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Nik Bessis
NIK BESSIS IS HEAD OF DISYS (DISTRIBUTED AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS) RESEARCH GROUP AND A FULL PROFESSOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE (CHAIR) AT THE SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS, UNIVERSITY OF DERBY, UK. HE IS ALSO ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE, UK. HE OBTAINED A BA (1991) FROM THE TEI OF ATHENS AND COMPLETED HIS MA (1995) AND PHD (2002) AT DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY (LEICESTER, UK). HE IS A MEMBER OF IEEE AND A FELLOW OF THE BRITISH COMPUTER SOCIETY. HIS RESEARCH INTERESTS RESIDE WITHIN THE NEXT GENERATION DATA TECHNOLOGIES AND INCLUDE DATA INTEGRATION, DATA PUSH, RESOURCE DISCOVERY AND SCHEDULLING, DATA GRIDS, CLOUDS, WEB 2.0, SOCIAL NETWORKING, CROWD SOURCING AND COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE. NIK HAS ALSO AN INTEREST IN THE INTERNET OF THE THINGS AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT. HE HAS INVOLVED IN (£2M) AND LED (£0.6M) A NUMBER OF FUNDED RESEARCH AND COMMERCIAL PROJECTS IN THESE AREAS. PROF BESSIS HAS PUBLISHED OVER 110 PAPERS, ORGANISED SEVERAL WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES, SERVED AS A CONFERENCE CHAIR, KEYNOTE SPEAKER, EDITOR OF 3 BOOKS, EDITOR OF SEVERAL SPECIAL ISSUES AND THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES (IJDST).
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