocalRec@ACM SIGSPATIAL'23, ACM SIGSPATIAL'22, LocalRec@ACM SIGSPATIAL'22, LocalRec@ACM SIGSPATIAL'21, LocalRec@ACM SIGSPATIAL'20, GeoRich@ACM SIGMOD'20, SSTD'19, LocalRec@ACM SIGSPATIAL'19, WISE'19, LocalRec@ACM SIGSPATIAL'18, LocalRec@ACM SIGSPATIAL'17, GeoRich@ACM SIGMOD'17, GeoTour@ADBIS'17, GeoRich@ACM SIGMOD'16, LocalRec@ACM RecSys'15, GeoRich@ACM SIGMOD'15, GeoRich@ACM SIGMOD'14

Talks/Events

Invited

• Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, February 18, 2025
• Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany, February 3, 2025
• University of Hamburg, Germany, September 17, 2024
• Technische Universität Wien, Austria, September 19, 2023
• Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, May 8, 2023
• Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, August 2, 2023
• Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, July 20, 2022
• Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany, June 23, 2022
• University of Manchester, UK, March 14, 2022
• Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany, May 21, 2021
• Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, April 28, 2021
• University of Ioannina, Greece, November 2, 2020
• University of Regensburg, Germany, October 8, 2020
• University of Bonn, Germany, January 10, 2020
• IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, October 24, 2019
• Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, June 6, 2019
• "Athena" Research and Innovation Center, Athens, Greece, November 14, 2017
• Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany, April 8, 2017
• University of Southampton, UK, April 4, 2017
• Birkbeck, University of London, UK, March 13, 2017
• Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany, September 8, 2016
• Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, July 11, 2016
• University of Manchester, UK, May 25, 2016
• University of Oxford, UK, May 18, 2016
• University of South Denmark, Odense, Denmark, March 4, 2016
• Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam, Netherlands, December 17, 2014
• Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, October 23-24, 2013

National Events

• LIT: Lightning-fast In-memory Temporal Indexing, 18th Hellenic Data Management Symposium (HDMS'24), Athens, July 1-2, 2024
• A Forward Scan based Plane Sweep Algorithm for Parallel Interval Joins, 16th Hellenic Data Management Symposium (HDMS'18), Larnaca, Cyprus, July 3, 2018
• An Effective Encoding Scheme for Spatial RDF Data, 13th Hellenic Data Management Symposium (HDMS'15), Athens, July 30-31, 2015
• Spatio-Textual Similarity Joins, 12th Hellenic Data Management Symposium (HDMS'14), Athens, Greece, July 24-25, 2014
• Dynamic Pickup and Delivery with Transfers, 10th Hellenic Data Management Symposium, (HDMS'11), Athens, Greece, June 17-18, 2011
• Efficient Answering of Set Containment Queries for Skewed Item Distributions, 10th Hellenic Data Management Symposium, (HDMS'11), Athens, Greece, June 17-18, 2011
• Evaluating Reachability Queries over Path Collections, 8th Hellenic Data Management Symposium (HDMS'09), Athens, Greece, August 31-September 1, 2009
• Caching Dynamic Skyline Queries, 7th Hellenic Data Management Symposium (HDMS'08), Heraklion, Crete, Greece, July 28-29, 2008

Contact details

Room 03-121
Institute of Computer Science
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
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D-55128 Mainz, Germany

Email: bouros -at- uni-mainz.de
Tel. +49 6131 39 23603