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Poultry Farm Intelligence: An Integrated Multi-Sensor AI Platform for Enhanced Welfare and Productivity Open

Pieris Panagi, Savvas Karatsiolis, Kyriacos Mosphilis, Nicholas Hadjisavvas, Andreas Kamilaris , et al. · 2025

Poultry farming faces increasing pressure to meet productivity targets while ensuring animal welfare and environmental compliance. Yet many small and medium-sized farms lack affordable, integrated tools for continuous monitoring and decisi…

Tight Conditions for Binary-Output Tasks under Crashes Open

Timothé Albouy, Antonio Fernández Anta, Chryssis Georgiou, Nicolas Nicolaou, Junlang Wang · 2025

This paper explores necessary and sufficient system conditions to solve distributed tasks with binary outputs (\textit{i.e.}, tasks with output values in $\{0,1\}$). We focus on the distinct output sets of values a task can produce (intent…

Treatment choices for recurrent patellar instability in children and adolescents Open

Juha‐Jaakko Sinikumpu, Nicolas Nicolaou · 2025

Chronic patellofemoral instability is common in children and adolescents. While it may follow a single traumatic injury to an otherwise healthy and anatomically normal knee, several predisposing anatomical risk factors are often present. T…

KeepA(n)I: Social Stereotypes in and Social Norms for Computer Vision Open

Evgenia Christoforou, Nicolas Nicolaou, Efstathios Stavrakis, Jahna Otterbacher · 2025

The KeepA(n)I platform facilitates the auditing of computer vision systems that tag images, which aid visual communication on the Web and social media, from content moderation to the development of new apps and tools. In particular, KeepA(…

The protocol for a multicentre prospective randomized noninferiority trial of surgical reduction versus non-surgical casting for displaced distal radius fractures in children Open

Daniel C. Perry, Juul Achten, James Mason, Daphne Kounail, Nicolas Nicolaou , et al. · 2025

Aims The remarkable capacity for distal radius fractures in children to remodel raises questions about the necessity and extent of the intervention required to achieve anatomical alignment. The British Society of Children’s Orthopaedic Sur…

A Multiple Compression Approach using Attribute-based Signatures Open

Constantinos Costa, Panos K. Chrysanthis, Herodotos Herodotou, Marios Costa, Efstathios Stavrakis , et al. · 2025

Background With the increasing volume of data collected for advanced analytical and AI applications, data storage remains a significant challenge. Despite advancements in storage technologies, the cost of maintaining vast datasets continue…

Immersive virtual reality rehabilitation after lower limb surgery in paediatric patients Open

Ivan Phelan, Alicia Carrion-Plaza, Penny Furness, Jack Parker, Nicolas Nicolaou , et al. · 2025

Purpose Patients who have undergone lower limb surgery require rehabilitation to regain movement and function in the affected leg. Unfortunately, physical rehabilitation can be painful, reducing compliance and recovery. This feasibility st…

Poultry Farm Intelligence: An Integrated Multi-Sensor Ai Platform for Enhanced Welfare and Productivity Open

Pieris Panagi, Savvas Karatsiolis, Kyriacos Mosphilis, Nicholas Hadjisavvas, Andreas Kamilaris , et al. · 2025

AMECOS: A Modular Event-Based Framework for Concurrent Object Specification Open

Timothé Albouy, Antonio Fernández Anta, Chryssis Georgiou, Mathieu Gestin, Nicolas Nicolaou , et al. · 2025

In this work, we introduce a modular framework for specifying distributed systems that we call AMECOS. Specifically, our framework departs from the traditional use of sequential specification, which presents limitations both on the specifi…

An increase in paediatric arthroscopy in Europe: Experience of the EPOS Sport Study Group Open

Marco Turati, Marco Crippa, Nicolas Nicolaou, Elena Tassistro, Juha‐Jaakko Sinikumpu , et al. · 2024

Purpose: Paediatric musculoskeletal injuries in association with increased participation in sports activities continue to increase. Arthroscopy is recognized as a safe and effective procedure in children. This study aims to identify trends…

Towards understanding animal welfare by observing collective flock behaviors via AI-powered Analytics Open

Savvas Karatsiolis, Pieris Panagi, Vassilis Vassiliades, Andreas Kamilaris, Nicolas Nicolaou , et al. · 2024

Tracing the Latencies of Ares: A DSM Case Study Open

Chryssis Georgiou, Nicolas Nicolaou, Andria Trigeorgi · 2024

Distributed tracing is a method used to monitor applications by tracking and visualizing requests as they move across various components and services in a distributed system. Despite being widely adopted in major cloud-computing applicatio…

AMECOS: A Modular Event-based Framework for Concurrent Object Specification Open

Timothé Albouy, Antonio Fernández Anta, Chryssis Georgiou, Mathieu Gestin, Nicolas Nicolaou , et al. · 2024

In this work, we introduce a modular framework for specifying distributed systems that we call AMECOS. Specifically, our framework departs from the traditional use of sequential specification, which presents limitations both on the specifi…

Arthroscopic repair of proximal anterior cruciate ligament tears in children and adolescents: A systematic review Open

Marco Turati, Filippo Maria Anghilieri, Simone Daniel Gatti, Aurélien Courvoisier, L Rigamonti , et al. · 2024

Purpose: Anterior cruciate ligament repair techniques are of growing interest because they allow for minimally invasive surgery that avoids harvesting of the transplant, without risking growth deficiencies in young patients. The aim of thi…

Ares II: Tracing the Flaws of a (Storage) God Open

Chryssis Georgiou, Nicolas Nicolaou, Andria Trigeorgi · 2024

Ares is a modular framework, designed to implement dynamic, reconfigurable, fault-tolerant, read/write and strongly consistent distributed shared memory objects. Recent enhancements of the framework have realized the efficient implementati…

Auditing Machine Behaviors: Does a diverse crowd result in different social norms? Open

Evgenia Christoforou, Kalia Orphanou, Nicolas Nicolaou, Efstathios Stavrakis, Jahna Otterbacher · 2023

Many intelligent systems depend on black-box services for achieving goals. For example, Decision Support Systems (DSS) incorporate image tagging services for translating the content of an image into useful information that serves the purpo…

Application of machine learning on optical fibre distributed sensing for power line applications Open

Kyriacos Kalli, Andreas A. Ioannou, Georgios Panaretou, Charalambos Kouzoupou, Maria C. Argyrou , et al. · 2023

We present a study on the application of machine learning to optical fibre distributed sensing, with data recovered using a state-of-the-art, commercial BOTDR distributed sensing system; temperature information was extracted from the power…

Power cable simulation of failure through temperature monitoring of optical fibres with a state-of-the-art distributed sensing instrument Open

Andreas A. Ioannou, Andreas Metaxas, Maria C. Argyrou, Charalambos Kouzoupou, Kyriacos Kalli , et al. · 2023

In this work we utilize multimode optical fibers for the detection of simulated errors or failures in underground power cables. It is known that in cases of failure the underground transmission cables overheat locally, they become a hot-sp…

EAC power distribution line cable monitoring using state-of-the-art distributed sensing instruments Open

Andreas A. Ioannou, Maria C. Argyrou, Charalambos Kouzoupou, Kyriacos Kalli, P. Marchesini , et al. · 2023

We examine the use of state-of-the-art distributed sensing systems to extract temperature information from the optical fibre infrastructure already of the Electricity Authority of Cyprus power distribution network (~25-year old installatio…

Osteochondritis dissecans of the knee: Epidemiology, etiology, and natural history Open

Marco Turati, Filippo Maria Anghilieri, Marco Bigoni, L Rigamonti, Stéphane Tercier , et al. · 2023

Osteochondritis dissecans of the knee is a disease that typically affects skeletally immature patients. Clinically manifested with knee pain, limping, and joint disfunction, this condition has remained misunderstood and undervalued for a l…

Surgical techniques in the management of pediatric anterior cruciate ligament tears: Current concepts Open

Tang Chun, Tariq Adam Kwaees, Franck Accadbled, Marco Turati, Daniel W. Green , et al. · 2023

Background: Anterior cruciate ligament injury in the child and adolescent patient remains a controversial topic when considering management, especially regarding surgical choices. Treatment variations are seen not just when comparing diffe…

Current concepts in the treatment of first-time patella dislocation in children and adolescents Open

Juha‐Jaakko Sinikumpu, Nicolas Nicolaou · 2023

Background: Lateral dislocation of the patella is a common injury in children. It can occur in previously healthy and anatomically normal knees, but there are several abnormalities that predispose to patellar instability. Magnetic resonanc…

Pediatric Meniscal Surgery in Italy:A 10-Year Epidemiological Nationwide Registry Study Open

Andrea Riganti, Marco Bigoni, Edoardo Pierpaoli, Marco Caliandro, Daniele Piscitelli , et al. · 2023

Immobilisation of torus fractures of the wrist in children (FORCE): a randomised controlled equivalence trial in the UK Open

Daniel C. Perry, Juul Achten, Ruth Knight, D. E. Appelbe, Susan Dutton , et al. · 2022

UK National Institute for Health and Care Research.

Validated Objects: Specification, Implementation, and Applications Open

Antonio Fernández Anta, Chryssis Georgiou, Nicolas Nicolaou, Antonio Russo · 2022

Guaranteeing the validity of concurrent operations on distributed objects is a key property for ensuring reliability and consistency in distributed systems. Usually, the methods for validating these operations, if present, are wired in the…

Fragmented ARES: Dynamic Storage for Large Objects Open

Chryssis Georgiou, Nicolas Nicolaou, Andria Trigeorgi · 2022

Data availability is one of the most important features in distributed storage systems, made possible by data replication. Nowadays data are generated rapidly and developing efficient, scalable and reliable storage systems has become one o…

Estimating Active Cases of COVID-19 Open

Javier Álvarez, Carlos Baquero, Elisa Cabana, Jaya Prakash Champati, Antonio Fernández Anta , et al. · 2021

Having accurate and timely data on active COVID-19 cases is challenging, since it depends on the availability of an appropriate infrastructure to perform tests and aggregate their results. In this paper, we consider a case to be active if …

Consistent Distributed Storage Open

Vincent Gramoli, Nicolas Nicolaou, Alexander A. Schwarzmann · 2021

The CoronaSurveys System for COVID-19 Incidence Data Collection and Processing Open

Carlos Baquero, Paolo Casari, Antonio Fernández Anta, Amanda García-García, Davide Frey , et al. · 2021

CoronaSurveys is an ongoing interdisciplinary project developing a system to infer the incidence of COVID-19 around the world using anonymous open surveys. The surveys have been translated into 60 languages and are continuously collecting …

Estimating the COVID-19 Prevalence in Spain With Indirect Reporting via Open Surveys Open

Augusto García-Agúndez, Oluwasegun Ojo, Harold A. Hernández-Roig, Carlos Baquero, Davide Frey , et al. · 2021

During the initial phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, accurate tracking has proven unfeasible. Initial estimation methods pointed toward case numbers that were much higher than officially reported. In the CoronaSurveys project, we have been …

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