Miss Athena Eftychiou
Research Student, DE
Qualifications: BSc MSc AHEA
Email: a.eftychiou@surrey.ac.uk
Further information
Biography
Athena Eftychiou is PhD student in Semantic P2P networks at the University of Surrey since October 2008. She graduated from the Higher Technical Institute Cyprus in 2000, after studying Computer Studies. In 2002 she started a part-time BSc, while working in the IT industry as a web developer. She received her BSc in Computing and Information Systems from the external programme of the University of London in 2007. The same year she joined the MSc in Internet Computing at the University of Surrey, to complete it in 2008 with distinction. Her MSc dissertation involved the evaluation of discovery mechanisms for non-replicable reusable resources in P2P networks. Her teaching experience includes teaching and lab support on various modules such as Enterprise System Development, Web Technologies, Information Modelling and Information Discovery. Her research interests cover the area of distributed knowledge and resource sharing technologies as well as semantic web knowledge modelling and retrieval models.
Research Interests
- Distributed Systems
- P2P Networks
- Information Retrieval
- Collective Intelligence
- Semantics and Knowledge Representation
Publications
A. Eftychiou, B. Vrusias, N. Antonopoulos, “A Semantic-driven adaptive architecture for large scale P2P networks," International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing, 2010, pp.12-30.
Eftychiou, A., Vrusias, B. , "A Knowledge-Driven Architecture for Efficient Resource Discovery in P2P Networks" Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCOS), 2010 2nd International Conference on , vol., no., pp.467-472, 24-26 Nov. 2010

