BE-Digital: Alliance for Fostering Business and Education Innovation through Digital Supply Chains (Role: Principal Investigator/Partner)

The concept of Digital Supply Chains (SCs) fosters the use of disruptive technological interventions, such as: (1) Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs), (2) Internet of Things (IoT), (3) Data Analytics and Big Data (including Blockchain), and (4) Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR). Notably, the European Commission reports that existing jobs are likely to change due to the Information Technology advancements. In this context, the European higher education students and new generation workforce should get accustomed to the new digital landscape. The BE-Digital project aims at identifying the digital needs and opportunities within the SC ecosystem to develop an innovative higher education and VET programme that provides students with digital competences and skills through the collaboration of educational and corporate organizations. The BE-Digital consortium will focus on the development of specialized courses in the four abovementioned thematic areas to promote: (i) the integration of disruptive technologies for Digital SCs in the higher education and VET curricula to tackle skill mismatches, and (ii) the transformation of the traditional SC business models to digital and sustainable ones. Each thematic area will comprise two courses for the students (i.e. introductory and advanced-level courses). The courses will be designed to include innovative teaching methodologies and interactive learning tools (i.e. a Serious game, a virtual scenarios for showcasing the integration of the proposed courses in the digital SC context), up-to-date material for in-class and e-learning courses, academic and company staff lectures. The suitability and quality of the developed coursed will be tested and evaluated by launching intensive pilot courses for students in the four participating countries (Greece, Italy, Cyprus, Portugal) of the BE-Digital project, further including mobility activities to support transnational and multidisciplinary collaboration in the field of Digital SCs.

AURA-Care: AUgmented and virtual ReAlity enabled communication, training and data streaming in healthcare (Role: Principal Investigator/Partner)

The AURA project aims to optimize care-provision in modern healthcare by developing an innovation- and User Centered Design-driven product to revolutionize communication among professionals and their older patients and hence, enhance care provision and professional practices. The system will consist of three research-backed up modules: a) An AR communication assistant: allowing augmentation of the physical world with neuropsychologist-endorsed and superimposed digital annotations to facilitate understandability during video-calls. b) A 360° simulation module: Offering an immersive, risk-free and cost-effective experiential learning/assessment tool. c) An online personalized data streaming service: supporting data mining and decision-making through data visualizations and infographics.

UPDEIT: UPDating university curricula on Early InTervention (Role: Principal Investigator/Partner)

The goal of this project is on early intervention for children with developmental delay, and that is to give these children an equal opportunity in life. Addressing digital transformation through development of digital readiness, resilience and capacity is the most relevant horizontal priority for the project. It supports evidence-based practices and it fosters innovative and creative IT solutions in the area of early childhood development and early intervention.

BLISS: Boosting health LIteracy for School Students (Role: Principal Investigator/Partner)

BLISS aims to respond to the 'health need' and the associated need to have the tools to find, analyse and understand health-related news with an integrated educational and social intervention. These skills are part of 'digital health literacy', as defined by the WHO. The intervention is particularly urgent in the current period, in which the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are evident and severe, particularly in the population segments of developmental age. The acronym chosen, BLISS, is not accidental: the project wants to offer the beneficiaries a better quality of life and well-being for their future, thanks to the acquisition of fundamental skills for personal growth and active European citizenship. The objective of improving citizens' health has in fact a transnational scope, as clearly stated in the European Commission's eHealth Action Plan 2012-2020.

ASM4Deaf: Accessible System and Social Media Mobile Application for Deaf Users (Role: Principal Investigator/Partner)

Aligned with the results of research studies and the EU Directive the main objective of the proposed project is to develop a cloud-based system and an innovative mobile application that will support the use of multiple sign languages within mainstream social media and networking platforms (e.g. Whats App, FB Messenger, Google Hangouts, Viber etc.). Furthermore, this objective is well aligned to the programme call that supports the creation and initial development of innovative STARTUPs which aim to develop innovative products and services with global market penetration prospects.

OLMEdu: Open Lab for the up-skilling of higher educational staff in on-line MAnagement EDucation (Role: Project Coordinator)

OLMedu project aims at the creation of an open lab for the up-skilling of HES staff in online management education. The activities foreseen aim to produce the following outputs: a) The development of training content for the up-skilling of HES in the use of ICT technologies and online training in ME b) The development of learning material for the use of online training and ICT technologies in teaching management c) The development of a Toolbox for developing online simulations in ME d) The development of an online learning repository for HEI educational staff.

BCT4SMEs: High level knowledge awareness of BlockChain Technology applications in SMEs (Role: Principal Investigator/Partner)

BCT4SMEs aims at supporting managers utilizing and integrating blockchain technology, and benefit from the advantages that it comes with. In order to achieve its goal, the project will create a personalized environment which will deliver strategies and actions that need to be adopted by learners in order to learn how to effectively use the blockchain technology.

GUIDed: GUIDed Assisted-Living and Social Interaction Platform (Role: Principal Investigator/Partner)

The project will integrate existing open-source technologies, platforms and tools, as well as assemble a smart AR-enabled platform based on existing fully customizable hardware boards to offer a set of simple, plug-and-play, assisted-living (AL) services. Real users including primary (older adults), secondary (family members, healthcare professionals and network) and tertiary (i.e., care organizations) users will be involved throughout the project progress and assist in system design, integration, testing and evaluation. The Augmented Reality Healthcare Expert will be designed in such a manner that will be intuitive to use while at the same time it will tackle cognitive decline and forgetfulness. Prior to using the Augmented Reality Training Expert, older adults will have a one-to-one training session with the respective end-user organization and will be subsequently supported when in need with regular check-ups.

DineTours (Role: Principal Investigator/Partner)

The project will get feedback from early adopters to fine-tune and deliver the extensible Dinetours web platform, which is marketable (TRL9) and where each module is provided as a Web Service. It will offer virtual reality tours and booking services for supporting reservations in the hospitality sector, e.g., restaurants, venues. A market research will be performed for gathering, recording and analysing data about customers, clients, competitors and the market. This will be part of the overall feasibility study that aims to reveal if the platform meets certain financial and social goals in the market, to define the right business model and business plan. Finally, focus will be also given to the dissemination and exploitation of the platform based on the activities and events defined in the project.

SportsTraveler76 (Role: Principal Investigator/Partner)

This project aims to provide innovative services that enable travelers to book and actively participate in “soft sport tourism” activities, which is not currently addressed by other platforms and websites. It aims to be the first worldwide web platform offering adaptive and personalized recommendation services for online booking of full packages by customers based on their preferences and sporting interests. This will come as an extension to the existing web platform offered by SportsTraveler76 Ltd. , which currently provides (1) a software service for “soft sport tourism” organizers to create a new event requesting specific custom data from the customer that wishes to travel and participate in this event, (2) a software service that allows booking different types of tickets for the events and (3) a software service for paying for those tickets. In specific, this project aims to extend the current web platform by developing new services and integrating and managing dynamically third-party services (e.g., existing Web APIs for flights booking, hotels booking) provided by partners, thus enabling the customer to create and book a full “soft sport tourism” package.

FIT: Fairness in Teaching (Role: ICT Leader/Partner)

The FIT project will conduct in the production of 4 main outcomes: - The competency framework of fairness in teaching for secondary and primary Schools, and its associated assessment tools so that teachers can find out how their teaching is fair. - A FIT digital assistant platform with fair teaching materials that teachers can experiment with into their classrooms, - The training contents which will contribute in stepping up teachers’ fair practices. - The FIT community of practice that will allow to develop the FIT project results in a collaborative approach, but also disseminate them. Finally, the FIT project aims to trigger a real process of change regarding fairness in teaching among primary and secondary level education so that more diverse range of pupils will equally access to STEM opportunities.

DHeLiDA: Digital Health Literacy for Disadvantaged Adults (Role: ICT Leader/Partner)

Digital health literacy (or digital health literacy) is the ability to search, find, understand and evaluate health information from computerised sources and to apply the knowledge gained to address or solve a health problem. The project will enable citizens to better manage their health and illness, improve prevention, enable more accurate diagnosis and treatment, and facilitate communication with health professionals. It will also help ensure more equitable access to health care while facilitating access to health information for adults with fewer opportunities and less access to reliable sources on a topic as important as health, especially in this time of global Health Emergency.

Νational physical fitness assessment program for the secondary school student population CyFit - formerly Aristotelis (Role: ICT Technology Expert)

The objective of the "CyFit" project is to evaluate the physical condition (PC) of children of secondary education, similarly to different European countries, with weighted and repeated sets of physical fitness tests (FT), which aim at promoting physical activity, health and well-being in schools as well as at the same time enable the creation of an extensive database for long-term monitoring of the PC of children and adolescents. The good practices of EU countries integrate innovation and technology through the analysis, design and development of a web platform that enables the use of a tool for long-term monitoring and comparison of PC with international data as well as a feedback system for recommendations and advice, on which the methodological approach of this proposal is based. The web platform drives the creation of a large and valid database regarding the physical condition of the entire student population in secondary education, which will allow the monitoring of the health of the population in the long run, the comparison of the data of Cyprus with the norms proposed by the World Health Organization as well as and the scientific and research utilization of data. Reliability, validity and comparability of measurements is a key goal of the program.

SLKApps: Sign Language Keyboard Android and iOS Applications (Role: ICT Technology Expert)

A sign language keyboard application for iOS and Android will be developed for the following sign language alphabets: American, French, Greek, South African, UK, Australian, Brazilian, Chinese, Cypriot, German, Indian, and Russian. The company will provide the icons/letters for the different languages in the required size, positions and formats (i.e., left, right, colour) as requested by the developers, so as to be added to the keyboard. The application will be installed as a keyboard, it will include the above sign language alphabets and will be able to be used in social media applications so as to exchange message using sign language alphabets.

CloudScanner: An Automated Cloud Deployment and Provisioning Recommendation System (Role: ICT Technology Expert)

This project is a cloud provider agnostic approach that allows end-users to specify their business requirements in an abstract form and with the help of a cloud applications knowledge database transform them into concrete requirements that are processed and transformed into a cloud deployment solution. The deployment solution plans are generated using Rules-Based Algorithm. The recommendations are generated using the user specifications about their business requirements compared with the experts’ decisions. For more advance Users such as developers and ITs, the "Built your own configuration" was developed, were the deployment plans can be built manually. Finally, the generator algorithm was developed to generate and recommend a deployment solution plan based on the cloud provider price most importantly and also based on the hardware specifications in order to match the software requirements. (student hired & part of MSc thesis).

HIT (Hate Interrupter Teams) (Role: Researcher/Partner)

The HIT project is a European project that provides young people with knowledge and tools to address hate speech towards migrants and minorities. With these tools, they can identify, and then report, these abusive speeches. To achieve this goal, the project offers a new model of empowerment of young Europeans through the creation of "Hate interruptor Teams" (HITs), aimed mainly at people from 14 to 19 years old. These teams are supported by young mentors, and young workers. In addition, they will have the possibility of counteract hate speech and behavior towards migrants (HSBM) in their communities, at school and among their peers. The HIT Training sessions for young people, Seminars on human rights with educators, role models, mentors and group leaders, the web platform that allows creating and managing educational resources and the mobile applications (iOS, Android) will all contribute to a better understanding of the incidence of hate speech against migrants and other groups, among children and young people, while raising awareness about this issue and promoting its prevention.

SCICHALLENGE HORIZON 2020 (Role: Researcher)

The SCICHALLENGE project focuses on developing novel concepts to actively integrate young people in science education using a contest-based approach to self-produced digital education materials from young people for young people. The initiative will broadcast and distribute content over various social media channels and aggregated on a modern SCICHALLENGE Web Platform (www.scichallenge.eu) to generate wide reaching awareness and promotion.

PaaSage EU FP7 (Role: Lead Researcher)

PaaSage will deliver a development and deployment platform, with an accompanying methodology, with which developers of enterprise systems can access services of cloud platforms in a technology neutral approach that abstracts the technical details while guiding them to configure their applications for best performance. Total PaaSage investment reaches 7,4m over 4 years!

Prosperity4All EU FP7 (Role: Lead Researcher)

Over 2 billion people worldwide have different types, degrees, or combinations of disability, literacy, digital literacy or aging related barriers that impede or prevent use of ICT. Prosperity4all, focuses on developing the infrastructure to allow a new ecosystem to grow; one that is based on self-rewarding collaboration, that can reduce redundant development, lower costs, increase market reach and penetration internationally, and create the robust cross-platform spectrum of mainstream and assistive technology based access solutions required.

COIN EU FP7 (Role: Lead Researcher)

By 2020 enterprise collaboration and interoperability services will become an invisible, pervasive and self-adaptive knowledge and business utility at disposal of the European networked enterprises from any industrial sector and domain in order to rapidly set-up, efficiently manage and effectively operate different forms of business collaborations, from the most traditional supply chains to the most advanced and dynamic business ecosystems. The mission of the Coin IP is to study, design, develop and prototype an open, self-adaptive, generic ICT integrated solution to support the above 2020 vision, starting from notable existing research results in the field of Enterprise Interoperability and Enterprise Collaboration.

CVN EU AAL (Role: Lead Researcher)

The European AAL ConnectedVitality project aims to develop 'the second best connection' a video communication network, coined 'The ConnectedVitality Network', enabling immobile senior citizens to organize their social network and choose the activity and select levels of social interaction according to their individual needs, abilities and chosen lifestyle. The project was selected as 1 of the 9 success stories for AAL projects across all calls. The 3-year project funded by AAL (AMBIENT ASSISTED LIVING) turned out to be a highly inspirational process which led to the successful development of YoooM and YooM-tablet devices and platforms - See more at: AAL Success Stories.

VALS EU Erasmus LLP (Role: Lead Researcher)

VALS will establish sustainable methods and processes to build knowledge partnerships between Higher Education (HE) and companies to collaborate on resolving authentic business problems through open innovation mediated by the use of Open Source Software (OSS). OSS provides the means whereby HE institutions, students, businesses and foundations can all collaborate to resolve authentic business problems. Not only does OSS provide the necessary shared infrastructure and collaborative practice, the foundations which manage the software are also hubs which channel the operational challenges of their users through to the people who can solve them. This has great potential for enabling students and supervisors to collaborate in resolving the problems of businesses, but is constrained by the lack of support for managing and promoting collaboration across the two sectors.

MUSIC EU FP6-IST (Role: Researcher)

MUSIC is a focused initiative that develops a comprehensive open-source software development framework that facilitates the development of self-adapting, reconfigurable software that seamlessly adapts to the highly dynamic user and execution context, and maintains a high level usefulness across context changes. Context-aware applications are capable of exploiting knowledge of external operating conditions, and they are self-adaptive if they adapt at runtime to varying contexts, like changing user needs and operating environments. MUSIC includes major industrial players in the mobile market, several SMEs (one IST prize winner) specialising in mobile services, organisations with expertise in the domains of the trial services, Universities, and research institutions. The duration of the project is 42 months, and the budget 14.5 M.

H5CM UCY Startup Funding (Role: Lead Researcher)

A context-aware middleware was built that includes context-aware sensor and reasoner modules for cross-platform development of context-aware applications. Any technology thus should adapt to the end-users"™ perspective and tailor applications to the context (i.e., location, situation, social data) using any smart device and platform. Realization of this smart vision demands mechanisms for ubiquitous and reliable acquisition, analysis and sharing of information to improve the experience of end-users, by anticipating user requirements while the end-user remains undisturbed by the underlying technology. On a complementary dimension application developers should be supported by a transparent infrastructure and context modules that support and expedite cross-platform context-aware application development.

ACSC131 - Internet Technologies - new BSc course structure

The aim of the course is to introduce students to the dominant technologies prevailing today in the Internet including application layer protocols, web content development and client-side scripting. The course will also introduce students to the impact of JavaScript and the development of cutting-edge technologies, powerful libraries and front-end web development frameworks: jQuery, AJAX, Bootstrap and HTML5. Upon successful completion of the course students will be able to:

• Describe and explain how various protocols operate and discuss their key characteristics with respect to their actual usage in the Internet.
• Learn to use Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) for web content definition of static websites and describe and explain the evolution of HTML.
• Discuss the importance of web design, use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for web pages design and discern between web content and web design activities.
• Design and develop high-quality static websites using together HTML and CSS.
• Evaluate the differences between markup languages and scripting languages.
• Argue on the impact of client-side web scripting paradigms and learn how they can be used to construct elementary web applications.
• Develop client-side web programs by employing web scripting technologies such as JavaScript for user interaction and processing user input from forms.
• Discuss the impact of client-side technologies in the development of the web and learn how to use widely-used and well-known JavaScript and CSS libraries.
• Discuss and evaluate the impact of HTML5 on web development and exhibit the ability to utilize HTML5 constructs in web pages, especially for graphics.

ACSC288 - Data Structures

The aim of this module is to provide students with an in-depth understanding of the importance of data structures in the development of programs as well as strong familiarity with the development and usage of such concepts. The module will focus on the acquisition of practical programming skills using low-level concepts as well as conceptual understanding of how such choices affect program performance. An introduction to algorithmic complexity is also provided. Upon successful completion of the course students will be able to:

• Recognize the limitations of static data structures; compare and discuss the differences in memory allocation of static and dynamic data and construct programs that can handle, create, manipulate, and destroy dynamic data.
• Demonstrate the ability to implement linear abstract data types such as lists (single/double linked, circular), stacks and queues programmatically. Identify how such structures can be applied in Computer Science, distinguish the use of each and effectively employ them.
• Explain how tree data structures can be implemented, discriminate between the different tree types (generic, binary) and identify where they can be used. Evaluate tree traversal methods and be able of designing and constructing core tree operations using recursive functions. Examine implementation approaches for special tree structures such as priority queues.
• Define and describe data structure classes available in the standard template library, employ them for solving relevant problems and develop the necessary conceptual understanding that would help them adapt to similar programmatic environments (e.g. Collections in Java).
• Recognize the importance of algorithmic complexity, as well as understand complexity of basic algorithms and the concept of big O notation. Select, experiment, and programmatically develop appropriate data structures and algorithms for searching and sorting problems and judge the advantages.
The above will be applied in practice using the C++ programming language.

ACSC382 - Object Oriented Programming

The aim of the course is to provide a general introduction to object-oriented programming concepts. It introduces important concepts such as object-orientation, classes and objects, modularity and reusable components, encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, I/O and Serialization, User interface programming, event and exception handling. Upon successful completion of the course students will be able to:

• To describe and explain the principles of object orientation – abstraction, data encapsulation and information hiding, message passing, inheritance and polymorphism and their implementation in Java programming language.
• To compare, clearly explain and apply the transition from data types in procedural programming paradigm to abstract data types, from simple variables to classes and instances, from library of functions to packages of classes.
• Building ability of students to write programs applying the principles of object orientation in different object-oriented programming languages.
• To show practical competence and skills of students to write high quality programs in Java using exception handling mechanism, streams and object serialization.
• To show skills for organizing complex programs using built-in classes and packages in Java programming environment to create reusable and extensible code based on object-oriented concepts.
• Understand and apply object-oriented programming concepts to design and implement graphical user interface (GUI) based software applications in Java.

ACSC383 - Software Engineering

The aim of the course is to provide a general introduction to software engineering. It introduces important concepts such as software processes and agile methods, and describes essential software development activities, from initial software specification through to system evolution. Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

• To explain the systematic approach to development of software as product emphasizing the basic analysis and design phases of the software development lifecycle and to compare different development lifecycle models.
• To show knowledge and skills for specifying the system requirements in a given problem domain as starting point of development process applying Use Case modelling.
• To show ability to apply UML as de-facto standard for CASE working with Use Case, Class and Object, State, Collaboration and Sequence diagrams for analysis and design of object-oriented software systems.
• To describe and explain the nature of design as continuation of analysis and to be able to apply specific methods and techniques to system (architectural) and detailed (software) design.
• To introduce the concept of component-based software engineering as extension of objects, use of analysis and design patterns and development of complex systems based on frameworks.

ACSC389 - Software Engineering Project I

The aim of the module is to familiarise students with practices in the development of modern Information Systems by experiencing and executing the software engineering lifecycle process. This process will be applied as part real-world projects assigned by companies or as internal projects. During the first semester (ACSC389) the software system specification (i.e., requirements and design) will be defined and submitted. The students will then be able to execute the subsequent software development activities (ACSC390), which refer to implementation and validation, as part of summer work placement at a company or as an internal project. Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

• To apply in practice their software engineering knowledge obtained in the ACSC383 course, which refers to the realisation of the first two phases of the software development lifecycle: requirements engineering and system specification.
• Learn new skills to build a software system according to client requirements and deadlines. In addition the students develop research skills to identify and use appropriate software development tools and other resources.
• Build ability of students to extract requirements from the client, analyze and organize the information, formulate ideas and to communicate all the information and ideas effectively and fluently, in both written and oral forms using appropriate communication technologies.
• Engage with agile software development of real systems based mainly on team work and prototyping. Through assigning respective team positions the students will understand the process of project management.
• Formulate user requirements and convert them into software design and specifications applying modern methods and techniques as well as respective CASE tools.
• Students will be able to plan their next steps according to the software development life cycle, including implementation and testing.

ACSC390 - Software Engineering Project II

The aim of the module is to familiarise students with practices in the development of modern Information Systems by experiencing and executing the software engineering lifecycle process. This process will be applied as part real-world projects assigned by companies or as internal projects. During the first semester (ACSC389) the software system specification (i.e., requirements and design) will be defined and submitted. The students will then be able to execute the subsequent software development activities (ACSC390), which refer to implementation and validation, as part of summer work placement at a company or as an internal project. Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

• To apply in practice their software engineering knowledge obtained in the ACSC383 course, which refers to the realisation of the first two phases of the software development lifecycle: requirements engineering and system specification.
• Learn new skills to build a software system according to client requirements and deadlines. In addition the students develop research skills to identify and use appropriate software development tools and other resources.
• Build ability of students to extract requirements from the client, analyze and organize the information, formulate ideas and to communicate all the information and ideas effectively and fluently, in both written and oral forms using appropriate communication technologies.
• Engage with agile software development of real systems based mainly on team work and prototyping. Through assigning respective team positions the students will understand the process of project management.
• Formulate user requirements and convert them into software design and specifications applying modern methods and techniques as well as respective CASE tools.
• Students will be able to plan their next steps according to the software development life cycle, including implementation and testing.

ACSC476 - Internet Technologies

The aim of the course is to introduce leading technologies prevailing today in the Internet. The course will start with a brief revision on web content definition and programming on the client side using the full set of technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Libraries (e.g., jQuery). Based on this review the comparison of client-side with server-side programming will be presented, which will follow up with in-depth introduction of Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP). PHP is a server-side scripting language designed for highly-interactive and dynamic web development, but also used as a general-purpose programming language. PHP-based data management (e.g., sessions) and PHP to MySQL database connectivity and management will be also presented. The impact of the Model View Controller (MVC) pattern on server-side web programming and PHP will be also presented. Finally, the students will learn about the impact of XML in the shift towards Web 2.0 and the technologies (AJAX, JSON) that are available today, they are widely used and largely replace it. Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

• Describe and explain how client-side technologies are combined and used to define web pages content and design, as well as program interactive features.
• Design and construct client-side web programs using the full set of client-side technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Libraries (e.g., jQuery).
• Evaluate the differences between client-side and server-side programming, be familiar with the dominant technologies that support each type and argue on the efficiency/effectiveness of each on various scenarios.
• Introduce and describe Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP), one of the most popular server-side programming languages for implementing dynamic web pages.
• Develop dynamic server-side web programs using the PHP technology, including web forms, session data management and MySQL database management.
• Argue on the impact of the Model View Controller (MVC) pattern on server-side web programming and apply it to construct powerful web applications.
• Discuss the impact of XML, JSON and AJAX technologies in the web evolution, and evaluate and critique the emergence of the Semantic Web and Web APIs.

ACSC404 - Web-Enabled Applications

The aim of this module is to familiarise students to the complexity and dynamics of developing web-enabled applications as well as with the acquisition of practical skills in the construction of such software. Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

• Identify the elements of web enabled applications and types of e-commerce systems and recognize their impact.
• Demonstrate how multi-tier architectures can be employed for developing web enabled applications. Design multi-tiered web applications and develop them programmatically using technologies such as JSP, JavaBeans and Servlets.
• Experiment with concepts such as session tracking, object persistence/lifetime, collaboration with client-side objects (AJAX) and backend connectivity and evaluate and select appropriate solutions according for problems faced.
• Discuss the challenges of data inter-exchange over the Internet and understand the role of web services in web-based applications and construct and incorporate such services.
• Describe how web applications can be developed under the agile paradigm and discuss advantages and disadvantages.

WSS502 - Web Engineering

The aim of this course is to provide students with critical understanding on how to productively engineer Web Applications. The course addresses the concepts, methods, technologies and tools for developing Web applications. Topics covered include evolution of the Internet and the Web, Web technologies and the basic models and architectures in a Web environment. It kicks-off with a theoretical examination of web engineering and its phases. It proceeds to introduce client-side technologies and server-side technologies that support the development of static web sites, dynamic web applications and rich internet applications. It concludes with an overview of cutting-edge concepts, technologies and frameworks that support full stack web development. The course has a theoretical underpinning, but focuses mostly on practical examples on how to engineer Web applications using the introduced implementation methods, techniques and tools. Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

• Understand the concepts, principles and methods of Web engineering.
• Gain theoretical knowledge and analytical skills to develop Web applications.
• Apply the described concepts, principles and methods to development of Web applications.
• Familiarize with different Web technologies and programming languages in theory and through practical exercises.
• Understand the differences and benefits of Full Stack Web Development and apply it in practice for the implementation of Web Applications.

WSS523 - Software Reuse

The aim of this course is to provide students with critical understanding of the technology, issues and challenges of software reuse at various levels. Specific focus in the course is dedicated to software reuse in web-based systems accessible via mobile devices. The course will enable students to practice software reuse at various levels, with different programming languages and on different platforms. In specific, the use of Java and HTML5 technologies will provide the capability to experience and practice software reuse on both desktop and mobile platforms, as well as at different levels such as object-oriented programming, component-based software development, middleware-based development, WS*-stack services, REST services and model-driven engineering. Finally, management of code repositories is introduced at the last week. In overall, the objective of the course is to enhance critical awareness, promote practical thinking and reasoning to solve practical problems through the reuse of software systems. Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

• Understand the concepts, principles and methods of software reuse.
• Familiarise and understand the different levels of software reuse.
• Make proper use of ready-made software components in practice.
• Gain theoretical knowledge and analytical skills to develop applications by employing reuse methods at code, component, design and models levels.
• Learn how to reuse Java and Web components.
• Distribute effectively the results of their work to other developers using software repositories.

WSS551 - Interactive Design for Web Systems

Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is the area that focuses on the design and use of computer technologies with emphasis on User Interface (UI) design as well as the utilization of novel design ways and tools that human beings use and interact with computers. Interactive Design (ID) is the area in HCI that particularly deals with the interaction between human and computers and tries to make systems usable. It focuses more on User Experience Research and User Experience Design. In particular, ID tries to understand what is going on in the interaction between users and systems as well as what the user wants and what the system does. For example, it examines the ergonomics (i.e., the digital/physical characteristics of the interaction) and how these influence its effectiveness, it studies how the dialog between user and system is influenced by the style of the interface as well as the social and organizational context that the interaction takes place, which affects both the user and the system and many more. Moreover, with the advancements in Web Systems and Ubiquitous Computing devices the need for designing human computer interfaces that can interpret and support user’s intentions by utilizing modern and advance web technologies is greater than ever. Thus, this specialization course also includes a practical orientation in client-side application design and development, as well as server-side service development using advanced internet technologies. It will focus on learning practical skills, techniques and best practices used for the modern and rapid development of full-stack, open-source JavaScript-based applications. Finally, it overviews the main challenges and implications of the Semantic Web, Internet 2.0 and Cloud computing for advanced web application development. The purpose of this course is to provide students with the knowledge of the essential tools and techniques in order to extend critical awareness of the issues and challenges associated with human computer interaction and interactive system design, enhance their understanding on interactive design on web and mobile systems, to enable students to learn advanced interaction design techniques, such as adaptive and responsive design, and to become acquainted with cutting-edge web technologies and apply them in practice for full stack web application development. By the end of the course, students should be able to:

• Describe the emerging topics on Human Computer Interaction (HCI) design in making more comprehensive and user-friendly computer-based systems.
• Identify and clearly describe the main challenges and issues on HCI and Interactive Design.
• Understand the theoretical dimension of human factors in the acceptance of computer interfaces and identify the impact of usable interfaces in the performance of Mobile and Web systems.
• Understand modern concepts, principles and methods for implementing advanced Internet application tools.
• Identify techniques and practices across various platforms and tools for designing interactive interfaces, standardization, analysis and evaluation.
• Critically evaluate various web technologies and web systems and identify their strengths and weaknesses.
• Demonstrate creative skills in designing competing user interfaces in web and mobile systems.
• Familiarize with advanced internet technologies and implement them in practice for full-stack web development.

Name: Achilleas Achilleos
Email: com.aa -AT- frederick.ac.cy
Position: Lecturer
Department: Computer Science and Engineering

Name: Achilleas Achilleos
Email: achilleas -AT- cs.ucy.ac.cy
Position: Research Associate
Department: Computer Science and Engineering