Panayotis Antoniadis@ETH Zurich (2012-2015)
This was my personal page at ETH's Zurich Communication Systems Group as a Senior researchers between 2012-1015, hosted today at NetHood's domain.
My current web page is available at: http://nethood.org/panayotis

Hallo! Grüezi!

A few years ago, I made the big decision to move from a "mainstream" career in computer science to a highly interdisciplinary research agenda combining networking, urban studies, interaction design, and behavioral economics. With my collegues, we have now established nethood as a nonprofit organization based in Zurich, which aims to provide tools for the participatory design of hybrid urban spaces that encourage information sharing between strangers, citizen engagement, and conviviality.

I owe a lot to Prof. Bernhard Plattner and the Communication Systems Group who provided an ideal research and human environment for such a demanding step in my life. It was also thanks to his support that we have recently managed to acquire funding for two related projects under the EU Horizon2020 CAPS framework:



News

  • I am very happy to announce that NetHood, a recently founded non-profit organization in Zurich, is part of two successful grant EU Horizon2020 proposals, MAZI and netCommons. More news coming coon!
  • Many interesting events/talks on DIY networking in May: Florence, Athens, and Brussels. Need more time for documentation! :-)
  • The final symposium of the COMPARE project in Zurich was very successful and documentation will be available soon. Here is the programme of the symposium and the list of researchers, activists, and practitioners that came together to talk about self-organization from their different perspectives exploring different success stories in Switzerland in the areas of engineering, complementary currencies and cooperative housing: http://compare-network.net/zurich/

  • Our workshop on Alternative Internet(s) at LSE, has been followed by a very interesting series at the LSE Media Policy blog (read my post here) and a special issue at the Journal of Peer Production.

  • Our paper on the right to the hybrid city, DIY networking, and the sidewalk metaphor is now published at the Journal of Community Informatics. [pdf]

  • A new community on offline networks is under formation. Our first gatherings took place at The Chaos Computer Club conference in Hamburg, December 27-30th, and Transmediale festival in Berlin, January 31st 2015.

  • The extended abstract, slides, and video from my recent keynote talk titled "Local networks for local interactions", at the Symposium «Reclaiming the Internet» with distributed architectures: rights, technologies, practices, innovation, October 2-3, 2014, MINES ParisTech.

  • I am very proud to be a member of the stakeholder board of the P2P value project.

  • The 3rd EINS Summer School From Smart Cities to Engaged Citizens was one of the most exciting and inspiring moments in my professional life. Looking forward to meeting everyone again soon to work together on the design of participatory, inclusive, and complementary solutions for another city in the world! The e-book documenting our interdisciplinary experience and results is coming soon!



Current research

My current research is partially supported by the Network of Excellence in Internet Science. The following position paper, presented at the 1st International Conference on Internet Science, Brussels, and co-authored with Ileana Apostol, summarizes some of our core ideas and long-term vision: The Neighbourhood Game: from behavioural economics to urban planning [paper, slides].

Since this presentation, we spend most of our time studying related work from different disciplines, discovering similar projects, organizing interdisciplinary events, and travelling for research visits and invited talks. We will soon present and synthesize the outcome of this phase of our work at this web site: http://nethood.org.


Recent publications
  • P. Antoniadis and I. Apostol, The Right(s) to the Hybrid City and the Role of DIY Networking. The Journal of Community Informatics, vol. 10, nov. 2014. Available at: http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/1092/. [pdf]
  • P. Antoniadis, I. Apostol, A. Unteidig, and G. Joost. CONTACT: Facilitating Information Sharing between Strangers Using Hyper-local Community Wireless Networks, UrbanIxD Symposium 2014, Venice, Italy. [pdf, poster]
  • I. Apostol, P. Antoniadis, and T. Banerjee. Flânerie between Net and Place: Possibilities for Participation in Planning, Journal of Planning Education and Research (SAGE), 2013, 33(1): 20-33. [publisher, online review]

Selected invited talks
  • Local networks for local interactions: four reasons why and one way forward, Keynote talk at the Final Symposium of the ADAM project, «Reclaiming the Internet» with distributed architectures: rights, technologies, practices, innovation, October 2-3, 2014, MINES ParisTech, Paris. [abstract, slides, video]
  • Thinking outside the Internet: DIY networking, urban interaction design, and being together in the hybrid city, CAPS conference, workshop on Networked Individualism, Brussels, July 2014. [pdf]
  • From smart cities to engaged citizens: windows for collaboration between computer science and urban planning, a "double" interdisciplinary talk given together with Ileana Apostol, at the University of Thessaly, Volos, and most recently at the Berlin University of the Arts. [pdf]
  • The Neighbourhood Game, the most recent version of the talk on the behavioural economics perspective, given at Oxford University, Department of Experimental Psychology, February 2014. [pdf]

Interdisciplinary events


Abstracts in conferences of different disciplines

  • Designing for local institutions in the hybrid city, Inaugural conference of the World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research (WINIR), 11-14 September 2014, Greenwich, London, UK. [abstract, slides]
  • ICT-mediated Information Sharing in Public Spaces, World Social Science Forum, Panel on "Privacy and Surveillance", Montreal, October 13-15th, 2013. [abstract, slides, in the news: etondigital, mcgilldaily]
  • The Neighbourhood Game: an Information Sharing Experiment in Real Life, 15th International Conference on Social Dilemmas (ICSP), Zurich, 10-13th July, 2013. [abstract, slides]
  • NetHood: A social learning approach for hybrid space design, Joint AESOP/ACSP Planning Congress, Track on "Spatial and Planning Analysis Methods in a Digital World", Dublin, Ireland, July 15-19, 2013. [abstract, slides]
  • ICT Ownership and the right to the hybrid city, International Conference on "Using ICT, Social Media and Mobile Technologies to Foster Self-Organisation in Urban and Neighbourhood Governance", Delft, 16-17 May, 2013. [abstract, slides]


Photography

I love to take photos of "moments", broadly defined, as a means to capture interesting aspects of life on earth :-). As Ross Daly once said: "There are musicians that they play music for you to listen to them. And there are musicians that they play music for you to listen to it [the music]". I think that this holds for all forms of art, and I like to see myself as an amateur photographer in the latter category (but I do appreciate many artists that belong in the former).



I hope that I will find the time at some moment to organize my photos around themes and prepare more slideshows with selected photos on each of them. The following are a few I prepared long time ago around a specific music piece (as from recently, due to changes at the site of ipernity, you need to open a different page to listen to the music while the slideshow is running):




You can also try to navigate my various online accounts in various photo sharing sites like these ones: ipernity, Panayotis@flickr, panayotis@flickr, and youvarlaki@flickr (managed together with Ileana Apostol).





These are some interesting photography groups that I have created (but never found the time to properly administer and promote):



Selected publications per research topic [complete list | all bibtex | citations]

The NetHood project and interdisciplinarity

  • The Right(s) to the Hybrid City and the Role of DIY Networking
    P. Antoniadis and I. Apostol
    The Journal of Community Informatics, forthcoming.
  • CONTACT: Facilitating Information Sharing between Strangers Using Hyper-local Community Wireless Networks
    P. Antoniadis, I. Apostol, A. Unteidig, and G. Joost
    UrbanIxD Symposium 2014, Venice, Italy. [pdf]
  • Do It Yourself Networking: an interdisciplinary approach (Dagstuhl seminar 14042)
    P. Antoniadis, J. Ott, and A. Passarella (eds.)
    Dagstuhl reports, 4(1): 125-151 [publisher]


Hybrid communities and urban planning

  • The Neighbourhood Game: from behavioural economics to urban planning
    P. Antoniadis, and I. Apostol
    1st International Conference on Internet Science, Brussels, April 10-11 2013. [paper, slides]
  • Flânerie between Net and Place: Possibilities for Participation in Planning
    I. Apostol, P. Antoniadis, and T. Banerjee
    Journal of Planning Education and Research (SAGE), March 2013, 33(1): 20-33. [publisher, online review]

  • Cyberspace Design: A New Challenge for Planners
    I. Apostol, P. Antoniadis, and T. Banerjee
    ICE Journal of Urban Design and Planning, September 2012, 166(3):156-163. [publisher ]

  • USB Nets: From Message Ferrying to Leisure
    P. Antoniadis, L. Chen, and F. Legendre
    Proceedings of ACM ExtremeCom, 2012 [pdf]

  • From Face-Block to Facebook or the Other Way Around?
    I. Apostol, P. Antoniadis, and T. Banerjee
    International workshop on Sustainable City and Creativity [pdf]

  • See also: http://nethood.org


Social networks analysis and mining

  • From popularity prediction to ranking online news
    A. Tatar, P. Antoniadis, M.D. de Amorim, S. Fdida
    Social Network Analysis and Mining February, 2014, 4:174 [publisher, conference version]
  • Faving Reciprocity in Content Sharing Communities
    (A Comparative Analysis of Flickr and Twitter)

    J.G. Lee, P. Antoniadis, and K. Salamatian
    Proceedings of ASONAM 2010 [pdf]


Federation economics and testbeds
  • Federation of virtualized infrastructures: sharing the value of diversity
    P. Antoniadis, S. Fdida, T. Friedman and V. Misra
    Proceedings of ACM CoNEXT 2010 [pdf]

  • Resource Provision and Allocation in Shared Network Testbed Infrastructures
    P. Antoniadis, T. Friedman, and X. Cuvellier
    Workshop on Real Overlays and Distributed Systems (ROADS), 2007 [pdf]

  • See also: http://www.myslice.info and a tutorial on SFA and MySlice at TridentCom 2012 (with J. Auge and T. Friedman)


Social incentives for peer-to-peer systems
  • Incentives for resource sharing in ad hoc networks: going beyond rationality
    Book Chapter. In Boon-Chong Seet (ed.), Moblie Peer-to-Peer Computing for Next Generation Distributed Environments: Advancing Conceptual and Algorithmic Applications. IGI Global Publishing, 2009 [pdf - draft] [publisher]

  • Self-organized virtual communities: Bridging the gap between web-based communities and p2p systems
    P. Antoniadis and B. Le Grand
    International Journal of Web-based Communities (IJWBC) 5(2), 2009 [pdf - draft] [publisher, science-blog]

  • Community building over Neighborhood Wireless Mesh Networks
    P. Antoniadis, B. Le Grand, A. Satsiou, L. Tassiulas, R. Aguiar, J.P. Barraca, and S. Sargento
    IEEE Technology and Society, 2008 [pdf - draft] [publisher]


Peer-to-peer Economics
  • Economic Modelling and Incentive Mechanisms for Efficient Resource Provision in Peer-to-Peer Systems
    PhD Thesis, Athens University of Economics and Business, April 2006
    [pdf] [official greek version]

  • Enforcing efficient resource provisioning in peer-to-peer file sharing systems
    P. Antoniadis and C. Courcoubetis
    ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, 40(3):67-72, July 2006 [pdf] [publisher]

  • Incentives for Content Availability in Memory-less Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Systems
    P. Antoniadis, C. Courcoubetis, and B. Strulo
    ACM SIGecom Exchanges, 5(4):11-20, July 2005 [pdf] [publisher]

  • Comparing Economic Incentives in Peer-to-Peer Networks
    P. Antoniadis, C. Courcoubetis, and R. Mason
    Computer Networks, Elsevier, 45(1), 133-146, 2004 [pdf] [publisher]

  • See also: http://nes.aueb.gr/p2p.html


High-speed scheduling
  • FIRM: A Class of Distributed Scheduling Algorithms for High-speed ATM Switches with Multiple Input Queues
    D. N. Serpanos and P. Antoniadis
    In Proceedings of IEEE Infocom 2000 [pdf]


More photos
If you made it up to here perhaps you deserve to see some more photos :-)