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Professor Elpida
Keravnou-Papailiou
University of Cyprus
Elpida Keravnou-Papailiou is Professor of Computer Science in the
Department of Computer Science of the University of Cyprus (since 1996)
and Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs. Previously she was the Dean of the
Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences (1999-2002) and the first
Chairperson of the Department of Computer Science (1994-1998) of the
University of Cyprus. She received a B.Tech. (first class honors) in
Computer Science from Brunel University, UK (1982) and a Ph.D. in
Cybernetics from the same University (1985). She taught in the
Department of Computer Science of University College London (1985-1992).
She is Associate Editor of the scientific journal Artificial
Intelligence in Medicine (Elsevier) and a member of the Editorial Board
of the scientific journal Systems Research and Information Science
(Gordon and Breach).
She
has carried out research in the areas of knowledge engineering, expert
systems, deep knowledge models, diagnostic reasoning, temporal
reasoning, artificial intelligence in medicine, and hybrid decision
support systems.
In
addition to her publications in scientific journals, conference
proceedings and book chapters she has co-authored (with Professor L.
Johnson) three books (Expert Systems Technology: a guide, Abacus
Press, 1985, Competent Expert Systems: a case study in fault
diagnosis, Kogan, 1986, and Expert Systems Architectures,
Kogan, 1988), she has edited a book volume on Deep Models for Medical
Knowledge Engineering (Elsevier, 1992), and has co-edited (with Drs
N.Lavrac and B.Zupan) a book volume on Intelligent Data Analysis in
Medicine and Pharmacology (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997).
Recently she authored a book on Artificial Intelligence and Expert
Systems for the Greek Open University. Recently she has completed
a new book (co-authored) with C. Combi (Universita' degli Studi di
Verona, Italy) and Y. Shahar (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,
Israel) titled Temporal Information Systems in Medicine, to be
published by Kluwer Academic Publishers.
She
was the Program Committee Chair of the 6th Conference on
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe (France, Grenoble 1997), and
the Co-Chair of two International Workshops on Intelligence Data
Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology (IDAMAP-96 organized under ECAI-96
and IDAPAM-97 organized under IJCAI-97). She has served as member of the
Program Committees of various International Conferences. She served as
the Organizing Committee Chair for the 9 th Conference on
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe (AIME 2003), which was hosted
in Cyprus in October 2003. The period 2003-2005 she served as
Chairperson of the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe (AIME)
Board.
She
is the Chairperson of the Cyprus Council for the Recognition of Higher
Education Qualifications (KY.S.A.T.S.), a member of the Council for the
Educational Evaluation and Accreditation (S.EK.A.P), a member of the
Governing Board of the Cyprus Foundation for National Scholarships (I.K.Y.K),
a member of the Specialist Committee for Educational Reforms and
participated in the Recommendation Committee for the Open University of
Cyprus. Furthermore she is a member of an ad hoc Committee for the
preparation of a proposal regarding the establishment of a Centre for
Research and Evaluation in Education and the reformation of the
Pedagogical Institute of Cyprus.
In
the context of her responsibilities as Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs,
she coordinates the implementation of the Bologna reforms at the
University of Cyprus and she presents Cyprus in the Program Committee
for Erasmus Mundus. She is also a member of the “Bologna Promoters” for
Cyprus.
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