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Mr Ilias Gkotsis is a Mechanical and Aeronautics Engineer with an MSc degree in Energy Production and Management. He has worked for 3 years as Instructor on Mechanical Engineering courses in several IVTs and participated for 5 years in EU and National funded projects in the Transport sector, focusing on traffic modelling and simulation. From 2012, he is an associate researcher at the Center for Security Studies (KEMEA), of the Hellenic Ministry of Citizen Protection. Indicatively, he has been managing and coordinating EU and National proposals and projects in the field of Disaster Resilience, Civil Protection, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Protection of Public Spaces, Border Surveillance, etc. Finally, he is a certified UAV pilot by the HCAA.

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Published: 25 June 2021 in Security Informatics and Law Enforcement
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Healthcare sector faces numerous cyber-physical threats that affect citizens’ lives and habits, increase their fears, and influence hospital services provision, as it was also experienced for example during the ransomware campaigns WannaCry and Petya. During such incidents but also in general for the security of healthcare infrastructures, several internal and external stakeholders are involved, having different needs and requirements, trying to cooperate, respond, and recover from the crisis. Although the crisis management process is well analyzed in literature, there is a need to understand and explain the process in the area of healthcare, as well as the stakeholders involved in this. This chapter presents a detailed approach of the crisis management involved stakeholders and processes in healthcare sector. Through a case study conducted in a Greek hospital, these different stakeholders are identified and described; and crisis management processes are further elaborated. Finally, the aforementioned findings and the conclusions that are drawn are linked with SAFECARE project (H2020-GA787005), during the framework of which this research was conducted, which project aims to provide solutions that will improve physical and cybersecurity in a seamless and cost-effective way, in healthcare infrastructures.

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Ilias Gkotsis; Vasiliki Mantzana; Anastasios Galanis; Ioannis Galatas; Anna Tsekoura; Olivier Theveaneau; Elodie Reuge; James Philpot. Stakeholders Involved in Hospitals’ Crisis Management Processes. Security Informatics and Law Enforcement 2021, 477 -493.

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Ilias Gkotsis, Vasiliki Mantzana, Anastasios Galanis, Ioannis Galatas, Anna Tsekoura, Olivier Theveaneau, Elodie Reuge, James Philpot. Stakeholders Involved in Hospitals’ Crisis Management Processes. Security Informatics and Law Enforcement. 2021; ():477-493.

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Ilias Gkotsis; Vasiliki Mantzana; Anastasios Galanis; Ioannis Galatas; Anna Tsekoura; Olivier Theveaneau; Elodie Reuge; James Philpot. 2021. "Stakeholders Involved in Hospitals’ Crisis Management Processes." Security Informatics and Law Enforcement , no. : 477-493.

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Published: 25 June 2021 in Security Informatics and Law Enforcement
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This chapter describes the SWIFTERS multiple drone platform for the utilization of UAVs in emergency response missions. The platform is monitoring through the command control module, the real-time state, and position of each of the connected unmanned aerial vehicle. The command control module could order UAVs to go in a particular location with a click-and-go function, to search an area for people, vehicles, or other important objects, identify them automatically, and provide a live feed through their respective sensors and payload. The SWIFTERS platform was designed to provide a modular, extendable, scalable, stable, and reliable infrastructure to address end users’ functional and nonfunctional requirements. In general, SWIFTERS project capitalizes on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms to study, design, and test cooperation strategies that support the allocation of evacuation operations to UAVs in an intelligent way, with the goal of improving response efficiency and reducing evacuation time.

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Ilias Gkotsis; Paraskevi Petsioti; Georgios Eftychidis; Maria Terzi; Panayiotis Kolios. Multiple Drone Platform for Emergency Response Missions. Security Informatics and Law Enforcement 2021, 495 -511.

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Ilias Gkotsis, Paraskevi Petsioti, Georgios Eftychidis, Maria Terzi, Panayiotis Kolios. Multiple Drone Platform for Emergency Response Missions. Security Informatics and Law Enforcement. 2021; ():495-511.

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Ilias Gkotsis; Paraskevi Petsioti; Georgios Eftychidis; Maria Terzi; Panayiotis Kolios. 2021. "Multiple Drone Platform for Emergency Response Missions." Security Informatics and Law Enforcement , no. : 495-511.

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Published: 25 June 2021 in Security Informatics and Law Enforcement
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SecureGas focuses on the 140.000 km of the European Gas network covering the entire value chain from Production to Distribution to the users, providing methodologies, tools and guidelines to secure existing and incoming installations and make them resilient to cyber-physical threats. In this chapter, SecureGas approach will be described, focusing on a business case, which involves two different Gas CI operators of Greece, the respective aim and needs, as well as the components involved, in the framework of the High-Level Reference Architecture, which is built upon the SecureGas Conceptual Model, a blueprint on how to design, build, operate and maintain the EU gas network to make it secure and resilient against cyber-physical threats.

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Ilias Gkotsis; Anna Gazi; Dimitrios Gritzalis; George Stergiopoulos; Vangelis Limneos; Vassilios Vassiliou; Eugenia Koutiva; Dimitrios Petrantonakis; Eleftherios Lefkokilos; Evita Agrafioti; Anastasia Chalkidou; Dimitris Drakoulis; Anastasia Eleftheriou; Aspa Skalidi; Panagiotis Demestichas; Clemente Fuggini. Securing the European Gas Network, the Greek Business Case. Security Informatics and Law Enforcement 2021, 357 -373.

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Ilias Gkotsis, Anna Gazi, Dimitrios Gritzalis, George Stergiopoulos, Vangelis Limneos, Vassilios Vassiliou, Eugenia Koutiva, Dimitrios Petrantonakis, Eleftherios Lefkokilos, Evita Agrafioti, Anastasia Chalkidou, Dimitris Drakoulis, Anastasia Eleftheriou, Aspa Skalidi, Panagiotis Demestichas, Clemente Fuggini. Securing the European Gas Network, the Greek Business Case. Security Informatics and Law Enforcement. 2021; ():357-373.

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Ilias Gkotsis; Anna Gazi; Dimitrios Gritzalis; George Stergiopoulos; Vangelis Limneos; Vassilios Vassiliou; Eugenia Koutiva; Dimitrios Petrantonakis; Eleftherios Lefkokilos; Evita Agrafioti; Anastasia Chalkidou; Dimitris Drakoulis; Anastasia Eleftheriou; Aspa Skalidi; Panagiotis Demestichas; Clemente Fuggini. 2021. "Securing the European Gas Network, the Greek Business Case." Security Informatics and Law Enforcement , no. : 357-373.

Journal article
Published: 04 May 2021 in Sustainability
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Safety in touristic destinations is of utmost importance since tourists’ preferences change frequently in response to emerging threats. Natural hazards are a significant risk and, as such, they need to be considered in the effort for safe tourism. Services and systems monitoring and predicting extreme natural phenomena and disasters in sites of special tourist and cultural interest can lead to more effective risk management and incident response. This paper presents Xenios, a system under development in Greece that provides early warning and risk communication services via web-based and mobile phone applications. We present the user requirements analysis contacted, which led to the design of a modular system architecture through a formal Business Process Model procedure. Currently, early warning systems for wildfire, floods, and extreme weather events are offered, based on a fusion of information from satellite imagery, meteorological forecasts, and risk estimation models. Moreover, visitors’ dispersion monitoring via unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and Wi-Fi connection signals is also offered, along with emergency response planning and ticketing system’s interfacing. The system is built around a modular architecture that permits the easy integration of new subsystems or other danger forecasting modules, depending on the site’s actual needs and limitations. Xenios also provides a mobile app for site visitors, which establishes a communication link for sending alarms, but also serves them with useful tourist information, so that they are encouraged to download and use the app. Finally, the opportunities for supporting a viable business model are also discussed. The results of this study could prove useful in designing other natural risk management systems for sites of cultural and natural interest.

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Chrysostomos Psaroudakis; Gavriil Xanthopoulos; Dimitris Stavrakoudis; Antonios Barnias; Vassiliki Varela; Ilias Gkotsis; Anna Karvouniari; Spyridon Agorgianitis; Ioannis Chasiotis; Diamando Vlachogiannis; Athanasios Sfetsos; Konstantinos Kaoukis; Aikaterini Christopoulou; Petros Antakis; Ioannis Gitas. Development of an Early Warning and Incident Response System for the Protection of Visitors from Natural Hazards in Important Outdoor Sites in Greece. Sustainability 2021, 13, 5143 .

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Chrysostomos Psaroudakis, Gavriil Xanthopoulos, Dimitris Stavrakoudis, Antonios Barnias, Vassiliki Varela, Ilias Gkotsis, Anna Karvouniari, Spyridon Agorgianitis, Ioannis Chasiotis, Diamando Vlachogiannis, Athanasios Sfetsos, Konstantinos Kaoukis, Aikaterini Christopoulou, Petros Antakis, Ioannis Gitas. Development of an Early Warning and Incident Response System for the Protection of Visitors from Natural Hazards in Important Outdoor Sites in Greece. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (9):5143.

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Chrysostomos Psaroudakis; Gavriil Xanthopoulos; Dimitris Stavrakoudis; Antonios Barnias; Vassiliki Varela; Ilias Gkotsis; Anna Karvouniari; Spyridon Agorgianitis; Ioannis Chasiotis; Diamando Vlachogiannis; Athanasios Sfetsos; Konstantinos Kaoukis; Aikaterini Christopoulou; Petros Antakis; Ioannis Gitas. 2021. "Development of an Early Warning and Incident Response System for the Protection of Visitors from Natural Hazards in Important Outdoor Sites in Greece." Sustainability 13, no. 9: 5143.

Conference paper
Published: 18 February 2021 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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Critical Infrastructures (CIs) face numerous cyber-physical threats that can affect citizens’ lives and habits, increase their feeling of insecurity, and influence the seamless services provision. During such incidents, but also in general for the security of CIs several internal and external stakeholders are involved, having different needs and requirements, trying to cooperate, respond and recover. Although CIs security management process is well analyzed in the literature there is a need to set a common ground among different CIs, thus reducing administration/coordination overhead and rendering the decision making and crisis management process more efficient. In this direction, this paper considers three different CIs (airport facilities, gas infrastructures, and hospitals); presents the current and emerging physical and cyber security related regulations and standards, operations, organisational and technical measure and; finally, through the discussion on gaps and best practices identified, proposes a global, cyber-physical security management and joint coordination approach. The proposed approach recommends among others that the adoption of a Holistic Security Operation Centre (HSOC) in each CI and a National Coordination Centre (NCC), supervising them, which will facilitate the communication and cooperation between the different CI operators and stakeholders, in case of an incident, that may have cascading effects to interconnected Infrastructures. The findings presented and the conclusions drawn are linked with three EU funded research projects (SATIE, SecureGas and SAFECARE), that aim to improve physical and cyber security of CIs in a seamless and cost-effective way.

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Vasiliki Mantzana; Eftichia Georgiou; Anna Gazi; Ilias Gkotsis; Ioannis Chasiotis; Georgios Eftychidis. Towards a Global CIs’ Cyber-Physical Security Management and Joint Coordination Approach. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2021, 12618, 155 -170.

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Vasiliki Mantzana, Eftichia Georgiou, Anna Gazi, Ilias Gkotsis, Ioannis Chasiotis, Georgios Eftychidis. Towards a Global CIs’ Cyber-Physical Security Management and Joint Coordination Approach. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2021; 12618 ():155-170.

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Vasiliki Mantzana; Eftichia Georgiou; Anna Gazi; Ilias Gkotsis; Ioannis Chasiotis; Georgios Eftychidis. 2021. "Towards a Global CIs’ Cyber-Physical Security Management and Joint Coordination Approach." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 12618, no. : 155-170.

Journal article
Published: 21 January 2021 in Infrastructures
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The present work introduces a case study on the climate resilience of interconnected critical infrastructures to forest fires, that was performed within the framework on H2020 EU-CIRCLE project (GA 653824). It was conducted in South France, one of the most touristic European regions, and also one of the regions at the highest forest fire risk that is projected to be amplified under future climate conditions. The case study has been implemented through a co-creation framework with local stakeholders, which is critical in moving beyond physical damages to the infrastructures, introducing the elements of infrastructure business continuity and societal resilience. Future forest fires extremes are anticipated to impact the interconnections of electricity and transportation networks that could further cascade to communities throughout South France. The work highlighted the benefits of enhancing co-operation between academia, emergency responders, and infrastructure operators as a critical element in enhancing resilience through increased awareness of climate impacts, new generated knowledge on fire extremes and better cooperation between involved agencies.

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Athanasios Sfetsos; Frederique Giroud; Alice Clemencau; Vassiliki Varela; Catherine Freissinet; Jean Lecroart; Diamando Vlachogiannis; Nadia Politi; Stelios Karozis; Ilias Gkotsis; George Eftychidis; Ralf Hedel; Stefan Hahmann. Assessing the Effects of Forest Fires on Interconnected Critical Infrastructures under Climate Change. Evidence from South France. Infrastructures 2021, 6, 16 .

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Athanasios Sfetsos, Frederique Giroud, Alice Clemencau, Vassiliki Varela, Catherine Freissinet, Jean Lecroart, Diamando Vlachogiannis, Nadia Politi, Stelios Karozis, Ilias Gkotsis, George Eftychidis, Ralf Hedel, Stefan Hahmann. Assessing the Effects of Forest Fires on Interconnected Critical Infrastructures under Climate Change. Evidence from South France. Infrastructures. 2021; 6 (2):16.

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Athanasios Sfetsos; Frederique Giroud; Alice Clemencau; Vassiliki Varela; Catherine Freissinet; Jean Lecroart; Diamando Vlachogiannis; Nadia Politi; Stelios Karozis; Ilias Gkotsis; George Eftychidis; Ralf Hedel; Stefan Hahmann. 2021. "Assessing the Effects of Forest Fires on Interconnected Critical Infrastructures under Climate Change. Evidence from South France." Infrastructures 6, no. 2: 16.

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Published: 27 April 2018 in SpringerBriefs in Criminology
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The use of UAS by the law enforcement and emergency services has been widely recognized the recent years and several applications and missions have been associated to such use in a variety of cases. The main reason for this is that UAS can strengthen the operational capabilities of security organizations providing flexible and prompt response capabilities and ensure improved information flow from an incident site. PREDICATE is a UAS-based solution, which aims to support the use of drones in several types of civil protection operations, such as wide area surveillance, mapping, search and rescue, evacuation etc. UAS solutions, such as PREDICATE, can be linked with computer aided dispatch services of community policing, providing prompt response and informed decision making for addressing the needs of managing local and neighbourhood issues. UAS can perform SaR missions in less time than ground-based teams and provide enhanced situational awareness. Furthermore, timely information from the incident scene can be gathered and analysed for documenting response plans. Finally, the capabilities of PREDICATE tool to detect, identify and recognize objects, which can be tracked, can provide the law enforcement personnel and local communities with significant time and information.

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George Eftychidis; Ilias Gkotsis; Panayiotis Kolios; Costas Peleties. UAVs and Their Use in Servicing the Community. SpringerBriefs in Criminology 2018, 119 -131.

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George Eftychidis, Ilias Gkotsis, Panayiotis Kolios, Costas Peleties. UAVs and Their Use in Servicing the Community. SpringerBriefs in Criminology. 2018; ():119-131.

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George Eftychidis; Ilias Gkotsis; Panayiotis Kolios; Costas Peleties. 2018. "UAVs and Their Use in Servicing the Community." SpringerBriefs in Criminology , no. : 119-131.

Conference paper
Published: 06 September 2017 in Fifth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2017)
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G. Eftychidis; Ilias Gkotsis; P. Kolios. The use of UAS in disaster response operations. Fifth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2017) 2017, 1 .

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G. Eftychidis, Ilias Gkotsis, P. Kolios. The use of UAS in disaster response operations. Fifth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2017). 2017; ():1.

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G. Eftychidis; Ilias Gkotsis; P. Kolios. 2017. "The use of UAS in disaster response operations." Fifth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2017) , no. : 1.

Conference paper
Published: 06 September 2017 in Fifth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2017)
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Ilias Gkotsis; George Eftychidis; George Leventakis; Marios Mountzouris; Dimitris Diagourtas; Antonis Kostaridis; Ralf Hedel; Andrej Olunczek; Stefan Hahmann. IMPRESS: medical location-aware decision making during emergencies. Fifth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2017) 2017, 51 .

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Ilias Gkotsis, George Eftychidis, George Leventakis, Marios Mountzouris, Dimitris Diagourtas, Antonis Kostaridis, Ralf Hedel, Andrej Olunczek, Stefan Hahmann. IMPRESS: medical location-aware decision making during emergencies. Fifth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2017). 2017; ():51.

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Ilias Gkotsis; George Eftychidis; George Leventakis; Marios Mountzouris; Dimitris Diagourtas; Antonis Kostaridis; Ralf Hedel; Andrej Olunczek; Stefan Hahmann. 2017. "IMPRESS: medical location-aware decision making during emergencies." Fifth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2017) , no. : 51.