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Desislava Petrova-Antonova, PhD

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My recent research focusses on city digital twins. By mapping the real and virtual worlds, we can design, test and build first digitally to deliver more pleasant and sustainable leaving environment.

Dessislava Petrova-Antonova is the Research Leader of Data Management Research Unit of GATE Institute. Her research area includes Data management with a focus on semantic data interoperability and enrichment. She is leading the City Digital Twin pilot project, where an advanced 3D City Information Model of Sofia is under development to facilitate simulation and visualisation of urban environment and processes.
Dessislava Petrova-Antonova obtained an engineering degree in Computer systems and technologies (2000) and Ph.D. in System programming (2007) from the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria. She joined the department of Software technologies at Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” as an assistant professor in 2008, and there she became an associate professor in 2012. Dessislava Petrova-Antonova is presently head of MSc program “Technology entrepreneurship and innovations in IT”. She has successfully participated in a number of European and national RTD projects (more than 30) and currently coordinates two of them. She has co-authored more than 70 peer-reviewed academic publications.

Projects

Petrova-Antonova D., Ilieva S. , Digital Twin Modeling of Smart Cities

Coordinator: Anders Logg, Professor of Computational Mathematics and Director of the Centre, Digital Twin Cities Centre

Coordinator: Prof. Sylvia Ilieva, Big Data for Smart Society

Coordinator: Assoc. prof. Dessislava Petrova-Antonova, Digital twin modelling of patients with cognitive disorders

Coordinator: Peter Hristov, PhD, BEng, Advancing Uncertainty-aware Digital Twins

Coordinator: Prof. Sylvia Ilieva, Building competence in data enrichment for Artificial Intelligence

Publications

Petrova-Antonova, D., M. Minkov, Evaluation of Cities’ Smartness Through Multidimensional Platform of Performance Indicators The 12th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management,

Petrova-Antonova D., I. Spasov, I. Krasteva, I. Manova, S. Ilieva , A Digital Twin Platform for Diagnostics and Rehabilitation of Multiple Sclerosis The 20th International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2020), Cagliari, Italy,

Petrova-Antonova D., Ilieva S. , Digital Twin Modeling of Smart Cities Ahram T., Taiar R., Langlois K., Choplin A. (eds) Human Interaction, Emerging Technologies and Future Applications III. IHIET 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1253. Springer, Cham, pp. 384-390.,

Petrova-Antonova D., D. Manova, S. Ilieva , Testing Web Service Compositions: Approaches, Methodology and Automation Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1, 159-168 (2020), ISSN online: 2415-6698,

Petrova-Antonova D., Spasov I., Petkova Y., Manova I., Ilieva S., CogniSoft: A Platform for the Automation of Cognitive Assessment and Rehabilitation of Multiple Sclerosis Computers 2020,

Petrova-Antonova D., Baychev S., Pavlova I., Pavlov G., Air Quality Visual Analytics with Kibana 5th International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies (SpliTech),

Petrova-Antonova D., Tancheva R., Data Cleaning: A Case Study with OpenRefine and Trifacta Wrangler Communications in Computer and Information Science,

Petrova-Antonova D., A. Spasov, Towards a semantic 3D model of Sofia city The 20th International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2021),

Petrova-Antonova D., J. Jelyazkov, I. Pavlova, Air quality monitoring platform with multiple data source support Journal of Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects. Publisher Taylor & Francis,

Dimitrov H., D. Petrova-Antonova, 3D city model as a first step towards digital twin of Sofia city Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.,

Petrova-Antonova D., O. Georgieva, Data-Driven Insights on Secondary Education: A Case Study on Teachers’ Demography and Qualification Communications in Computer and Information Science book series (CCIS, volume 1341), Springer Nature,

Spasov. A., D. Petrova-Antonova , Transferability assessment of open-source deep learning model for building detection on satellite data Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLVI-4/W4-2021,

Spasov. A., D. Petrova-Antonova , Hybrid AI for Data Platforms E. Curry, S. Scerri, T. Tuikka (eds.), Data Platforms: Foundations, Design Space, and Deployments, Springer ,

Mitkov R., Generative Design for Walkable Cities: A Case Study of Sofia Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLVIII-4/W5-2022, 75–82,,

Karamitov, K. and Petrova-Antonova, D., Pedestrian Accessibility Assessment Using Spatial and Network Analysis: A Case of Sofia City Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLVIII-4/W5-2022, 53–60,

Boyukliyski S., D. Petrova-Antonova, Hristov E., Hristov K., Multi-Objective Optimisation of Urban Design Using a Genetic Algorithm The IEEE International Conference Automatics and Informatics, October 6-8, 2022, Varna Bulgaria,

Vassilev V., D. Petrova-Antonova, V. Sowinski-Mydlarz, D. Mariyanayagam, E. Marinov, P. O. Hristov, T. Bali, S. Radu, S. Nakarmi, M. Rabka, Towards First Urban Data Space in Bulgaria The 8th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference, September 26-29 2022, Paphos, Cyprus,

Petrova-Antonova, D., Kunchev, T., Manova, I., Spasov, I. , Cognitive Impairment and Dementia Data Modelling In: Gervasi, O., Murgante, B., Hendrix, E.M.T., Taniar, D., Apduhan, B.O. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2022. ICCSA 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13376. Springer, Cham, Pages 58-71,

Mitkov R., M. Pantusheva, V. Naserentin, P. O. Hristov, D. Wastberg, F. Hunger, A. Mark, D. Petrova-Antonova, F. Edelvik, A. Logg, Using the Octree Immersed Boundary Method for urban wind CFD simulations IFAC Workshop on Control for Smart Cities CSC 2022, IFACPapersOnLine, Volume 55, Issue 11, Pages 179-184, ,

Kolibarov N., D. Wastberg, V. Naserentin, D. Petrova-Antonova, S. Ilieva, A. Logg, Roof Segmentation Towards Digital Twin Generation in LoD2+ Using Deep Learning IFAC Workshop on Control for Smart Cities CSC 2022, IFAC-PapersOnLine, Volume 55, Issue 11, Pages 173-178,

Boyukliyski S., D. Petrova-Antonova, S. Somanath, Evaluation of social facilities coverage: A case study of Sofia city IFAC Workshop on Control for Smart Cities CSC 2022, IFAC-PapersOnLine,

Donchev D., D. Petrova-Antonova, P. O. Hristov, An efficient hybrid regression model for energy and water consumption in a municipal kindergarten The 7th IEEE International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies (SpliTech 2022). July 5-8, 2022, Bol and Split, Croatia,

Marinov E., D. Petrova-Antonova, S. Malinov, Time Series Forecasting of Air Quality: A Case Study of Sofia City Atmosphere. 2022; 13(5):788, ISSN: 2073-4433,

Hristov P. O., D. Petrova-Antonova, S. Ilieva, R. Rizov, Enabling City Digital Twins Through Urban Living Labs Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLIII-B1-2022, Pages 151–156.,

Georgieva O., P. Hadzhitsanev, D. Petrova-Antonova, Unsupervised Analysis for Early-Stage Diagnosis of Cognitive Disorders Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Society and Technology, Book edition: ISOS Conference Proceedings Series, editors: Milan Zdravković, Miroslav Trajanović, Zora Konjović, Information Society of Serbia – ISOS, Belgrade, Serbia, 2022, Pages 30-33, ISSN (online): 2738-1447, ISBN: 978-86-85525-24-7.,

Vassilev, V., Ilieva, S., Krasteva, I., Pavlova, I., Petrova-Antonova, D., Sowinski-Mydlarz, W., AI-Based Hybrid Data Platforms In: Curry, E., Scerri, S., Tuikka, T. (eds) Data Spaces . Springer, Cham,

Nikolov A., D. Petrova-Antonova, Repository Platform for RESTful Web Services IEEE International Conference Automatics and Informatics,

S. Boyukliyski, D. Petrova-Antonova, E. Hristov and K. Hristov, Multi-Objective Optimisation of Urban Design Using a Genetic Algorithm International Conference Automatics and Informatics (ICAI), 2022, pp. 345-350,

Pantusheva, M.; Mitkov, R.; Hristov, P.O.; Petrova-Antonova, D., Air Pollution Dispersion Modelling in Urban Environment Using CFD: A Systematic Review Atmosphere 2022, 13, 1640. ,

Petrova-Antonova, D.; Lazarova, S., Cognitive Impairment and Dementia Data Model: Quality Evaluation and Improvements Computers 2023, 12, 29.,

Kumalasari D., M. N. Koeva, F. Vahdatikhaki, D. Petrova-Antonova, M. Kuffer, Planning Walkable Cities: Generative Design approach towards Digital Twin implementation International Journal of Remote Sensing,

Lazarova, S.; Petrova-Antonova, D.; Kunchev, T. , Ontology-Driven Knowledge Sharing in Alzheimer’s Disease Research Information 2023, 14, 188,

Hristov, E.; Petrova-Antonova, D.; Petrov, A.; Borukova, M.; Shirinyan, E. , Remote Sensing Data Preparation for Recognition and Classification of Building Roofs Data 2023, 8, 80,

Spasov, I., S. Lazarova, D. Petrova-Antonova , Alzheimer’s Disease Knowledge Graph Based on Ontology and Neo4j Graph Database 4th International Conference on Data Analytics & Management, London, UK,

Spasov, A., D. Petrova-Antonova, E. Hristov , A comparison study on deep learning models for building rooftop classification ISPRS Geospatial Week, Cairo, Egypt,

Lazarova, S., D. Grigorova, D. Petrova-Antonova , Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease Using Logistic Regression and Clock Drawing Errors Brain Sciences 2023,

Mitkov, R., D. Petrova-Antonova, P. O. Hristov , Predictive Modeling of Indoor Environmental Parameters for Assessing Comfort Conditions in a Kindergarten Setting Toxics 2023,

Krasteva I., D. Petrova-Antonova, F. De Paoli, E. Hristov, M. Borukova, M. Ciavotta, R. Avogardro, Geospatial Enrichment of Urban Data for Advanced City Planning: a Pilot Study Data Engineering and Modeling for AI (DEMAI) within IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2023), 15-18 Dec. Sorrento, Italy ,

Karamitov, K., D. Petrova-Antonova, E. Hristov, M. Borukova, Supply-Demand Analysis of Urban Amenities Based on Walking Accessibility International Workshop on Dataspaces for Digital Twins of Cities Critical Infrastructures (DS4DTCCI) within IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2023), 15-18 Dec. Sorrento, Italy ,

Carlos Campoverde, Mila Koeva, Claudio Persello, Konstantin Maslov, Weiqin Jiao, Dessislava Petrova-Antonova, Automatic Building Roof Plane Extraction in Urban Environments for 3D City Modelling Using Remote Sensing Data Remote Sensing Journal,

Hristov, E., Petrova-Antonova, D., De Paoli, F., Krasteva, I., Ciavotta, M., Avogadro, R., Geospatial Data Enrichment through Address Geocoding: Challenges and Solutions ISPRS Technical Commission IV Symposium 2024,

Asimina Dimara, Mariya Pantusheva, Radostin Mitkov, Vasilis Naserentin, George Spaias, Orfeas Eleftheriou, Stelios Krinidis, Christos-Nikolaos Anagnostopoulos, Dessislava Petrova-Antonova, Anders Logg, Non-Intrusive Weather Analysis for Sustainable Preservation in Cultural Heritage Buildings 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations,

Teodora Koleva, Lidia Vitanova, Dessislava Petrova-Antonova, Alexander Kostadinov, Semantic Enrichment and Analysis of Building Energy Consumption Data for the City of Sofia 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations,

Ana Peykova, Dessislava Petrova-Antonova, Kaloyan Karamitov, Data Processing and Enrichment of LiDAR-Derived Traffic Data 19th International 3D GeoInfo Conference,

Maulana Ikram Wibisana; Mila Koeva; Dessislava Petrova-Antonova; Pirouz Nourian; Kaloyan Karamitov, Leveraging LiDAR Data and Digital Twin-Based Workflow for Traffic Simulation ISPRS Technical Commission IV Symposium 2024,

Vasil Dakov, Dessislava Petrova-Antonova, Urban Tree Detection from Remote Sensing Data Based on DeepForest Model 8th International Conference on Smart Data and Smart Cities (SDSC2024),

Radostin Mitkov, Mariya Pantusheva, Dessislava Petrova-Antonova, Vasilis Naserentin and Anders Logg, The Role of CFD within City Digital Twins: Opportunities and Challenges 8th International Conference on Smart Data and Smart Cities (SDSC2024),

Vasilis Naserentin, George Spaias, Anestis Kaimakamidis, Anders Logg, Radostin Mitkov, Mariya Pantusheva, Asimina Dimara, Stelios Krinidis, Christos-Nikolaos Anagnostopoulos, Dessislava Petrova-Antonova, Data collection & wrangling towards Machine Learning in LoD2+ urban models generation 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations,

Evgeny Shirinyan, Dessislava Petrova-Antonova, Large-Scale Solar Potential Analysis in a 3D CAD Framework as a Use Case of Urban Digital Twins Remote Sensing Journal,

I.A. Assenova, L.L. Vitanova, D. Petrova-Antonova , Urban heat islands from multiple perspectives: Trends across disciplines and interrelationships Urban Climate ,

Wibisana, M. I., Koeva, M., Nourian, P., Petrova-Antonova, D., and Karamitov, K., A LiDAR-Based Digital Twinning Workflow for Traffic Monitoring and Simulation ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., X-4-2024, 411–418,

Petrova-Antonova, D., Malinov, S., Mrosla, L., and Petrov, A, Towards a Conceptual Model of CityGML 3.0 Vegetation ADE Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLVIII-4/W10-2024, 155–161,

Paoli, F.D., Ciavotta, M., Avogadro, R., Hristov, E., Borukova, M., Petrova-Antonova, D., Krasteva, I., An interactive approach to semantic enrichment with geospatial data Data & Knowledge Engineering 102341,

Gil, J., Petrova-Antonova, D., & Kemp, G. J. , Redefining urban digital twins for the federated data spaces ecosystem: A perspective. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 0(0). ,