Ioannis N. Athanasiadis

99 papers A* 3B 3C 1Journal 51Unranked 37

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2025	—	`conf`	A Virtual Lab Maturity Model for Guiding the Co-Development of Advanced Virtual Research Environments. SOSE Zhiming Zhao, W. Daniel Kissling, Geerten M. Hengeveld, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Karline Soetaert, Andries Hof
2025	J	`jnl`	Adaptive fertilizer management for optimizing nitrogen use efficiency with constrained reinforcement learning. Comput. Electron. Agric. Hilmy Baja, Michiel G. J. Kallenberg, Herman N. C. Berghuijs, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2025	—	`conf`	AirCast: Improving Air Pollution Forecasting Through Multi-Variable Data Alignment. TerraBytes Vishal Nedungadi, Muhammad Akhtar Munir, Marc Rußwurm, Ron Sarafian, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Yinon Rudich, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Salman Khan
2025	J	`jnl`	AirCast: Improving Air Pollution Forecasting Through Multi-Variable Data Alignment. CoRR Vishal Nedungadi, Muhammad Akhtar Munir, Marc Rußwurm, Ron Sarafian, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Yinon Rudich, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Salman H. Khan
2025	—	`conf`	Flexible Metadata Harvesting for Ecology Using Large Language Models. TPDL (Short Papers and Workshops) Zehao Lu, Thijs L. van der Plas, Parinaz Rashidi, W. Daniel Kissling, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2025	J	`jnl`	Flexible metadata harvesting for ecology using large language models. CoRR Zehao Lu, Thijs L. van der Plas, Parinaz Rashidi, W. Daniel Kissling, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2025	J	`jnl`	From General to Specialized: The Need for Foundational Models in Agriculture. CoRR Vishal Nedungadi, Xingguo Xiong, Aike Potze, Ron van Bree, Tao Lin, Marc Rußwurm, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2025	A*	`conf`	Hybrid Phenology Modeling for Predicting Temperature Effects on Tree Dormancy. AAAI Ron van Bree, Diego Marcos, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2025	J	`jnl`	Hybrid Phenology Modeling for Predicting Temperature Effects on Tree Dormancy. CoRR Ron van Bree, Diego Marcos, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2025	A*	`conf`	To Measure or Not: A Cost-Sensitive, Selective Measuring Environment for Agricultural Management Decisions with Reinforcement Learning. AAAI Hilmy Baja, Michiel Kallenberg, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2025	J	`jnl`	To Measure or Not: A Cost-Sensitive, Selective Measuring Environment for Agricultural Management Decisions with Reinforcement Learning. CoRR Hilmy Baja, Michiel Kallenberg, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2024	J	`jnl`	Breeding Programs Optimization with Reinforcement Learning. CoRR Omar G. Younis, Luca Corinzia, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Andreas Krause, Joachim M. Buhmann, Matteo Turchetta
2024	J	`jnl`	Fully automatic extraction of morphological traits from the Web: utopia or reality? CoRR Diego Marcos, Robert van de Vlasakker, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Pierre Bonnet, Hervé Goëau, Alexis Joly, W. Daniel Kissling, César Leblanc, André S. J. van Proosdij, Konstantinos P. Panousis
2023	J	`jnl`	ChromaX: a fast and scalable breeding program simulator. Bioinform. Omar G. Younis, Matteo Turchetta, Daniel Ariza Suarez, Steven Yates, Bruno Studer, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Andreas Krause, Joachim M. Buhmann, Luca Corinzia
2023	J	`jnl`	Crop modeling frameworks interoperability through bidirectional source code transformation. Environ. Model. Softw. Cyrille Ahmed Midingoyi, Christophe Pradal, Andreas Enders, Davide Fumagalli, Patrice Lecharpentier, Hélène Raynal, Marcello Donatelli, Davide Fanchini, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Cheryl H. Porter, Gerrit Hoogenboom, Fabio A. A. Oliveira, Dean P. Holzworth, Pierre Martre
2023	J	`jnl`	Exploding the myths: An introduction to artificial neural networks for prediction and forecasting. Environ. Model. Softw. Holger R. Maier, Stefano Galelli, Saman Razavi, Andrea Castelletti, Andrea Emilio Rizzoli, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Miquel Sànchez-Marrè, Marco Acutis, Wenyan Wu, Greer B. Humphrey
2023	J	`jnl`	Integrating processed-based models and machine learning for crop yield prediction. CoRR Michiel G. J. Kallenberg, Bernardo Maestrini, Ron van Bree, Paul Ravensbergen, Christos Pylianidis, Frits K. van Evert, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2023	J	`jnl`	Interpretability of deep learning models for crop yield forecasting. Comput. Electron. Agric. Dilli R. Paudel, Allard de Wit, Hendrik Boogaard, Diego Marcos, Sjoukje A. Osinga, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2023	—	`conf`	Survival Analysis as a Risk Stratification Tool for Threshold Exceedance Forecasting. KMIS George Marinos, Manos Karvounis, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2022	J	`jnl`	A weakly supervised framework for high-resolution crop yield forecasts. CoRR Dilli R. Paudel, Diego Marcos, Allard de Wit, Hendrik Boogaard, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2022	J	`jnl`	Combining Telecom Data with Heterogeneous Data Sources for Traffic and Emission Assessments - An Agent-Based Approach. ISPRS Int. J. Geo Inf. Nastasija Grujic, Sanja Brdar, Sjoukje A. Osinga, Gert Jan Hofstede, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Milos Pljakic, Nikola Obrenovic, Miro Govedarica, Vladimir S. Crnojevic
2022	A*	`conf`	Learning Long-Term Crop Management Strategies with CyclesGym. NeurIPS Matteo Turchetta, Luca Corinzia, Scott Sussex, Amanda Burton, Juan Herrera, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Joachim M. Buhmann, Andreas Krause
2022	J	`jnl`	Learning latent representations for operational nitrogen response rate prediction. CoRR Christos Pylianidis, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2022	J	`jnl`	Simulation-assisted machine learning for operational digital twins. Environ. Model. Softw. Christos Pylianidis, Val Snow, Hiske Overweg, Sjoukje A. Osinga, John Kean, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2021	J	`jnl`	Crop2ML: An open-source multi-language modeling framework for the exchange and reuse of crop model components. Environ. Model. Softw. Cyrille Ahmed Midingoyi, Christophe Pradal, Andreas Enders, Davide Fumagalli, Hélène Raynal, Marcello Donatelli, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Cheryl H. Porter, Gerrit Hoogenboom, Dean P. Holzworth, Frédérick Garçia, Peter J. Thorburn, Pierre Martre
2021	J	`jnl`	CropGym: a Reinforcement Learning Environment for Crop Management. CoRR Hiske Overweg, Herman N. C. Berghuijs, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2021	J	`jnl`	Introducing digital twins to agriculture. Comput. Electron. Agric. Christos Pylianidis, Sjoukje A. Osinga, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2020	J	`jnl`	A semantic approach for timeseries data fusion. Comput. Electron. Agric. Argyrios Samourkasidis, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2020	J	`jnl`	Blockchain Applications in the Agri-Food Domain: The First Wave. Frontiers Blockchain Giorgio Alessandro Motta, Bedir Tekinerdogan, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2020	—	`conf`	Defining and Classifying Infrastructural Contestation: Towards a Synergy Between Anthropology and Data Science. ISESS Christos Giovanopoulos, Yannis Kallianos, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Dimitris Dalakoglou
2020	—	`ed.`	Environmental Software Systems. Data Science in Action - 13th IFIP WG 5.11 International Symposium, ISESS 2020, Wageningen, The Netherlands, February 5-7, 2020, Proceedings ISESS Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Steven P. Frysinger, Gerald Schimak, Willem-Jan Knibbe
2020	J	`jnl`	Improving predictive performance on survival in dairy cattle using an ensemble learning approach. Comput. Electron. Agric. Esther M. M. van der Heide, Claudia Kamphuis, Roel F. Veerkamp, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, George Azzopardi, M. L. van Pelt, Bart Ducro
2020	—	`conf`	Investigation of Common Big Data Analytics and Decision-Making Requirements Across Diverse Precision Agriculture and Livestock Farming Use Cases. ISESS Spiros Mouzakitis, Giannis Tsapelas, Sotiris Pelekis, Simos Ntanopoulos, Dimitris Askounis, Sjoukje A. Osinga, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2020	—	`conf`	Location-Specific vs Location-Agnostic Machine Learning Metamodels for Predicting Pasture Nitrogen Response Rate. ICPR Workshops (6) Christos Pylianidis, Val Snow, Dean P. Holzworth, Jeremy Bryant, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2019	J	`jnl`	A template framework for environmental timeseries data acquisition. Environ. Model. Softw. Argyrios Samourkasidis, Evangelia Papoutsoglou, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2018	J	`jnl`	Environmental Data Science. Environ. Model. Softw. Karina Gibert, Jeffery S. Horsburgh, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Geoff Holmes
2018	J	`jnl`	Preface to the thematic issue on Environmental Data Science. Applications to air quality and water cycle. Environ. Model. Softw. Karina Gibert, Jeffery S. Horsburgh, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Geoff Holmes
2017	—	`conf`	How to Start an Environmental Software Project. ISESS Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2017	C	`conf`	Managing Variant Calling Files the Big Data Way: Using HDFS and Apache Parquet. BDCAT Aikaterini Boufea, Richard Finkers, Martijn van Kaauwen, Mark R. Kramer, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2017	J	`jnl`	Semantics for interoperability of distributed data and models: Foundations for better-connected information. F1000Research Ferdinando Villa, Stefano Balbi, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Caterina Caracciolo
2017	—	`conf`	Spatial classification with fuzzy lattice reasoning. IML Constantinos Mavridis, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2017	—	`conf`	Toward Better Data Sharing Methods for Genebanks. S4BioDiv@ISWC Evangelia Papoutsoglou, Rajaram Kaliyaperumal, Theo J. L. van Hintum, Richard G. F. Visser, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Richard Finkers
2017	J	`jnl`	webXTREME: R-based web tool for calculating agroclimatic indices of extreme events. Comput. Electron. Agric. Tommy Klein, Argyrios Samourkasidis, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Gianni Bellocchi, Pierluigi Calanca
2016	J	`jnl`	A Privacy-by-Design Contextual Suggestion System for Tourism. J. Sens. Actuator Networks Pavlos S. Efraimidis, George Drosatos, Avi Arampatzis, Giorgos Stamatelatos, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2016	—	`conf`	A Sensor Observation Service Extension for Internet of Things. InterOSS@IoT Argyrios Samourkasidis, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2016	—	`conf`	Feature Driven Survey of Big Data Systems. IoTBD Çigdem Avci Salma, Bedir Tekinerdogan, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2016	J	`jnl`	Top 10 reviewers for environmental modelling and software in 2015. Environ. Model. Softw. Anthony J. Jakeman, Daniel P. Ames, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Stefan Reis, Andrea Emilio Rizzoli, Alexey A. Voinov
2015	J	`jnl`	Agricultural production systems modelling and software: Current status and future prospects. Environ. Model. Softw. Dean P. Holzworth, Val Snow, Sander Janssen, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Marcello Donatelli, Gerrit Hoogenboom, Jeffrey W. White, Peter J. Thorburn
2015	—	`conf`	Challenges in Modelling of Environmental Semantics. ISESS Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2015	—	`conf`	Interoperable Multimedia Annotation and Retrieval for the Tourism Sector. MTSR Antonios Chatzitoulousis, Pavlos S. Efraimidis, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2015	J	`jnl`	Introductory Overviews. Environ. Model. Softw. Anthony J. Jakeman, Serena H. Hamilton, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Suzanne A. Pierce
2015	B	`conf`	Pythia: A Privacy-Enhanced Personalized Contextual Suggestion System for Tourism. COMPSAC George Drosatos, Pavlos S. Efraimidis, Avi Arampatzis, Giorgos Stamatelatos, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2015	J	`jnl`	Thematic issue on agricultural systems modelling and software - Part II. Environ. Model. Softw. Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Sander Janssen, Dean P. Holzworth, Peter J. Thorburn, Marcello Donatelli, Valerie O. Snow, Gerrit Hoogenboom, Jeffrey W. White
2015	—	`conf`	Towards an air pollution health study data management system - A case study from a smoky Swiss railway. EnviroInfo/ICT4S (2) Evangelia Papoutsoglou, Argyrios Samourkasidis, Ming-Yi Tsai, Mark Davey, Alex Ineichen, Marloes Eeftens, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2014	—	`conf`	Complementary software solutions for efficient timber logging and trade management. EnviroInfo Despina Anastasiadou, Kostas Koulinas, Fotis Kiourtsis, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2014	J	`jnl`	Harmonization and translation of crop modeling data to ensure interoperability. Environ. Model. Softw. Cheryl H. Porter, Chris Villalobos, Dean P. Holzworth, Roger Nelson, Jeffrey W. White, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Sander Janssen, Dominique Ripoche, Julien Cufi, Dirk Raes, Meng Zhang, Rob Knapen, Ritvik Sahajpal, Kenneth J. Boote, James W. Jones
2014	J	`jnl`	Privacy-preserving computation of participatory noise maps in the cloud. J. Syst. Softw. George Drosatos, Pavlos S. Efraimidis, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Matthias Stevens, Ellie D'Hondt
2014	—	`conf`	Towards a semantic framework for wildlife modeling. EnviroInfo Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Ferdinando Villa, Georgina Examiliotou, Yorgos Iliopoulos, Yorgos Mertzanis
2013	—	`conf`	A roadmap to domain specific programming languages for environmental modeling: key requirements and concepts. DSM@SPLASH Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Ferdinando Villa
2013	—	`conf`	Identifying Smart Solutions for Fighting Illegal Logging and Timber Trade. ISESS Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Despina Anastasiadou, Kostas Koulinas, Fotis Kiourtsis
2012	B	`conf`	A Privacy-Preserving Cloud Computing System for Creating Participatory Noise Maps. COMPSAC George Drosatos, Pavlos S. Efraimidis, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Ellie D'Hondt, Matthias Stevens
2012	J	`jnl`	Publishing agro-environmental resources as linked data. Int. J. Metadata Semant. Ontologies Sasa Nesic, Andrea Emilio Rizzoli, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2011	J	`jnl`	Best Paper Awards for 2010. Environ. Model. Softw. Anthony J. Jakeman, Andrea Emilio Rizzoli, Alexey A. Voinov, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Thomas Berger, Mark E. Borsuk, Marcello Donatelli, Giorgio Guariso, Ari Jolma, Stefano Marsili-Libelli, Barbara J. Robson, Miquel Sànchez-Marrè, Ralf Seppelt, David Swayne
2011	—	`conf`	Introducing a Content Integration Process for a Federation of Agricultural Institutional Repositories. MTSR Vassilios Protonotarios, Laura Gavrilut, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Ilias Hatzakis, Miguel-Ángel Sicilia
2011	—	`conf`	Publishing Agro-Environmental Data to a Semantically Unified Environmental Information Space: a Case Study. EnviroInfo Sasa Nesic, Andrea Emilio Rizzoli, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Marcello Donatelli
2011	—	`conf`	Publishing and Linking Semantically Annotated Agro-environmental Resources to LOD with AGROPub. MTSR Sasa Nesic, Andrea Emilio Rizzoli, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2011	—	`conf`	Towards a Semantically Unified Environmental Information Space. ISESS Sasa Nesic, Andrea Emilio Rizzoli, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2010	J	`jnl`	Best Paper Awards for 2009. Environ. Model. Softw. Anthony J. Jakeman, Andrea Emilio Rizzoli, Alexey A. Voinov, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2010	—	`conf`	Data Mining Methods for Quality Assurance in an Environmental Monitoring Network. ICANN (3) Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Andrea Emilio Rizzoli, Daniel W. Beard
2010	—	`conf`	Information Enrichment Using TaToo's Semantic Framework. MTSR Gerald Schimak, Andrea Emilio Rizzoli, Giuseppe Avellino, Tomás Pariente Lobo, José María Fuentes, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2010	—	`ed.`	Metadata and Semantic Research - 4th International Conference, MTSR 2010, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, October 20-22, 2010. Proceedings MTSR Salvador Sánchez-Alonso, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2009	J	`jnl`	A multi-agent system for meteorological radar data management and decision support. Environ. Model. Softw. Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Marios Milis, Pericles A. Mitkas, Silas C. Michaelides
2009	J	`jnl`	Defining assessment projects and scenarios for policy support: Use of ontology in Integrated Assessment and Modelling. Environ. Model. Softw. Sander Janssen, Frank Ewert, Hongtao Li, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, J. J. F. Wien, Olivier Thérond, M. J. R. Knapen, I. Bezlepkina, J. Alkan-Olsson, Andrea Emilio Rizzoli, Hatem Belhouchette, M. Svensson, Martin K. van Ittersum
2009	—	`ed.`	Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering, Proceedings of the 4th International ICSC Symposium, ITEE 2009, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 28-29, 2009 ITEE Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Pericles A. Mitkas, Andrea Emilio Rizzoli, Jorge Marx Gómez
2009	J	`jnl`	Modelling with knowledge: A review of emerging semantic approaches to environmental modelling. Environ. Model. Softw. Ferdinando Villa, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Andrea Emilio Rizzoli
2009	—	`conf`	Ontology for Seamless Integration of Agricultural Data and Models. MTSR Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Andrea Emilio Rizzoli, Sander Janssen, Erling Andersen, Ferdinando Villa
2008	J	`jnl`	Indirectly driven knowledge modelling in ecology. Int. J. Metadata Semant. Ontologies Deana D. Pennington, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Shawn Bowers, Sergey Krivov, Joshua S. Madin, Mark Schildhauer, Ferdinando Villa
2008	J	`jnl`	Semantic links in integrated modelling frameworks. Math. Comput. Simul. Andrea Emilio Rizzoli, Marcello Donatelli, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Ferdinando Villa, David Huber
2007	J	`jnl`	A retraining methodology for enhancing agent intelligence. Knowl. Based Syst. Andreas L. Symeonidis, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Pericles A. Mitkas
2007	—	`conf`	Computer-Supported Collaborative Knowledge Modeling in Ecology. CKC Deana Pennington, Joshua S. Madin, Ferdinando Villa, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2007	J	`jnl`	Data mining for agent reasoning: A synergy for training intelligent agents. Eng. Appl. Artif. Intell. Andreas L. Symeonidis, Kyriakos C. Chatzidimitriou, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Pericles A. Mitkas
2007	—	`conf`	Delivering Environmental Knowledge: a Semantic Approach. EnviroInfo (1) Andrea Emilio Rizzoli, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Ferdinando Villa
2007	J	`jnl`	Fuzzy lattice reasoning (FLR) classifier and its application for ambient ozone estimation. Int. J. Approx. Reason. Vassilis G. Kaburlasos, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Pericles A. Mitkas
2007	—	`conf`	Ontologies, JavaBeans and Relational Databases for enabling semantic programming. COMPSAC (2) Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Ferdinando Villa, Andrea Emilio Rizzoli
2007	—	`conf`	Semantic Modeling in Farming Systems Research - The Case of the Agricultural Management Definition Module. ITEE Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Sander Janssen, David Huber, Andrea Emilio Rizzoli, Martin K. van Ittersum
2007	—	`ch.`	The Fuzzy Lattice Reasoning (FLR) Classifier for Mining Environmental Data. Computational Intelligence Based on Lattice Theory Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2007	—	`conf`	Training Intelligent Agents in the Semantic Web Era: The Golf Advisor Agent. Web Intelligence/IAT Workshops Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2006	B	`conf`	Air Quality Assessment Using Fuzzy Lattice Reasoning (FLR). FUZZ-IEEE Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Vassilis G. Kaburlasos
2006	J	`jnl`	An intelligent service layer upgrades environmental information management. IT Prof. Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2006	—	`conf`	Data Mining Air Quality Data for Athens, Greece. EnviroInfo Melina Efraimidou, Maria Kanaki, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Pericles A. Mitkas, Kostas D. Karatzas
2005	J	`jnl`	A Hybrid Agent-Based Model for Estimating Residential Water Demand. Simul. Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Alexandros K. Mentes, Pericles A. Mitkas, Yiannis A. Mylopoulos
2005	—	`conf`	An Agent-based Middleware for Environmental Information Management. ITEE Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Andreas Solsbach, Pericles A. Mitkas, Jorge Marx Gómez
2005	J	`jnl`	Social influence and water conservation: an agent-based approach. Comput. Sci. Eng. Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Pericles A. Mitkas
2004	J	`jnl`	An agent framework for dynamic agent retraining: Agent academy CoRR Pericles A. Mitkas, Andreas L. Symeonidis, Dionisis D. Kehagias, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Gokce Laleci, Gokhan Kurt, Yildiray Kabak, Aybar C. Acar, Asuman Dogac
2004	J	`jnl`	An agent-based intelligent environmental monitoring system CoRR Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Pericles A. Mitkas
2004	—	`conf`	Software Agents for Assessing Environmental Quality: Advantages and Limitations. EnviroInfo (2) Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Pericles A. Mitkas
2003	—	`conf`	A Framework for Constructing Multi-agent Applications and Training Intelligent Agents. AOSE Pericles A. Mitkas, Dionisis D. Kehagias, Andreas L. Symeonidis, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2003	—	`conf`	Application of data mining and intelligent agent technologies to concurrent engineering. CE Pericles A. Mitkas, Andreas L. Symeonidis, Dionisis D. Kehagias, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
2003	—	`conf`	Embedding data-driven decision strategies on software agents: the case of a multi-agent system for monitoring air-quality indexes. CE Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Pericles A. Mitkas, Gokce Laleci, Yildiray Kabak