Nikos Lorentzos

Biography

Short CV of Nikos Lorentzos Nikos Lorentzos is a Professor at the Agricultural University of Athens. He has a first Degree in Mathematics (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 1975), a Masters Degree in Computer Science (Queens College, CUNY, USA, 1981) and a PhD Degree in Computer Science (Birkbeck College, University of London, 1988). He is an expert in databases with major research contribution in Temporal, Spatial and Spatiotemporal Databases and on the development of DSSs and Expert Systems in the forestry and agricultural domain. His research approach on temporal databases can be found in books of international circulation, addressed to students and to professionals. His work has influenced the ISO/DBL/WG3 group, working on the SQL standards, as is witnessed by several ISO reports that proposed the inclusion of pieces of his research on temporal databases into SQL Temporal, in reaction to a competitive approach, proposed by an international group. Today, SQL:2011, the unique ISO language for the management of relational data contains temporal constructs based on two PhDs, one PhD by him and another PhD, supervised by him at the Agricultural University of Athens. Follow up research abroad has been based on his approach on temporal databases.

Research Interest

agriculture