Stathes HadjiefthymiadesStathes Hadjiefthymiades received his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Informatics and Telecommunications from the Department of Informatics & Telecommunications (DIT) of the University of Athens (UoA), Athens, Greece. He also received a joint engineering-eonomics M.Sc. degree from the National Technical University of Athens. In 1992 he joined the Greek consulting firm Advanced Services Group, Ltd., as an analyst/developer of telematic applications and systems. In 1995 he became a member of the Communication Networks Laboratory of UoA. From 2001 to 2002, he served as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Aegean, Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering. In 2002 he joined the faculty of the Hellenic Open University (Department of Informatics), Patras, Greece, as an assistant professor. Since the beginning of 2004, he has been a member of the faculty of UoA, DIT where he is presently an assistant professor. He has participated in numerous projects realized in the context of EU programmes and national initiatives. His research interests are in the areas of mobile, pervasive computing, web systems engineering, and networked multimedia applications. He is the author of over 150 publications in these areas. Read More Read Less