Dr. Charalampos A. Dimoulas received his diploma and Ph.D. from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) in 1997 and 2006, respectively. In 2008, he received a post-doctoral research scholarship on audiovisual processing and content management techniques for intelligent analysis of prolonged multi-channel recordings at the Laboratory of Electronic Media (School of Journalism and Mass Communications, AUTh). He was elected Lecturer (November 2009), Assistance Professor (June 2014), Associate Professor (October 2018) and Professor (October 2022) of Electronic Media at the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, AUTh, where he is currently serving.

George K. Karagiannidis is currently Professor in the Electrical & Computer Engineering School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and Head of Wireless Communications & Information Processing (WCIP) Group. His research interests are in the areas of Wireless Communications Systems and Networks, Signal processing, Optical Wireless Communications, Wireless Power Transfer and Applications and Communications & Signal Processing for Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Karagiannidis was in the past Editor in several IEEE journals and from 2012 to 2015 he was the Editor-in Chief of IEEE Communications Letters. From September 2018 to June 2022 he served as Associate Editor-in Chief of IEEE Open Journal of Communications Society. Currently, he is in the Steering Committee of IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networks. Recently, he received three prestigious awards: The 2021 IEEE ComSoc RCC Technical Recognition Award, the 2018 IEEE ComSoc SPCE Technical Recognition Award and the 2022 Humboldt Research Award from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Dr. Karagiannidis is an IEEE Fellow and one of the highly-cited authors across all areas of Electrical Engineering, recognized from Clarivate Analytics as Web-of-Science Highly-Cited Researcher in the nine consecutive years 2015-2023.

Dr. Symeon Papadopoulos is a Principal Researcher with the Information Technologies Institute (ITI), Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Thessaloniki, Greece. He holds an electrical and computer engineering diploma from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, a Professional Doctorate in Engineering from the Technical University of Eindhoven, a Master’s in Business Administration from the Blekinge Institute of Technology and a PhD in Computer Science from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His research interests lie at the intersection of multimedia understanding, social network analysis, information retrieval, big data management and artificial intelligence. Dr. Papadopoulos has co-authored more than 40 papers in refereed journals, 10 book chapters and 130 papers in international conferences, 3 patents, and has edited two books. He has participated in and coordinates a number of relevant EC FP7, H2020 and Horizon Europe projects in the areas of media convergence, social media and artificial intelligence. He is leading the Media Analysis, Verification and Retrieval Group (MeVer, https://mever.iti.gr), and is a co-founder of the Infalia Private Company, a spin-out of CERTH-ITI.

A common problem in the development of Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical System (CPS) applications is the complexity of these domains, due to their hybrid and distributed nature in multiple layers (hardware, network, communication, application etc). Apart from other issues, this inherent complexity often gives room for implementation errors, which can be in many cases fatal and drive the application and/or the system to undesired states. In our workshop, we will present the Locsys platform, which constitutes a holistic approach for designing, declaring, configuring and deploying (in a mock way) data generators and control flows for Internet of Things environments / Cyber Physical Systems, using low-code methodologies (graphical and textual DSLs - Domain Specific Languages). Specifically, the participants will design a simulated environment (e.g. a smart house or a smart city) using drag and drop components, add/configure smart sensors, actuators or environmental actors (e.g. humans), as well as create automation flows using a textual DSL called SmAuto. Finally, the Locsys platform will automatically generate executable Python code, which the participants will execute in Google Colaboratory, so as to inspect and validate their automation flows.

Konstantinos Panayiotou is a PhD Candidate at School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) in Greece. He has been involved for more than 7 years as a researcher in numerous European and National competing research programs. In addition, from 2013 till now, he is a core member of P.A.N.D.O.R.A robotics team and ISSEL group, AUTH. His research interests are focused in software-defined robotics middleware, cloud robotics, internet of things, cyber-physical systems, software automation, model-driven engineering, domain-specific languages, hardware-software co-design and Web3.0, among others, with more than 15 scientific publications in several journals and conferences.

Dr. Eng. Tsardoulias G. Emmanouil obtained his doctorate and engineering diploma from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece, in 2013 and 2007 respectively. His research interests are focused in Cyber-Physical Systems, Internet of Things, autonomous Robots, no/low-code tools and platforms, and applied ML. He has worked as a research associate and/or engineer in GRNET, the Informatics and Telematics Institute (ITI) of CERTH and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), in several EU- and National-funded projects. He currently is the technical manager of the Intelligent Systems and Software Engineering group (ISSEL) and the PANDORA research team. His work has been published in over 70 journal articles, book chapters, and publications.

Dr. Eng. Andreas L. Symeonidis is a Professor of Software Engineering with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He leads the ISSEL group, while he is also Head of Research at Cyclopt. He focuses on the analysis, design, implementation and maintenance of complex software and systems. He has worked as a Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Informatics, University Carlos III Madrid, Spain (2007-2008) and as a Consultant for the European Commission. Dr. Symeonidis’ work has been published in over 200 papers, book chapters, and conference publications. He is currently coordinating more than 10 contract R&D projects, while serving occasionally as a R&D project evaluator and reviewer for the European Commission and the Greek state.