Business Analytics Lab

Welcome to the Business Analytics Laboratory, established at the Department of Management Science and Technology of the Athens University of Economics and Business, and headed by Diomidis Spinellis. Here we research, develop, and disseminate software, systems, methods, and practices associated with the following areas.

  • Software engineering and management science applications of business analytics
  • Business analytics software and systems
  • Data analytics approaches for IT security
  • Industrial adoption of business analytics applications and systems
  • Optimization methods in business analytics

    • Recent Publications

      • Diomidis Spinellis. Efficient graph processing. IEEE Software, 42(1):22–25, January 2025. doi:10.1109/ms.2024.3477013.

      • Artun Boz, Wouter Zorgdrager, Zoe Kotti, Jesse Harte, Panos Louridas, Vassilios Karakoidas, Dietmar Jannach, and Marios Fragkoulis. Improving sequential recommendations with llms. ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems, January 2025. Just Accepted.

      • Diomidis Spinellis, Panos Louridas, Maria Kechagia, and Tushar Sharma. Broken windows: Exploring the applicability of a controversial theory on code quality. In ICSME '24: International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, 400–412. IEEE, October 2024.

      • Diomidis Spinellis. Unit tests for SQL. IEEE Software, 41(1):22–26, January 2024.

      • Diomidis Spinellis. Refactoring with regular expressions. IEEE Software, 41(6):29–33, November 2024. doi:10.1109/MS.2024.3439028.

      • Diomidis Spinellis. Pair programming with generative AI. IEEE Software, 41(3):16–18, May 2024.

      • Diomidis Spinellis. Modular data analytics. IEEE Software, September 2024.

      • Diomidis Spinellis. Engineering data processing workflows. IEEE Software, 41(4):25–29, July 2024.

      • Diomidis Spinellis. Automating a massive open online course's production. IEEE Software, 41(2):17–20, March 2024.

      • John Pavlopoulos, Panos Louridas, and Panagiotis Filos. Towards a Greek proverb atlas: computational spatial exploration and attribution of Greek proverbs. In Yaser Al-Onaizan, Mohit Bansal, and Yun-Nung Chen, editors, Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 11842–11854. Miami, Florida, USA, November 2024. Association for Computational Linguistics.

      • Panos Louridas. Cryptography. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2024. ISBN 9780262549028.

      • Vanessa Lislevand, John Pavlopoulos, Panos Louridas, and Konstantina Dritsa. Estimating the emotion of disgust in Greek parliament records. In Yi-Ling Chung, Zeerak Talat, Debora Nozza, Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Paul Röttger, Aida Mostafazadeh Davani, and Agostina Calabrese, editors, Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH 2024), 118–135. Mexico City, Mexico, June 2024. Association for Computational Linguistics.

      • Eileen Kapel, Luis Cruz, Diomidis Spinellis, and Arie Van Deursen. On the difficulty of identifying incident-inducing changes. In Proceedings of the 46th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice, ICSE-SEIP '24, 36–46. New York, NY, USA, 2024. Association for Computing Machinery.

      • Eileen Kapel, Luis Cruz, Diomidis Spinellis, and Arie van Deursen. Enhancing incident management: Insights from a case study at ING. In Proceedings of the 1st IEEE/ACM Workshop on Software Engineering Challenges in Financial Firms, FinanSE '24, 1–8. New York, NY, USA, 2024. Association for Computing Machinery.

      • Georgios-Petros Drosos, Thodoris Sotiropoulos, Diomidis Spinellis, and Dimitris Mitropoulos. Bloat beneath Python's scales: a fine-grained inter-project dependency analysis. In Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering, FSE '24. ACM, July 2024.

      • Georgios-Petros Drosos, Thodoris Sotiropoulos, Diomidis Spinellis, and Dimitris Mitropoulos. Bloat beneath python's scales: a fine-grained inter-project dependency analysis. July 2024.

      • Stefanos Chaliasos, Marcos Antonios Charalambous, Liyi Zhou, Rafaila Galanopoulou, Arthur Gervais, Dimitris Mitropoulos, and Ben Livshits. Smart contract and DeFi security tools: do they meet the needs of practitioners? In 45th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE '24. 2024. To appear.

      • Epameinondas-Konstantinos Barmpounis, John Pavlopoulos, Panos Louridas, and Konstantina Dritsa. Recognition and analysis of the proceedings of the greek parliament after WWII. DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly, January 2024.

      • Diomidis Spinellis, Alberto Bacchelli, and Eleni Constantinou, editors. MSR '24: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, New York, NY, USA, 2024. Association for Computing Machinery.