Ioannis Athanasiadis
Professor and Chair of Artificial Intelligence
Wageningen University & Research
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Articles in peer-reviewed journals
2025
- M. Radulović, M. Markovic, S. Brdar, I. Athanasiadis, G. Mimić, The first geospatial dataset of irrigated fields (2020–2024) in Vojvodina (Serbia), Scientific data, 12:105, 2025, Nature Publishing Group UK
- L.-B. Sweet, I. N. Athanasiadis, R. van Bree, A. Castellano, P. Martre, D. Paudel, A. C. Ruane, J. Zscheischler, Transdisciplinary coordination is essential for advancing agricultural modeling with machine learning, One Earth, 8:101233, 2025, Elsevier BV
- J. Han, L. Shi, Q. Yang, J. Yu, I. N. Athanasiadis, Knowledge-guided machine learning with multivariate sparse data for crop growth modelling, Field crops research, 328:109912, 2025, Elsevier BV
- K. J. Bagstad, S. Balbi, G. Adamo, I. N. Athanasiadis, F. Affinito, S. Willcock, A. Magrach, K. Hayashi, Z. V. Harmáčková, A. Niamir, B. Smets, M. Buchhorn, E. G. Drakou, A. Alfieri, B. Edens, L. G. Morales, Á. Vári, M.-J. Sanz, F. Villa, Interoperability for ecosystem service assessments: Why, how, who, and for whom?, Ecosystem services, 72:101705, 2025, Elsevier BV
- I. Tsoumas, V. Sitokonstantinou, G. Giannarakis, E. Lampiri, C. Athanassiou, G. Camps-Valls, C. Kontoes, I. Athanasiadis, Leveraging causality and explainability in digital agriculture, Environmental Data Science, 4:e23, 2025, Cambridge University Press
- D. Marcos, R. van de Vlasakker, I. N. Athanasiadis, P. Bonnet, H. Goeau, A. Joly, W. D. Kissling, C. Leblanc, A. S. J. van Proosdij, K. P. Panousis, Fully automatic extraction of morphological traits from the Web: utopia or reality?, Applications in Plant Sciences, 5:1-12, 2025
- D. Marcos, R. van de Vlasakker, I. N. Athanasiadis, P. Bonnet, H. Goeau, A. Joly, W. D. Kissling, C. Leblanc, A. S. J. van Proosdij, K. P. Panousis, Fully automatic extraction of morphological traits from the Web: utopia or reality?, Applications in Plant Sciences, 5:1-12, 2025
- L.-B. Sweet, I. N. Athanasiadis, R. van Bree, A. Castellano, P. Martre, D. Paudel, A. C. Ruane, J. Zscheischler, Transdisciplinary coordination is essential for advancing agricultural modeling with machine learning, One Earth, 8:101233, 2025, Elsevier BV
- J. Han, L. Shi, Q. Yang, J. Yu, I. N. Athanasiadis, Knowledge-guided machine learning with multivariate sparse data for crop growth modelling, Field Crops Research, 328:109912, 2025, Elsevier BV
- I. Tsoumas, V. Sitokonstantinou, G. Giannarakis, E. Lampiri, C. Athanassiou, G. Camps-Valls, C. Kontoes, I. Athanasiadis, Leveraging causality and explainability in digital agriculture, Environmental Data Science, 4:e23, 2025, Cambridge University Press
- K. J. Bagstad, S. Balbi, G. Adamo, I. N. Athanasiadis, F. Affinito, S. Willcock, A. Magrach, K. Hayashi, Z. V. Harmáčková, A. Niamir, B. Smets, M. Buchhorn, E. G. Drakou, A. Alfieri, B. Edens, L. G. Morales, Á. Vári, M.-J. Sanz, F. Villa, Interoperability for ecosystem service assessments: Why, how, who, and for whom?, Ecosystem services, 72:101705, 2025, Elsevier BV
- M. Radulović, M. Markovic, S. Brdar, I. Athanasiadis, G. Mimić, The first geospatial dataset of irrigated fields (2020–2024) in Vojvodina (Serbia), Scientific data, 12:105, 2025
2024
- J. P. L. F. Brêda, L. A. Melsen, I. Athanasiadis, Al. Van Dijk, V. A. Siqueira, A. Verhoef, Y. Zeng, M. van der Ploeg, Predictor importance for hydrological fluxes of global hydrological and land surface models, Water Resources Research, 60 (9):e2023WR036418, 2024
- C. Pylianidis, M. G.J. Kallenberg, I. N. Athanasiadis, Domain adaptation with transfer learning for pasture digital twins, Environmental Data Science, 3:e8, 2024
2023
- O. G. Younis, M. Turchetta, D. A. Suarez, S. Yates, B. Studer, I. N. Athanasiadis, A. Krause, J. M. Buhmann, L. Corinzia, ChromaX: a fast and scalable breeding program simulator, Bioinformatics, 39 (12):btad691, 2023
- C. A. Midingoyi, C. Pradal, A. Enders, D. Fumagalli, P. Lecharpentier, H. Raynal, M. Donatelli, D. Fanchini, I. N. Athanasiadis, C. Porter, G. Hoogenboom, F.A.A. Oliveira, D. Holzworth, P. Martre, Crop modeling frameworks interoperability through bidirectional source code transformation, Environmental Modelling & Software, 168:105790, 2023
- D. Paudel, D. Marcos, A. de Wit, H. Boogaard, I.N. Athanasiadis, A weakly supervised framework for high-resolution crop yield forecasts, Environmental Research Letters, 18:094062, 2023
- S.J.Wright, A. Sietsma, S. Korswagen, I. N. Athanasiadis, R. Biesbroek, How do countries frame climate change? A global comparison of adaptation and mitigation in UNFCCC National Communications, Regional Environmental Change, 23:129, 2023
- M. Radulovic, S. Brdar, B. Pejak, P. Lugonja, I. Athanasiadis, N. Pajevic, D. Pavic, V. Crnojevic, Machine learning-based detection of irrigation in Vojvodina (Serbia) using Sentinel-2 data, GIScience and Remote Sensing, 60:2262010, 2023
- H.R. Maier, S. Galelli, S. Razavi, A. Castelletti, A. Rizzoli, I. N Athanasiadis, M. Sànchez-Marrè, M. Acutis, W. Wu, G.B. Humphrey, Exploding the myths: An introduction to artificial neural networks for prediction and forecasting, Environmental Modelling & Software, 167:105776, 2023
- E.A. Papoutsoglou, I. N. Athanasiadis, R.G.F. Visser, R. Finkers, The benefits and struggles of FAIR data: the case of reusing plant phenotyping data, Scientific data, 10:457, 2023
- M.G. Kallenberg, H. Overweg, R. van Bree, I.N. Athanasiadis, Nitrogen management with reinforcement learning and crop growth models, Environmental Data Science, 2:e34, 2023, Cambridge University Press
- D. Paudel, A. de Wit, H. Boogaard, D. Marcos, S. Osinga, I.N. Athanasiadis, Interpretability of deep learning models for crop yield forecasting, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 206:107663, 2023
- H.-H. Wang, G. van Voorn, W. E. Grant, F. Zare, C. Giupponi, P. Steinmann, B. Mueller, S. Elsawah, H. van Delden, I.N. Athanasiadis, Z. Sun, W. Jager, J.C. Little, A.J. Jakeman, Scale decisions and good practices in socio-environmental systems modelling: guidance and documentation during problem scoping and model formulation, Socio-Environmental Systems Modelling, 5:18563, 2023
2022
- D. Schokker, M. Poppe. J. ten Napel, I.N. Athanasiadis, C. Kamphuis, R.F. Veerkamp, Rapid turnover of sensor data to genetic evaluation for dairy cows in the cloud, Journal of Diary Science, 105 (12):9792-9798, 2022
- B. Maestrini, G. Mimic, P.A.J. van Oort, K. Jindo, S. Brdar, I. N.Athanasiadis, F. K. van Evert, Mixing process-based and data-driven approaches in yield prediction, European Journal of Agronomy, 139:126569, 2022
- N. Grujic, S. Brdar, S. Osinga, G. J. Hofstede, I. N. Athanasiadis, M. Pljakic, N. Obrenovic, M. Govedarica, V. Crnojevic, Combining telecom data with heterogeneous data sources for traffic and emission assessments - an agent-based approach, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 11 (7):366, 2022
- C. Pylianidis, V. Snow, H. Overweg, S. Osinga, J. Kean, I. N. Athanasiadis, Simulation-assisted machine learning for operational digital twins, Environmental Modelling & Software, 148:105274, 2022
- D. Paudel, H. Boogaard, A. de Wit, M. van der Velde, M. Claverie, L. Nisini, S. Janssen, S. Osinga, I. N. Athanasiadis, Machine learning for regional crop yield forecasting in Europe, Field Crops Research, 276:108377, 2022
- R. Biesbroek, S. J. Wright, S. Korswagen Eguren, A. Bonotto, I. N. Athanasiadis, Policy attention to climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability: a global assessment of National Communications (1994–2019), Climate Policy, 222022
- S. Osinga, D.Paudel, S. A. Mouzakitis, I. N. Athanasiadis, Big data in agriculture: Between opportunity and solution, Agricultural Systems, 195:103298, 2022
2021
- M. Scowen, I.N. Athanasiadis, J.M. Bullock, F. Eigenbrod, S.Willcock, The current and future uses of machine learning in ecosystem service research, Science of The Total Environment, 799:149263, 2021
- M. van der Voort, D. Jensen, C. Kamphuis, I. N. Athanasiadis, A. De Vries, H.Hogeveen, Invited review: Toward a common language in data-driven mastitis detection research, Journal of Diary Science, 104 (10):10449-10461, 2021
- R. Dolan, J. M. Bullock, J. P. G. Jones, I. N. Athanasiadis, J. Martinez-Lopez, S. Willcock, The flows of nature to people, and of people to nature: applying movement concepts to ecosystem services, Land, 10 (6):576, 2021
- C. A. Midingoyi, C. Pradal, A. Enders, D. Fumagalli, H. Raynal, M. Donatelli, I. N. Athanasiadis, C. Porter, G. Hoogenboom, D. Holzworth, F. Garcia, P. Thorburn, P.Martre, Crop2ML: An open-source multi-language modeling framework for the exchange and reuse of crop model components, Environmental Modelling & Software, 142:105055, 2021
- C.Pylianidis, S. Osinga, I. N. Athanasiadis, Introducing digital twins to agriculture, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 184:105942, 2021
- D.Paudel, H. Boogaard, A. de Wit, S.Janssen, S. Osinga, C. Pylianidis, I. N.Athanasiadis, Machine learning for large-scale crop yield forecasting, Agricultural Systems, 187:103016, 2021
2020
- S. Gummadi, M.D.M. Kadiyala, K.P.C. Rao, I. Athanasiadis, R. Mulwa, M. Kilavi, G. Legesse, T. Amede, Simulating adaptation strategies to offset potential impacts of climate variability and change on maize yields in Embu County, Kenya, PLOS One, 15 (11):e0241147, 2020
- C.A. Midingoyi, C. Pradal, I.N. Athanasiadis, M. Donatelli, A. Enders, D. Fumagalli, F. Garcia, D. Holzworth, G. Hoogenboom, C. Porter, H. Raynal, P. Thorburn, P. Martre, Reuse of process-based models: automatic transformation into many programming languages and simulation platforms, in silico Plants, 2 (1):diaa007, 2020
- E.M.M. van der Heide, C. Kamphuis, R.F. Veerkamp, I. N. Athanasiadis, G.Azzopardi, M.L. van Pelt, B.J. Ducro, Improving predictive performance on survival in dairy cattle using an ensemble learning approach, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 177:105675, 2020
- C. Salma, B.Tekinerdogan, I. N. Athanasiadis, Software architectures for big data: a systematic literature review, Big Data Analytics, 5:5, 2020
- R. Biesbroek, S. Badloe, I. N. Athanasiadis, Machine learning for research on climate change adaptation policy integration: an exploratory UK case study, Regional Environmental Change, 20:85, 2020
- D. Schokker, I. N. Athanasiadis, B. Visser, R. F. Veerkamp, C. Kamphuis, Storing, combining and analysing turkey experimental data in the Big Data era, Animal, 14 (11):2397-2403, 2020
- E. A. Papoutsoglou, D. Faria, D. Arend, E. Arnaud, I. N. Athanasiadis, I. Chaves, F. Coppens, G. Cornut, B.V. Costa, H. Cwiek-Kupczynska, B.V. Droesbeke, R. Finkers, K. Gruden, A. Junker, G.J. King, P. Krajewski, M. Lange, M.A. Laporte, C. Michotey, M. Oppermann, R. Ostler, H. Poorter, R. Ramirez-Gonzalez, Z. Ramsak, J.C. Reif, P. Rocca-Serra, S.A. Sansone, U. Scholz, F. Tardieu, C. Uauy, B. Usadel, R. G.F. Visser, S. Weise, P.J. Kersey, C.M. Miguel, A.F. Adam-Blondon, C. Pommier, Enabling reusability of plant phenomic datasets with MIAPPE 1.1, New Phytologist, 227 (1):260-273, 2020
- G. Motta, B. Tekinerdogan, I. N. Athanasiadis, Blockchain applications in the agrifood domain: the first wave, Frontiers in Blockchain, 2020
- A. Samourkasidis, I. N. Athanasiadis, A semantic approach for timeseries data fusion, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 169:105171, 2020
- S. Elsawah, T. Filatova, A. J. Jakeman, A. J. Kettner, M. L. Zellner, I. N. Athanasiadis, S. H. Hamilton, R. L. Axtell, D. G. Brown, J. M. Gilligan, M. A. Janssen, D. T. Robinson, J. Rozenberg, I. I. T. Ullah, S. J. Lade, Eight grand challenges in socio-environmental systems modeling, Socio-Environmental Systems Modelling, 2:16226, 2020
2019
- A. Samourkasidis, E. Papoutsoglou, I. N. Athanasiadis, A template framework for environmental timeseries data acquisition, Environmental Modelling and Software, 117:237-249, 2019
- E.M.M. van der Heide, R.F. Veerkamp, M.L. van Pelt, C. Kamphuis, I. N. Athanasiadis, B.J. Ducro, Comparing regression, naive Bayes, and random forest methods in the prediction of individual survival to second lactation in Holstein cattle, Journal of Diary Science, 102:9409–9421, 2019
- J. Martínez-López, K. J. Bagstad, S. Balbi, A. Magrach, B. Voigt, I. N. Athanasiadis, M. Pascual, S. Willcock, F. Villa, Towards globally customizable ecosystem service models, Science of the Total Environment, 650:2325-2336, 2019
2018
- B. Kolosz, I. N. Athanasiadis, G. Cadisch, T. Dawson, C. Giupponi, M. Honzák, J. M. Lopez, A. Marvuglia, V. Mojtahed, K. B. Z. Ogutu, H. van Delden, F. Villa, S. Balbi, Conceptual advancement of socio-ecological modelling of ecosystem services for re-evaluating Brownfield land, Ecosystem Services, 33:29-39, 2018
- K. Gibert, J. S. Horsburgh, I. N. Athanasiadis, G. Holmes, Environmental Data Science, Environmental Modelling and Software, 106:4-12, 2018
- S. Willcock, J. Martínez-López, D. A. Hooftman, K. J. Bagstad, S. Balbi, A. Marzo, C. Prato, S. Sciandrello, G. Signorello, B. Voigt, F. Villa, J. M. Bullock, I. N. Athanasiadis, Machine Learning for Ecosystem Services, Ecosystem Services, 33:165-174, 2018
- D. Kremmydas, I. N. Athanasiadis, S. Rozakis, A review of Agent Based Modeling for agricultural policy evaluation, Agricultural Systems, 164:95-106, 2018
2017
- F. Villa, S. Balbi, I. N. Athanasiadis, C. Caracciolo, Semantics for interoperability of distributed data and models: Foundations for better-connected information, F1000Research, 62017
- T. Klein, A. Samourkasidis, I. N. Athanasiadis, G. Bellocchi, P. Calanca, webXTREME: R-based web tool for calculating agroclimatic indices of extreme events, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 116:111-116, 2017
- S. J. Janssen, C. H. Porter, A. D. Moore, I. N. Athanasiadis, I. Foster, J. W. Jones, J. M. Antle, Towards a new generation of agricultural system data, models and knowledge products: Information and communication technology, Agricultural Systems, 155:200-212, 2017
- A. Samourkasidis, I. N. Athanasiadis, A Miniature Data Repository on a Raspberry Pi, Electronics, 6:1, 2017, Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
2016
- P. S. Efraimidis, G. Drosatos, A. Arampatzis, G. Stamatelatos, I. N. Athanasiadis, A Privacy-by-Design Contextual Suggestion System for Tourism, Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks, 5:10, 2016, Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
2015
- D. P. Holzworth, V. Snow, S. Janssen, I. N. Athanasiadis, M. Donatelli, G. Hoogenboom, J. W. White, P. Thorburn, Agricultural production systems modelling and software: Current status and future prospects, Environmental Modelling and Software, 72:276-286, 2015
2014
- C. H. Porter, C. Villalobos, D. Holzworth, R. Nelson, J. W. White, I. N. Athanasiadis, S. Janssen, D. Ripoche, J. Cufi, D. Raes, M. Zhang, R. Knapen, R. Sahajpal, K. J. Boote, J. W. Jones, Harmonization and translation of crop modeling data to ensure interoperability, Environmental Modelling and Software, 62:495–508, 2014
- F. Villa, K. J. Bagstad, B. Voigt, G. W. Johnson, I. N. Athanasiadis, S. Balbi, The misconception of ecosystem disservices: How a catchy term may yield the wrong messages for science and society, Ecosystem Services, 10:52-53, 2014
- G. Drosatos, P. Efraimidis, I. Athanasiadis, M. Stevens, E. D'Hondt, Privacy-Preserving Computation of Participatory Noise Maps in the Cloud, Journal of Systems and Software, 92:170-183, 2014
2012
- S. Nesic, A. E. Rizzoli, I. N. Athanasiadis, Publishing agro-environmental resources as linked data, International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 7:25-36, 2012
2011
- S. Janssen, I. N. Athanasiadis, I. Bezlepkina, R. Knapen, H. Li, I. P. Dominguez, A. E. Rizzoli, M. K. van Ittersum, Linking Models for Assessing Agricultural Land Use Change, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 76:148-160, 2011
- I. N. Athanasiadis, A. E. Rizzoli, M. Donatelli, L. Carlini, Enriching environmental software model interfaces through ontology-based tools, International Journal of Applied Systemic Studies, 4:94-105, 2011
2009
- S. Janssen, F. Ewert, H. Li, I. N. Athanasiadis, J. Wien, O. Thérond, M. Knapen, I. Bezlepkina, J. Alkan-Olsson, A. Rizzoli, H. Belhouchette, M. Svensson, M. van Ittersum, Defining assessment projects and scenarios for policy support: use of ontology in Integrated Assessment and Modelling, Environmental Modelling and Software, 24:1491-1500, 2009
- I. N. Athanasiadis, M. Milis, P. A. Mitkas, S. C. Michaelides, A multi-agent system for meteorological radar data management and decision support, Environmental Modelling and Software, 24:1264-1273, 2009
- S. Janssen, E. Andersen, I. N. Athanasiadis, M. K. van Ittersum, A database for integrated assessment of European agricultural systems, Environmental Science and Policy, 12:573-587, 2009
- F. Villa, I. N. Athanasiadis, A. E. Rizzoli, Modelling with knowledge: a review of emerging semantic approaches to environmental modelling, Environmental Modelling and Software, 24:577-587, 2009
2008
- D. D. Pennington, I. N. Athanasiadis, S. Bowers, S. Krivov, J. Madin, M. Schildhauer, F. Villa, Indirectly driven knowledge modelling in ecology, International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 3:210-225, 2008
- A. E. Rizzoli, M. Donatelli, I. N. Athanasiadis, F. Villa, D. Huber, Semantic links in integrated modelling frameworks, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 78:412-423, 2008
- I. N. Athanasiadis, S. Janssen, Semantic mediation for environmental model components integration, Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering, 1:3-11, 2008
2007
- A. L. Symeonidis, K. C. Chatzidimitriou, I. N. Athanasiadis, P. A. Mitkas, Data mining for agent reasoning: a synergy for training intelligent agents, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 20:1097-1111, 2007
- I. N. Athanasiadis, P. A. Mitkas, Knowledge discovery for operational decision support in air quality management, Journal of Environmental Informatics, 9:100-107, 2007
- P. A. Mitkas, A. L. Symeonidis, D. K. Kehagias, I. N. Athanasiadis, Application of data mining and intelligent agent technologies to concurrent engineering, International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management, 2:173-186, 2007
- V. G. Kaburlasos, I. N. Athanasiadis, P. A. Mitkas, Fuzzy Lattice Reasoning (FLR) classifier and its application for ambient ozone estimation, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 45:152-188, 2007
- A. L. Symeonidis, I. N. Athanasiadis, P. A. Mitkas, A retraining methodology for enhancing agent intelligence, Knowledge-based Systems, 20:388-396, 2007
2006
- I. N. Athanasiadis, An intelligent service layer upgrades environmental information management, IT Professional, 8:34-39, 2006
2005
- I. N. Athanasiadis, A. K. Mentes, P. A. Mitkas, Y. A. Mylopoulos, A hybrid agent-based model for estimating residential water demand, Simulation - Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 81:175-187, 2005
- I. N. Athanasiadis, P. A. Mitkas, Social influence and water conservation: An agent-based approach, IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering, 7:65-70, 2005
2004
- I. N. Athanasiadis, P. A. Mitkas, An agent-based intelligent environmental monitoring system, Management of Environmental Quality, 15:238-249, 2004