Nick Antonopoulos
nick antonopoulos

Prof Nick Antonopoulos

Deputy Vice Chancellor and Vice Principal of Research & Innovation

 0131 455 2425

  N.Antonopoulos@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Nick joined Edinburgh Napier in January 2019 from the University of Derby, where he was Pro Vice Chancellor (Research and Innovation) and Research Professor in Cloud Computing.

He has more than 20 years of academic and leadership experience, with a very strong background in initiating, leading and delivering improvements at an institutional level.

Nick has an excellent international reputation in his field, evidenced by his papers, books, chairing of prestigious conferences, and his active leadership of broad reaching research partnerships nationally and internationally. He has an extensive network across government, commerce and industry.

As well as the Dean and Research and Innovation Office, the Deans of the Schools of Computing, Engineering & Built Environment and Health & Social Care report to Nick.

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A critical review of the routing protocols in opportunistic networks.

Journal Article
Panneerselvam, J., Atojoko, A., Smith, K., Liu, L., & Antonopoulos, N. (2014)
A critical review of the routing protocols in opportunistic networks. EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems, 1(1), https://doi.org/10.4108/inis.1.1.e6
The goal of Opportunistic Networks (OppNets) is to enable message transmission in an infrastructure less environment where a reliable end-to-end connection between the hosts i...

A critical comparative evaluation on DHT-based peer-to-peer search algorithms

Journal Article
Betts, A., Liu, L., Li, Z., & Antonopoulos, N. (2014)
A critical comparative evaluation on DHT-based peer-to-peer search algorithms. International Journal of Embedded Systems, 6(2/3), 250-256. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijes.2014.063823
Peer-to-peer networks are becoming increasingly popular as a method of creating highly scalable and robust distributed systems. To address performance issues when scaling trad...

Cloud BI: Future of business intelligence in the Cloud

Journal Article
Al-Aqrabi, H., Liu, L., Hill, R., & Antonopoulos, N. (2015)
Cloud BI: Future of business intelligence in the Cloud. Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 81(1), 85-96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcss.2014.06.013
In self-hosted environments it was feared that business intelligence (BI) will eventually face a resource crunch situation due to the never ending expansion of data warehouses...

Virtual vignettes: the acquisition, analysis, and presentation of social network data

Journal Article
Howden, C., Liu, L., Li, Z., Li, J., & Antonopoulos, N. (2014)
Virtual vignettes: the acquisition, analysis, and presentation of social network data. SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences, 57(3), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-014-5069-9
Online social networks (OSNs) are immensely prevalent and have now become a ubiquitous and important part of the modern, developed society. However, online social networks pos...

Approaching the Internet of things (IoT): a modelling, analysis and abstraction framework

Journal Article
Ikram, A., Anjum, A., Hill, R., Antonopoulos, N., Liu, L., & Sotiriadis, S. (2015)
Approaching the Internet of things (IoT): a modelling, analysis and abstraction framework. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 27(8), 1966-1984. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.3131
Summary The evolution of communication protocols, sensory hardware, mobile and pervasive devices, alongside social and cyber‐physical networks, has made the Internet of things...

Performance evaluation and simulation of peer-to-peer protocols for Massively Multiplayer Online Games

Journal Article
Liu, L., Jones, A., Antonopoulos, N., Ding, Z., & Zhan, Y. (2015)
Performance evaluation and simulation of peer-to-peer protocols for Massively Multiplayer Online Games. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 74(8), 2763-2780. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-013-1662-y
Massively Multiplayer Online Games are networked games that allow a large number of people to play together. Classically MMOG worlds are hosted on many powerful servers and pl...

An Investigation of Security Trends in Personal Wireless Networks

Journal Article
Liu, L., Stimpson, T., Antonopoulos, N., Ding, Z., & Zhan, Y. (2014)
An Investigation of Security Trends in Personal Wireless Networks. Wireless Personal Communications, 75(3), 1669-1687. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-013-1386-3
Wireless networks are an integral part of day-to-day life for many people, with businesses and home users relying on them for connectivity and communication. This paper examin...

Achieving green IT using VDI in cyber physical society.

Journal Article
Liu, L., DaSilva, D., Antonopoulos, N., Ding, Z., & Zhan, Y. (2013)
Achieving green IT using VDI in cyber physical society. Journal of Internet Technology, 14(3), 413-424
With rapid advances in Internet technologies and increasing popularity of cyber social networks, the physical world and cyber world are gradually merging to form a new cyber-s...

Federated broker system for pervasive context provisioning

Journal Article
Kiani, S. L., Anjum, A., Knappmeyer, M., Bessis, N., & Antonopoulos, N. (2013)
Federated broker system for pervasive context provisioning. Journal of Systems and Software, 86(4), 1107-1123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2012.11.050
Software systems that provide context-awareness related functions in pervasive computing environments are gaining momentum due to emerging applications, architectures and busi...

Energy Performance Assessment of Virtualization Technologies Using Small Environmental Monitoring Sensors

Journal Article
Liu, L., Masfary, O., & Antonopoulos, N. (2012)
Energy Performance Assessment of Virtualization Technologies Using Small Environmental Monitoring Sensors. Sensors, 12(5), 6610-6628. https://doi.org/10.3390/s120506610
The increasing trends of electrical consumption within data centres are a growing concern for business owners as they are quickly becoming a large fraction of the total cost o...