Dr Tassos TombrosSenior Lecturer & Director of EducationEmail: a.tombros@qmul.ac.ukRoom Number: Peter Landin, CS 306Office Hours: Friday 10:00-11:00TeachingResearchPublicationsTeachingTassos has experience of over 20 years in UK Higher Education and he has delivered a number of modules at undergraduate and postgraduate level. He has been the recipient of a number of teaching awards during his time at QMUL. Tassos is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Undergraduate TeachingECS518U - Operating Systems The module offers an introduction to Operating Systems, with a combination of study of the principles and practical skills in scripting and monitoring an Operating System kernel. Concepts of processes and concurrency are introduced in the context of Operating Systems and then pursued further as a tool for an application programmer wishing to exploit the full potential of a multicore processor. The module prepares students for further studies in distributed systems and high performance computing at the next level.ResearchResearch Interests:Document clustering and summarisation, personalisation, relevance feedback, interactive IR and task-based evaluation of IR systems, presentation of retrieval results.Publications Gill SS, Naeem U, Kaur R et al. (2024). Enhancing Student Learning, Engagement, and Employment Through Inclusive Curriculum Design. nameOfConference DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-6100-9.ch006 QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/96947 Marengo L, Fazekas TA (2017). I Wonder... Inquiry Techniques as a Method to Gain Insights into People's Encounters with Visual Art. International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI’17), 9-14 July, Vancouver, Canada DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-58753-0_82 QMRO: https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/31882 Tao Y, Tombros A (2017). How collaborators make sense of tasks together: A comparative analysis of collaborative sensemaking behavior in collaborative information‐seeking tasks. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1002/asi.23693 QMRO: qmroHref Al-Thani D, Stockman T, Tombros A (2015). The Effects of Cross-modal Collaboration on the Stages of Information Seeking. Proceedings of the XVI International Conference on Human Computer Interaction DOI: 10.1145/2829875.2829925 QMRO: qmroHref Sahib NG, Tombros A, Stockman T (2015). Evaluating a search interface for visually impaired searchers. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1002/asi.23325 QMRO: qmroHref Tao Y, Tombros A (2014). Investigating collaborative sensemaking behavior in collaborative information seeking. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1109/MC.2014.64 QMRO: qmroHref Sahib NG, Tombros A, Stockman T (2014). Investigating the Behavior of Visually Impaired Users for Multi-session Search Tasks. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1002/asi.22955 QMRO: qmroHref Tao Y, Tombros A (2013). An Exploratory Study of Sensemaking in Collaborative Information Seeking.. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36973-5_3 QMRO: qmroHref Al-Thani D, Stockman T, Tombros A (2013). Cross-Modal Collaborative Information Seeking (CCIS): An Exploratory Study. nameOfConference DOI: 10.14236/ewic/hci2013.5 QMRO: qmroHref Sahib NG, Stockman T, Tombros A et al. (2013). Participatory Design with Blind Users: A Scenario-Based Approach.. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-40483-2_48 QMRO: qmroHref Diriye A, Blandford A, Tombros A et al. (2013). The Role of Search Interface Features during Information Seeking.. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-40501-3_23 QMRO: qmroHref Sahib NG, Tombros A, Stockman T (2012). A Comparative Analysis of the Information-Seeking Behavior of Visually Impaired and Sighted Searchers. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1002/asi.21696 QMRO: qmroHref Diriye A, Tombros A, Blandford A (2012). A Little Interaction Can Go a Long Way: Enriching the Query Formulation Process.. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-28997-2_57 QMRO: qmroHref Szlavik Z, Tombros A, Lalmas M (2012). Summarisation of the logical structure of XML documents. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2011.11.002 QMRO: qmroHref Diriye A, Blandford A, Tombros A (2010). When is system support effective?. Proceedings of the third symposium on Information interaction in context DOI: 10.1145/1840784.1840794 QMRO: qmroHref Gooda Sahib N, Tombros A, Ruthven I (2010). Enabling Interactive Query Expansion through Eliciting the Potential Effect of Expansion Terms. European Conference on Information Retrieval DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12275-0_46 QMRO: qmroHref Diriye A, Blandford A, Tombros A (2010). Exploring the Impact of Search Interface Features on Search Tasks. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15464-5_20 QMRO: qmroHref Diriye A, Blandford A, Tombros A (2009). A polyrepresentational approach to interactive query expansion. Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries DOI: 10.1145/1555400.1555434 QMRO: qmroHref Campana M, Tombros A (2009). Incremental Personalised Summarisation with Novelty Detection. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04957-6_55 QMRO: qmroHref Forst JF, Tombros A, Roelleke T (2009). Less Is More: Maximal Marginal Relevance as a Summarisation Feature. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04417-5_37 QMRO: qmroHref Lalmas M, Tombros A, Borlund P et al. (2009). Second international symposium on information interaction in context.. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1145/1670598.1670610 QMRO: qmroHref BORLUND P, SCHNEIDER J, LALMAS M et al. (2008). Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Information Interaction in Context. nameOfConference DOI: doi QMRO: qmroHref Larsen B, Malik S, Tombros A (2008). A Comparison of Interactive and Ad-Hoc Relevance Assessments. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85902-4_30 QMRO: qmroHref (2008). Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information Interaction in Context, IIiX 2008, London, UK, October 14-17, 2008. nameOfConference DOI: doi QMRO: qmroHref Ingwersen P, Sormunen E (2008). Tutorials at the second IIiX symposium.. nameOfConference DOI: doi QMRO: qmroHref Amini MR, Tombros A, Usunier N et al. (2007). Learning-based summarisation of XML documents. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/s10791-006-9017-1 QMRO: qmroHref LALMAS M, TOMBROS A (2007). Evaluating XML retrieval effectiveness at INEX. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1145/1273221.1273225 QMRO: qmroHref Szlavik Z, Tombros A, Lalmas M (2007). Feature- and query-based table of contents generation for XML documents. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-71496-5_41 QMRO: qmroHref Lalmas M, Tombros A (2007). INEX 2002-2006: Understanding XML retrieval evaluation. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77088-6_18 QMRO: qmroHref Forst JF, Roelleke T, Tombros A (2007). Modelling a Summarisation Logic in Probabilistic Datalog.. nameOfConference DOI: doi QMRO: qmroHref Malik S, Larsen B, Tombros A (2007). Report on the INEX 2005 interactive track.. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1145/1273221.1273228 QMRO: qmroHref Malik S, Tombros A, Larsen B (2007). The interactive track at INEX 2006. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73888-6_37 QMRO: qmroHref LALMAS M, MACFARLANE A, RUGER S et al. (2006). Advances in Information Retrieval: 28th European Conference on IR Research, Proceedings (ECIR 2006). nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/11735106 QMRO: qmroHref (2006). Advances in Information Retrieval, 28th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2006, London, UK, April 10-12, 2006, Proceedings. nameOfConference DOI: doi QMRO: qmroHref Malik S, Klas CP, Fuhr N et al. (2006). Designing a user interface for interactive retrieval of structured documents - Lessons learned from the INEX interactive track. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/11863878_25 QMRO: qmroHref Szlávik Z, Tombros A, Lalmas M (2006). Investigating the use of summarisation for interactive XML retrieval.. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1145/1141277.1141529 QMRO: qmroHref Larsen B, Tombros A, Malik S (2006). Is XML retrieval meaningful to users?: searcher preferences for full documents vs. elements.. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1145/1148170.1148306 QMRO: qmroHref Forst JF, Tombros A, Rölleke T (2006). Solving the Enterprise TREC Task with Probabilistic Data Models.. nameOfConference DOI: doi QMRO: qmroHref Larsen B, Malik S, Tombros A (2006). The Interactive Track at INEX 2005. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/11766278_30 QMRO: qmroHref Szlavik Z, Tombros A, Lalmas M (2006). The use of summaries in XML retrieval. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/11863878_7 QMRO: qmroHref Betsi S, Lalmas M, Tombros A et al. (2006). User expectations from XML element retrieval.. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1145/1148170.1148280 QMRO: qmroHref Tombros A, Ruthven I, Jose JM (2005). How users assess web pages for information seeking. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1002/asi.20106 QMRO: qmroHref Tombros A, Ali ZS (2005). Factors affecting web page similarity. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-31865-1_35 QMRO: qmroHref Lalmas M, TOMBROS A, Gallinari P et al. (2005). Learning to Summarise XML Documents using Content and Structure. Proceedings of the ACM 14th Conference on Knowledge and Information Management (CIKM 2005), to appear DOI: 10.1145/1099554.1099635 QMRO: qmroHref LALMAS M, Tombros T, Gallinari P et al. (2005). Learning to Summarize XML Documents by Combining Content and Structure. ACM 14th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) DOI: doi QMRO: qmroHref TOMBROS A, Larsen B, Malik S (2005). Report on the INEX 2004 interactive track. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1145/1067268.1067283 QMRO: qmroHref Tombros A, Larsen B, Malik S (2005). The interactive track at INEX 2004. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/11424550_33 QMRO: qmroHref Tombros A, van Rijsbergen CJ (2004). Query-sensitive similarity measures for information retrieval. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/s10115-003-0115-8 QMRO: qmroHref TOMBROS A, Malik S, Larsen B (2004). End users in the context of XML documents - setting up an interactive track at INEX.. Workshop on Information Retrieval in Context at the ACM SIGIR 2004 Conference DOI: doi QMRO: qmroHref TOMBROS A, White R, Jose J et al. (2003). Clustering the information space using top-ranking sentences: a study of user interaction. Proceedings of the 9th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Hu,am-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2003) DOI: doi QMRO: qmroHref Tombros A, Jose JM, Ruthven I (2003). Clustering top-ranking sentences for information access. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-45175-4_47 QMRO: qmroHref TOMBROS A, Jose J, Ruthven I (2003). Searchers' criteria for assessing web pages. Proceedings on the 26th ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval DOI: 10.1145/860435.860513 QMRO: qmroHref Tombros A, Villa R, Van Rijsbergen CJ (2002). The effectiveness of query-specific hierarchic clustering in information retrieval. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4573(01)00048-6 QMRO: qmroHref TOMBROS A, Crestani F, Sweeney S (2002). Mobile delivery of news using hierarchical query-biased summaries. 17th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing Information Access and Retrieval Pack (SAC-IARS'02) DOI: 10.1145/508791.508914 QMRO: qmroHref TOMBROS A, Jose J, Ruthven I (2001). A study on the use of summaries and summary-based query expansion for a question-answering task. Proceedings of the 23rd BCS European Annual Colloquium on Information Retrieval Research (ECIR 2001) DOI: doi QMRO: qmroHref McLellan P, Tombros A, Jose JM et al. (2001). Evaluating Summarisation Technologies: A Task Oriented Approach.. nameOfConference DOI: doi QMRO: qmroHref TOMBROS A, Rijsbergen CJ (2001). Query-sensitive similarity measures for the calculation of interdocument relationship. 10th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management DOI: 10.1145/502585.502589 QMRO: qmroHref Tombros A, Crestani F (2000). Users' perception of relevance of spoken documents. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1002/1097-4571(2000)51:10<929::AID-ASI50>3.0.CO;2-D QMRO: qmroHref Alexander N, Brown C, Jose JM et al. (2000). Question Answering, Relevance Feedback and Summarisation: TREC-9 Interactive Track Report.. nameOfConference DOI: doi QMRO: qmroHref Tombros A, Sanderson M (1998). Advantages of query biased summaries in information retrieval. Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (ACM SIGIR'98) DOI: 10.1145/290941.290947 QMRO: qmroHref