George Kakarontzas

I have published as the main author or participated as a co-author in a number of research publications in the areas of software engineering and related areas. Some indicative works are given below. For a more up-to-date list of publications please visit my Google Scholar profile page:

Journal articles

• Mahdi Bohlouli, Nikolaos Mittas, George Kakarontzas, Theodosios Theodosiou, Lefteris Angelis, Madjid Fathi: Competence assessment as an expert system for human resource management: A mathematical approach, Expert Systems with Applications, Volume 70, Pages 83-102, 2017,
• Eleni Constantinou, Athanasios Naskos, George Kakarontzas, Ioannis Stamelos: Extracting reusable components: A semi-automated approach for complex structures, Inf. Process. Lett. 115(3): 414-417 (2015)
• Eleni Constantinou, George Kakarontzas, Ioannis Stamelos: An automated approach for noise identification to assist software architecture recovery techniques, Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 107, Pages 142-157, 2015.
• George Kakarontzas, Eleni Constantinou, Apostolos Ampatzoglou, Ioannis Stamelos: "Layer Assessment of Object-Oriented Software: A Metric Facilitating White-Box Reuse", Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 86, no. 2, pp. 349–366, February 2013.
• George Kakarontzas, Ilias K. Savvas, Ioannis Stamelos: "Agents, clusters and components: A synergistic approach to the GSP" Future Generation Computer Systems, vol. 27, no. 8, pp. 999-1010, 2011.
• Apostolos Ampatzoglou, Apostolos Kritikos, George Kakarontzas, Ioannis Stamelos: "An empirical investigation on the reusability of design patterns and software packages" Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 84, no. 12, pp. 2265-2283, 2011.
• Anakreon Mentis, Panagiotis Katsaros, Lefteris Angelis and George Kakarontzas:"Quantification of interacting runtime qualities in software architectures: Insights from transaction processing in client-server architectures", Information & Software Technolog y, vol. 52, no. 12, pp. 1331-1345, 2010.
• George Kakarontzas, Panagiotis Katsaros and Ioannis Stamelos: "Component Certification as a Prerequisite for Widespread OSS Reuse". Electronic Communications of the EASST, vol. 33, 2010.

Conference proceedings

• Dimitrios Gravanis, George Kakarontzas, Vassilis C. Gerogiannis:You don't need a Microservices Architecture (yet): Monoliths may do the trick ESSE 2021: 2021 2nd European Symposium on Software Engineering, November 2021, Pages 39–44.
• Iakovos Stratigakis, Theodoros Amanatidis, Christina Volioti, George Kakarontzas, Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos, Ioannis Stamelos, Charalampos Avratoglou, Apostolos Ampatzoglou, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, Dimitris Folinas: A low-cost AR assistant component architecture for Warehouse Management Systems, PCI 2021: 160-166
• Ioannis Stamelos, Charalampos Avratoglou, Panayotis Tzinis, George Kakarontzas, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, Apostolos Ampatzoglou, Dimitris Folinas, Iakovos Stratigakis, Lampros Karavidas, Christina Volioti, Theodoros Amanatidis, Anastasia Deliga, Charalampos Dimitrakopoulos, Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos: Towards a Remote Warehouse Management System, International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV 2020), pp 338–348, 2020.
• Vassilis C. Gerogiannis, Panos Fitsilis, George Kakarontzas, Christian Born: Handling vagueness and subjectivity in requirements prioritization PCI 2018: 150-155
• George Kakarontzas, Christina Pardalidou: Improving component coupling information with dynamic profiling, PCI 2018, pp. 156-161
• Kyriaki Chatzistavrou, George Kakarontzas, and Lefteris Angelis, Fuzzy Grading for Adaptability in a Learning Platform, In Proceedings of the 20th Pan-Hellenic Conference on Informatics (PCI '16). Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 1–4, 2016.
• George Kakarontzas, Vassilis C. Gerogiannis:An Intuitionistic Fuzzy Approach for Ranking Web Services under Evaluation Uncertainty, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2015), pp. 742-745
• Elia Kouzari, Vassilis C. Gerogiannis, Ioannis Stamelos, George Kakarontzas: Critical Success Factors and Barriers for Lightweight Software Process Improvement in Agile Development - A Literature Review, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications - ICSOFT-EA, pp. 151-159, 2015.
• Nikolaos Mittas, George Kakarontzas, Mahdi Bohlouli, Lefteris Angelis, Ioannis Stamelos, Madjid Fathi: ComProFITS: A web-based platform for human resources competence assessment, 6th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications, IISA 2015, pp. 1-6.
• Kakarontzas, George, Anthopoulos, Leonidas, Chatzakou, Despoina and Vakali, Athina, A Conceptual Enterprise Architecture Framework for Smart Cities - A Survey Based Approach, In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on e-Business - ICE-B, (ICETE 2014), pages 47-54.
• Bibi, Stamatia, Gerogiannis, Vassilis, Kakarontzas, George and Stamelos, Ioannis, Ontology based Bayesian Software Process Improvenent. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications - ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-036-9, pages 568-575.
• G. Kakarontzas, V. C. Gerogiannis, S. Bibi and I. Stamelos, Estrangement between Classes: Test Coverage-Based Assessment of Coupling Strength between Pairs of Classes, 9th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology, 2014, pp. 48-57.
• Fotios Kokkoras, Konstantinos Ntonas, Apostolos Kritikos, George Kakarontzas and Ioannis Stamelos: "Federated Search for Open Source Software Reuse", in proc. of the 38th Euromicro conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications - Model-Based Development, Components and Services (MOCS) track, pp. 200-203, IEEE, 2012.
• George Kakarontzas, Ioannis Stamelos, Stefanos Skalistis and Athanasios Naskos: "Extracting Components from Open Source: The Component Adaptation Environment (COPE) Approach", in proc. of the 38th Euromicro conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications - Model-Based Development, Components and Services (MOCS) track, pp. 192-199, IEEE, 2012.
• Eleni Constantinou, George Kakarontzas, Ioannis Stamelos: "Towards Open Source Software System Architecture Recovery Using Design Metrics", in proc. of the Panhellenic Conference on Informatics 2011, pp. 166-170, IEEE, 2011.
• George Kakarontzas, Vassilis C. Gerogiannis, Ioannis Stamelos, Panagiotis Katsaros: Elastic Component Characterization with Respect to Quality Properties: An Intuitionistic Fuzzy-Based Approach in proc. of the Panhellenic Conference on Informatics 2011, pp. 270-274, IEEE, 2011. BEST Paper Award for PCI 2011.
• Eleni Constantinou, George Kakarontzas, Ioannis Stamelos:"Open Source Software: How Can Design Metrics Facilitate Architecture Recovery?" in 4th Workshop on Intelligent Techniques in Software Engineering at the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practices of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD),2011.
• Apostolos Kritikos, George Kakarontzas, Ioannis Stamelos: "A Semi-automated Process for Open Source Code Reuse", in proc. of the 5th International conference of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, pp. 179-185, 2010.
• George Kakarontzas and Ioannis Stamelos: "Component Recycling for Agile Methods" in proc. of the Seventh International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC), pp. 397-402, IEEE, 2010.
• George Kakarontzas, Ioannis Stamelos and Panagiotis Katsaros:"Product Line Variability with Elastic Components and Test-Driven Development" in proc. of the International Conferences on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation; Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce; and Innovation in Software Engineering 2008, pp. 146-151, IEEE, 2008.
• Ilias K. Savvas, Dimitrios C. Tselios and George Kakarontzas:"Quality Interplay in Regular vs. Irregular Grid Topologies" in proc. of the 17th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies, Emerging Technologies for Next Generation Grid Workshop (ETNGRID), WETICE 2008, pp. 176-181, IEEE, 2008.
• George Kakarontzas, Panagiotis Katsaros and Ioannis Stamelos:"Elastic Components: Addressing Variance of Quality Properties in Components" in proc. of the 33rd EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (EUROMICRO-SEAA'07), pp. 31-38, IEEE, 2007.
• Ilias K. Savvas and George Kakarontzas:"On Resource Clustering Techniques for Grid Resource Discovery", in proc. of the International Workshops on Enabling Technologies, Emerging Technologies for Next Generation Grid Workshop (ETNGRID-WETICE 2007), pp.302-307, IEEE, 2007
• George Kakarontzas and Ioannis Stamelos:"A Tactic-Driven Process for Developing Reusable Components", in proc. of the 9th International Conference on Software Reuse (ICSR), pp. 273-286, Springer, 2006
• Vassilis C. Gerogiannis, George Kakarontzas and Ioannis Stamelos:"A unified approach for software process representation and analysis", in proc. of the 2006 International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT), vol. 2, pp. 127-132, 2006
• George Kakarontzas and Ilias K. Savvas:"Agent-Based Resource Discovery and Selection for Dynamic Grids", in proc. of the International Workshops on Enabling Technologies, Emerging Technologies for Next Generation Grid Workshop (ETNGRID-WETICE 2006), pp. 195-200, IEEE, 2006. Best Paper Award for ETNGRID’06.
• George Kakarontzas and Spyros Lalis: "Dependable Global Computing with JaWS++", in proc. of the European Across Grids Conference 2004, pp. 100-109, Springer, 2004.
• George Kakarontzas and Spyros Lalis:"A Market-Based Protocol with Leasing Support for Globally Distributed Computing", in proc. of the First IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'01), pp. 562-567, IEEE, 2001.

Book Chapters

• Ioannis Stamelos and George Kakarontzas:"Chapter 11:Architecture Knowledge Management in Open Source Communities", in Ali Babar, M.; Dingsøyr, T.; Lago, P.; Vliet, H. van (Eds.) "Software Architecture Knowledge Management: Theory and Practice", Springer, 2009
• George Kakarontzas: "Chapter 1: Introduction to the Unified Modeling Language of the book Object-Oriented Software Development with UML (in Greek)", in Object-Oriented Software Development with UML (collective work in Greek), Kleidarithmos publications, 2006.