Elpida Tzafestas

Electrical and Computer Engineer (NTUA, Athens),
DEA and Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence (Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris).

I have been researcher and senior researcher in the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems from September 1999 to September 2009.

As of September 2009, I am associate professor of artificial intelligence in the Department of Philosophy and History of Science of the University of Athens.

These pages will soon move to a Univ. of Athens address.

Address		Cognitive Science Laboratory
		Department of History and Philosophy of Sciences (M.I.Th.E.)
		National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
		University Campus, Ano Ilisia
		15771 Athens
		GREECE
Tel.		(30)-210-772 1527
Fax.		(30)-210-772 2490

E-mail		etzafestas@phs.uoa.gr

Interests:

My research interests are mainly in the intersection of complex systems and cognitive science, theoretical biology, artificial life and social modeling.

Further academic interests include adaptive and enactive user-interfaces as well as biologically inspired Internet-based information systems.

My principal hobby is music (theory and practice). I play the guitar --anybody for a jam?

Current projects:

Impulsive behavioral and social regulation mechanisms:
Imitation, attraction, anxiety, play, the moods etc.

Cells, insects and carnivores with representations

Fungus eaters

Cognitive modeling for math puzzles

Applied cultural modeling

Graphical tools for agent-based simulation and modeling

Web services design as artificial biology

And I am also trying to learn to play some mandolin

Selected publications

Software (To be updated)

And here is my Sudoku Solver ( December 2006)

Courses

Artificial Intelligence, 4th year
- Last offering (Spring 2009)
Biological Systems, 4th year
- Current offering (Fall 2009)
Adaptive Intelligence, M.Sc. in Cognitive Science
- Current offering (Fall 2009)
In spring, I am also teaching Complex Adaptive Systems in the M.Sc. Bioinformatics of University of Athens.
- Last offering (Spring 2009)
- Spring 2008 offering
- Spring 2007 offering
- Spring 2006 offering
  Sample assignment: Boolean networks
- Spring 2005 offering
  Sample assignment: Food webs
- Spring 2004 offering
  Sample assignment: Clustering
In spring 2006 and 2007, I taught (part of) Artificial Intelligence in Naval Engineering in the Naval Engineering Department of National Technical University of Athens.
- Spring 2006 offering
Highlights from past courses
- Graphical User Interface Development (December 2005)
- Intelligent and Complex Systems
- Computer Graphics
- Computer Animation
- Computer Science Misc