Dr Kostas Giannoutakis

Kostas graduated with a Ph.D. in Computational Economics from Imperial College London in 2008 and a degree in Economics from the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki, Greece in 2003. As a Ph.D. student, Kostas did research on Digital Business Ecosystems and proposed methodologies for simulating and optimising agent-based systems. His research made use of optimisation methods and metaheuristics, computer programming and stochastic processes. He has also conducted research on innovation models and innovation theory. He is joining the Newcastle University Business School as a Research Associate for the SiDE (Social Inclusion through the Digital Economy) project.  

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Cultural Lab, Space 3
University of Newcastle upon Tyne,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU

Qualifications

• Ph.D. Computational Economics, University of London – Imperial College
• Degree (MSc UK equivalent) in Economics, University of Macedonia, Greece

Previous positions

• Research Assistant - School of Enterprise, Management & Leadership, University of Chichester
• Fixed-term visiting lecturer of economics - Department of Technology Management, University of Macedonia
• Research student - Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London

Research interests

• Digital economy technologies and applications
• Operational research & optimisation
• Simulation techniques
• E-Business & trust
• Innovation

Publications

• M Petrou and K Giannoutakis, 2010, “Simulating a Digital Business Ecosystem: Using Psychophysics to quantify qualitative relations of trust and preference to enable numerical studies”. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (In review process).
• M Petrou and K Giannoutakis, 2009, “Modelling buyer-seller relations in a closed system of shared resources, incorporating personal preference and trust”. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A, Vol. 39, Issue 5, pp. 1035 - 1050.
• K Giannoutakis, 2008, “Studying a Digital Business Ecosystem”. PhD thesis (unpublished). Imperial College - University of London, UK.
• K Giannoutakis and M Petrou, 2007, “The effect of trust in product chains in a Digital Business Ecosystem”. Inaugural IEEE International Digital Ecosystems and Technologies Conference, Cairns, Australia, 21-23 Feb. 2007, pp 269 - 274.
• M Petrou, S Gautam and K Giannoutakis, 2006, “Simulating a Digital Business Ecosystem”. Computational Finance and its Αpplications II, M Costantino and C A Brebbia (eds), WIT Press, ISBN 1-84564-1744, pp 277 - 287.

Membership

• The British Academy of Management (BAM)
• The Operational Research Society (The OR Society)
• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)