Vassilios Karakoidas
2026 update of Chapter 3 of the PhD thesis, revised alongside the j-mod compiler reimplementation
Publications
Journal articles, conference and workshop papers, book chapters, magazine pieces and theses authored or co-authored by Vassilios Karakoidas, spanning 2001–2026. Filter by venue kind below, or sort by citation count. Every card leads to a page on the work itself — the problem, the idea and what it contributed. "Read" opens the PDF in a fullscreen preview; other items link to the publisher's original site (DOI, external archive).
Citation metrics
- Citations
- 508
- 145 of them since 2021
- h-index
- 13
- 13 papers cited at least 13 times each
- i10-index
- 17
- papers cited 10 times or more
- Publications
- 36
- journal, conference, magazine and book-chapter entries
- Indexed
- 30
- of the 43 works listed on this site
From Google Scholar (external link, opens in a new tab), retrieved 5 September 2026. Counts are a snapshot and drift upward over time.
2026
Improving Sequential Recommendations with LLMs
47 citationsJournalArtun Boz, Wouter Zorgdrager, Zoe Kotti, Jesse Harte, Panos Louridas, Vassilios Karakoidas, Dietmar Jannach, Marios Fragkoulis
Most-cited of the recent work — 47 citations in its first year.
ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems, 4(2), Article 19, pp. 1--35, 2026DOI (external link, opens in a new tab)
2022
S-Query: Opening the Black Box of Internal Stream Processor State
12 citationsConferenceJim Verheijde, Vassilios Karakoidas, Marios Fragkoulis, Asterios Katsifodimos
38th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, 2022
2016
Domain-Specific Languages
0 citationsBook chapterVassilios Karakoidas
Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology, 2016
2015
A Type-safe Embedding of SQL into Java Using the Extensible Compiler Framework J%
15 citationsJournalVassilios Karakoidas, Dimitris Mitropoulos, Panos Louridas, Diomidis Spinellis
Computer Languages, Systems & Structures, 2015DOI (external link, opens in a new tab)Generating the Blueprints of the Java Ecosystem
17 citationsConferenceVassilios Karakoidas, Dimitris Mitropoulos, Panos Louridas, Georgios Gousios, Diomidis Spinellis
MSR '15: Proceedings of the 2015 International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, 2015DOI (external link, opens in a new tab)Vassilios Karakoidas
PhD Thesis, Athens University of Economics and Business, 2015
2014
On domain-specific languages usage (why DSLs really matter)
3 citationsMagazineVassilios Karakoidas
XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 16--17, 2014DOI (external link, opens in a new tab)The Bug Catalog of the Maven Ecosystem
52 citationsConferenceDimitris Mitropoulos, Vassilios Karakoidas, Panos Louridas, Georgios Gousios, Diomidis Spinellis
MSR 2014, The 11th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, 2014The Vulnerability Dataset of a Large Software Ecosystem
6 citationsWorkshopDimitris Mitropoulos, Georgios Gousios, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Vassilios Karakoidas, Panos Louridas, Diomidis Spinellis
Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Building Analysis Datasets and Gathering Experience Returns for Security (BADGERS 2014), colocated with ESORICS 2014
2013
Dismal Code: Studying the Evolution of Security Bugs
22 citationsWorkshopDimitris Mitropoulos, Vassilios Karakoidas, Panos Louridas, Georgios Gousios, Diomidis Spinellis
Proceedings of the LASER Workshop 2013, Learning from Authoritative Security Experiment Results, pp. 37--48, 2013
2012
Comparative Language Fuzz Testing: Programming Languages vs. Fat Fingers
5 citationsWorkshopDiomidis Spinellis, Vassilios Karakoidas, Panos Louridas
Proceedings of the Workshop on Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools (PLATEAU) at the ACM Onward! and SPLASH Conferences, 2012DOI (external link, opens in a new tab)
2011
A Hacker's Perspective on Educating Future Security Experts
15 citationsConferenceAlexandros Papanikolaou, Vassilios Karakoidas, Vasileios Vlachos, Andreas Venieris, Christos Ilioudis, Georgios Zouganelis
Proceedings of 15th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics (PCI 2011), 2011DOI (external link, opens in a new tab)AddOn Development in Firefox
MagazineVassilios Karakoidas
Linux Inside (Greek), 2011Vassilios Karakoidas
Linux Inside (Greek), 2011Vassilios Karakoidas
Linux Inside (Greek), 2011Countering Code Injection Attacks: A Unified Approach
17 citationsJournalDimitris Mitropoulos, Vassilios Karakoidas, Panagiotis Louridas, Diomidis Spinellis
Highly Commended Award, Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2012.
Information Management and Computer Security, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 177--194, 2011Vassilios Karakoidas
Linux Inside (Greek), 2011
2010
Blueprints for a Large-Scale Early Warning System
2 citationsConferencePaul G. Spirakis, Vasileios Vlachos, Vassilios Karakoidas, Dimitrios Liappis, Dimitrios Kalaitzis, Eftychios Valeontis, Spyros Kollias, George Argyros
Proceedings of 14th Panhelenic Conference on Informatics (PCI 2010), 2010
2009
Chaperone: a content filtering web proxy based on public health policies
0 citationsConferenceVasileios Vlachos, Vassilios Karakoidas
Proceedings of 13th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics (PCI 2009), 2009Evaluating the Quality of Open Source Software
127 citationsJournalDiomidis Spinellis, Georgios Gousios, Vassilios Karakoidas, Panagiotis Louridas, Paul J. Adams, Ioannis Samoladas, Ioannis Stamelos
The most-cited work — a quarter of all citations to date.
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS), Vol. 233, pp. 5--28, 2009Fortifying Applications Against XPath Injection Attacks
18 citationsConferenceDimitrios Mitropoulos, Vassilios Karakoidas, Diomidis Spinellis
MCIS 2009: 4th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, pp. 1169--1179, 2009J%: Integrating Domain Specific Languages with Java
6 citationsConferenceVassilios Karakoidas, Diomidis Spinellis
Proceedings of 13th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics (PCI 2009), pp. 109--113, 2009
2008
FIRE/J: Optimizing Regular Expression Searches with Generative Programming
17 citationsJournalVassilios Karakoidas, Diomidis Spinellis
Software: Practice and Experience, Vol. 38, No. 6, pp. 557--573, 2008Vassilios Karakoidas
Linux Format (Greek version), 2008Vassilios Karakoidas
Linux Format (Greek version), 2008Vassilios Karakoidas
Linux Format (Greek version), 2008Vassilios Karakoidas
Linux Format (Greek version), 2008
2007
Software Quality Assessment of Open Source Software
25 citationsConferenceGeorgios Gousios, Vassilios Karakoidas, Konstantinos Stroggylos, Panagiotis Louridas, Vasileios Vlachos, Diomidis Spinellis
Proceedings of the 11th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics (PCI 2007), 2007
2006
Introducing Pergamos: A Fedora-Based DL System Utilizing Digital Object Prototypes
5 citationsConferenceGeorge Pyrounakis, Kostas Saidis, Mara Nikolaidou, Vassilios Karakoidas
Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, pp. 500-503, 2006PEGASUS: Competitive load balancing using inetd
0 citationsConferenceGeorge Oikonomou, Vassilios Karakoidas, Theodore Apostolopoulos
Proceedings of the 5th International System Administration and Network Engineering Conference SANE 06, 2006Tuning Java's memory manager for high performance server applications
12 citationsConferenceGeorgios Gousios, Vassilios Karakoidas, Diomidis Spinellis
Proceedings of the 5th International System Administration and Network Engineering Conference SANE 06, pp. 69--83, 2006
2005
Stephanos Androutsellis-Theotokis, Vassilios Karakoidas, Georgios Gousios, Diomidis Spinellis, Yannis Charalabidis
Innovation and the knowledge Economy --- Issues, Applications Case Studies, pp. 199-206, 2005Building an e-Business Platform: An Experience report
11 citationsConferenceStephanos Androutsellis-Theotokis, Vassilios Karakoidas, Georgios Gousios, Diomidis Spinellis, Yannis Charalabidis
Proceedings of the eChallenges 2005, 2005Self-Configuring and Optimizing Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
24 citationsConferenceApostolos Malatras, George Pavlou, Sivapathalingham Sivavakeesar, Vassilios Karakoidas
ICAC '05: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Automatic Computing, pp. 372--373, 2005DOI (external link, opens in a new tab)
2004
A Software Development Metaphor for Developing Semi-dynamic Web Sites through Declarative Specifications
Thesis / reportDiomidis Spinellis, Vassilios Karakoidas, Damianos Chatziantoniou
Eltrun Working Paper Series, WP 2004-007, 2004Application Interconnection and Execution of Business to Business Transactions over the Internet
1 citationsConferenceDiomidis Spinellis, Yannis Charalabidis, Vassilios Karakoidas
20th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO-XX), 2004Applying MDA in Enterprise Application Interoperability: The PRAXIS Project
4 citationsConferenceVassilios Karakoidas, Stephanos Androutsellis-Theotokis, Diomidis Spinellis, Yannis Charalabidis
5th International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management (PAKM 04), 2004Compiling regular expressions into Java bytecodes
Thesis / reportVassilios Karakoidas
Master's Thesis, Athens University of Economics and Business, 2004Enabling B2B transactions over the Internet through Application Interconnection: The PRAXIS Project
10 citationsConferenceYannis Charalabidis, Vassilios Karakoidas, Stephanos Androutsellis-Theotokis, Diomidis Spinellis
Proceedings of the e-Challenges Conference, 2004Enabling B2B transactions over the Internet through Application Interconnection: The PRAXIS Project
5 citationsBook chapterYannis Charalabidis, Vassilios Karakoidas, Stephanos Androutsellis-Theotokis, Diomidis Spinellis
eAdoption and the Knowledge Economy: Issues, Applications and Case Studies, pp. 1554--1561, 2004Performing Peer-to-Peer e-Business Transactions: A Requirements Analysis and Preliminary Design Proposal
23 citationsConferenceStephanos Androutsellis-Theotokis, Diomidis Spinellis, Vassilios Karakoidas
IADIS International e-Commerce 2004 Conference, 2004
2001
DocML: A digital library of University data
7 citationsJournalIoannis Papadakis, Vassilios Karakoidas, Vassileios Chrissikopoulos
Library Hi-Tech, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 378--387, 2001