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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Context-aware service utilisation in the clouds and energy conservation

Journal Article
Kiani, S. L., Anjum, A., Antonopoulos, N., & Knappmeyer, M. (2014)
Context-aware service utilisation in the clouds and energy conservation. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 5(1), 111-131. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-012-0131-1
Ubiquitous computing environments are characterised by smart, interconnected artefacts embedded in our physical world that provide useful services to human inhabitants unobtru...

Dot-base62x: building a compact and user-friendly text representation scheme of ipv6 addresses for cloud computing

Journal Article
Liu, Z., Liu, L., Hardy, J., Anjum, A., Hill, R., & Antonopoulos, N. (2012)
Dot-base62x: building a compact and user-friendly text representation scheme of ipv6 addresses for cloud computing. Journal of cloud computing advances, systems and applications, 1(1), 3. https://doi.org/10.1186/2192-113X-1-3
Cloud computing has dramatically reshaped the whole IT industry in recent years. With the transition from IPv4 to IPv6, services running in Cloud computing will face problems ...

Adaptive service discovery on service-oriented and spontaneous sensor systems

Journal Article
Liu, L., Xu, J., Antonopoulos, N., Li, J., & Wu, K. (2012)
Adaptive service discovery on service-oriented and spontaneous sensor systems. Adhoc and Sensor Wireless Networks, 14(1-2), 107-132
Natural and man-made disasters can significantly impact both people and environments. Enhanced effect can be achieved through dynamic networking of people, systems and procedu...

Distributed service integration for disaster monitoring sensor systems

Journal Article
Liu, L., Antonopoulos, N., Xu, J., Webster, D., & Wu, K. (2011)
Distributed service integration for disaster monitoring sensor systems. IET Communications, 5(12), 1777-1784. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-com.2010.0630
Sensor networks have the potential to revolutionise the capture, processing and communication of critical data for use of disaster rescue and relief. In order to provide a dep...

1st International Conference on Advances in P2P Systems, AP2PS 2009: Preface

Conference Proceeding
Aiello, M., De Turck, F., Dini, P., Fortino, G., Jarvis, S., Li, M., …Kambayashi, Y. (2009)
1st International Conference on Advances in P2P Systems, AP2PS 2009: Preface. https://doi.org/10.1109/AP2PS.2009.5
Presents the welcome message from the conference proceedings.

The Third International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology, ICCGI 2008: Preface

Conference Proceeding
Paleologu, C., El-Bawab, T., Noll, J., Antonopoulos, N., Bi, J., Jiang, G., …Dini, O. (2008)
The Third International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology, ICCGI 2008: Preface. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCGI.2008.4
Presents the introductory welcome message from the conference proceedings.

Efficient resource discovery in self-organized unstructured peer-to-peer networks

Journal Article
Liu, L., Antonopoulos, N., Mackin, S., Xu, J., & Russell, D. (2009)
Efficient resource discovery in self-organized unstructured peer-to-peer networks. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 21(2), 159-183. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.1329
In unstructured peer‐to‐peer (P2P) networks, two autonomous peer nodes can be connected if users in those nodes are interested in each other's data. Owing to the similarity be...

Managing peer-to-peer networks with human tactics in social interactions

Journal Article
Liu, L., Antonopoulos, N., & Mackin, S. (2008)
Managing peer-to-peer networks with human tactics in social interactions. Journal of Supercomputing, 44(3), 217-236. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-007-0156-y
Small-world phenomena have been observed in existing peer-to-peer (P2P) networks which has proved useful in the design of P2P file-sharing systems. Most studies of constructin...

Fault-tolerant peer-to-peer search on small-world networks

Journal Article
Liu, L., Antonopoulos, N., & Mackin, S. (2007)
Fault-tolerant peer-to-peer search on small-world networks. Future Generation Computer Systems, 23(8), 921-931. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2007.03.002
This paper presents a small world architecture for P2P networks (SWAN) for content discovery in multi-group P2P systems. A semi-structured P2P algorithm of SWAN is utilized to...