Professor Nik Bessis

Faculty: Business, Computing and Law

School: School of Computing and Mathematics

Subject Area: Computing and IT

Nik has obtained his BA from the Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Athens and completed his PhD and MA at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.

Prior to his Professorship appointment at the School of Computing and Mathematics, he joined the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Bedfordshire as a Lecturer in 2001. In 2004 he was promoted to Senior Lecturer and the Postgraduate Course Manager and in 2009, he was promoted to a Principal Lecturer and took on the role of MSc Project co-ordination and University Extended Degrees Course Management. In December 2010, he joined the University of Derby as a Professor of Computer Science and led the research within the School. He is also a member of the University Court.

Since january 2011, Professor Bessis is the Head of the Distributed and Intelligent Systems (DISYS) research group and the REF UOA11 Leader. 

Teaching responsibilities

Leading the following modules:

2012 - Emerging IT Product Developments, Level 3
2011 - Database Developments, Level M
2011 - Object Oriented Analysis, Design and Implementation, Level M
2011 - Studying at Master's Level & Research Methods, Level M
2011 - Database Systems, Level 2
2011 Advanced Web Technologies, Level 3

Research interests

As a researcher, Nik exploits emerging data computational and collective intelligence methods and services in distributed environments such in grids, inter-clouds, smart environments and Internet of Things (IoT). These have a particular focus on various organizational settings such as in disaster management. Specific research keywords include web-centric system developments; dynamic web applications; data integration; user-led developments; social networking; crowds; personalized data push; massive data; data analytics and visualization and resource management (discovery and scheduling). Notable contributions include models in resource optimization through dynamic rooting protocols, advanced energy efficient message exchange (MEO), dynamic virtualization, critical friend resource discovery and scheduling methods. Nik has published over 165 works and he has received 3 Best Papers Awards (2009, 2009 and 2012).

Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees

MIEEE, FBCS, FHEA

Funding:
Led over 0.7m; Income generation activities exceed £3m
2012 - XAD Communications ltd, TSB, Lead Academic
2012 - DIGUIPRO, Arximidis III, Greece/EU, Co-I
2011 - Mining Social Networks, NSFC, Co-I
2011 - Internet of Things, UNITE, EU, Host I
2011 - Inter-cooperative Clouds, UNITE, EU, PI
2010 - Premier ltd, EEDA, PI
2009 - MSV, STREP, EU, Co-I
2007 - EMERGE, JISC, WP-L
2007 - ACHIEVER, Arts Council, PI
2006 - Europ Supervision ltd, EEDA, PI
2005 - EERN, JISC, WP-L
2005 - BlackBox Analytics ltd, EEDA, PI

Keynote Speaker:
WCST 2011 (London); CISIS 2010 (Poland); ICADIWT 2010 (Istanbul); IARIA 2010 (Florence)

Founding Editor-in-chief (2010). International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies (IJDST), IGI, ISSN: 1947-3532.
Conference Chairing: EIDWT-2011/12/13; 3PGCIC-2011/12; IADIS-2010/11/12/13; CISIS/IMIS-2011/12; AINA-2011/12/13; PARELEC-2011; INCoS-2010/11/12; WCST-2012
Electoral Committee Member/ External Assessor for Conferments: ATEI of Crete (2012); ATEI of Kalamata (2011); Federal University (2011); University of Derby (2009)
PhD External Examiner: University of Greenwich (2012); University of Glamorgan (2012); Aston University (2012); Anna University (2012); University of Ulster (2011); Brunel University (2011); University of Fribourg (2011)
External Examiner: University of Brighton (2012-2016); University of Northampton (2009-2013); University of Greenwich (2007-2012); UCLAN (2006-2010)
Course Validation/Approval of New Courses External Panel Member: University of West of England (2012); ATEI of Crete (HQAA expert evaluator, 2011); University of Northampton (2009); University of Staffordshire (2008); University of Derby (2008); University of North East Wales Institute of Higher Education (2007)

Recent Conferences

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS
BESSIS, N., SOTIRIADIS, S., POP, F. and CRISTEA, V. (2012). Optimizing the Energy Efficiency of Message Exchanging for Service Distribution in Interoperable Infrastructures, 4th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS-2012), September 19-21 2012, Bucharest, Romania, ISBN: 978-0-7695-4808-1, p.p.: 105-112 (BEST PAPER AWARD)
ZELENKAUSKAITE, A., BESSIS, N., SOTIRIADIS, S. and ASIMAKOPOULOU, E. (2012). Interconnectedness of Complex systems of Internet of Things through Social Network Analysis for Disaster Management, 3rd International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Disaster Management (CIDM-2012) in conjunction with the 4th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS-2012), September 19-21 2012, Bucharest, Romania, ISBN: 978-0-7695-4808-1, p.p.: 503-508
MA, X., McFARLANE, N. J. B., CLAPWORTHY, C. J., BESSIS, N. and TESTI, D. (2012). Best Practice for Multiscale Visualisation in VPH, 2nd Virtual Physiological Human Conference (VPH-2012), part of the Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence (VPH NoE), September 18-20, London
McFARLANE, N. J. B., MA, X., CLAPWORTHY, C. J., BESSIS, N. and TESTI, D. (2012). A Survey and Classification of Visualisation in Multiscale Biomedical Applications. In 16th IVS International Conference on Information Visualization (iV-2012), July 11-13, Montpellier, France, p.p. 561-566
REINA, D., TORAL, S., BESSIS, N., BARRERO, F. and ASIMAKOPOULOU, E. (2011). Evaluation of Ad Hoc Networks in Disaster Scenarios, The Second International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Disaster Management (CIDM-2011), in conjunction with IEEE INCoS-2011, Fukuoka, Japan, November 30 - December 2, 2011, ISBN: 978-0-7695-4579-0, p.p.: 759-764
ASIMAKOPOULOU, E., BESSIS, N., SOTIRIADIS, S., XHAFA, F. and BAROLLI, L. (2011). A Collective Intelligence Resource Management Dynamic Approach for Disaster Management: A Density Survey of Disasters Occurrence, The Second International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Disaster Management (CIDM-2011), in conjunction with IEEE INCoS-2011, Fukuoka, Japan, November 30 - December 2, 2011, ISBN: 978-0-7695-4579-0, p.p.: 735-740
XHAFA, F., ASIMAKOPOULOU, E., BESSIS, N., BAROLLI, L. and TAKIZAWA, M. (2011). An Event-based Approach to Supporting Team Coordination and Decision Making in Disaster Management Scenarios, Second International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Disaster Management (CIDM-2011), in conjunction with IEEE INCoS-2011, Fukuoka, Japan, November 30 - December 2, 2011, ISBN: 978-0-7695-4579-0, p.p.: 741-745
ASIMAKOPOULOU, E. and BESSIS, N. (2011). Towards an Integrated Multi-hazard Prevention Assessment for Community Threats, The First International Workshop on "Smart Environments for Disaster Management (SEDM-2011) in conjunction with the 6th IEEE International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing (3PGCIC-2011), Barcelona, Spain, October 26-30, 2011, ISBN: 978-0-7695-4531-8, p.p.: 327-331
AYDIN, M, BESSIS, N., ASIMAKOPOULOU, E., XHAFA, F. and WUE, J. (2011). Scanning Environments with Swarms of Learning Birds: A Computational Intelligence Approach for Managing Disasters, The 25th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2011), Biopolis, Singapore, March 22-25, 2011, ISBN: 1550-445X, p.p.: 332-339
BESSIS, N., ASIMAKOPOULOU, E., FRENCH, T., NORRINGTON, P. and XHAFA, F. (2010). The Big Picture, from Grids and Clouds to Crowds: A Data Collective Computational Intelligence Case Proposal for Managing Disasters, "1st International Workshop on Emerging Data Technologies for Collective Intelligence (EDTCI-2010)", in conjunction with the 5th IEEE International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing (3PGCIC-2010), November 4-6, 2010, Fukuoka, Japan, ISBN: 978-0-7695-4237-9, p.p.: 351-356
HUANG, Y., BESSIS, N., SOTIRIADIS, S., BROCCO, A., COURANT, M., KUONEN, P., and HIRSBRUNNER, B. (2009). Towards an Integrated Vision across Inter-Cooperative Grid Virtual Organizations in Lee, Y., Kim, T., Fang, W. and Slezak, D. (eds). Future Generation Information Technology, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, ISBN: 3-642-10508-4, p.p.: 120-129 (BEST PAPER AWARD - 3.5% acceptance rate from over 1050 submissions)
HUANG, Y., BROCCO, A., BESSIS, N., KUONEN, P., and HIRSBRUNNER, B. (2010). Community-Aware Scheduling Protocol for Grids, The IEEE 24th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Application (AINA 2010), 20th-23rd April 2010, Perth, ISSN: 150-445X
HUANG, Y., BESSIS, N., BROCCO, A., KUONEN, P., COURANT, M. and HIRSBRUNNER, B. (2009). Using Metadata Snapshots for Extending Resource Discovery Functionality of Ant Agents in Inter-cooperative Grid Communities, INTERNET 2009 (sponsored by IEEE), The first International Conference on Evolving Internet, 23rd-29th August, Cannes, ISBN: 978-0-7695-3748-1 p.p.: 89-94, (BEST PAPER AWARD)

Additional Interests and Activities

Walking, drinking frappe (iced coffee), watching F1, meeting people from all around the world

Undergraduate qualifications

• BA, TEI of Athens, Greece

Postgraduate qualifications

• MA, De Montfort University, UK

Research qualifications

• PhD, De Montfort University, UK

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