Publications by authors named "Nikolaos Peppes"

Data scarcity in the healthcare domain is a major drawback for most state-of-the-art technologies engaging artificial intelligence. The unavailability of quality data due to both the difficulty to gather and label them as well as due to their sensitive nature create a breeding ground for data augmentation solutions. Parkinson's Disease (PD) which can have a wide range of symptoms including motor impairments consists of a very challenging case for quality data acquisition.

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Digitization of most of the services that people use in their everyday life has, among others, led to increased needs for cybersecurity. As digital tools increase day by day and new software and hardware launch out-of-the box, detection of known existing vulnerabilities, or zero-day as they are commonly known, becomes one of the most challenging situations for cybersecurity experts. Zero-day vulnerabilities, which can be found in almost every new launched software and/or hardware, can be exploited instantly by malicious actors with different motives, posing threats for end-users.

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The unceasingly increasing needs for data acquisition, storage and analysis in transportation systems have led to the adoption of new technologies and methods in order to provide efficient and reliable solutions. Both highways and vehicles, nowadays, host a vast variety of sensors collecting different types of highly fluctuating data such as speed, acceleration, direction, and so on. From the vast volume and variety of these data emerges the need for the employment of big data techniques and analytics in the context of state-of-the-art intelligent transportation systems (ITS).

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The extreme rise of the Internet of Things and the increasing access of people to web applications have led to the expanding use of diverse e-commerce solutions, which was even more obvious during the COVID-19 pandemic. Large amounts of heterogeneous data from multiple sources reside in e-commerce environments and are often characterized by data source inaccuracy and unreliability. In this regard, various fusion techniques can play a crucial role in addressing such challenges and are extensively used in numerous e-commerce applications.

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The rapid evolution of sensors and communication technologies has led to the production and transfer of mass data streams from vehicles either inside their electronic units or to the outside world using the internet infrastructure. The "outside world", in most cases, consists of third-party applications, such as fleet or traffic management control centers, which utilize vehicular data for reporting and monitoring functionalities. Such applications, in most cases, in order to facilitate their needs, require the exchange and processing of vast amounts of data which can be handled by the so-called Big Data technologies.

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The upcoming agricultural revolution, known as Agriculture 4.0, integrates cutting-edge Information and Communication Technologies in existing operations. Various cyber threats related to the aforementioned integration have attracted increasing interest from security researchers.

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In the last few decades, vehicles are equipped with a plethora of sensors which can provide useful measurements and diagnostics for both the vehicle's condition as well as the driver's behaviour. Furthermore, the rapid increase for transportation needs of people and goods together with the evolution of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) push the transportation domain towards a new more intelligent and efficient era. The reduction of CO emissions and the minimization of the environmental footprint is, undeniably, of utmost importance for the protection of the environment.

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The agriculture sector has held a major role in human societies across the planet throughout history. The rapid evolution in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) strongly affects the structure and the procedures of modern agriculture. Despite the advantages gained from this evolution, there are several existing as well as emerging security threats that can severely impact the agricultural domain.

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