Dr. Helen Karatza, Professor Emeritus 
Personal Webpage https://karatza.webpages.auth.gr/
Email: karatza@csd.auth.gr

My publication list @ DBLP My citations list @ Google Scholar

ACM SIGSIM Distinguished Contributions Award 2025

BEST PAPERS AWARDS

• The Best Paper Award at The Sixth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2021), December 6-9, 2021, L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, “Scheduling Real-Time IoT Workflows in a Fog Computing Environment Utilizing Cloud Resources with Data-Aware Elasticity”.
• The Best Paper Award of the 2021 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS’21), July 19-20, 2021, L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, “Orchestrating bag-of-tasks applications with dynamically spawned tasks in a distributed environment”.
• The Best Paper Award (Computer Systems Category) of the 2018 International Conference on Computer, Information and Telecommunication Systems (CITS 2018), Colmar, France, 11-13 July 2018, L. Stavrinides and H. D. Karatza, “Task Group Scheduling in Distributed Systems”.
• The Best Paper Award (Computers Category) of the 2012 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, SPECTS 2012, Genoa, Italy, July 8-11, 2012, Karaoglanoglou, and H. Karatza, “Directing Requests and Acquiring Knowledge in a Large-Scale Grid System”.
• The Best Student Paper Award (local) of the 16th IEEE International Symposium on Computer Communications, June 28-July 1, 2011, Corfu, Greece, Moschakis and H.D. Karatza, “Performance and Cost evaluation of Gang Scheduling in a Cloud Computing System with Job Migrations and Starvation Handling”.
• The Best Paper Award of the 10th International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS 2007), San Diego, California, 2007, H.D. Karatza, “Performance of Gang Scheduling Policies in the Presence of Critical Sporadic Jobs in Distributed Systems”.
• The Best Paper Award of 39th Annual Simulation Symposium (ANSS 2006), Huntsville, Alabama, 2006, C.X. Mavromoustakis and H.D. Karatza, “Swarm-based Active Tunable Routing for Overhead Reduction in Multiservice Networks”.

AWARDS

Included in world’s top-scientists in “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”, 2025. Source: https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/8 Included in world’s top-scientists in “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”, 2024. Source: https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/7 A recipient of Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) Elsevier 2024 Outstanding Editors Award. Included in world’s top-scientists in “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”, 2023. Source: https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/6 A recipient of Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) Elsevier 2023 Outstanding Editors Award.  A recipient of Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) Elsevier annual (2021) Outstanding Editors Award. Included in world’s top-scientists in “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators” 2021. Source: https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/3  Included in world’s top-scientists in “Data for updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators” 2020. Source: Dataset: http://dx.doi.org/10.17632/btchxktzyw.2 Article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918

EDITORIALS

Senior Associate Editor and Special Issues Editor: SIMPAT Journal of Elsevier  (Former Editor-in-Chief) Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. Editorial Board Member of Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier. Editorial Board Member: Cluster Computing, Springer. Former Senior Associate Editor of the Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier. Former Editor-in-Chief: SIMULATION, TRANSACTIONS of The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, Sage Publications, SCS. Former Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation.