Publications

A Supervised Skyline-Based Algorithm for Spatial Entity Linkage. Suela Isaj, Vassilis Kaffes, Torben Bach Pedersen, Giorgos Giannopoulos. Published in Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 29th March-1st April, 2022, ISBN 978-3-89318-085-7, 2022 

Model-Agnostic Counterfactual Explanations of Recommendations. Vassilis Kaffes, Dimitris Sacharidis, Giorgos Giannopoulos. Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. June 2021. Pages 280–285, 2021 

Learning Advanced Similarities and Training Features for Toponym Interlinking. Giorgos Giannopoulos, Vassilis Kaffes, Georgios Kostoulas. ECIR 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12035., 2020 

Boosting toponym interlinking by paying attention to both machine and deep learning. Konstantinos Alexis, Vassilis Kaffes, Giorgos Giannopoulos. Proceedings of the Sixth International ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Managing and Mining Enriched Geo-Spatial Data. June 2020. Article No.: 4. Pages 1–5, 2020 

Determining the provenance of land parcel polygons via machine learning. Vassilis Kaffes, Giorgos Giannopoulos, Nontas Tsakonas, Spiros Skiadopoulos. 32nd International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management. July 2020 Article No.: 21. Pages 1–4, 2020 

Improving geocoding quality via learning to integrate multiple geocoders. Konstantinos Alexis, Vassilis Kaffes, Ilias Varkas, Andreas Syngros, Nontas Tsakonas, Giorgos Giannopoulos. 32nd International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management. July 2020 Article No.: 20. Pages 1–4, 2020 

Learning domain specific models for toponym interlinking. Vassilis Kaffes, Giorgos Giannopoulos, Nikos Karagiannakis, Nontas Tsakonas. Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. November 2019. Pages 504–507, 2019 

Finding shortest keyword covering routes in road networks. Vassilis Kaffes, Alexandros Belesiotis, Dimitrios Skoutas, Spiros Skiadopoulos. 30th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2018), 2018 

Spatio-textual user matching and clustering based on set similarity joins. Alexandros Belesiotis, Dimitrios Skoutas, Christodoulos Efstathiades, Vassilis Kaffes, Dieter Pfoser. The VLDB Journal, Volume 27, 2018