Evangelos Kanoulas address: College of Computer & Information Science Northeastern University 360 Huntington Avenue, West Village H, 202 Boston, MA 02115 office: West Village H, 205 (ML/IR Lab) e-mail: ekanou at ccs dot neu dot edu phone: 617-373-2502

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Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2009 (expected)
College of Computer & Information Science
Northeastern University, Boston, USA
Advisor: Javed A. Aslam
Co-advisor: Betty Salzberg

M.S. in Computer Science, May 2004
College of Computer & Information Science
Northeastern University, Boston, USA
Advisor: Betty Salzberg

B.S. in Applied Informatics, May 2002
Department of Applied Informatics
University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece
Advisor: Georgios Evangelidis

Teaching

Research

Publications

• Information Retrieval
  • "Empirical Justification of the Gain and Discount Function for nDCG".
    Evangelos Kanoulas and Javed Aslam
    To appear in Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2009. [bibTex]
  
  
  
  • "Modeling the Score Distributions of Relevant and Non-Relevant Documents".
    Evangelos Kanoulas, Virgil Pavlu, Keshi Dai and Javed Aslam
    To appear in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR), 2009. [bibTex]
  
  
  
  • "Document Selection Methodologies for Efficient and Effective Learning-to-Rank".
    Javed A. Aslam, Evangelos Kanoulas, Virgil Pavlu, Stefan Savev and Emine Yilmaz
    In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2009 [pdf] [bibTex] [slides]
    Data set used for this paper.
  
  
  
  • "If I had a Million Queries".
    Ben Carterette, Virgil Pavlu, Evangelos Kanoulas, James Allan, and Javed A. Aslam,
    31st Annual European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), 2009. [pdf] [bibTex] [slides]
  
  
  
  • "Million Query Track 2008 Overview".
    James Allan, Javed A. Aslam, Ben Carterette, Virgil Pavlu and Evangelos Kanoulas
    TREC Notebook 2009, to appear. [bibTex]
  
  
  
  • "Evaluation Over Thousands of Queries".
    Ben Carterette, Virgil Pavlu, Evangelos Kanoulas, Javed A. Aslam and James Allan
    In Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2008 [pdf] [bibTex] [slides]
  
  
  
  • "A Simple and Efficient Sampling Method for Estimating AP and NDCG".
    Emine Yilmaz, Evangelos Kanoulas and Javed A. Aslam
    In Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2008 [pdf] [bibTex] [slides]
  
  
  
  • "Million Query Track 2007 Overview".
    James Allan, Ben Carterette, Javed A. Aslam, Virgil Pavlu, Blagovest Dachev and Evangelos Kanoulas
    TREC Notebook 2008 [bibTex]
  
  


• Data Mining for Radiation Oncology
  • "Derivation of the tumor position from external respiratory surrogates with periodical updating of the internal/external correlation".
    Evangelos Kanoulas, Javed A. Aslam, Greg C. Sharp, Ross I. Berbeco, Seiko Nishioka, Hiroki Shirato and Steve B. Jiang,
    Journal of Physics in Medicine and Biology, 52:5443-5456, September 2007 [pdf] [bibTex]
  
  
  
  • "Derivation of the Tumor Position From External Respiratory Surrogates with Periodical Updating of External/internal Correlation". [Abstract]
    Evangelos Kanoulas, Javed A. Aslam, Greg C. Sharp, Ross I. Berbeco, Seiko Nishioka, Hiroki Shirato and Steve B. Jiang,
    In 48^th AAPM Annual Meeting,
    Orlando, FL, USA, 2006. [abstract] [pdf] [bibTex] [slides]
  
  


• Databases & Data Mining
  • "Finding Fastest Paths on A Road Network with Speed Patterns".
    Evangelos Kanoulas, Yang Du, Tian Xia and Donghui Zhang,
    In Proceedings of the 22^nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE),
    Atlanta, GA, USA, 2006. [pdf] [bibTex] [slides]
  
  
  
  • "Computing Top-t Most Influential Spatial Sites".
    Tian Xia, Donghui Zhang, Evangelos Kanoulas and Yang Du,
    In Procceedings of the 31^st International Conference on Vary Large Data Bases (VLDB), pages 946-957,
    Trondheim, Norway, 2005. [pdf] [bibTex] [slides]
  
  
  
  • "A Framework for Access Methods for Versioned Data".
    Betty Salzberg, Linan Jiang, David Lomet, Manuel Barrena, Jing Shan and Evangelos Kanoulas,
    In Proceedings of the 9^th International Conference of Extending Database Technology (EDBT), pages 730-747,
    Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 2004. [pdf] [bibTex] [slides]
  
  
  
  • "Indexing of Spatiotemporal Data with the hB-pi tree".
    Evangelos Kanoulas and Georgios Evangelidis,
    In Proceedings of the 1^st Hellenic Data Management Symposium (HDMS),
    Athens, Greece, 2002. [bibTex] [slides]