Dimitrios Zissis

Welcome

I'm an Adjunct Lecturer and Post-Doc Researcher at the University of the Aegean, Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering. The scientific subject of the School of Design in Syros is the integrated design of Products and Systems, using creatively the knowledge and the ideas emerging from a wide variety of arts and sciences, emphasizing in the exploitation of new technologies.

I recently completed my Doctoral Degree (PhD) in the area of Information and Communication System Security. My PhD dissertation explores methodologies and technologies for designing secure electronic voting systems.

"Electronic voting IS's belong to the wider field of applications of computer science, exploring ICT to increase participation in governance and democracy, often referred to as e-government. This dissertation is intended to exist at the meeting point of the field’s of electronic governance and Information and Communication Security. This dissertation attempts to approach the issue from an inter-disciplinary scope while focusing on security issues, as deploying a system in a secure manner requires meeting technical and procedural levels of assurance in respect to social and regulatory frameworks. From an Information and Communication Security perspective, a structured analysis is adopted to identify vulnerabilities, involved in the digitalization of government transactions and the electoral process, exploring the notion of trust and transparency within this context. A number of information security risks, vulnerabilities and threats are documented, leading to the identification of a set of requirements which should be met when designing an e-voting system. These requirements lead to the development of a design framework with recommendations of considerations that can assist in reducing these vulnerabilities. The research methodology adopted towards achieving this goal, is based on software engineering and information systems design approaches. " (PhD Abstract, 2011).

My dissertation is available here as an e-book.

My main research interests are:

• Information Systems Design
• Information Systems Security
• Information and Communication Security
• Secure Electronic Voting
• Electronic Governance and Electronic Democracy
• Public Key Cryptography and Digital Signatures
• Cloud Computing
• Cloud Computing Security

My complete list of published papers, can be found here.

Some citations to my articles can be found here (by Google Scholar)

A short CV can be found here.

Teaching material for courses I have been involved in can be found here.

• Informatics I 
• Informatics II 
• Programming Methodologies & Techniques I 
• Internet Technology and Programming
• Analysis & Design of Information Systems

Links

• University of the Aegean
• Department of Product & Systems Design Engineering
• List of Publications & Research Interests
• Some books I have read
• MarineTraffic
• Mozilla & Firefox
• One Laptop Per Child OLPC
• Workshop @ dpsd (NEW)

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