ΣΤΟΙΧΕΙΑ ΣΤΑ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΓΙΑ ΤΟΥΣ ΔΙΔΑΣΚΟΝΤΕΣ ΤΟΥ ΠΜΣ

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1 ΣΤΟΙΧΕΙΑ ΣΤΑ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΓΙΑ ΤΟΥΣ ΔΙΔΑΣΚΟΝΤΕΣ ΤΟΥ ΠΜΣ Ονοματεπώνυμο : Μάρκος Κούτρας Τίτλος : Καθηγητής Τμήμα : Στατιστικής & Ασφαλιστικής Επιστήμης Ίδρυμα : Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς Διεύθυνση Γραφείο: Καραολή και Δημητρίου 80 Γραφείο 513 Τηλέφωνα : mkoutras@unipi.gr Προσωπική σελίδα στο Διαδίκτυο: 1. Εκπαίδευση - Σπουδές Να δοθεί το Πανεπιστήμιο, το Τμήμα, ο τίτλος και η χρονολογία απόκτησης Πτυχίο: Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, Τμήμα Μαθηματικών, 1979 ΜΔΕ: Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, Τμήμα Μαθηματικών, Πληροφορική και Επιχειρησιακή Έρευνα, 1981 Διδακτορικό: Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, Τμήμα Μαθηματικών, «Συμβολή στη θεωρία των Σφαιρικών Κατανομών και σχετικά Ταξινομικά Προβλήματα», Ερευνητικά Ενδιαφέροντα Πολυμεταβλητή Ανάλυση Συνδυαστικές Κατανομές Θεωρία ροών και στατιστικών συναρτήσεων σάρωσης Θεωρία Αξιοπιστίας Στατιστικός Έλεγχος Ποιότητας 3. Διδασκαλία προπτυχιακών και μεταπτυχιακών μαθημάτων Προπτυχιακά Πιθανότητες Ι, Πιθανότητες ΙΙ, Συνδυαστική (Τμήμα Στατιστικής & Ασφαλιστικής Επιστήμης) Μεταπτυχιακά Ανάλυση Παλινδρόμησης και Ανάλυση διακύμανσης, Εφαρμοσμένη Πολυμεταβλητή Ανάλυση, Ερευνητική Μεθοδολογία, Θεωρία αξιοπιστίας και έλεγχοι χρόνων ζωής (ΠΜΣ Εφαρμοσμένης Στατιστικής) 4. Επίβλεψη Διδακτορικών Διατριβών Να δοθούν τα ονόματα των διδακτόρων, η χρονολογία χορήγησης, ο τίτλος και το Τμήμα. α. Β. Αλεξάνδρου (1997). Μελέτη απαριθμητριών μεταβλητών σε ακολουθίες δοκιμών με χρήση Μαρκοβιανών αλυσίδων και εφαρμογές. Τμήμα Μαθηματικών Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών. β. Μ. Μπούτσικας (2000). Συμβολή στη θεωρία συναφών τυχαίων μεταβλητών. Τμήμα Μαθηματικών Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών. γ. Σ. Μπερσίμης (2006). Προβλήματα πολυμεταβλητής στατιστικής ανάλυσης και πολυδιάστατων σχεδίων ελέγχου ποιότητας. Τμήμα Στατιστικής και Ασφαλιστικής Επιστήμης του Πανεπιστημίου Πειραιώς δ. Φ. Μηλιένος. Φράγματα αξιοπιστίας σε συστήματα αξιοπιστίας. Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς (υπό εκπόνηση) ε. Ι. Τριανταφύλλου. Διατήρηση ιδιοτήτων γήρανσης. Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς (υπό εκπόνηση) 5. Δημοσιεύσεις σε περιοδικά 1. Koutras, M. (1982). Non-central Stirling numbers and some applications. Discrete Mathematics, 42, Charalambides, Ch. A. and Koutras, M. (1983). On the differences of the generalized factorials at an arbitrary point and their combinatorial applications. Discrete Mathematics, 47, Cacoullos, T. and Koutras, M. (1984). Quadratic forms in spherical random variables: Generalized 2 noncentral χ distribution. Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, 31, Cacoullos, T. and Koutras, M. (1985). Minimum-distance discrimination for spherical distributions. In Statistical Theory and Data Analysis (Ed. K. Matusita), 1985, Koutras, M. (1986). On the generalized noncentral chi-squared distribution induced by an elliptical gamma law. Biometrika, 73, Koutras, M. (1987). On the performance of the linear discriminant function for spherical distributions. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 21, Koutras, M. (1990). Two classes of numbers appearing in the convolution of Binomial-truncated Poisson and Poisson-truncated Binomial random variables. The Fibonacci Quarterly, 28,

2 8. Koutras, M. (1992). Minimum distance discrimination rules and success rates for elliptical normal mixtures. Statistics and Probability Letters, 13, Papastavridis, S. G. and Koutras, M. V. (1992). Consecutive k-out-of-n systems with maintainance. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 44, Charalambides, Ch. A. and Koutras, M. V. (1993). On a generalization of Morisita's model for estimating the habitat preference. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 45, Fu, J. C. and Koutras, M. V. (1994). Poisson approximations for 2-dimensional patterns. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 45, Koutras, M. V. and Papastavridis, S. G. (1993). Application of the Stein-Chen method for bounds and limit theorems in the reliability of coherent structures. Naval Research Logistics, 40, Koutras, M. V. and Papastavridis, S. G. (1993). On the number of runs and related statistics. Statistica Sinica, 3, Koutras, M. V., Papadopoulos, G. K. and Papastavridis, S. G. (1993). Reliability of 2-Dimensional consecutive k-out-of-n:f systems. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 42, Papastavridis, S. G. and Koutras, M. V. (1993). Bounds for reliability of consecutive k-within-m-outof-n systems with unequal component reliabilities. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 42, Papastavridis, S. G. and Koutras, M. V. (1993). Consecutive-k-out-of-n systems. In New Trends in System Reliability Evaluation (Ed. K. B. Misra), Elsevier Science Publ. B. V., Fu, J. C. and Koutras, M. V. (1994). Distribution theory of runs: A Markov chain approach. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 89, Koutras, M. V. (1994). Eulerian numbers associated with sequences of polynomials. The Fibonacci Quarterly, 32, Koutras, M. V., Papadopoulos, G. K. and Papastavridis, S. G. (1994). Circular over-lapping success runs. Runs and Patterns: Selected Papers (Eds. A. Godbole and S. Papastavridis), Kluwer Publ. Co., Koutras, M. V., Papadopoulos, G. K. and Papastavridis, S. G. (1994). Pairwise rearrangements in reliability structures. Naval Research Logistics, 41, Chao, M. T., Fu, J. C. and Koutras, M. V. (1995). Survey of the reliability studies of consecutive-kout-of-n:f and related systems. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 44, Fu, J. C. and Koutras, M. V. (1995). Reliability bounds for coherent structures with independent components. Statistics and Probability Letters, 22, Koutras, M. V. and Alexandrou, V. A. (1995). Runs, scans and urn models: A unified Markov chain approach. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 47, Koutras, M. V., Papadopoulos, G. K. and Papastavridis, S. G. (1995). Runs on a circle. Journal of Applied Probability, 32, Koutras, M. V., Papastavridis, S. G. and Petakos, K. I. (1995). Bounds and limit theorems for coherent reliability structures. In Recent Advances in Life-Testing and Reliability (Ed. N. Balakrishnan), Koutras, M. V. (1996). On a waiting time distribution in a sequence of Bernoulli trials. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 48, Koutras, M. V. (1996). On a Markov chain approach for the study of reliability structu-res. Journal of Applied Probability, 33, Koutras, M. V., Papadopoulos, G. K. and Papastavridis, S. G. (1996). A reliability bound for 2- dimensional consecutive-k-out-of-n:f systems. Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications, 30, Koutras, M. V., Papastavridis, S. G. and Petakos, K. I. (1996). Bounds for coherent reliability structures. Statistics and Probability Letters, 26, Cacoullos, T. and Koutras, M. (1997). On the performance of minimum-distance classification rules for Kotz-type elliptical distributions. In Advances in the Theory and Practice of Statistics: A volume in Honour of Samuel Kotz (Eds. N. Balakrishnan and N. Johnson), John Wiley, Koutras, M. V. (1997). Waiting time distributions associated with runs of fixed length in two-state Markov chains. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 49, Koutras, M. V. (1997). Consecutive k,r-out-of-n:dfm systems. Microelectronics and Reliability, 37, Koutras, M. V. (1997). Waiting times and number of appearances of events in a sequence of discrete random variables. In Advances in Combinatorial Methods and Applications to Probability and Statistics (Ed. N. Balakrishnan), Birkhaeuser, Boston, Koutras, M. V. and Alexandrou, V. A. (1997). Non-parametric randomness tests based on success runs of fixed length. Statistics and Probability Letters, 32, Koutras, M. V. and Alexandrou, V. A. (1997). Sooner waiting time problems in a sequence of trinary trials. Journal of Applied Probability, 34, Chadjiconstantinidis, S. and Koutras, M. V. (1999). Measures of component importance for Markov chain imbeddable reliability structures. Naval Research Logistics, 46, Koutras, M. V. and Balakrishnan, N.(1999). A start-up demonstration test using a simple scanbased statistic. In Recent Advances in Scan Statistics and Applications (Eds J. Glaz and N. Balakrishnan), Birkhauser, pp Balakrishnan, N. and Koutras, M. V. (1999). Random combinations with bounded differences and cospan. The Fibonacci Quarterly, 38, Boutsikas, M. V. and Koutras, M.V. (2000). Compound Poisson approximation for sums of dependent random variables. In Probability and Statistical Models with Applications (Eds: Ch. A. Charalambides, M. V. Koutras and N. Balakrishnan) pp Chapman and Hall 40. Boutsikas, M. V. and Koutras, M.V. (2000) Generalized reliability bounds for coherent structures with applications. Journal of Applied Probability, 37,

3 41. Boutsikas, M. V. and Koutras, M.V. (2000). Reliability Approximation for Markov Chain Imbeddable Systems. Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, 2, Boutsikas, M. V. and Koutras, M.V. (2000). A bound for the distribution of the sum of dependent random variables with applications. Annals of Applied Probability, 10, Chadjiconstantinidis, S., Antzoulakos, D. L. and Koutras, M. V. (2000). Joint distributions of successes, failures and patterns in enumeration problems. Advances in Applied Probability, 32, Chadjiconstantinidis, S. and Koutras, M. V. (2001). Distributions of the numbers of failures and successes in a waiting time problem. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 53, Boutsikas, M. V. and Koutras, M.V. (2002). On the number of overflown urns and excess balls in an allocation model with limited urn capacity. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 104, Boutsikas, M. V. and Koutras, M.V. (2002). On a class of multiple failure mode systems. Naval Research Logistics, 49, Boutsikas, M.V. and Koutras, M.V. (2002). Modeling claim exceedances over thresholds. Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 30, Tsitmidelis, S., Zissimopoulos, V. and Koutras, M. V. (2002). Fault Tree Analysis via Set Cover Model. In Evolutionary Methods for Design, Optimization and Control. CIMNE Barcelona, Koutras, M.V. (2003). Applications of Markov Chains to the Distribution Theory of Runs. In Handbook of Statistics, Volume 21: Stochastic Processes: Modelling and Simulation (Eds. D. N. Shanbhag and C. R. Rao). North Holland Publ. Co. 50. Koutras, M. V., Tsitmidelis, S. and Zissimopoulos, V. (2003). Evaluation of reliability bounds by set covering models. Statistics and Probability Letters, 61, Antzoulakos, D. L., Bersimis S. and Koutras, M. V. (2003). On the distribution of the total number of run lengths. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 55, Antzoulakos, D. L., Bersimis S. and Koutras, M. V. (2003). Waiting time distributions associated to total number of run lengths. In Mathematical and Statistical Methods in Reliability (B. H. Lindqvist and K. A. Doksum Eds), , World Scientific Publ. 53. Boutsikas M. V. and Koutras, M. V. (2003). Bounds for the distribution of two-dimensional binary scan statistics, Probability in Engineering and Informational Sciences, 17, A. Vassiliou, A., Tambouratzis, D. G., Koutras, M. V. and Bersimis, S. (2004). A new similarity measure and its use in determining the number of clusters in a multivariate data set. Communications in Statistics, 33, Antzoulakos, D. L. and Koutras, M. V. (2005). On a class of polynomials related to classical orthogonal and Fibonacci polynomials with probability applications, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 135, Koutras, M. V., Bersimis S. and Antzoulakos, D. L (2006). Improving the performance of the chisquare control charts via runs rules. Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, 8, Politis, K and Koutras, M.V. (2006) Some bounds for the renewal function. Probability in Engineering and Informational Sciences, 20, Boutsikas M. V. and Koutras, M. V. (2006). On the asymptotic distribution of the discrete scan statistic. Journal of Applied Probability, 43, Koutras M.V. and Maravelakis, P. (2007) On the IFR property of Markov chain imbeddable systems Probability in Engineering and Informational Sciences, 21, Koutras, M. V., Bersimis S. and Maravelakis, P. (2007) Statistical Process Control using Shewhart Control Charts with Supplementary Runs Rules, Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, 9, Triantafyllou, G. and Koutras, M. V. (2008). On the signature of coherent systems and applications, Probability in Engineering and Informational Sciences, 22, Koutras, M. V., Bersimis S. and Antzoulakos, D. L (2008). Bivariate Markov Chain Embeddable Variables of Polynomial Type and Applications. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (δεκτή για δημοσίευση). 63. Milienos, F. S. and Koutras, M. V. (2008). A lower bound for the reliability function of multiple failure mode systems, Statistics and Probability Letters (δεκτή για δημοσίευση) 6. Συμμετοχή σε οργανωτικές επιτροπές διεθνών συνεδρίων α. Μέλος της Επιστημονικής Επιτροπής Προγράμματος (Scientific Program Committee) στο Second International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability MMR 2000, Bordeaux, France, July 4-7, β. Μέλος της Οργανωτικής Επιτροπής του διεθνούς συνεδρίου Recent Advances in Probability and Statistics (University of Athens, Greece, June 3-5, 1999). γ. Μέλος της Επιστημονικής Επιτροπής Προγράμματος (Scientific Program Committee) στο Third International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability MMR 2002, Trondheim, Norway, June 17-20, δ. Μέλος της Επιστημονικής Επιτροπής Προγράμματος (Scientific Program Committee) στο 1 st International Workshop in Applied Probability, University of Simon Bolivar in Caracas, Venezuela, January 14-17, 2002

4 ε. Μέλος της Οργανωτικής Επιτροπής του συνεδρίου 5th Lattice Path Combinatorics and Discrete Distributions, Department of Mathematics, University of Athens, 5-7 June, 2002, Athens. στ. Μέλος της Οργανωτικής Επιτροπής του συνεδρίου International Workshop on Statistical Modelling: Statistical Modelling in Society, 8-12 July 2002, Chania, Crete, Greece. ζ. Μέλος της Οργανωτικής Επιτροπής του συνεδρίου International Conference on Current Advances and Trends in Nonparametric Statistics, July 15-19, Crete, Greece. η. Πρόεδρος της Οργανωτικής Επιτροπής στο 2nd International Workshop in Applied Probability, University of Piraeus, Greece, March 2004 θ. Μέλος της Επιστημονικής Επιτροπής Προγράμματος (Scientific Program Committee) στο 3 rd International Workshop in Applied Probability, University of Connecticut, USA, May 15-18, Κριτής/Editor σε διεθνή επιστημονικά περιοδικά Να δοθεί ο τίτλος του περιοδικού Κριτής (referee) 1. Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA) 2. Annals of Applied Probability 3. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics 4. IEEE Transactions in Reliability 5. Journal of Applied Probability 6. Advances in Applied Probability 7. Journal of Multivariate Analysis 8. Journal of the College of Science 9. Naval Research Logistics 10. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 11. Statistica Sinica 12. Statistics & Probability Letters 13. International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering 14. Annales Des Sciences Mathematiques Du Quebec 15. Discrete Mathematics 16. Journal of Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 17. Computers and Industrial Engineering 18. Journal of Quality Technology 19. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 20. Metrika 21. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences 22. Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research 23. Journal of Integer Sequences 24. Reliability Engineering & System Safety Editorial board (Αssociate Εditor) 1. Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, Kluwer Publ. Co. 2. Communication in Statistics, Taylor and Francis. 3. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Elsevier 4. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Elsevier 8. Διδακτικά συγγράμματα, Σημειώσεις 1. Εισαγωγή στη Στατιστική: Μέρος Ι (με τον Αναπλ. Καθηγητή κ. Χ. Δαμιανού) 2. Εισαγωγή στη Στατιστική: Μέρος ΙΙ (με τον Αναπλ. Καθηγητή κ. Χ. Δαμιανού). 3. Εισαγωγή στις Μεθόδους Βελτιστοποίησης (με τον Καθηγητή κ. Θ. Κάκουλλο). 4. Εισαγωγή στη Συνδυαστική. 5. Εισαγωγή στις Πιθανότητες, Μέρος Ι. 6. Ασκήσεις Πιθανοτήτων, Μέρος Ι (με τους Δ. Αντζουλάκο και Β. Μπένο). 7. Εισαγωγή στις Πιθανότητες, Μέρος ΙΙ. 8. Ασκήσεις Πιθανοτήτων, Μέρος ΙΙ (με τον Δ. Αντζουλάκο). 9. Statistical Distributions: Theory and Inference ( Edrs Ch. A. Charalambides, M. V. Koutras and N. Balakrishnan), CRC Press Runs, Scans and Applications (με τον N. Balakrishnan), John Wiley 2001.

5 ΣΤΟΙΧΕΙΑ ΣΤΑ ΑΓΓΛΙΚΑ ΓΙΑ ΤΟΥΣ ΔΙΔΑΣΚΟΝΤΕΣ ΤΟΥ ΠΜΣ Name : Markos V. Koutras Title : Professor Department: Statistics and Insurance Science University : Piraeus Address : Karaoli and Dimitriou 80 Office Nr 513 Tel.: mkoutras@unipi.gr Personal page (Internet): 1. Education Diploma: University of Athens, Department of Mathematics, 1979 MSc: University of Athens, Department of Mathematics, Information Science and Operations Research, 1981 PhD: University of Athens, Department of Mathematics, «Contribution to the Theory of Spherical Distributions and Associated Discrimination Problems», Research Interests Multivariate Analysis Combinatorial Distibutions Theory of Runs and Scans Reliability Theory Statistical Quality Control 3. Teaching Undergraduate courses Probability Ι, Probability ΙΙ, Combinatorics (Department of Statistics and Insurance Science) Postgraduate courses Regression Analysis and Analysis of Variance, Applied Multivariate Analysis, Research Methodology, Reliability Theory and Life Testing (MSc in Applied Statistics, Department of Statistics and Insurance Science) 4. PhD supervising α. V. Alexdandrou (1997). Study of Enumerative Variables in Sequences of Trials by the Aid of Markov Chains and Applications. University of Athens, Department of Mathematics. β. M. Boutsikas (2000). Contribution to the Theory of Associated Random Variables. University of Athens, Department of Mathematics. γ. S. Bersimis (2006). Problems in Multivariate Statistical Analysis and Quality Control Plans. University of Piraeus, Department of Statistics and Insurance Science. δ. Ph. Milienos. Reliability bounds in Coherent Systems. University of Piraeus, Department of Statistics and Insurance Science. (in Progress) ε. I. Triantafyllou. Preservation of Ageing properties. University of Piraeus, Department of Statistics and Insurance Science. (in Progress) 5. Publications in refereed journals 1. Koutras, M. (1982). Non-central Stirling numbers and some applications. Discrete Mathematics, 42, Charalambides, Ch. A. and Koutras, M. (1983). On the differences of the generalized factorials at an arbitrary point and their combinatorial applications. Discrete Mathematics, 47, Cacoullos, T. and Koutras, M. (1984). Quadratic forms in spherical random variables: Generalized 2 noncentral χ distribution. Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, 31, Cacoullos, T. and Koutras, M. (1985). Minimum-distance discrimination for spherical distributions. In Statistical Theory and Data Analysis (Ed. K. Matusita), 1985, Koutras, M. (1986). On the generalized noncentral chi-squared distribution induced by an elliptical gamma law. Biometrika, 73, Koutras, M. (1987). On the performance of the linear discriminant function for spherical distributions. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 21, Koutras, M. (1990). Two classes of numbers appearing in the convolution of Binomial-truncated Poisson and Poisson-truncated Binomial random variables. The Fibonacci Quarterly, 28, Koutras, M. (1992). Minimum distance discrimination rules and success rates for elliptical normal mixtures. Statistics and Probability Letters, 13, Papastavridis, S. G. and Koutras, M. V. (1992). Consecutive k-out-of-n systems with maintainance.

6 Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 44, Charalambides, Ch. A. and Koutras, M. V. (1993). On a generalization of Morisita's model for estimating the habitat preference. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 45, Fu, J. C. and Koutras, M. V. (1994). Poisson approximations for 2-dimensional patterns. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 45, Koutras, M. V. and Papastavridis, S. G. (1993). Application of the Stein-Chen method for bounds and limit theorems in the reliability of coherent structures. Naval Research Logistics, 40, Koutras, M. V. and Papastavridis, S. G. (1993). On the number of runs and related statistics. Statistica Sinica, 3, Koutras, M. V., Papadopoulos, G. K. and Papastavridis, S. G. (1993). Reliability of 2-Dimensional consecutive k-out-of-n:f systems. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 42, Papastavridis, S. G. and Koutras, M. V. (1993). Bounds for reliability of consecutive k-within-m-outof-n systems with unequal component reliabilities. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 42, Papastavridis, S. G. and Koutras, M. V. (1993). Consecutive-k-out-of-n systems. In New Trends in System Reliability Evaluation (Ed. K. B. Misra), Elsevier Science Publ. B. V., Fu, J. C. and Koutras, M. V. (1994). Distribution theory of runs: A Markov chain approach. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 89, Koutras, M. V. (1994). Eulerian numbers associated with sequences of polynomials. The Fibonacci Quarterly, 32, Koutras, M. V., Papadopoulos, G. K. and Papastavridis, S. G. (1994). Circular over-lapping success runs. Runs and Patterns: Selected Papers (Eds. A. Godbole and S. Papastavridis), Kluwer Publ. Co., Koutras, M. V., Papadopoulos, G. K. and Papastavridis, S. G. (1994). Pairwise rearrangements in reliability structures. Naval Research Logistics, 41, Chao, M. T., Fu, J. C. and Koutras, M. V. (1995). Survey of the reliability studies of consecutive-kout-of-n:f and related systems. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 44, Fu, J. C. and Koutras, M. V. (1995). Reliability bounds for coherent structures with independent components. Statistics and Probability Letters, 22, Koutras, M. V. and Alexandrou, V. A. (1995). Runs, scans and urn models: A unified Markov chain approach. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 47, Koutras, M. V., Papadopoulos, G. K. and Papastavridis, S. G. (1995). Runs on a circle. Journal of Applied Probability, 32, Koutras, M. V., Papastavridis, S. G. and Petakos, K. I. (1995). Bounds and limit theorems for coherent reliability structures. In Recent Advances in Life-Testing and Reliability (Ed. N. Balakrishnan), Koutras, M. V. (1996). On a waiting time distribution in a sequence of Bernoulli trials. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 48, Koutras, M. V. (1996). On a Markov chain approach for the study of reliability structu-res. Journal of Applied Probability, 33, Koutras, M. V., Papadopoulos, G. K. and Papastavridis, S. G. (1996). A reliability bound for 2- dimensional consecutive-k-out-of-n:f systems. Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications, 30, Koutras, M. V., Papastavridis, S. G. and Petakos, K. I. (1996). Bounds for coherent reliability structures. Statistics and Probability Letters, 26, Cacoullos, T. and Koutras, M. (1997). On the performance of minimum-distance classification rules for Kotz-type elliptical distributions. In Advances in the Theory and Practice of Statistics: A volume in Honour of Samuel Kotz (Eds. N. Balakrishnan and N. Johnson), John Wiley, Koutras, M. V. (1997). Waiting time distributions associated with runs of fixed length in two-state Markov chains. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 49, Koutras, M. V. (1997). Consecutive k,r-out-of-n:dfm systems. Microelectronics and Reliability, 37, Koutras, M. V. (1997). Waiting times and number of appearances of events in a sequence of discrete random variables. In Advances in Combinatorial Methods and Applications to Probability and Statistics (Ed. N. Balakrishnan), Birkhaeuser, Boston, Koutras, M. V. and Alexandrou, V. A. (1997). Non-parametric randomness tests based on success runs of fixed length. Statistics and Probability Letters, 32, Koutras, M. V. and Alexandrou, V. A. (1997). Sooner waiting time problems in a sequence of trinary trials. Journal of Applied Probability, 34, Chadjiconstantinidis, S. and Koutras, M. V. (1999). Measures of component importance for Markov chain imbeddable reliability structures. Naval Research Logistics, 46, Koutras, M. V. and Balakrishnan, N.(1999). A start-up demonstration test using a simple scanbased statistic. In Recent Advances in Scan Statistics and Applications (Eds J. Glaz and N. Balakrishnan), Birkhauser, pp Balakrishnan, N. and Koutras, M. V. (1999). Random combinations with bounded differences and cospan. The Fibonacci Quarterly, 38, Boutsikas, M. V. and Koutras, M.V. (2000). Compound Poisson approximation for sums of dependent random variables. In Probability and Statistical Models with Applications (Eds: Ch. A. Charalambides, M. V. Koutras and N. Balakrishnan) pp Chapman and Hall 40. Boutsikas, M. V. and Koutras, M.V. (2000) Generalized reliability bounds for coherent structures with applications. Journal of Applied Probability, 37, Boutsikas, M. V. and Koutras, M.V. (2000). Reliability Approximation for Markov Chain Imbeddable Systems. Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, 2, Boutsikas, M. V. and Koutras, M.V. (2000). A bound for the distribution of the sum of dependent

7 random variables with applications. Annals of Applied Probability, 10, Chadjiconstantinidis, S., Antzoulakos, D. L. and Koutras, M. V. (2000). Joint distributions of successes, failures and patterns in enumeration problems. Advances in Applied Probability, 32, Chadjiconstantinidis, S. and Koutras, M. V. (2001). Distributions of the numbers of failures and successes in a waiting time problem. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 53, Boutsikas, M. V. and Koutras, M.V. (2002). On the number of overflown urns and excess balls in an allocation model with limited urn capacity. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 104, Boutsikas, M. V. and Koutras, M.V. (2002). On a class of multiple failure mode systems. Naval Research Logistics, 49, Boutsikas, M.V. and Koutras, M.V. (2002). Modeling claim exceedances over thresholds. Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 30, Tsitmidelis, S., Zissimopoulos, V. and Koutras, M. V. (2002). Fault Tree Analysis via Set Cover Model. In Evolutionary Methods for Design, Optimization and Control. CIMNE Barcelona, Koutras, M.V. (2003). Applications of Markov Chains to the Distribution Theory of Runs. In Handbook of Statistics, Volume 21: Stochastic Processes: Modelling and Simulation (Eds. D. N. Shanbhag and C. R. Rao). North Holland Publ. Co. 50. Koutras, M. V., Tsitmidelis, S. and Zissimopoulos, V. (2003). Evaluation of reliability bounds by set covering models. Statistics and Probability Letters, 61, Antzoulakos, D. L., Bersimis S. and Koutras, M. V. (2003). On the distribution of the total number of run lengths. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 55, Antzoulakos, D. L., Bersimis S. and Koutras, M. V. (2003). Waiting time distributions associated to total number of run lengths. In Mathematical and Statistical Methods in Reliability (B. H. Lindqvist and K. A. Doksum Eds), , World Scientific Publ. 53. Boutsikas M. V. and Koutras, M. V. (2003). Bounds for the distribution of two-dimensional binary scan statistics, Probability in Engineering and Informational Sciences, 17, A. Vassiliou, A., Tambouratzis, D. G., Koutras, M. V. and Bersimis, S. (2004). A new similarity measure and its use in determining the number of clusters in a multivariate data set. Communications in Statistics, 33, Antzoulakos, D. L. and Koutras, M. V. (2005). On a class of polynomials related to classical orthogonal and Fibonacci polynomials with probability applications, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 135, Koutras, M. V., Bersimis S. and Antzoulakos, D. L (2006). Improving the performance of the chisquare control charts via runs rules. Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, 8, Politis, K and Koutras, M.V. (2006) Some bounds for the renewal function. Probability in Engineering and Informational Sciences, 20, Boutsikas M. V. and Koutras, M. V. (2006). On the asymptotic distribution of the discrete scan statistic. Journal of Applied Probability, 43, Koutras M.V. and Maravelakis, P. (2007) On the IFR property of Markov chain imbeddable systems Probability in Engineering and Informational Sciences, 21, Koutras, M. V., Bersimis S. and Maravelakis, P. (2007) Statistical Process Control using Shewhart Control Charts with Supplementary Runs Rules, Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, 9, Triantafyllou, G. and Koutras, M. V. (2008). On the signature of coherent systems and applications, Probability in Engineering and Informational Sciences, 22, Koutras, M. V., Bersimis S. and Antzoulakos, D. L (2008). Bivariate Markov Chain Embeddable Variables of Polynomial Type and Applications. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (δεκτή για δημοσίευση). 63. Milienos, F. S. and Koutras, M. V. (2008). A lower bound for the reliability function of multiple failure mode systems, Statistics and Probability Letters (δεκτή για δημοσίευση) 6. Participation in International Conference committees 1. Member of the Scientific Committee in the International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability MMR 2000, Bordeaux, France, July 4-7, Member of the Organizing and Scientific Committee in the Recent Advances in Probability and Statistics (University of Athens, Greece, June 3-5, 1999). 3. Member of the Scientific Committee in the Third International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability MMR 2002, Trondheim, Norway, June 17-20, Member of the Scientific Committee in the 1 st International Workshop in Applied Probability, University of Simon Bolivar in Caracas, Venezuela, January 14-17, Member of the Organizing Committee in the 5th Lattice Path Combinatorics and Discrete Distributions, Department of Mathematics, University of Athens, 5-7 June, 2002, Athens. 6. Member of the Organizing Committee in the International Workshop on Statistical Modelling: Statistical Modelling in Society, 8-12 July 2002, Chania, Crete, Greece. 7. Member of the Organizing Committee in the International Conference on Current Advances and Trends in Nonparametric Statistics, July 15-19, Crete, Greece. 8. Member of the Organizing Committee in the 2nd International Workshop in Applied Probability,

8 University of Piraeus, Greece, March Member of the Scientific Committee in the 3 rd International Workshop in Applied Probability, University of Connecticut, USA, May 15-18, Referee/Editorial board in international journals Referee 1. Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA) 2. Annals of Applied Probability 3. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics 4. IEEE Transactions in Reliability 5. Journal of Applied Probability 6. Advances in Applied Probability 7. Journal of Multivariate Analysis 8. Journal of the College of Science 9. Naval Research Logistics 10. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 11. Statistica Sinica 12. Statistics & Probability Letters 13. International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering 14. Annales Des Sciences Mathematiques Du Quebec 15. Discrete Mathematics 16. Journal of Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 17. Computers and Industrial Engineering 18. Journal of Quality Technology 19. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 20. Metrika 21. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences 22. Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research 23. Journal of Integer Sequences 24. Reliability Engineering & System Safety Editorial board (Αssociate Εditor) 1. Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, Kluwer Publ. Co. 2. Communication in Statistics, Taylor and Francis. 3. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Elsevier 4. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Elsevier 8. Textbooks, Lecture Notes 1. An Introduction to Statistics, Volume I (with Ch. Damianou) In Greek 2. An Introduction to Statistics, Volume II (with Ch. Damianou) In Greek 3. An Introduction to Optimization Methods (with T. Cacoullos) In Greek 4. An Introduction to Combinatorics In Greek 5. An Introduction to Probability, Volume I In Greek 6. Probability Exercises, Volume I (with D. Antzoulakos and V. Benos). In Greek 7. An Introduction to Probability, Volume II In Greek 8. Probability Exercises, Volume II (with D. Antzoulakos). In Greek 9. Statistical Distributions: Theory and Inference ( Edrs Ch. A. Charalambides, M. V. Koutras and N. Balakrishnan), CRC Press Runs, Scans and Applications (με τον N. Balakrishnan), John Wiley Miscellaneous