Publications

Books 

Book Chapters

• K. Pastra, M, Kokla, E. Tomai, F.  Liarokapis, M. Bezerianou, A. Darra, K. Cheliotis, M. Kavouras., 2025. Mapping Olfactory Memories: Digital Maps as an Interactive Medium for Olfactory Cultural Heritage. Interactive Media for Cultural Heritage, Springer Nature

• Kavouras, M., Kokla, M., Tomai, E., Darra, A., and Pastra, K., 2016. GEOTHNK: A Semantic Approach to Spatial Thinking. In G. Gartner, M. Jobst, and H. Huang (eds): Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography: Progress in Cartography, Springer, 319-338 

• Kavouras, M., Kokla, M., and Tomai, E., 2006. Semantically-Aware Systems: Extraction of Geosemantics, Ontology Engineering, and Ontology Integration. Geographic Hypermedia: Concepts and Systems, Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. In Stefanakis, E., Peterson, M. P., Armenakis, C., and Delis V. (Eds.), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 257-273

Journals

• Cheliotis K., Liarokapis F., Kokla M., Tomai E., Pastra K., Anastopoulou N., Bezerianou M., Darra A., and Kavouras M., 2024. UnityGeoAR: A geolocation Augmented Reality package for Unity3D, SoftwareX, Volume 27, 101774, ISSN 2352-7110.

• Tomai E., Kokla, Μ., Charcharos, C., and Kavouras, M., 2023. Exploring the relation between spatial abilities and STEM expertise, Journal of Geography in Higher Education.

• Tomai, E., Kokla, M., Charcharos, C., Pastra, K., Liarokapis, F., Bezerianou, M., Cheliotis, K., Darra, A., and Kavouras, M., 2023. Investigating the relationship between spatial skills and web mapping application performance among university students, Cartography and Geographic Information Science.

• Anastopoulou, N., Kokla, M., Tomai, E., Cheliotis, K., Liarokapis, F., Pastra, K., and Kavouras, M., 2023. Cartographic perspectives on spatial and thematic levels of detail in augmented reality: a review of existing approaches, International Journal of Cartography. 

• Cheliotis, K., Liarokapis, F., Kokla, M., Tomai, E., Pastra, K., Anastopoulou, N., Bezerianou, M., Darra, A., and Kavouras, M., 2023. A systematic review of application development in augmented reality navigation research, Cartography and Geographic Information Science.

• Zacharogiorga, A., Kokla, M., and Tomai, E., 2022. Evaluating the usability of 3D thematic maps; a survey with visually impaired students, British Journal of Visual Impairment, June 2022. 

• Tomai, E., Herlin, I., Berroir, J.-P., Prastacos, P., 2009. Ontology-based documentation of land degradation assessment from satellite images. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 30(13): 3315-3330.

• Tomai, E., Prastacos, P., Kavouras, M., 2007. A Framework for Intensional and Extensional Integration of Geographic Ontologies. Transactions in GIS, 11(6): 873-887.

• Kavouras, M., Kokla, M., and Tomai, E., 2005. Comparing Categories among Geographic Ontologies. Computers & Geosciences, 31(2):145-154.

• Darra, A., Kavouras, M., Tomai, E., 2005. Representing Semantic Similarity of Socioeconomic Units with Cartographic Spatialization Metaphors. International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, 22(1): 33-45.

• Tomai, E., Kavouras, M., 2005. Qualitative Linguistic Terms and Geographic Concepts- Quantifiers in Definitions. Transactions in GIS, 9(3): 277-290.

• Tomai, E., Kavouras, M., 2004. From Onto-GeoNoesis to Onto-Genesis: The Design of Geographic Ontologies. Geoinformatica, 8(3): 285-302.

Conference Proceedings

Full review

• Tomai, E., Kokla, M., Charcharos, C. and Kavouras M., 2023. Does spatial thinking ability relate to performance when using web-mapping services? A survey with digital natives,  AGILE GIScience Ser., 4, 13, 2023, Copernicus Publications.

• Zacharopoulou, D., Kokla, M., Tomai, E., and Kavouras M., 2022. A web-based application to support the interaction of spatial and semantic representation of knowledge,  AGILE GIScience Ser., 3, 70, 2022, Copernicus Publications.

• Foteinou A., Kokla, M., Tomai, E., and Kavouras M., 2022. Sonification of Spatial Data: An Online Audiovisual Cartographic Representation of Fire Incidents,  AGILE GIScience Ser., 3, 35, 2022, Copernicus Publications.

• Karkasina, D., Kokla, M., and Tomai, E., 2021. Investigating drivers’ geospatial abilities in unfamiliar environments. AGILE GIScience Ser., 2, 3, Copernicus Publications.

• Papadias, E., Kokla, M., and Tomai, E., 2021. Educing knowledge from text: semantic information extraction of spatial concepts and places. AGILE GIScience Ser., 2, 38, Copernicus Publications. 

• Baglatzi, A., Darra, N., Kavouras, M., Kokla, M., Tomai, E., 2016. Evaluation of the usability of spatial thinking components (concepts, representation tools, and reasoning tools) in educational scenarios. Proceedings of the 19th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, Helsinki, Finland, June 15-17.

• Charcharos, C., Kokla, M., Tomai, E., 2016. Investigating the Influence of Spatial Thinking in Problem Solving. Proceedings of the 19th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, Helsinki, Finland, June 15-17.

• Kavouras, M., Kokla, M., Tomai, E., 2015. Crowdsourcing spatial thinking resources across disciplines and educational contexts. In Burte H., Kauppinen T, Hegarty M. (Eds.), Proceedings of the on TSTIP 2015 Workshop at COSIT 2015 in Santa Fe, NM, USA.

• Kavouras, M., Kokla, M., Tomai, E., Darra, N., Baglatzi, A., Sotiriou, S., Lazoudis, A., 2014. The GEOTHNK Platform: Connecting Spatial Thinking to Secondary Education, IEEE 14th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), Athens, Greece, July 7-10: 754-758.

• Kavouras, M., Sotiriou, S., Baglatzi, A., Darra, N., Kokla, M., Lazoudis, A., Pastra, K., Tomai, E., 2014. Semantic Pathways for Geospatial Thinking. In Stracke C. M., Ehlers U.-D., Creelman A., Shamarina-Heidenreich T. (Eds.), Changing the Trajectory: Quality for Opening up Education. Official Proceedings of the International EIF / LINQ Conference 2014, Crete, Greece, May 7 -9: 100-108. Logos Verlag Berlin, GmbH.

• Gkadolou, E., Tomai E., Stefanakis E., Kritikos G. , 2012. Ontological standardization for historical map collections: studying the Greek borderlines of 1881. XXII ISPRS Congress, Commission II, Melbourne, Australia, August 25 – September 1, vol. 1-2: 203-208.

• Kontaxaki, S., Tomai, E., Kokla, M., and Kavouras, M., 2010. Visualizing multidimensional data through granularity-dependent spatialization. Proceedings of SPIE, Visualization and Data Analysis 2010 Conference, Volume 7530, 18 - 19 January.

• Tomai, E., Spanaki, M., Prastacos, P., Kavouras, M., 2005. Ontology assisted decision-making – a case study in trip planning for tourism. In Meersman R., Tari Z., Herrero P. (Eds.) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2005: OTM 2005 Workshops. OTM 2005: 1137-1146. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3762, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

Abstract Review

• Cheliotis K.,  Liarokapis, F., Kokla, M., Tomai, E., Pastra, K., Anastopoulou, N., Bezerianou, M., Darra, A., and Kavouras, M., 2021. A Classification of Augmented Reality Approaches for Spatial Data Visualization. IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct), Bari, Italy, 2021, pp. 367-372, doi: 10.1109/ISMAR-Adjunct54149.2021.00084

• Charcharos, C., Kavouras, M., Kokla, M., and Tomai, E., 2021. Exploring the Relation between Spatial Abilities and STEM Expertise. Developing Spatial Expertise Symposium, part of Spatial Cognition 2020/21 Conference, August 1-4, 2021. 

• Kavouras, M., Kokla, M., Liarokapis, F., Pastra, K., Tomai, E., 2021. Comparative Study of the Interaction of Digital Natives with Mainstream Web Mapping Services. In: Kurosu M. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. Design and User Experience Case Studies. HCII 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12764. Springer, Cham.  

• Anastopoulou, N., Kavouras, M., Kokla, M., and Tomai, E., 2021. Concepts – Locations – Emotions: Semantic Analysis and Visualization of Climate Change Texts, Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLIII-B4-2021, 31–37. 

• A. Mansourian, P. Pilesjo, M. Runnstrom, R. Groth, A. Gonçalves, A.P. Falcão, M. Kavouras, E. Tomai, E., Parseliunas, J. Sužiedelytė Visockienė, D. Popovas, R. Obuchovski, D. Slikas, J. Kozlovska, A. Buga, M. Prudham, J.F. Hangouët, A. Toomanian, N. Barati, H. Torabzadehkhorasani, M. Al-Shalabi, K. Khanbari, M. Almaliki, J. Othman, 2020. Promoting of the Geospatial Methods: Introduction into International Educational Courses on Environmental Management in the Middle-East, EDULEARN20 Proceedings, 12th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, online conference, 6-7 July, 2020, 6186-6195.

• A. Mansourian, P. Pilesjo, M. Runnstrom, R. Groth, JG Rocha, M. Santos, A. Vieira, M. Kavouras, M., Kokla, M., Tomai, E. Parseliunas, J. Suziedelyte-Visockiene, D. Popovas, R. Obuchovski, D. Slikas, J. Kozlovska, A. Buga, M. Matchanov, S. Avezov, M. Sultanov, D. Tilenova, R. Akmatov, E. Toktoraliev, G. Ergeshova, A. Nizamiev, R. Umaraliev, M. Bekaeva, S. Abdireimov, V. Statov, 2019. Promoting of the geospatial methods: Introduction into international educational courses in environmental protection and disaster risk management, EDULEARN19 Proceedings, 11th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies Palma, Spain. 1-3 July, 2019, 2702-2711.

• Kokla, M., Papadias V., Tomai E., 2018. Enrichment and Population of a Geospatial Ontology for Semantic Information Extraction. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing & Spatial Information Sciences, XLII-4, 309–314.

• Farsari, I., Tomai, E., Athanassopoulos, C., 2009. Developing a new method for decision support in tourism: The bridging of cognitive maps and ontologies. CD ROM of the 4th International Scientific Conference on Tourism, Travel and Hospitality, University of the Aegean, Rhodes Island, April 3-5, 2009.

• Tomai, E., Herlin, I., Berroir, J.-P., Prastacos, P., 2008. Ontology-based land degradation assessment from satellite images. In Chen J., Jiang J., Kainz W. (Eds.) ISPRS Archives – XXXVII – Part B2, XXIst ISPRS Congress, Technical Commission II, Beijing, China, July 3-11, 2008: 703-708.

• Tomai, E., Michael, S., Prastacos, P., 2006. An Ontology-based Web-portal for Tourism. 2nd International Workshop on Web Portal-based Solutions for Tourism and other business areas, Münster, Germany, September 20, 2006.

• Tomai, E., Kavouras, M., 2005. Mappings between Maps – Association of Different Thematic Contents using Situation Theory. Proceedings of the XXII International Cartographic Conference (ICC 2005), A Coruna, Spain, July 9 -16, 2005.

• Tomai, E., Kavouras, M., 2005. Context in Geographic Knowledge Representation. Proceedings of the II International conference & exhibition on geographic information, GIS PLANET, Estoril, Portugal, May 31 – July 2, 2005. 

• Tomai, E. Spanaki, M., 2005. From ontology design to ontology implementation: A web tool for building geographic ontologies. Proceedings of the 8th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, Estoril, Portugal, May 26 – 28, 2005.

• Darra, A., Kavouras, M., Tomai, E., 2004. Representing Semantic Similarity of Socioeconomic Units with Cartographic Spatialization Metaphors. Proceedings of the 7th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, Crete, Greece, April 28 – May 1, 2004.

• Tomai, E.  Kavouras, M., 2004. "Where the city sits?" Revealing Geospatial Semantics in Text Descriptions. Proceedings of the 7th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, Crete, Greece, April 28 – May 1, 2004.