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Diakaki Christina

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Diakaki Christina

Associate Professor

School of Social Sciences

cdiakaki@eap.gr

(+30) 2610367449

Curriculum Vitae

Christina Diakaki is Associate Professor with the School of Social Sciences of the Hellenic Open University with specialty “Quantitative Methods in Management”. She holds Diploma in Production and Management Engineering from the Technical University of Crete, Greece (1991), M.Sc. in Operations Management from the Victoria University of Manchester, UK (1993), and PhD in Decision Science and Operations Research from the Technical University of Crete, Greece (2000). She has over 20 years of teaching experience in undergraduate and postgraduate study programs, while she has participated in many research projects funded by the European Commission and other national and international, public and private bodies. She is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Intelligent Transport Systems scientific journal of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET-ITS), UK, and Associate Editor of the Heliyon journal (for the Business and management section). She acts as reviewer for numerous scientific journals and conferences, and she is the author or co-author of numerous research reports, collective volume chapters, and papers in scientific and technical journals and conferences.

Research Interests

Decision analysis and operations research, optimization, modeling and simulation of dynamic and other systems, and statistical data analysis with applications to management problems in the fields of: Transport, Energy and Environment and Business/Organizations

Teaching

  • Tutor of the “Quantitative Methods (DEO13)” Module, Undergraduate Program of Study in Business Administration (DEO), Hellenic Open University (since academic year 2013-14)
  • Coordinator of the “Quantitative Methods (DEO13)” Module, Undergraduate Program of Study in Business Administration (DEO), Hellenic Open University (since academic year 2021-22)
  • Academic Coordinator of the International MSc Program in “Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)”, Joint Postgraduate Program of Study of the Hellenic Open University with the Open University of Cyprus (since academic year 2023-24).

Publications

  • Diakaki, C., Papageorgiou, M., and Aboudolas, K. (2002). A multivariable regulator approach to traffic-responsive network-wide signal control. Journal of Control Engineering Practice 10, 183-195
  • Diakaki, C., Grigoroudis, E., and Stabouli, M. (2006). A risk assessment approach in selecting environmental performance indicators. Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal 17(2), 126-139
  • Diakaki, C., Grigoroudis, E., Kabelis, N., Kolokotsa, D, Kalaitzakis, K., and Stavrakakis, G. (2010). A multi-objective decision model for the improvement of energy efficiency in buildings. Energy: The International Journal 35, 5483-5496
  • Diakaki, C., and Grigoroudis, E. (2013). Applying genetic algorithms to optimise energy efficiency in buildings. In Doumpos, M., and Grigoroudis, E. (eds), Multicriteria Decision Aid and Artificial Intelligence: Links, Theory and Applications, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 309-333
  • Panagiotidou, N. Stavrakakis, G.S., Diakaki, C. (2015). Sustainable urban solid waste management planning with the use of an advanced interactive decision support system based on the PROMETHEE II method. International Journal of Decision Support Systems 1(3), 294-324
  • Diakaki, C., Papageorgiou, M., Papamichail, I., Nikolos, I. K. (2015). Overview and analysis of vehicle automation and communication systems from a motorway traffic management perspective. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 75, 147-165
  • Fevranoglou, G., and Diakaki, C. (2019). Risk management in construction projects: A study on the state-of-practice. International Journal of Decision Sciences, Risk and Management 8(4), 197-219
  • Diakaki, C., Banani, N., and Grigoroudis, E. (2020). Virtual incubators and online business tools for agro-food SMEs. In Krassadaki, E., Baourakis, G., Zopounidis, C., and Matsatsinis, N. (Eds.), Operational Research in Agriculture and Toursism, Cooperative Management Series, Springer Nature Switzerland AD, 27-48
  • Daskalou, K, and Diakaki, C. (2021). Day ahead electricity price forecasting in coupled markets: An application in the Italian market. In Manolitzas, P., Zopounidis, C., Talias, M., Grigoroudis, E., and Matsatsinis, N., Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Operations Management and Service Evaluation, IGI Global, 1-29
  • Diakaki, C., and Grigoroudis, E. (2021). Improving Energy Efficiency in Buildings Using an Iteractive Mathematical Programming Approach. Sustainability 13(8), 4436, (https://doi.org/10.3390/su13084436)

Research Activity

  • “Realized volatility of energy variables modeling and forecasting (REVEN)”, Research Project, Special Account for Research, Hellenic Open University, Greece (since October 2022)
  • “Randomised Optimisation Algorithms Research Network (ROAR-NET)”, Funded by the European Commission, COST Programme Action CA22137 (since December 2023)
  • “A Transdisciplinary Network to Bridge Climate Science and Impacts on Society (FutureMed)”, Funded by the European Commission, COST Programme Action 22162 (since December 2023)
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