Email: kostas.nikolopoulos@mbs.ac.uk
Position
Lecturer in Decision Sciences
Subject area group
Decision Sciences and Operations Management
Biography
Dr Nikolopoulos received his PhD in December 2002 from the National Technical University of Greece (NTUA) in the research field of Business Forecasting Information Systems, under the supervision of Prof V Assimakopoulos, Director of the Forecasting Systems Unit in NTUA and current Secretary for the Information Society in the Greek Ministry of Economy and Finance. He has published several original papers in referred academic journals (IJSEKE, IJF, AE, JCIS) and international conference proceedings (DSI, ERES). He is co-originator of the Theta model and acted in 2004-2005 as Research Officer for the EPSRC Forecasting Support Systems research project in the Lancaster Centre for Forecasting.
Teaching and Research interests
Undergraduate: Quantitative Methods for Management, Introduction to Operational Research, Further Operational Research.
Postgraduate: MSc DS/OR - Statistical Decision Theory and Forecasting; Research Training Program - Multivariate Statistics, Structural Equation Modelling
Research interests include the theta model, Business Forecasting, Information Systems and Euclidean Geometry.
Current research is focused on "The Effective Design and Use of Forecasting Support Systems for Supply Chain Management". The UK based Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is funding a research project in Forecasting Support Systems. The project, running from 2004 to 2007, is supervised by Prof Robert Fildes (Lancaster University Management School) and Prof Paul Goodwin (School of Management, University of Bath).
Selected Publications
Journals
"1985-2005: forecasting in operations research [invited paper]", in Journal of Operational Research Society,Forthcoming, R Fildes and Konstantinos Nikolopoulos
"Forecasting with Cue Information: a comparison of multiple regression with alternative forecasting approaches", in European Journal of Operations Research,2007 (forthcoming), Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, P Goodwin, A Patelis and V Assimakopoulos
"Options Trading Driven by Volatility Directional Accuracy", in Journal of Applied Economics, Vol. 38, 1, 2006 (forthcoming), K Maris, Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, K Giannelos and V Assimakopoulos
"Spyros Makridakis: an interview with the International Journal of Forecasting", in International Journal of Forecasting, Vol. 22, 2, 2006 (forthcoming), R Fildes and Konstantinos Nikolopoulos
"Tourism Technical Analysis System", in Tourism Economics, Vol. 13, 1, 2006 (forthcoming), C Petropoulos, Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, A Patelis, V Assimakopoulos and D Askounis
"A Technical Analysis Approach to Tourism Demand Forecasting", in Journal of Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 12, 6, pp. 327-333, 2005, C Petropoulos, A Patelis, Konstantinos Nikolopoulos and V Assimakopoulos
"Fathoming Porter's Five Forces Model in the Internet Era", in Info - The Journal of Policy, Regulation and Strategy for Telecommunications, Vol. 7, 6, pp. 66-76, 2005, G Karagiannopoulos, N Georgopoulos and Konstantinos Nikolopoulos
"A Study of Financial Volatility Forecasting Techniques in the FTSE/ASE 20 Index", in Journal of Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 11, 7, pp. 453-457, 2004, K Maris, G Pantou, Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, E Pagourtzi and V Assimakopoulos
"Integrating Industrial Maintenance Strategy into ERP", in Industrial Management and Data Systems, Vol. 103, 3, pp. 184-191, 2003, Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, K Metaxiotis, N Lekatis and V Assimakopoulos
"eTIFIS: an innovative e-forecasting web application", in International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Vol. 13, 2, pp. 215-236, 2003, E Tavanidou, Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, K Metaxiotis and V Assimakopoulos
"FORTV: decision support system for forecasting television viewership", in Journal of Computer Information Systems, Vol. 43, 4, pp. 100-107, 2003, A Patelis, Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, K Metaxiotis and V Assimakopoulos
"SFTIS: a decision support system for tourism demand forecasting", in Journal of Computer Information Systems, Vol. 44, 1, pp. 21-32, 2003, C Petropoulos, A Patelis, K Metaxiotis, Konstantinos Nikolopoulos and V Assimakopoulos
"Theta Intelligent Forecasting Information System", in Industrial Management and Data Systems, Vol. 103, 9, pp. 711-726, 2003, Konstantinos Nikolopoulos and V Assimakopoulos
"The Theta Model: a decomposition approach to forecasting", in International Journal of Forecasting, Vol. 16, 4, pp. 521-530, 2000, V Assimakopoulos and Konstantinos Nikolopoulos
