Anastasia Stratigea is Professor of Spatial Planning and Policy at the National Technical University of Athens, School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, Greece. She is a member of international networks (NECTAR, COST A22, EFONET, etc.), Co-founder of Smart Cities and Communities – Mediterranean Cluster, Member of Smart Grid – Smart Cities / German Academy for Spatial Research and Planning - ARL, Coordinator of Gr-RAC - IYGU / IGU Initiative. She is author, co-editor, and co-author of 6 books, while she has published 20 book chapters and over 90 refereed journal and international conference publications. She is reviewer of a number of international journals and has participated in EU and national projects both as member of a research team and a coordinator. Her research interests focus on Sustainable Development, Urban and Regional Planning and Policy, Spatial Planning, Participatory Planning, Smart Cities and Communities, ICTs and Urban / Regional Development, ICTs and Rural Development, Culture/Tourism and Urban/Regional Development, Foresight Methodologies, etc. Dimitris Kavroudakis is an Assistant Professor of “Geographical Analysis” in the Department of Geography, University of the Aegean, Greece. He has studied Computer Info Systems in the American College of Greece (DEERE); and Geography in the University of the Aegean. He has an MSc in GIS, University of Leeds, UK; and a PhD in Geography, University of Sheffield, UK. He has worked as post-doc researcher in the UCL (CASA), University of Sheffield; and the University of the Aegean. He has been involved in high quality geographical research and scientific publications. His research interests include location analysis, spatial analysis and statistics, spatial economics, network analysis, GIS, open source and economic geography, Web-GIS, visualization, EU population inequalities and open source GIS development. He adopts new approaches in geographical analysis, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Agent-Based Modelling; and supports new computational paths, such as Grid Computing and large scale distributed modelling.
