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Diomidis D. Spinellis Publications

Contents

Books: Monographs and Edited Volumes
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
Guest Editor Introductions
Magazine Columns
Book Chapters
Conference Publications
Book Reviews
Articles in the International Technical Press and SIG Publications
Articles in the Greek Technical Press
Theses
Technical Reports
Letters
Tutorial and Lecture Notes
Invited Talks
Book Contributions
Blog
USENET article archive (mostly covering 1987-1994)

Metadata

All publications appear in reverse chronological order. The link on the publication's title leads to a local copy or supporting web page (often a pre-publication draft published under self-archiving policy rules). The link on the DOI leads to the official publisher's version.

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Books: Monographs and Edited Volumes

Diomidis Spinellis and Georgios Gousios, editors. Beautiful Architecture: Leading Software Engineers Explain How They Think. O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA, 2009.
Chrissoleon T. Papadopoulos, Michael E. J. O'Kelly, Michael J. Vidalis, and Diomidis Spinellis. Analysis and Design of Discrete Part Production Lines. Springer, 2009. (doi:10.1007/978-0-387-89494-2_6)
Diomidis Spinellis. Code Quality: The Open Source Perspective. Addison-Wesley, Boston, MA, 2006.
Diomidis Spinellis. Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective. Addison-Wesley, Boston, MA, 2003.
Diomidis Spinellis, editor. Cross-Media Service Delivery, volume 740 of The Kluwer international series in engineering and computer science. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA, 2003.

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

Georgios Gousios and Diomidis Spinellis. Conducting quantitative software engineering studies with Alitheia Core. Empirical Software Engineering, pages 1–41, 2013. (doi:10.1007/s10664-013-9242-3)
George M. Giaglis and Diomidis Spinellis. Division of effort, productivity, quality, and relationships in FLOSS virtual teams: Evidence from the FreeBSD project. Journal of Universal Computer Science, 18(19):2625–2645, November 2012.
Diomidis Spinellis and Vaggelis Giannikas. Organizational adoption of open source software. Journal of Systems and Software, 85(3):666–682, March 2012. (doi:10.1016/j.jss.2011.09.037)
Dimitris Mitropoulos, Vassilios Karakoidas, Panagiotis Louridas, and Diomidis Spinellis. Countering code injection attacks: A unified approach. Information Management and Computer Security, 19(3):177–194, 2011. (doi:10.1108/09685221111153555)
Maria Halkidi, Diomidis Spinellis, George Tsatsaronis, and Michalis Vazirgiannis. Data mining in software engineering. Intelligent Data Analysis, 15(3):413–441, 2011. (doi:10.3233/IDA-2010-0475)
Euripides Loukis, Diomidis Spinellis, and Anastasios Katsigiannis. Barriers to the adoption of B2B e-marketplaces by large enterprises: Lessons learned from the Hellenic Aerospace Industry. Information Systems Management, 28(2):130–146, 2011. (doi:10.1080/10580530.2011.562129)
Stephanos Androutsellis-Theotokis, Diomidis Spinellis, Maria Kechagia, and Georgios Gousios. Open source software: A survey from 10,000 feet. Foundations and Trends in Technology, Information and Operations Management, 4(3–4):187–347, 2011. (doi:10.1561/0200000026)
Diomidis Spinellis. CScout: A refactoring browser for C. Science of Computer Programming, 75(4):216–231, April 2010. (doi:10.1016/j.scico.2009.09.003)
Stephanos Androutsellis-Theotokis, Diomidis Spinellis, Panos Louridas, and Kostas Stroggylos. A market-based approach to managing the risk of peer-to-peer transactions. Computer Networks, 54(5):675–688, April 2010. (doi:10.1016/j.comnet.2009.10.005)
Diomidis Spinellis. User-level operating system transactions. Software: Practice & Experience, 39(14):1215–1233, September 2009. (doi:10.1002/spe.935)
Diomidis Spinellis. Optimizing header file include directives. Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice, 21(4):233–251, July/August 2009. (doi:10.1002/smr.369)
Dimitris Mitropoulos and Diomidis Spinellis. SDriver: Location-specific signatures prevent SQL injection attacks. Computers and Security, 28:121–129, May/June 2009. (doi:10.1016/j.cose.2008.09.005)
Simon Frankau, Diomidis Spinellis, Nick Nassuphis, and Christoph Burgard. Commercial uses: Going functional on exotic trades. Journal of Functional Programming, 19(1):27–45, January 2009. (doi:10.1017/S0956796808007016)
Panagiotis Louridas, Diomidis Spinellis, and Vasileios Vlachos. Power laws in software. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 18(1):1–26, September 2008. Article 2. (doi:10.1145/1391984.1391986)
Diomidis Spinellis and Panagiotis Louridas. The collaborative organization of knowledge. Communications of the ACM, 51(8):68–73, August 2008. (doi:10.1145/1378704.1378720)
Diomidis Spinellis. The Antikythera mechanism: A computer science perspective. IEEE Computer, 41(5):22–27, May 2008. (doi:10.1109/MC.2008.166)
Vassilios Karakoidas and Diomidis Spinellis. FIRE/J — optimizing regular expression searches with generative programming. Software: Practice & Experience, 38(6):557–573, May 2008. (doi:10.1002/spe.841)
Vasileios Vlachos and Diomidis Spinellis. A PRoactive malware identification system based on the computer hygiene principles. Information Management and Computer Security, 15(4):295–312, 2007. (doi:10.1108/09685220710817815)
Diomidis Spinellis, Panagiotis Zaharias, and Adam Vrechopoulos. Coping with plagiarism and grading load: Randomized programming assignments and reflective grading. Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 15(2):113–123, 2007. (doi:10.1002/cae.20096)
Vassilis Prevelakis and Diomidis Spinellis. The Athens affair. IEEE Spectrum, 44(7):26–33, July 2007. (doi:10.1109/MSPEC.2007.376605)
Diomidis Spinellis and Panagiotis Louridas. A framework for the static verification of API calls. Journal of Systems and Software, 80(7):1156–1168, July 2007. (doi:10.1016/j.jss.2006.09.040)
Dimitrios Lekkas and Diomidis Spinellis. Implementing regular cash with blind fixed-value electronic coins. Computer Standards & Interfaces, 29(3):277–288, March 2007. (doi:10.1016/j.csi.2006.01.005)
Konstantinos Chorianopoulos and Diomidis Spinellis. Coping with TiVo: Opportunities of the networked digital video recorder. Telematics and Informatics, 24(1):48–58, February 2007. (doi:10.1016/j.tele.2005.12.003)
Konstantinos Chorianopoulos and Diomidis Spinellis. User interface evaluation of interactive TV: A media studies perspective. Universal Access in the Information Society, 5(2):209–218, August 2006. (doi:10.1007/s10209-006-0032-1)
Adamantia D. Pateli, George M. Giaglis, and Diomidis D. Spinellis. Wireless value-added services in exhibition shows. International Journal of Mobile Communications, 4(2):193–209, 2006. (doi:10.1504/IJMC.2006.008609)
Dimitrios Lekkas and Diomidis Spinellis. Handling and reporting security advisories: A scorecard approach. IEEE Security and Privacy, 3(4):32–41, July/August 2005. (doi:10.1109/MSP.2005.98)
Diomidis Spinellis. Index-based persistent document identifiers. Information Retrieval, 8(1):5–24, January 2005. (doi:10.1023/B:INRT.0000048494.05013.6a)
Stephanos Androutsellis-Theotokis and Diomidis Spinellis. A survey of peer-to-peer content distribution technologies. ACM Computing Surveys, 36(4):335–371, December 2004. (doi:10.1145/1041680.1041681)
Konstantinos Chorianopoulos and Diomidis Spinellis. Affective usability evaluation for an interactive music television channel. Computers in Entertainment, 2(3):14, July 2004. (doi:10.1145/1027154.1027177)
Vasileios Vlachos, Stefanos Androutsellis-Theotokis, and Diomidis Spinellis. Security applications of peer-to-peer networks. Computer Networks, 45(2):195–205, June 2004. (doi:10.1016/j.comnet.2004.01.002)
Konstantinos Chorianopoulos and Diomidis Spinellis. User interface development for interactive television: Extending a commercial DTV platform to the virtual channel API. Computers & Graphics, 28(2):157–166, April 2004. (doi:10.1016/j.cag.2003.12.004)
Diomidis Spinellis. Global analysis and transformations in preprocessed languages. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 29(11):1019–1030, November 2003. (doi:10.1109/TSE.2003.1245303)
John Iliadis, Stefanos Gritzalis, Diomidis Spinellis, Danny de Cock, Bart Preneel, and Dimitris Gritzalis. Towards a framework for evaluating certificate status information mechanisms. Computer Communications, 26(16):1839–1850, October 2003. (doi:10.1016/S0140-3664(03)00079-3)
Victoria Skoularidou and Diomidis Spinellis. Security architectures for network clients. Information Management and Computer Security, 11(2):84–91, 2003. (doi:10.1108/09685220310468664)
Diomidis Spinellis. Position-annotated photographs: A geotemporal web. IEEE Pervasive Computing, 2(2):72–79, April-June 2003. (doi:10.1109/MPRV.2003.1203756)
Diomidis Spinellis. The information furnace: Consolidated home control. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 7(1):53–69, 2003. (doi:10.1007/s00779-002-0213-8)
Diomidis Spinellis. Reliable identification of bounded-length viruses is NP-complete. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 49(1):280–284, January 2003. (doi:10.1109/TIT.2002.806137)
Diomidis Spinellis. The decay and failures of web references. Communications of the ACM, 46(1):71–77, January 2003. (doi:10.1145/602421.602422)
Diomidis Spinellis and Dimitris Gritzalis. Panoptis: Intrusion detection using a domain-specific language. Journal of Computer Security, 10:159–176, 2002.
Diomidis Spinellis. Unix tools as visual programming components in a GUI-builder environment. Software: Practice & Experience, 32(1):57–71, January 2002. (doi:10.1002/spe.428)
Konstantinos Raptis, Diomidis Spinellis, and Sokratis Katsikas. Multi-technology distributed objects and their integration. Computer Standards & Interfaces, 23:157–168, July 2001. (doi:10.1016/S0920-5489(01)00070-8)
Euripides Loukis and Diomidis Spinellis. Information systems security in the Greek public sector. Information Management and Computer Security, 9(1):21–31, 2001.
Diomidis Spinellis. Notable design patterns for domain specific languages. Journal of Systems and Software, 56(1):91–99, February 2001. (doi:10.1016/S0164-1212(00)00089-3)
Diomidis Spinellis and Chrissoleon Papadopoulos. Modular production line optimization: The exPLOre architecture. Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 6:527–541, 2001. (doi:10.1155/S1024123X00001460)
Diomidis Spinellis. Reflection as a mechanism for software integrity verification. ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, 3(1):51–62, February 2000. (doi:10.1145/353323.353383)
Diomidis Spinellis and Konstantinos Raptis. Component mining: A process and its pattern language. Information and Software Technology, 42(9):609–617, June 2000. (doi:10.1016/S0950-5849(00)00105-1)
Diomidis Spinellis and Chrissoleon T. Papadopoulos. A simulated annealing approach for buffer allocation in reliable production lines. Annals of Operations Research, 93:373–384, 2000. (doi:10.1023/A:1018984125703)
Konstantinos Raptis, Diomidis Spinellis, and Sokratis Katsikas. Distributed object bridges and a Java-based object mediator. Informatik / Informatique, 2:4–8, April 2000.
Diomidis Spinellis and Chrissoleon Papadopoulos. Stochastic algorithms for buffer allocation in reliable production lines. Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 5:441–458, 2000. (doi:10.1155/S1024123X99001180)
Diomidis Spinellis, Chrissoleon Papadopoulos, and Jim MacGregor Smith. Large production line optimization using simulated annealing. International Journal of Production Research, 38(3):509–541, February 2000. (doi:10.1080/002075400189284)
Diomidis Spinellis, Stefanos Gritzalis, John Iliadis, Dimitris Gritzalis, and Sokratis Katsikas. Trusted third party services for deploying secure telemedical applications over the WWW. Computers and Security, 18(7):627–639, 1999. (doi:10.1016/S0167-4048(99)82041-0)
Diomidis Spinellis, Spyros Kokolakis, and Stephanos Gritzalis. Security requirements, risks, and recommendations for small enterprise and home-office environments. Information Management and Computer Security, 7(3):121–128, 1999. (doi:10.1108/09685229910371071)
Stephanos Gritzalis, John Iliadis, Dimitris Gritzalis, Diomidis Spinellis, and Sokratis Katsikas. Developing secure Web-based medical applications. Medical Informatics and the Internet in Medicine, 24(1):75–90, March 1999. (doi:10.1080/146392399298537)
Stefanos Gritzalis, Diomidis Spinellis, and Panagiotis Georgiadis. Security protocols over open networks and distributed systems: Formal methods for their analysis, design, and verification. Computer Communications, 22(8):695–707, May 1999. (doi:10.1016/S0140-3664(99)00030-4)
Stefanos Gritzalis, George Aggelis, and Diomidis Spinellis. Architectures for secure portable executable content. Internet Research, 9(1):16–24, 1999. (doi:10.1108/10662249910251273)
Diomidis Spinellis. A critique of the Windows application programming interface. Computer Standards & Interfaces, 20(1):1–8, November 1998. (doi:10.1016/S0920-5489(98)00012-9)
Stefanos Gritzalis and Diomidis Spinellis. The cascade vulnerability problem: The detection problem and a simulated annealing approach for its correction. Microprocessors and Microsystems, 21(10):621–628, April 1998. (doi:10.1016/S0141-9331(98)00064-7)
Diomidis Spinellis. Palmtop programmable appliance controls. Personal Technologies (Personal and Ubiquitous Computing), 2(1):11–17, March 1998. (doi:10.1007/BF01581842)
Sokratis Katsikas, Diomidis Spinellis, John Iliadis, and Bernd Blobel. Using trusted third parties for secure telemedical applications over the WWW: The EUROMED-ETS approach. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 49(1):59–68, March 1998. (doi:10.1016/S1386-5056(98)00011-2)
Diomidis Spinellis, Sophia Drossopoulou, and Susan Eisenbach. Object-oriented technology in multiparadigm language implementation. Journal of Object-Oriented Programming, 8(1):33–38, March/April 1995.
Diomidis Spinellis. Checking C declarations at link time. The Journal of C Language Translation, 4(3):238–249, March 1993.
Diomidis Spinellis. Implementing Haskell: Language implementation as a tool building exercise. Structured Programming (Software Concepts and Tools), 14:37–48, 1993.

Guest Editor Introductions

Jonathan Sprinkle, Marjan Mernik, Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, and Diomidis Spinellis. What kinds of nails need a domain-specific hammer?. IEEE Software, 26(4):15–18, July/August 2009. Guest Editors' Introduction: Domain Specific Modelling. (doi:10.1109/MS.2009.92)
Simon Helsen, Arthur Ryman, and Diomidis Spinellis. Where's my jetpack?. IEEE Software, 25(5):18–21, September/October 2008. Guest Editors' Introduction: Software Development Tools. (doi:10.1109/MS.2008.138)
Christos D. Tarantilis, Diomidis Spinellis, and Michel Gendreau. Advanced heuristics in transportation and logistics. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 20(4):16–18, July 2005. Guest Editors' Introduction. (doi:10.1109/MIS.2005.71)
Diomidis Spinellis and Clemens Szyperski. How is open source affecting software development?. IEEE Software, 21(1):28–33, January/February 2004. Guest Editors' Introduction: Developing with Open Source Software. (doi:10.1109/MS.2004.1259204)

Magazine Columns

Diomidis Spinellis. Systems software. IEEE Software, 30(3):18–19, May/June 2013. (doi:10.1109/MS.2013.61)
Diomidis Spinellis. The importance of being declarative. IEEE Software, 30(1):90–91, January/February 2013. (doi:10.1109/MS.2013.18)
Diomidis Spinellis. APIs, libraries, and code. IEEE Software, 29(6):85–86, November/December 2012. (doi:10.1109/MS.2012.151)
Diomidis Spinellis. Virtualize me. IEEE Software, 29(5):91–93, September/October 2012. (doi:10.1109/MS.2012.125)
Diomidis Spinellis. Don't install software by hand. IEEE Software, 29(4):86–87, July/August 2012. (doi:10.1109/MS.2012.85)
Diomidis Spinellis. Git. IEEE Software, 29(3):100–101, May/June 2012. (doi:10.1109/MS.2012.61)
Diomidis Spinellis. Package management systems. IEEE Software, 29(2):84–86, March/April 2012. (doi:10.1109/MS.2012.38)
Diomidis Spinellis. Refactoring on the cheap. IEEE Software, 29(1):96–95, January/February 2012. (doi:10.1109/MS.2012.14)
Diomidis Spinellis and Henry Spencer. Lessons from space. IEEE Software, 28(6):26–28, November/December 2011. (doi:10.1109/MS.2011.143)
Diomidis Spinellis. Faking it. IEEE Software, 28(5):96, 95, September/October 2011. (doi:10.1109/MS.2011.95)
Diomidis Spinellis. Agility drivers. IEEE Software, 28(4):96, 95, July/August 2011. (doi:10.1109/MS.2011.72)
Diomidis Spinellis. Choosing and using open source components. IEEE Software, 28(3):96, 95, May/June 2011. (doi:10.1109/MS.2011.54)
Diomidis Spinellis. elyts edoc. IEEE Software, 28(2):104–103, March/April 2011. (doi:10.1109/MS.2011.31)
Diomidis Spinellis. Farewell to disks. IEEE Software, 27(6):82–83, November/December 2010. (doi:10.1109/MS.2010.140)
Diomidis Spinellis. UML everywhere. IEEE Software, 27(5):90–91, September/October 2010. (doi:10.1109/MS.2010.131)
Diomidis Spinellis. Code documentation. IEEE Software, 27(4):18–19, July/August 2010. (doi:10.1109/MS.2010.95)
Diomidis Spinellis. Software tracks. IEEE Software, 27(2):10–11, March/April 2010. (doi:10.1109/MS.2010.56)
Diomidis Spinellis. Basic etiquette of technical communication. IEEE Software, 26(5):14–15, November/December 2009. (doi:10.1109/MS.2009.170)
Diomidis Spinellis. Job security. IEEE Software, 26(5):14–15, Sep/Oct 2009. (doi:10.1109/MS.2009.131)
Diomidis Spinellis. Drawing tools. IEEE Software, 26(3):12–13, May/June 2009. (doi:10.1109/MS.2009.63)
Diomidis Spinellis. Start with the most difficult part. IEEE Software, 26(2):70–71, March/April 2009. (doi:10.1109/MS.2009.49)
Diomidis Spinellis. The way we program. IEEE Software, 25(4):89–91, July/August 2008. (doi:10.1109/MS.2008.101)
Diomidis Spinellis. Software builders. IEEE Software, 25(3):22–23, May/June 2008. (doi:10.1109/MS.2008.74)
Diomidis Spinellis. Using and abusing XML. IEEE Software, 25(2):88–89, March/April 2008. (doi:10.1109/MS.2008.55)
Diomidis Spinellis. Rational metaprogramming. IEEE Software, 25(1):78–79, January/February 2008. (doi:10.1109/MS.2008.15)
Diomidis Spinellis. On paper. IEEE Software, 24(6):24–25, November/December 2007. (doi:10.1109/MS.2007.173)
Diomidis Spinellis. Abstraction and variation. IEEE Software, 24(5):24–25, September/October 2007. (doi:10.1109/MS.2007.127)
Diomidis Spinellis. The tools we use. IEEE Software, 24(4):20–21, July/August 2007. (doi:10.1109/MS.2007.121)
Diomidis Spinellis. Silver bullets and other mysteries. IEEE Software, 24(3):22–23, May/June 2007. (doi:10.1109/MS.2007.88)
Diomidis Spinellis. I spy. IEEE Software, 24(2):16–17, March/April 2007. (doi:10.1109/MS.2007.43)
Diomidis Spinellis. Cracking software reuse. IEEE Software, 24(1):12–13, January/February 2007. (doi:10.1109/MS.2007.9)
Diomidis Spinellis. Open source and professional advancement. IEEE Software, 23(5):70–71, September/October 2006. (doi:10.1109/MS.2006.136)
Diomidis Spinellis. Choosing a programming language. IEEE Software, 23(4):62–63, July/August 2006. (doi:10.1109/MS.2006.97)
Diomidis Spinellis. Debuggers and logging frameworks. IEEE Software, 23(3):98–99, May/June 2006. (doi:10.1109/MS.2006.70)
Diomidis Spinellis. Bug busters. IEEE Software, 23(2):92–93, March/April 2006. (doi:10.1109/MS.2006.40)
Diomidis Spinellis. Project asset portability. IEEE Software, 23(1):100–101, January/February 2006. (doi:10.1109/MS.2006.28)
Diomidis Spinellis. Working with Unix tools. IEEE Software, 22(6):9–11, November/December 2005. (doi:10.1109/MS.2005.170)
Diomidis Spinellis. Software engineering glossary, version control, part 2. IEEE Software, 22(6):c2–c3, November/December 2005. (doi:10.1109/MS.2005.169)
Diomidis Spinellis. Version control systems. IEEE Software, 22(5):108–109, September/October 2005. (doi:10.1109/MS.2005.140)
Diomidis Spinellis. Software engineering glossary, version control, part I. IEEE Software, 22(5):107, September/October 2005. (doi:10.1109/MS.2005.141)
Diomidis Spinellis. Tool writing: A forgotten art?. IEEE Software, 22(4):9–11, July/August 2005. (doi:10.1109/MS.2005.111)
Diomidis Spinellis. Java makes scripting languages irrelevant?. IEEE Software, 22(3):70–71, May/June 2005. (doi:10.1109/MS.2005.67)
Diomidis Spinellis. Dear editor. IEEE Software, 22(2):14–15, March/April 2005. (doi:10.1109/MS.2005.36)
Diomidis Spinellis. The tools at hand. IEEE Software, 22(1):10–13, January/February 2005. (doi:10.1109/MS.2005.23)
Diomidis Spinellis. Reflections on trusting trust revisited. Communications of the ACM, 46(6):112, June 2003. (doi:10.1145/777313.777347)
Diomidis Spinellis. On the declarative specification of models. IEEE Software, 20(2):94–96, March/April 2003. (doi:10.1109/MS.2003.1184181)
Diomidis Spinellis. Fear of coding, and how to reduce it. IEEE Computer, 34(8):98–100, August 2001. (doi:10.1109/MC.2001.940018)
Diomidis Spinellis. Explore, excogitate, exploit: Component mining. IEEE Computer, 32(9):114–116, September 1999. (doi:10.1109/2.789756)
Diomidis Spinellis. The computer's new clothes. IEEE Software, 15(6):14–17, November/December 1998. (doi:10.1109/MS.1998.10039)

Book Chapters

(Papers in conference proceedings published as books are listed in the conference publications section.)

Diomidis Spinellis. Quality wars: Open source versus proprietary software. In Andy Oram and Greg Wilson, editors, Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It, chapter 15, pages 259–293. O'Reilly and Associates, Sebastopol, CA, 2010.
Diomidis Spinellis. The Unix tools are your friends. In Kevlin Henney, editor, 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know, pages 176–177. O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA, 2010.
Diomidis Spinellis. Put everything under version control. In Kevlin Henney, editor, 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know, pages 136–137. O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA, 2010.
Diomidis Spinellis. Large interconnected data belongs to a database. In Kevlin Henney, editor, 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know, pages 96–97. O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA, 2010.
Diomidis Spinellis. Foreword. In Sulayman K. Sowe, Ioannis G. Stamelos, and Ioannis Samoladas, editors, Emerging Free and Open Source Software Practices, pages vi–vii. IGI Publishing, Hershey, PA, 2007.
Diomidis Spinellis. Another level of indirection. In Andy Oram and Greg Wilson, editors, Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think, chapter 17, pages 279–291. O'Reilly and Associates, Sebastopol, CA, 2007.

Conference Publications

Steven Fraser, Kendra Cooper, Jim Coplien, Ruth G. Lennon, Ramya Ravichandar, Diomidis Spinellis, and Giancarlo Succi. Software tools research: a matter of scale and scope — or commoditization?. In Gary T. Leavens, editor, SPLASH '12: Conference on Systems, Programming, and Applications: Software for Humanity, pages 59–62. ACM, October 2012. (doi:10.1145/2384716.2384740)
Diomidis Spinellis, Vassilios Karakoidas, and Panagiotis Louridas. Comparative language fuzz testing: Programming languages vs. fat fingers. In PLATEAU 2012: 4th Annual International Workshop on Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools—Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH 2012). ACM, October 2012. (doi:10.1145/2414721.2414727)
Dimitris Mitropoulos, Georgios Gousios, and Diomidis Spinellis. Measuring the occurrence of security-related bugs through software evolution. In PCI 2012: Proceedings of 16th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics (PCI 2012), pages 117–122. IEEE Computer Society, October 2012. (doi:10.1109/PCi.2012.15)
Giorgos Gousios and Diomidis Spinellis. GHTorrent: Github's data from a firehose. In Michele Lanza, Massimiliano Di Penta, and Tao Xie, editors, 9th IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), pages 12–21. IEEE, June 2012. (doi:10.1109/MSR.2012.6224294)
Maria Kechagia, Diomidis Spinellis, and Stephanos Androutsellis-Theotokis. Open source licensing across package dependencies. In Costas Vassilakis and Nikolaos Tselikas, editors, PCI 2010: Proceedings of 14th Panhelenic Conference on Informatics, pages 27–32, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, September 2010. IEEE Computer Society. (doi:10.1109/PCI.2010.28)
Konstantinos Kravvaritis, Dimitris Mitropoulos, and Diomidis Spinellis. Cyberdiversity: Measures and initial results. In Costas Vassilakis and Nikolaos Tselikas, editors, PCI 2010: Proceedings of 14th Panhelenic Conference on Informatics, pages 135–140, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, September 2010. IEEE Computer Society. (doi:10.1109/PCI.2010.43)
Marian Jureczko and Diomidis Spinellis. Using object-oriented design metrics to predict software defects. In Models and Methodology of System Dependability. Proceedings of RELCOMEX 2010: Fifth International Conference on Dependability of Computer Systems DepCoS, Monographs of System Dependability, pages 69–81, Wroclaw, Poland, 2010. Oficyna Wydawnicza Politechniki Wroclawskiej.
Vasileios Vlachos, Diomidis Spinellis, and Stefanos Androutsellis-Theotokis. Biological aspects of computer virology. In 3rd International Conference on e-Democracy, September 2009.
Diomidis Spinellis and Vaggelis Giannikas. Open source adoption in large US companies. In A. Poulymenakou, N. Pouloudi, and K. Pramatari, editors, MCIS 2009: 4th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, pages 580–587, September 2009.
Dimitris Mitropoulos, Vassilios Karakoidas, and Diomidis Spinellis. Fortifying applications against XPath injection attacks. In A. Poulymenakou, N. Pouloudi, and K. Pramatari, editors, MCIS 2009: 4th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, pages 1169–1179, September 2009.
Eirini Kalliamvakou, Georgios Gousios, Diomidis Spinellis, and Nancy Pouloudi. Measuring developer contribution from software repository data. In A. Poulymenakou, N. Pouloudi, and K. Pramatari, editors, MCIS 2009: 4th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, pages 600–611, September 2009.
Dimitris Mitropoulos and Diomidis Spinellis. Securing e-voting against MITM attacks. In Vassilios Chrissikopoulos, Nikolaos Alexandris, Christos Douligeris, and Spyros Sioutas, editors, PCI 2009: Proceedings of 13th Panhelenic Conference on Informatics, September 2009.
Vassilios Karakoidas and Diomidis Spinellis. J%: Integrating domain specific languages with Java. In Vassilios Chrissikopoulos, Nikolaos Alexandris, Christos Douligeris, and Spyros Sioutas, editors, PCI 2009: Proceedings of 13th Panhelenic Conference on Informatics, pages 109–113. IEEE Computer Society, September 2009. (doi:10.1109/PCI.2009.26)
Georgios Gousios and Diomidis Spinellis. A platform for software engineering research. In Michael W. Godfrey and Jim Whitehead, editors, MSR '09: Proceedings of the 6th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, pages 31–40. IEEE, May 2009. (doi:10.1109/MSR.2009.5069478)
Georgios Gousios and Diomidis Spinellis. Alitheia Core: An extensible software quality monitoring platform. In ICSE '09: Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering — Formal Research Demonstrations Track, pages 579–582. IEEE, May 2009. (doi:10.1109/ICSE.2009.5070560)
Vasilios Almaliotis, Alexandros Loizidis, Panagiotis Katsaros, Panagiotis Louridas, and Diomidis Spinellis. Static program analysis for Java Card applets. In Gilles Grimaud and François-Xavier Standaert, editors, Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications — CARDIS 2008: Proceedings of the 8th IFIP Smart Card Research and Advanced Application Conference, pages 17–31. Springer Verlag, September 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5189. (doi:10.1007/978-3-540-85893-5_2)
Ioannis Samoladas, Georgios Gousios, Diomidis Spinellis, and Ioannis Stamelos. The SQO-OSS quality model: Measurement based open source software evaluation. In Ernesto Damiani and Giancarlo Succi, editors, Open Source Development, Communities and Quality — OSS 2008: 4th International Conference on Open Source Systems, pages 237–248, Boston, September 2008. IFIP 20th World Computer Congress, Working Group 2.3 on Open Source Software, Springer. (doi:10.1007/978-0-387-09684-1_19)
Georgios Gousios and Diomidis Spinellis. Java performance evaluation using external instrumentation. In Stefanos Gritzalis, Dimitris Plexousakis, and Dionysios Pnevmatikatos, editors, PCI 2008: 12th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, pages 173–177, Los Alamitos, CA, August 2008. IEEE Computer Society. (doi:10.1109/PCI.2008.14)
Georgios Atsaros, Diomidis Spinellis, and Panagiotis Louridas. Site-specific versus general purpose web search engines: A comparative evaluation. In Stefanos Gritzalis, Dimitris Plexousakis, and Dionysios Pnevmatikatos, editors, PCI 2008: 12th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, pages 44–48, Los Alamitos, CA, August 2008. IEEE Computer Society. (doi:10.1109/PCI.2008.47)
Diomidis Spinellis. CScout: A refactoring browser for C. In Kim Mens, Mark van den Brand, Adrian Kuhn, Holger M. Kienle, and Roel Wuyts, editors, WASDeTT 2008: International Workshop on Advanced Software Development Tools and Techniques, July 2008.
Diomidis Spinellis. A tale of four kernels. In Wilhelm Schäfer, Matthew B. Dwyer, and Volker Gruhn, editors, ICSE '08: Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Software Engineering, pages 381–390, New York, May 2008. Association for Computing Machinery. (doi:10.1145/1368088.1368140)
Georgios Gousios, Eirini Kalliamvakou, and Diomidis Spinellis. Measuring developer contribution from software repository data. In Ahmed E. Hassan, Michele Lanza, and Michael W. Godfrey, editors, MSR '08: Mining Software Repositories, pages 129–132, New York, May 2008. Association for Computing Machinery. (doi:10.1145/1370750.1370781)
Diomidis Spinellis, Georgios Gousios, Vassilios Karakoidas, Panagiotis Louridas, Paul J. Adams, Ioannis Samoladas, and Ioannis Stamelos. Evaluating the quality of open source software. In SQM 2008: Second International Workshop on Software Quality and Maintainability—12th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR 2008) satellite event, pages 5–28. The Reengineering Forum, April 2008. Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science Volume 233 (March 2009). (doi:10.1016/j.entcs.2009.02.058)
Diomidis Spinellis. Open source in education. In Vassilis Komis, editor, 4th Panhellenic Conference on Computer Science Education, pages 31–32. University of Patras, March 2008. Keynote address. (In Greek.).
Stephanos Androutsellis-Theotokis and Diomidis Spinellis. Ptrim: A market-based approach to managing the risk of peer-to-peer transactions. In Sonia Bergamaschi, Zoran Despotovic, Sam Joseph, and Gianluca Moro, editors, DBISP2P 2007: Fifth International Workshop on Databases, Information Systems and Peer-to-Peer Computing, September 2007.
Konstantinos Stroggylos and Diomidis Spinellis. Refactoring: Does it improve software quality?. In B. Boehm, S. Chulani, J. Verner, and B. Wong, editors, 5th International Workshop on Software Quality, pages 1–6. ACM Press, May 2007. (doi:10.1109/WOSQ.2007.11)
Vasileios Vlachos, Eirini Kalliamvakou, and Diomidis Spinellis. Simulating bandwidth-limited worms: One graph to rule them all?. In Theodore S. Papatheodorou, Dimitris N. Christodoulakis, and Nikitas N. Karanikolas, editors, Current Trends in Informatics: 11th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, PCI 2007, volume B, pages 151–162, Athens, May 2007. New Technologies Publications.
Dimitris Mitropoulos and Diomidis Spinellis. Countering SQL injection attacks with a database driver. In Theodore S. Papatheodorou, Dimitris N. Christodoulakis, and Nikitas N. Karanikolas, editors, Current Trends in Informatics: 11th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, PCI 2007, volume B, pages 105–115, Athens, May 2007. New Technologies Publications.
Georgios Gousios, Vassilios Karakoidas, Konstantinos Stroggylos, Panagiotis Louridas, Vasileios Vlachos, and Diomidis Spinellis. Software quality assessment of open source software. In Theodore S. Papatheodorou, Dimitris N. Christodoulakis, and Nikitas N. Karanikolas, editors, Current Trends in Informatics: 11th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, PCI 2007, volume A, pages 303–315, Athens, May 2007. New Technologies Publications.
Stephanos Androutsellis-Theotokis, Diomidis Spinellis, and Vasileios Vlachos. The MoR-Trust distributed trust management system: Design and simulation results. In Sandro Etalle, Sara Foresti, and Pierangela Samarati, editors, Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Security and Trust Management (STM'06), pages 3–15, September 2006. Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, Volume 179, July 2007. (doi:10.1016/j.entcs.2006.11.032)
Vasileios Vlachos, Andreas Raptis, and Diomidis Spinellis. PROMISing steps towards computer hygiene. In Steven Furnell, editor, International Network Conference (INC2006), pages 229–236, July 2006.
Diomidis Spinellis. Global software development in the FreeBSD project. In P. Kruchten, Y. Hsieh, E. MacGregor, D. Moitra, and W. Strigel, editors, International Workshop on Global Software Development for the Practitioner, pages 73–79. ACM Press, May 2006. (doi:10.1145/1138506.1138524)
Giorgos Gousios, Vassilios Karakoidas, and Diomidis Spinellis. Tuning Java's memory manager for high performance server applications. In Alexios Zavras, editor, Proceedings of the 5th International System Administration and Network Engineering Conference SANE 06, pages 69–83. NLUUG, Stichting SANE, May 2006.
Adamantia G. Pateli, George M. Giaglis, and Diomidis D. Spinellis. Trial evaluation of wireless info-communication and indoor location-based services in exhibition shows. In Panagiotis Bozanis and Elias N. Houstis, editors, Advances in Informatics: 10th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, PCI 2005, pages 199–210, Berlin, November 2005. Springer-Verlag. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3746. (doi:10.1007/11573036_19)
Vasileios Vlachos, Vassiliki Vouzi, Damianos Chatziantoniou, and Diomidis Spinellis. NGCE — network graphs for computer epidemiologists. In Panagiotis Bozanis and Elias N. Houstis, editors, Advances in Informatics: 10th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, PCI 2005, pages 672–683, Berlin, November 2005. Springer-Verlag. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3746. (doi:10.1007/11573036_64)
Stephanos Androutsellis-Theotokis, Vassilios Karakoidas, Georgios Gousios, Diomidis Spinellis, and Yannis Charalambidis. Building an e-business platform: An experience report. In Paul Cunningham and Miriam Cunningham, editors, Innovation and the knowledge Economy — Issues, Applications Case Studies. Proceedings of the eChallenges 2005 conference, volume 1, pages 199–206, Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 2005. IOS Press.
Stephanos Androutsellis-Theotokis, Diomidis Spinellis, and Vassilios Karakoidas. Performing peer-to-peer e-business transactions: A requirements analysis and preliminary design proposal. In Nitya Karmakar and Pedro Isaías, editors, IADIS International e-Commerce 2004 Conference Proceedings, pages 399–404, December 2004.
Vassilios Karakoidas, Stephanos Androutsellis-Theotokis, Diomidis Spinellis, and Yannis Charalabidis. Applying MDA in enterprise application interoperability: The PRAXIS project. In Harald Kühn, editor, Workshop on Ontology and Enterprise Modelling: Intgredients for Interoperability, pages 76–84, December 2004.
Yannis Charalabidis, Vassilios Karakoidas, Stephanos Androutsellis-Theotokis, and Diomidis Spinellis. Enabling b2b transactions over the internet through application interconnection: The PRAXIS project. In Paul Cunningham and Miriam Cunningham, editors, eAdoption and the Knowledge Economy: Issues, Applications and Case Studies, chapter 7, pages 1554–1561. IOS Press, October 2004. Paper presented at the 2004 e-Challenges Conference, Vienna, Austria.
Ada Pateli, Diomidis Spinellis, and Giorgos Giaglis. Wireless info-communication and navigation services in exhibition shows. In Mel Horwitch, editor, Third International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB): mBusiness 2004, July 2004.
Diomidis Spinellis, Yannis Charalabidis, and Vassilios Karakoidas. Application interconnection and execution of business to business transactions over the internet. In 20th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO-XX). The Association of European Operational Research Societies, July 2004. Poster.
George Roussos, George Samaras, and Diomidis Spinellis. Editorial message: Special track on ubiquitous computing. In Hisham M. Haddad, Andrea Omicini, Roger L. Wainwright, and Lorie M. Liebrock, editors, Proceedings of the 2004 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, pages 1565–1566. ACM Press, 2004. (doi:10.1145/967900.968213)
Angeliki Tsilira, Adamantia Pateli, Erast Athanasiadis, and Diomidis Spinellis. Targeted messages in indoor mobile environment: A software-oriented approach. In M. H. Hamza, editor, Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering, pages 734–739. IASTED, ACTA Press, February 2004.
Konstantinos Chorianopoulos and Diomidis Spinellis. Usability design for the home media station. In Constantine Stephanidis, editor, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction — HCI International 2003, pages 439–443. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc, June 2003.
Konstantinos Chorianopoulos, George Lekakos, and Diomidis Spinellis. The virtual channel model for personalized television. In Judith Masthoff, Richard Griffiths, and Lyn Pemberton, editors, Proceedings of the European Conference on Interactive Television: from Viewers to Actors?, pages 59–67, 2003.
George Roussos, Panos Kourouthanasis, Diomidis Spinellis, Eugene Gryazin, Mike Pryzbliski, George Kalpogiannis, and George Giaglis. Systems architecture for pervasive retail. In ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, pages 631–636, New York, March 2003. ACM, ACM Press. (doi:10.1145/952532.952656)
Konstantinos Chorianopoulos, George Lekakos, and Diomidis Spinellis. Intelligent user interfaces in the living room: Usability design for personalized television applications. In Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, pages 230–232. ACM Press, 2003. (doi:10.1145/604045.604083)
Konstantinos Chorianopoulos and Diomidis Spinellis. A metaphor for personalized television programming. In Noelle Carbonelle and Constantine Stephanides, editors, Universal Access: Theoretical Perspectives, Practice, and Experience. Proceedings of the 7th ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All, pages 187–194, Berlin, 2003. Springer-Verlag. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2615.
Ada Pateli, Giorgos Giaglis, and Diomidis Spinellis. Indoor application environments and location-based services. In Proceedings of Workshop on Location-based Services for Accelerating the European-wide Deployment of Services for the Mobile User and Worker. The LOBSTER IST Cluster, October 2002.
Ioannis Mathes, Adamantia Pateli, Argiris Tsamakos, and Diomidis Spinellis. Context aware services in an exhibition environment- the mEXPRESS approach. In B. Stanford-Smith et al., editor, Challenges and Achievements in E-business and E-work: Proceedings of the E-business and E-work Conference, pages 685–692. IOS Press, October 2002.
Panos Kourouthanasis, Diomidis Spinellis, Giorgos Roussos, and Giorgos Giaglis. Intelligent cokes and diapers: MyGrocer ubiquitous computing environment. In First International Mobile Business Conference, pages 150–172, July 2002.
Victoria Skoularidou and Diomidis Spinellis. Securing the network client. In Proceedings of the Third International Network Conference INC '02, pages 389–396, July 2002.
K. Fouskas, A. Pateli, D. Spinellis, and H. Virola. Applying contextual inquiry for capturing end-users behaviour requirements for mobile exhibition services. In 1st International Conference on Mobile Business, July 2002.
Giorgos Gousios and Diomidis Spinellis. A comparison of portable dynamic web content technologies for the apache web server. In Proceedings of the 3rd International System Administration and Networking Conference SANE 2002, pages 103–119, May 2002. Best refereed paper award.
Diomidis Spinellis. The information furnace: User-friendly home control. In Proceedings of the 3rd International System Administration and Networking Conference SANE 2002, pages 145–174, May 2002.
Evangelia Kopanaki, Vangelis Karkaletsis, Constantine D. Spyropoulos, Nikos Avradinis, Nikos Fakotakis, Theodore Kalamboukis, Basilis Kladis, Yannis Lazarou, Themis Panayiotopoulos, and Diomidis Spinellis. MITOS: An integrated web-based system for information management. In 8th Panhellenic Informatics Conference. Greek Computer Society, November 2001.
Giorgos Lekakos, Kostas Chorianopoulos, and Diomidis Spinellis. Information systems in the living room: A case study of personalized interactive TV design. In Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Information Systems, June 2001.
Vassilis Prevelakis and Diomidis Spinellis. Sandboxing applications. In USENIX 2001 Technical Conference Proceedings: FreeNIX Track, pages 119–126, Berkeley, CA, June 2001. USENIX Association.
John Iliadis, Diomidis Spinellis, Dimitris Gritzalis, Bart Preneel, and Sokratis Katsikas. Evaluating certificate status information mechanisms. In Proceedinds of the 7th ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security: CCS '2000, pages 1–8. ACM, November 2000. (doi:10.1145/352600.352603)
Diomidis Spinellis and Dimitris Gritzalis. A domain-specific language of intrusion detection. In Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on Intrusion Detection Systems. ACM, November 2000.
Ioannis S. Iliadis, Diomidis Spinellis, Sokratis Katsikas, and Bart Preneel. A taxonomy of certificate status information mechanisms. In Information Security Solutions Europe ISSE 2000. European Forum for Electronic Business, September 2000.
Konstantinos Raptis, Diomidis Spinellis, and Sokratis Katsikas. Java as distributed object glue. In World Computer Congress 2000. International Federation for Information Processing, August 2000.
Diomidis Spinellis. Outwit: Unix tool-based programming meets the Windows world. In Christopher Small, editor, USENIX 2000 Technical Conference Proceedings, pages 149–158, Berkeley, CA, June 2000. USENIX Association.
John Tait, Jeremy Ellman, and Diomidis Spinellis. MABLe: a multilingual authoring tool for business letters. In ASLIB: 21st International Conference on Translating and the Computer. The Association for Information Management, November 1999.
Diomidis Spinellis. Reliable software implementation using domain specific languages. In G. I. Schuëller and P. Kafka, editors, Proceedings ESREL '99 — The Tenth European Conference on Safety and Reliability, pages 627–631, Rotterdam, September 1999. ESRA, VDI, TUM, A. A. Balkema.
Diomidis Spinellis. Software reliability: Modern challenges. In G. I. Schuëller and P. Kafka, editors, Proceedings ESREL '99 — The Tenth European Conference on Safety and Reliability, pages 589–592, Rotterdam, September 1999. ESRA, VDI, TUM, A. A. Balkema.
Diomidis Spinellis and Chrissoleon T. Papadopoulos. ExPLOre: A modular architecture for production line optimisation. In Dimitris K. Despotis and Constantin Zopounidis, editors, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference of the Decision Sciences Institute, DSI '99, pages 1446–1449. Decision Sciences Institute, July 1999.
Dimitrios Lekkas, Sokratis K. Katsikas, Diomidis Spinellis, Pavel Gladychev, and Ahmed Patel. User requirements of trusted third parties in Europe. In Simone Fisher-Hübner, Gerald Quirchmayr, and Louise Yngström, editors, User Identification & Privacy Protection: Applications in Public Administration & Electronic Commerce, pages 229–242. IFIP WG 8.5 and WS 9.6, June 1999.
Diomidis Spinellis and Dimitris Gritzalis. Information security best practice dissemination: The ISA-EUNET approach. In Louise Yngström and Simone Fisher-Hübner, editors, WISE 1: First World Conference on Information Security Education, pages 111–136. IFIP TC11 WG 11.8, June 1999.
Diomidis Spinellis and Chrissoleon T. Papadopoulos. Production line buffer allocation: Genetic algorithms versus simulated annealing. In Second International Aegean Conference on the Analysis and Modelling of Manufacturing Systems, pages 89–101. University of the Aegean, Department of Business Administration, May 1999.
Stefanos Gritzalis, George Aggelis, and Diomidis Spinellis. Programming languages for mobile code: A problems viewpoint. In Proceedings of the First International Network Conference INC '98, pages 210–217. IEE, Internet Research, July 1998.
Soktratis Katsikas, Diomidis Spinellis, John Iliadis, and Bernd Blobel. Using TTPs for secure telemedical applications over the WWW: The EUROMED-ETS approach. In Pre-proceedings of the IMIA WG4 working Conference on Common security solutions for communicating patient data. International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), November 1997.
Diomidis Spinellis and V. Guruprasad. Lightweight languages as software engineering tools. In USENIX Conference on Domain-Specific Languages, pages 67–76, Berkeley, CA, October 1997. USENIX Association.
Stefanos Gritzalis and Diomidis Spinellis. Addressing threats and security issues in World Wide Web technology. In Proceedings CMS '97 3rd IFIP TC6/TC11 International joint working Conference on Communications and Multimedia Security, pages 33–46. IFIP, Chapman & Hall, September 1997.
Stefanos Gritzalis and Diomidis Spinellis. Cryptographic protocols over open distributed systems: A taxonomy of flaws and related protocol analysis tools. In Peter Daniel, editor, 16th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security: SAFECOMP '97, pages 123–137, Berlin, September 1997. European Workshop on Industrial Computer Systems: TC-7, Springer Verlag.
Diomidis Spinellis and Chrisoleon T. Papadopoulos. A simulated annealing approach for buffer allocation in reliable production lines. In International Workshop on Performance Evaluation and Optimization of Production Lines, pages 365–375. University of the Aegean, Department of Mathematics, May 1997.
Stefanos Gritzalis and Diomidis Spinellis. The cascade vulnerability problem for open distributed systems: A review. In IFIP TC5 WG5.4 3rd International Conference on Reliability, Quality & Safety of Software-Intensive Systems, ENCRESS '97, pages 175–185. IFIP, Chapman & Hall, May 1997.
Diomidis Spinellis. DIKAIO: High court decisions on the internet and on CD-ROM. In First Greek Technical Chamber Informatics Conference: The Information Society, pages 546–555. Technical Chamber of Greece, December 1995. In Greek.
Diomidis Spinellis. Integrated aluminum hot milling automation. In Modern Modern Automated Control Technologies, pages 218–221. Technical Chamber of Greece, December 1995. In Greek.
Diomidis Spinellis, Sophia Drossopoulou, and Susan Eisenbach. An object model for multiparadigm programming. In Dennis Kafura, Greg Lavender, and Siva Challa, editors, OOPSLA '94 Workshop on Multi-Language Object Models, October 1994. http://actor.cs.vt.edu/~siva/wshop.html.
Diomidis Spinellis. The design and implementation of a legal text database. In Dimitris Karagiannis, editor, DEXA 94: 5th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, pages 339–348, Berlin, September 1994. Springer-Verlag. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 856. (doi:10.1007/3-540-58435-8_198)
Diomidis Spinellis, Sophia Drossopoulou, and Susan Eisenbach. Language and architecture paradigms as object classes: A unified approach towards multiparadigm programming. In Jürg Gutknecht, editor, Programming Languages and System Architectures International Conference, pages 191–207, Berlin, March 1994. Springer-Verlag. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 782. (doi:10.1007/3-540-57840-4_32)
Diomidis Spinellis. Wux: Unix tools under Windows. In USENIX Conference Proceedings, pages 325–336, Berkeley, CA, Winter 1994. USENIX Association.
Diomidis Spinellis. Tekton: A program for the composition, design, and three-dimensional view of architectural subjects. In 4th Panhellenic Informatics Conference, volume I, pages 361–372. Greek Computer Society, December 1993. In Greek.
Diomidis Spinellis. The implementation of multimedia applications. In Multimedia: Theory and Experience, pages 23–37. Greek Computer Society, December 1992. In Greek.

Book Reviews

Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: Beginning Android 3. ACM Computing Reviews, 2012.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: Programming in Scala: A comprehensive step-by-step guide. ACM Computing Reviews, 51(12), December 2010.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: Principles of computer system design: An introduction. ACM Computing Reviews, 51(11), November 2010.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: The art of debugging with GDB, DDD, and Eclipse. ACM Computing Reviews, 51(3), March 2010.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: Effective Java (2nd ed.). ACM Computing Reviews, 51(3), March 2010.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: Learn to Tango with D. ACM Computing Reviews, 50(7), July 2009.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: Processing: A programming handbook for visual designers and artists. ACM Computing Reviews, 50(2), February 2009.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: Introduction to scientific visualization. ACM Computing Reviews, 49(9), September 2008.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: Security in computing (4th ed.). ACM Computing Reviews, 49(5), May 2008.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: Wicked cool Java: code bits, open-source libraries, and project ideas. ACM Computing Reviews, 48(12), December 2007.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: The software development edge: essays on managing successful projects. ACM Computing Reviews, 48(11), November 2007.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: Sustainable software development: an agile perspective. ACM Computing Reviews, 48(10), October 2007. Reprinted in ACM Queue 4(10):49, December 2006.
Diomidis Spinellis. Software engineering for the rest of us. IEEE Software, 24(4):107, July/August 2007. Book Review: Code Craft: The Practice of Writing Excellent Code.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: Computer graphics and geometric modelling. ACM Computing Reviews, 48(3), March 2007.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: Ajax in action. ACM Computing Reviews, 47(12), December 2006.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: Working effectively with legacy code. ACM Computing Reviews, 47(11), November 2006.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: Hackers & painters: Big ideas from the computer age. ACM Computing Reviews, 46(6):382–383, June 2005.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: The design and implementation of the FreeBSD operating system. ACM Computing Reviews, 46(9):560–561, September 2005.
Diomidis Spinellis. Coding for numbers. IEEE Software, 22(1):95–96, January/February 2005. Book Review: Numerical Recipes in C++: The Art of Scientific Computing, 2nd edition. (doi:10.1109/MS.2005.4)
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: Agile software development: Principles, patterns, and practices. ACM Computing Reviews, 2004.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: Bell Labs: Life in the crown jewel. ACM Computing Reviews, 45(1):12, January 2004.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: Contributing to Eclipse: Principles, patterns, and plugins. ACM Computing Reviews, 45(11):690–691, November 2004.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: Beyond fear: Thinking sensibly about security in an uncertain world. ACM Computing Reviews, 45(5), May 2004.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: Software ecosystem: Understanding an indispensable technology and industry. ACM Computing Reviews, 45(6):345, June 2004.
Diomidis Spinellis. Clichés can be both tiring and helpful. IEEE Software, 21(3):105, May/June 2004. Book Review: More Secrets of Consulting: The Consultant's Tool Kit.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: UNIX systems programming: Communication, concurrency, and threads. ACM Computing Reviews, 45(3):142–143, March 2004.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: The art of Unix programming. ACM Computing Reviews, 44(12):754–755, September 2003.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: The algorithmic beauty of sea shells. ACM Computing Reviews, 44(10):627, October 2003.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: Bebop to the Boolean boogie: an unconventional guide to electronics fundamentals, components and processes. ACM Computing Reviews, 44(9):513–514, September 2003.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: Spiking neuron models: Single neurons, populations, plasticity. ACM Computing Reviews, 44(5):272–273, May 2003.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: Types and programming languages. ACM Computing Reviews, 44(4):193–194, April 2003.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: Non-photorealistic computer graphics: Modeling, rendering, and animation. ACM Computing Reviews, 44(3):141, March 2003.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: Java enterprise in a nutshell: a desktop quick reference. ACM Computing Reviews, 44(2):74, February 2003.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: SSL and TLS: Designing and building secure systems. ACM Computing Reviews, 43(4):127–128, April 2002.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: Building secure software: How to avoid security problems the right way. ACM Computing Reviews, 43(4):103–104, April 2002.
Diomidis Spinellis. A gentle introduction to embedded systems. IEEE Software, 19(1):101–102, January/February 2002. Book Review: Microcontroller Projects with Basic Stamps. (doi:10.1109/MS.2002.976950)
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: Perl developer's guide. ACM Computing Reviews, 41(10):364, October 2001.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: Virtual private networks: Technologies and solutions. ACM Computing Reviews, 42(9):254–255, September 2001.
Diomidis Spinellis. Practical testing advice. IEEE Software, 18(3):104–105, May/June 2001. Book Review: Testing Computer Software. (doi:10.1109/MS.2001.922737)
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: Building Internet firewalls. ACM Computing Reviews, 42(5):155–156, May 2001.
Diomidis Spinellis. Practical programming advice. IEEE Software, 17(6):104–105, November/December 2000. Book Review: The Pragmatic Programmer. (doi:10.1109/MS.2000.895178)
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: LaTeX for Linux: a vade mecum. ACM Computing Reviews, 41(3):154, March 2000.
Diomidis Spinellis. Taking common sense to the extreme. IEEE Software, 17(4):113–114, July/August 2000. Book Review: eXtreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: Object oriented Perl. ACM Computing Reviews, December 1999.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: Securing Java: Getting down to business with mobile code. ACM Computing Reviews, 40(8):378–379, August 1999.
Diomidis Spinellis. Decrypting the past and exploring the future. IEEE Software, 16(4):114–115, July/August 1999. Book Review: Decrypted Secrets: Methods and Maxims of Cryptology.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: Intrusion detection: Network security beyond the firewall. ACM Computing Reviews, 40(2):84–85, February 1999.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: Hacker proof: the ultimate guide to network security. ACM Computing Reviews, 39(9):437–438, September 1998.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: Java in a nutshell (2nd ed.): A desktop quick reference. ACM Computing Reviews, 39(8):397, August 1998.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: Intranet security. ACM Computing Reviews, 39(3):132, March 1998.
Diomidis Spinellis. Book review: High speed Windows applications: Multitasking design methods. ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 30(7):4, July 1995. (doi:10.1145/208639.609061)

Articles in the International Technical Press and SIG Publications

Diomidis Spinellis. What I learned from fixing my laptop's motherboard. Hacker Monthly, 14:22–23, July 2011.
Diomidis Spinellis. 10 tips for spotting low-quality open source code. Enterprise Open Source Journal, 2(5):18–21, Sept/Oct 2006.
Diomidis Spinellis. Code finessing. Dr. Dobb's, 31(11):58–63, November 2006.
Markos Gogoulos and Diomidis Spinellis. Using Linux live CDs for penetration testing. ;login:, 31(3):40–45, June 2006.
Diomidis Spinellis. Some types of memory are more equal than others. ;login:, 31(2):29–36, April 2006.
Diomidis Spinellis. Reading, writing, and code. ACM Queue, 1(7):84–89, October 2003. (doi:10.1145/957717.957782)
Diomidis Spinellis. Organized pruning of file sets. ;login:, 28(3):39–42, June 2003.
Diomidis Spinellis. A modest proposal for curing the public field phobia. ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 37(4):54–56, April 2002. (doi:10.1145/510857.510868)
Diomidis Spinellis. Optimal peripheral access using pipe-based double-buffering. ;login:, 24(4):43–45, August 1999.
Diomidis Spinellis. Declarative peephole optimization using string pattern matching. ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 34(2):47–51, February 1999. (doi:10.1145/307903.307921)
Diomidis Spinellis. Small tools for automatic text generation. ;login:, 23(4):44–47, August 1998.
Diomidis Spinellis and Rob Kolstad. A conversation about Perl and the shell: Choosing the implementation vehicle. ;login:, 22(3):25–31, June 1997.
Diomidis Spinellis. Trace: A tool for logging operating system call transactions. Operating Systems Review, 28(4):56–63, October 1994. (doi:10.1145/191525.191540)
Diomidis Spinellis. Type-safe linkage for variables and functions. ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 26(8):74–79, August 1991. (doi:10.1145/122598.122605)

Articles in the Greek Technical Press

Diomidis Spinellis. FreeBSD: Sofware development in a global scale. Linux Format, 11:60–63, September/October 2006. In Greek.
Diomidis Spinellis. If. netweek, page 24, September 2005. In Greek.
Diomidis Spinellis. The Screen Machine MS-Access toolkit. Win Magazine, January 1995. In Greek.
Diomidis Spinellis. Protecting software from unauthorised copying. Win Magazine, pages 75–77, March 1994. In Greek.
Diomidis Spinellis. Implementing multimedia applications: Controlling the video machine. Win Magazine, November 1993. In Greek.
Diomidis Spinellis. Implementing multimedia applications: Handling moving images. Win Magazine, October 1993. In Greek.
Diomidis Spinellis. Implementing multimedia applications: The media control interface. Win Magazine, pages 89–92, September 1993. In Greek.
Diomidis Spinellis. Implementing multimedia applications: File storage and compression methods. Win Magazine, pages 80–83, July 1993. In Greek.
Diomidis Spinellis. Implementing multimedia applications: Development tools. Win Magazine, pages 65–68, June 1993. In Greek.
Diomidis Spinellis. Implementing multimedia applications: Programming the Windows API. Win Magazine, pages 64–68, April 1993. In Greek.
Diomidis Spinellis. Implementing multimedia applications: Introduction. Win Magazine, pages 86–89, March 1993. In Greek.

Theses

Diomidis Spinellis. Programming Paradigms as Object Classes: A Structuring Mechanism for Multiparadigm Programming. PhD thesis, Imperial College, London, UK, February 1994.
Diomidis Spinellis. An implementation of the Haskell language. Master's thesis, Imperial College, London, UK, June 1990.

Technical Reports

Diomidis Spinellis. ckjm — a tool for calculating Chidamber and Kemerer Java metrics. Technical report, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece, 2006. Available online.
Diomidis Spinellis. The CScout refactoring browser. Technical report, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece, 2004. Available online.
Diomidis Spinellis. Drawing UML diagrams with UMLGraph. Technical report, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece, 2004. Available online.
Diomidis Spinellis. Greek character encoding for electronic mail messages. Network Information Center, Request for Comments 1947, May 1996. RFC-1947.
Diomidis Spinellis. The software management process at ECRC. Project report, Imperial College, London, UK, January 1990.
Diomidis Spinellis. The design and implementation of a two process Prolog debugger. Technical Report IR-LP-31-21, ECRC GmbH, Munich, Germany, August 1989.
Duncan White, Jan-Simon Pendry, and Diomidis Spinellis. Unix PDP-11 emulator (as11 & em11) user's guide. Laboratory documentation, Imperial College, London, UK, January 1989.
Diomidis Spinellis. A dynamically linkable graphics library. Unpublished article, Imperial College, London, UK, March 1988.

Letters

Diomidis Spinellis. I spy. The Economist, 404(8798), August 18th 2012.
Diomidis Spinellis. Future CS course already here. Communications of the ACM, 49(8):13, 2006. (doi:10.1145/1145287.1145299)
Diomidis Spinellis. Why computing parallels brain function. Communications of the ACM, 48(10):11, 2005. (doi:10.1145/1089107.1089119)

Tutorial and Lecture Notes

Diomidis Spinellis. Computers for all. Available online http://www.spinellis.gr/cfa/, January 2005. Lecture notes.
Diomidis Spinellis. Advanced topics in software engineering. Available online http://www.spinellis.gr/ismr/, June 2006. Lecture notes.
Diomidis Spinellis. eCommerce technologies (in Greek). Available online http://www.spinellis.gr/tecom/, April 2004. Lecture notes.
Diomidis Spinellis. eCommerce technologies and infrastructures. Available online http://www.spinellis.gr/etech/, December 2003. Lecture notes.
Diomidis Spinellis. Information systems design and implementation (advanced Java programming). Available online http://www.spinellis.gr/isdi/, February 2004. Lecture notes (in Greek).
Diomidis Spinellis. System security implementation. Available online http://www.spinellis.gr/secimp/, July 2002. Lecture notes.
Diomidis Spinellis. Information systems management (software engineering). Available online http://www.spinellis.gr/ism/, June 2002. Lecture notes (in Greek).
Diomidis Spinellis. Information and communication technologies. Available online http://www.spinellis.gr/intro/, September 2001. Lecture notes (in Greek).
Diomidis Spinellis. Computer architecture II. Available online http://www.spinellis.gr/arch/, September 2000. Lecture notes (in Greek).
Diomidis Spinellis. Programming languages. Available online http://www.spinellis.gr/c3/, January 2000. Lecture notes (in Greek).
Diomidis Spinellis. Hardware and software I (compiler technology). Available online http://www.spinellis.gr/comp/, October 1999. Lecture notes (in Greek).
Diomidis Spinellis. Internet security — trusted third parties. Available online http://www.spinellis.gr/norma/, July 1999. Lecture notes (in Greek).
Diomidis Spinellis. Programming languages and data structures. Available online http://www.spinellis.gr/c2/, January 1999. Lecture notes (in Greek).
Diomidis Spinellis. Software design and implementation. Available online http://www.spinellis.gr/c/, January 1999. Lecture notes (in Greek).
Diomidis Spinellis. Information system security management. Available online http://www.spinellis.gr/secman/, September 1998. Lecture notes (in Greek).
Diomidis Spinellis. Operating systems I laboratory. Available online http://www.spinellis.gr/os1lab/, October 1997. Lecture notes (in Greek).
Diomidis Spinellis. Operating systems I. Available online http://www.spinellis.gr/os1/, October 1997. Lecture notes (in Greek).
Diomidis Spinellis. Algorithms and data structures. Available online http://www.spinellis.gr/ads/, February 1997. Lecture notes (in Greek).
Diomidis Spinellis. Programming in Pascal. Available online http://www.spinellis.gr/pascal/, February 1997. Lecture notes (in Greek).
Diomidis Spinellis. Introduction to Computer Science. Available online http://www.spinellis.gr/intro/, October 1996. Lecture notes (in Greek).
Diomidis Spinellis. The Unix programming environment: Program development in C. Tutorial, Imperial College, Department of Computing, June 1992.
Diomidis Spinellis. The Unix programming environment: Using existing tools. Tutorial, Imperial College, Department of Computing, June 1992.

Invited Talks

Diomidis Spinellis. Guerrilla tactics in government administration. Talk, September 2012. TEDx Academy. Athens, Greece.
Diomidis Spinellis. Theory meets reality: Managing IT systems at the Greek ministry of finance. Invited talk, June 2012. Software Experts Summit 2012: Mastering Uncertainty in the Software Industry: Risks, Rewards, and Reality. British Computer Society, London, UK.
Diomidis Spinellis. UMLGraph and the declarative drawing of diagrams. Invited talk, April 2012. ACCU Conference. Oxford, UK.
Diomidis Spinellis. Farewell to disks: Efficient processing of obstinate data. Distinguished Lecturer Series ``Leon the Mathematician'' at the Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece, March 2011.
Diomidis Spinellis. Farewell to disks: Efficient processing of obstinate data. Keynote address, November 2011. ITPro Dev Connections 2011. In Greek.
Diomidis Spinellis. Farewell to disks: Efficient processing of obstinate data. Invited talk, October 2011. Imperial College London. Department of Computing. LSDS — Large-Scale Distributed Systems Group.
Diomidis Spinellis. Farewell to disks: Efficient processing of obstinate data. Invited talk, April 2011. ACCU Conference. Oxford, UK.
Diomidis Spinellis. Farewell to disks: Efficient processing of obstinate data. Invited talk, March 2011. IRILL — Center for Research and Innovation on Free Software. Paris, France.
Diomidis Spinellis. The Unix toolchest: Power tools for power programmers. Invited talk, April 2010. ACCU Conference. Oxford, UK.
Diomidis Spinellis. Security and trust. Invited talk (in Greek), March 2010. IDC IT Security Roadshow 2010: Battling Sophisticated Threats: Security Strategies for the Resilient Enterprise. Athens, Greece.
Diomidis Spinellis. Locating and addressing performance issues. Invited talk, February 2010. OOP 2010 — Productivity: People, Process, and Technology. Munich, Germany.
Diomidis Spinellis. Beyond four kernels: A platform for software engineering research. Invited talk, June 2009. University of Southern California. Department of Computer Science. Los Angeles, CA.
Diomidis Spinellis. The Antikythera mechanism: Hacking with gears. Invited talk, June 2009. USENIX Annual Technical Conference. San Diego, CA.
Diomidis Spinellis. Locating and addressing performance issues. Invited talk, April 2009. ACCU Conference. Oxford, UK.
Diomidis Spinellis. Evaluating the quality of open source software. Invited talk, October 2008. Technical Workshop on Software Development and Communities. Madrid, Spain.
Diomidis Spinellis. Evaluating the quality of open source software. Invited talk, April 2008. SQM 2008: Second International Workshop on Software Quality and Maintainability. Athens, Greece.
Diomidis Spinellis. Open source in education, March 2008. Keynote address at the 4th Panhellenic Conference on Computer Science Education. (In Greek.).
Diomidis Spinellis. An academic's view of broadband connectivity. Invited talk, July 2007. Athens University of Economics and Business. (In Greek).
Diomidis Spinellis. The Antikythera Mechanism on the OLPC. Invited talk, June 2007. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Informatics. (In Greek).
Diomidis Spinellis. The Antikythera Mechanism on the OLPC. In Workshop on Software Trends, Porto Alegre, Brazil, April 2007. ESICenter Brasil.
Diomidis Spinellis. Global software development in the FreeBSD project. In Free/Open Source Software: Research, Cummunities and Industry, Thessaloniki, Greece, December 2006. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Diomidis Spinellis. Global software development in the FreeBSD project. In NASSCOM Quality Summit 2006: Setting benchmarks in global outsourcing, Bangalore, India, September 2006. National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM). Invited talk.
Diomidis Spinellis. The role of open standards and systems in establishing IT security. In National Strategy Principles for Data and Network Confidentiality and Security. Hellenic Authority for the Information and Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE), April 2005. In Greek.
Diomidis Spinellis. Securing open source software. Information Security Matrix Forum 2003, November 2003.
Diomidis Spinellis. Citizen and infrastructure security on the internet. Workshop: Cybersecurity and European Citizens: Awareness and Best Practices in the Digital Age, May 2003. In Greek.
Diomidis Spinellis. On the availability of e-government services. European Union, Greek Presidency 2003, Ministry of Interior, Public Administration and Decentralization. Meeting of the e-Government Working Group, March 2003.
Diomidis Spinellis. Reliable software implementation using domain-specific languages. Workshop: Analysis and Dimensioning Software - Problems and Applications. University of Thessaloniki, Structural Engineering Department. Postgraduate programme on aseismic design., May 2000. In Greek.
Diomidis Spinellis. Cryptography policy in the USA and the European Union. Seminar: IKAROS human network, December 1997. In Greek.
Diomidis Spinellis. The transition to Intranet technlogies. Talk given to the Athens Netware User's Group, February 1997. In Greek.
Diomidis Spinellis. Applying ISO-9001 to the development, supply, and maintenance of software. Seminar: Imperial College, Department of Computing, June 1996.
Diomidis Spinellis. Client/server development tools issues. Business Technology '95: Meeting on Client / Server Development tools jointly organised by the Greek Informatics Institute and Greek Management Society, April 1995. In Greek.

Book Contributions

Work appearing in the following books:

Van Burnham. Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age 1971–1984. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2001.
Bruce Schneier. Secrets & Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World. Wiley, New York, 2000.
Peter Van Der Linden. Expert C Programming. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1994.
Eric Raymond. The New Hacker's Dictionary. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1991.
Don Libes. Obfuscated C and Other Mysteries. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1993.
Ralf Brown and Jim Kyle. PC Interrupts: A Programmer's Reference to BIOS, DOS, and Third-party Calls. Addison-Wesley, 1991.

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