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Ioannis Athanasiadis

Professor and Chair of Artificial Intelligence
Wageningen University & Research

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    2025

  1. V. Nedungadi, X. Xiong, A. Potze, R. Van Bree, T. Lin, M. Rußwurm, I. N. Athanasiadis, From general to specialized: The need for foundational models in agriculture, ICCV 2025 Workshop on Sustainability with Earth Observation and AI, 2025 Paper DOI
  2. D. Paudel, M. Kallenberg, S. Ofori-Ampofo, H. Baja, R. van Bree, A. Potze, P. Poudel, A. Saleh, W. Anderson, M. von Bloh, A. Castellano, O. Ennaji, R. Hamed, R. Laudien, D. Lee, I. Luna, M. Meroni, J. M. Mutuku, S. Mkuhlani, J. Richetti, A. C. Ruane, R. Sahajpal, G. Shai, V. Sitokonstantinou, R. de Souza Nóia Júnior, A. K. Srivastava, R. Strong, L.-B. Sweet, P. Vojnovic, I. N. Athanasiadis, CY-Bench: A comprehensive benchmark dataset for sub-national crop yield forecasting, 2025 Paper Open Access DOI Data Open Access DOI Code Open Access Link
  3. V. Nedungadi, M. A. Munir, M. Russwurm, R. Sarafian, I. N. Athanasiadis, Y. Rudich, F. Khan, S. Khan, AirCast: Improving air pollution forecasting through multi-variable data alignment, ICML 2025 Workshop TerraBytes - Towards global datasets and models for Earth Observation, vol. abs/2502.17919, 2025 Paper DOI
  4. J. Bonenkamp, R. Biesbroek, I. N. Athanasiadis, Transforming adaptation tracking: benchmarking Transformer-based NLP approaches to retrieve adaptation-relevant information from climate policy text, Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Processing Meets Climate Change (ClimateNLP 2025), pg. 266-277, 2025, Association for Computational Linguistics

    5. 2023

  5. I. Tsoumas, V. Sitokonstantinou, G. Giannarakis, E. Lampiri, C. Athanassiou, G. Camps-Valls, C. Kontoes, I. Athanasiadis, Causality and Explainability for Trustworthy Integrated Pest Management, NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning, 2023 Paper Open Access DOI
  6. O.G. Younis, L. Corinzia, I. N. Athanasiadis, A. Krause, J. M. Buhmann, M. Turchetta, Breeding Programs Optimization with Reinforcement Learning, NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning, 2023 Paper Open Access DOI Code Open Access Link
  7. M.G.J. Kallenberg, B. Maestrini, R. van Bree, P. Ravensbergen, C. Pylianidis, F. van Evert, I.N. Athanasiadis, Integrating processed-based models and machine learning for crop yield prediction, ICML Workshop on the Synergy of Scientific and Machine Learning Modelling, 2023 Paper Open Access DOI
  8. J. Han, L. Shi, C. Pylianidis, Q. Yang, I.N. Athanasiadis, DeepOryza: A Knowledge guided machine learning model for rice growth simulation, 2nd AAAI Workshop on AI for Agriculture and Food Systems (AIAFS), 2023 Paper Open Access DOI

    9. 2022

  9. M. Turchetta, L. Corinzia, S. Sussex, A. Burton, J. Herrera, I. N. Athanasiadis, J. M. Buhmann, A. Krause, Learning long-term crop management strategies with CyclesGym, Thirty-sixth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Datasets and Benchmarks Track, 2022 Paper Open Access DOI Code Open Access Link
  10. D.R. Paudel, D. Marcos, A. de Wit, H. Boogaard, I. N. Athanasiadis, A weakly supervised framework for high-resolution crop yield forecasts, Computing Research Repository, AI for Earth Sciences Workshop at 10th Int'l Conf Learning Representations (ICLR 2022), 2022 Paper Open Access DOI
  11. C. Pylianidis, I. N. Athanasiadis, Learning latent representations for operational nitrogen response rate prediction, Computing Research Repository, AI for Earth Sciences Workshop at 10th Int'l Conf Learning Representations (ICLR 2022), 2022 Paper Open Access DOI

    12. 2021

  12. P. Matavulj, S. Brdar, M. Rackovic, B. Sikoparija, I. N. Athanasiadis, Domain adaptation with unlabeled data for model transferability between airborne particle identifiers, 17th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining (MLDM 2021), pg. 147-158, 2021 Paper Open Access DOI
  13. H. Overweg, H. N. C. Berghuijs, I. N. Athanasiadis, CropGym: a Reinforcement Learning Environment for Crop Management, Computing Research Repository, AIMOCC 2021 Workshop at 9th Int'l Conf Learning Representations (ICLR 2021), 2021 Paper Open Access DOI Code Open Access Link

    14. 2019

  14. D. Schokker, I.N. Athanasiadis, B. Visser, R.F. Veerkamp, C. Kamphuis, Using a data lake stack in Animal Sciences, Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Precision Livestock Farming, pg. 140-144, 2019
  15. D. Jensen, M. van der Voort, C. Kamphuis, I. N. Athanasiadis, A. de Vries, H. Hogeveen, Comparison of data driven mastitis detection methods, Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Precision Livestock Farming, pg. 626-632, 2019

    16. 2017

  16. E. Papoutsoglou, R. Kaliyaperumal, T. van Hintum, R. G. Visser, I. N. Athanasiadis, R. Finkers, Toward better data sharing methods for genebanks, Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Semantics for Biodiversity co-located with 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017), CEUR, vol. 1933, 2017
  17. J. Maselyne, K. Mertens, A. V. Nuffel, H. Scholten, I. N. Athanasiadis, M. Larrañaga, I. Fernández, IoF2020 - the Internet of Meat: towards applications of Internet of Things in the meat supply chain, 8th European Conference on Precision Livestock Farming, 2017

    18. 2016

  18. C. A. Salma, B. Tekinerdogan, I. N. Athanasiadis, Feature Driven Survey of Big Data Systems, Proceedings of the International Conference on Internet of Things and Big Data, pg. 348-355, 2016 Paper DOI

    19. 2015

  19. E. Papoutsoglou, A. Samourkasidis, M.-Y. Tsai, M. Davey, A. Ineichen, M. Eeftens, I. N. Athanasiadis, Towards an air pollution health study data management system - A case study from a smoky Swiss railway, Building the knowledge base for environmental action and sustainability, Adjunct Proceedings of the 29th EnviroInfo and 3rd ICT4S Conference, vol. 2, pg. 65-74, 2015, University of Copenhagen

    20. 2014

  20. A. Samourkasidis, I. N. Athanasiadis, Towards a low-cost, full-service air quality data archival system, 7th Intl. Congress on Env. Modelling and Software, pg. 1192-1199, 2014, International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs)
  21. R. Denzer, P. Fitch, I. N. Athanasiadis, D. P. Ames, Parallel Simulation of Environmental Phenomena, 7th Intl. Congress on Env. Modelling and Software, pg. 347-353, 2014, International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs)
  22. D. Anastasiadou, K. Koulinas, F. Kiourtsis, I. N. Athanasiadis, Complementary software solutions for efficient timber logging and trade management, Proc. 28th Int'l Conf. Informatics for Environmental Protection (Enviroinfo 2014), pg. 783-788, 2014, Univ of Oldenburg BIS Verlag
  23. I. N. Athanasiadis, F. Villa, G. Examiliotou, Y. Iliopoulos, Y. Mertzanis, Towards a semantic framework for wildlife modeling, Proc. 28th Int'l Conf. Informatics for Environmental Protection (Enviroinfo 2014), pg. 287-292, 2014, Univ of Oldenburg BIS Verlag

    24. 2012

  24. S. Janssen, D. van Kraalingen, H. Boogaard, A. de Wit, J. Franke, C. Porter, I. N. Athanasiadis, A generic data schema for crop experiment data in food security research, 2012 International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software, 2012, International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs)

    25. 2011

  25. C. Porter, S. Janssen, I. N. Athanasiadis, Software challenges for the Agricultural Model Intercomparison Project, 3rd International Workshop on Software Research and Climate Change at 25th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP-2011), 2011

    26. 2010

  26. A. E. Rizzoli, G. Schimak, M. Donatelli, J. Hrebicek, G. Avellino, J. L. Mon, I. Athanasiadis, TaToo: tagging environmental resources on the web by semantic annotations, 5th Intl Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs 2010), 2010, International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs)
  27. S. Janssen, I. N. Athanasiadis, E. Andersen, A. E. Rizzoli, J.-E. J. Wien, M. K. van Ittersum, Methods for semantic annotation of an integrated assessment tool for agricultural systems, 5th Intl Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs 2010), 2010, International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs)
  28. A. Kassahun, A. Rizzoli, I. Athanasiadis, M. Makowski, H. Scholten, A. Krause, A. Beulens, Towards a service-oriented e-infrastructure for multidisciplinary environmental research, 5th Intl Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs 2010), 2010, International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs)

    29. 2009

  29. I. N. Athanasiadis, A. E. Rizzoli, Domain object modeling with relational persistence for idiomatic OWL/RDF, Workshop on Ontology-Driven Software Engineering at OOPSLA, 2009

    30. 2008

  30. S. Janssen, E. Andersen, I. N. Athanasiadis, M. K. van Ittersum, A pan-European database for integrated assessment and modeling of agricultural systems, 4th Intl Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs 2008), vol. 2, pg. 719-726, 2008

    31. 2007

  31. A. E. Rizzoli, H. Li, I. N. Athanasiadis, F. Marechal, Semantically Rich Interfaces for Simulation Interoperability, European Simulation Interoperability Workshop (EuroSIW 2007), pg. 60, 2007, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization
  32. I. N. Athanasiadis, F. Villa, A. E. Rizzoli, Enabling knowledge-based software engineering through semantic-object-relational mappings, 3rd Intl Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering, 4th European Semantic Web Conference, pg. 16-30, 2007, KnowledgeWeb
  33. D. D. Pennington, J. Madin, F. Villa, I. N. Athanasiadis, Computer-Supported Collaborative Knowledge Modeling in Ecology, Workshop on Social and Collaborative Construction of Structured Knowledge (CKC 2007) at 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007), CEUR, vol. 273, 2007
  34. F. Tzima, I. N. Athanasiadis, P. A. Mitkas, Agent-based modelling and simulation in the irrigation management sector: applications and potential, Water Saving in Mediterranean Agriculture (WASAMED 2007), Options M{\'e}diterran{\'e}ennes, vol. 56-2, pg. 273-286, 2007

    35. 2006

  35. I. N. Athanasiadis, K. D. Karatzas, P. Mitkas, Classification techniques for air quality forecasting, 5th ECAI Workshop on Binding Environmental Sciences and Artificial Intelligence (BESAI 2006), 17th European Conf on Artificial Intelligence, 2006
  36. A. Mavridis, A. Koumpis, I. N. Athanasiadis, Towards an intelligent decision support architecture in extended-enterprises, 6th Intl Conf on Recent Advances in Soft Computing (RASC 2006), 2006
  37. I. N. Athanasiadis, A. E. Rizzoli, M. Donatelli, L. Carlini, Enriching software model interfaces using ontology-based tools, 3rd Intl Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs 2006), 2006, International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs)
  38. K. Kok, P. Valkering, J. Carmichael, J. Hinkel, I. N. Athanasiadis, O. Salmi, V. Moreau, P. Steenhof, Problem formulation and classification in integrated assessment modelling, More Puzzle Solving for Policy, pg. 208-217, 2006, University of Maastricht

    39. 2004

  39. I. N. Athanasiadis, P. A. Mitkas, Applying agent technology in environmental management systems under real-time constraints, 2nd Intl Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs 2004), vol. 2, pg. 531-536, 2004, International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs)
  40. I. N. Athanasiadis, P. Vartalas, P. A. Mitkas, DAWN: A platform for evaluating water-pricing policies using a software agent society, 2nd Intl Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs 2004), vol. 2, pg. 643-648, 2004, International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs)
  41. I. N. Athanasiadis, P. A. Mitkas, Supporting the decision-making process in environmental monitoring systems with knowledge discovery techniques, Knowledge Discovery for Environmental Management - Knowledge-based Services for the Public Sector Symposium, vol. Workshop III, pg. 1-12, 2004, KDnet

    42. 2003

  42. G. Hatzidamianos, S. Diplaris, I. N. Athanasiadis, P. A. Mitkas, GenMiner: A data mining tool for protein analysis, 9th Panhellenic Conference in Informatics, pg. 346-360, 2003, Greek Computer Society (EPY)
  43. P. A. Mitkas, A. L. Symeonidis, D. D. Kehagias, I. N. Athanasiadis, Application of data mining and intelligent agent technologies to concurrent engineering, Concurrent Engineering: The Vision for the Future Generation in Research and Applications, vol. 1, pg. 11-18, 2003, Balkema Publishers
  44. I. N. Athanasiadis, P. A. Mitkas, G. B. Laleci, Y. Kabak, Embedding data-driven decision strategies on software agents: The case of a multi-agent system for monitoring air-quality indexes, Concurrent Engineering: The Vision for the Future Generation in Research and Applications, vol. 1, pg. 23-30, 2003, Balkema Publishers
  45. P. A. Mitkas, D. D. Kehagias, A. L. Symeonidis, I. N. Athanasiadis, A framework for constructing multi-agent applications and training intelligent agents, Agent-Oriented Software Engineering at Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2003), vol. W4, pg. 1-15, 2003
  46. I. N. Athanasiadis, V. G. Kaburlasos, P. A. Mitkas, V. Petridis, Applying machine learning techniques on air quality data for real-time decision support, 1st Intl Symp on Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering (ITEE-2003), pg. 51, 2003, ICSC-NAISO Academic Press

    47. 2002

  47. P. A. Mitkas, A. L. Symeonidis, D. D. Kehagias, I. N. Athanasiadis, G. Laleci, G. Kurt, Y. Kabak, A. Acar, A. Dogac, An agent framework for dynamic agent retraining: Agent Academy, Challenges and Achievements in e-business and e-work, pg. 757-764, 2002, IOS Press