Thanasis Balafoutis

1st General Lyceum of Xanthi
Greek Ministry of Education

Publications

T. E. Sarris, T. Balafoutis, G. Kottaras, et al. DUTHSat: A Greek QB50 nano-satellite for Upper Atmosphere Studies. Hipparchos. The Hellenic Astronomical Society Newsletter, ISSN: 1790-9252, Volume 2, Issue 12, pages 11-17, June 2015.

T. Balafoutis. The Importance of Variable Ordering in Constraint Satisfaction Problems. Advanced Computational Technologies, Romanian Academy Publishing House, 322 pag., pages 206-216, Bucharest, Romania 2012.

T. Balafoutis, A. Paparrizou, K. Stergiou, T. Walsh. New Algorithms for max Restricted Path Consistency. Constraints, Volume 16, Number 4, pages 372-406, Springer, October 2011.

T. Balafoutis and K. Stergiou. Evaluating and Improving Modern Variable and Revision Ordering Strategies in CSPs. Fundamenta Informaticae, 102(3-4):229–261, IOS Press, 2010.

T. Balafoutis and K. Stergiou. Adaptive branching for constraint satisfaction problems. In Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2010), pages 855–860, Lisbon, Portugal, 2010.

T. Balafoutis, A. Paparrizou, K. Stergiou, T. Walsh. Improving the performance of maxRPC. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2010), LNCS, Vo 6308, pp. 69-83, St Andrews, Scotland, 2010.

T. Balafoutis, A. Paparrizou, and K. Stergiou. Experimental Evaluation of Branching Schemes for the CSP. In Proceedings of the TRICS workshop at CP-2010, pages 1–12, St. Andrews, Scotland, 2010.

T. Balafoutis and K. Stergiou. Conflict directed variable selection strategies for constraint satisfaction problems. In Proceedings of the 6th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SETN), pages 29–38, Athens, 2010.

Balafoutis and K. Stergiou. Exploiting constraint weights for revision ordering in arc consistency algorithms. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence Workshop on Modeling and Solving Problems with Constraints, Patras, Greece 2008.

T. Balafoutis and K. Stergiou. On conflict-driven variable ordering heuristucs. Rome, Italy, 2008.

T. Balafoutis and K. Stergiou. Experimental evaluation of modern variable selection strategies in constraint satisfaction problems. In Proceedings of the 15th RCRA workshop on Experimental Evaluation of Algorithms for Solving Problems with Combinatorial Explosion, Udine, Italy 2008.

T. Balafoutis, and K. Stergiou. Algorithms for stochastic CSPs. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Principles and Practices of Constraint Programming, LNCS 4204, pages 44–58, Nantes, France, 2006.

Research papers in Education

T. Balafoutis, P. Pavlos, E. Pavlos. Boosting Wikis with Mind Maps in Collaborative Learning Environments. In Proceedings of the 6th National and International HSSS Conference "Systemic Approaches in Social Structures", Mytilene, 2010.

A. Tsinakos and T. Balafoutis. A Comparative Survey On Mind Mapping Tools. Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education-TOJDE, ISSN 1302-6488 Volume: 10 Number: 3 Article 2, July 2009

Αθ. Μπαλαφούτης, Β. Παπαδοπούλου. Παρουσίαση αποτελεσμάτων ερευνητικής εργασίας με θέμα: «Η Ζωή στη ∆ικτυούπολη». 1o Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο "Ερευνητικές Εργασίες-project", Θεσσαλονίκη 2012.

Β. Κώττη, Αθ. Μπαλαφούτης. Αξιοποίηση των wikis στα πλαίσια της Ερευνητικής Εργασίας. 1o Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο "Ερευνητικές Εργασίες-project", Θεσσαλονίκη 2012.

Αθ. Μπαλαφούτης, Π. Σαραγιώτης. Ενίσχυση των Wikis με την Χρήση Νοητικών Χαρτών σε Συνεργατικά Περιβάλλοντα Μάθησης. 5ο Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο Καθηγητών Πληροφορικής ∆ευτεροβάθμιας Εκπαίδευσης, Ιωάννινα 2011.