ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6886-5340
Dr.Dr.Fivos Papadimitriou (PhD University of Oxford, PhD University of Budapest, BSc, MSc, MEd, MSc) has created new mathematical methods for spatial analysis. Among them are the first differential equations models (linear and nonlinear) of land use transformations, the spatial formula of the “edit distance” algorithm, the first braid-theoretical models and ultrametric-topological formulas of land use /landscape structure, the first sets of criteria to assess the progress of AI towards spatially-enabled artificial general intelligence and super-intelligence, and the discovery of the mathematical procedures by which large spatial complexities can be generated from simple raster spatial domains.
He has taught at Greek Universities for more than ten years and has carried out research and consultancies in several countries. He is a member of the boards of various high-quality international peer-reviewed scientific journals of geography and mathematics and has received awards, research fellowships, distinctions, honorary appointments and invitations from universities, professional societies, academies of sciences, national and international organizations.
His foremost important contributions to science are his original mathematical methods for measuring spatial complexity, spatial entropy and landscape complexity. These methods have universal applicability because they can be used to analyze maps, landscapes, satellite images, photographs, paintings or 3d objects (as the case may be). For this reason, they have been cited in publications presenting field research carried out in diverse geographical settings (from tropics and deserts to Tibet and Antarctica) as well as in publications relating to engineering, electronics, medical diagnostics, AI and quantum computing.
He is the author of the books “Spatial Complexity: Theory, Mathematical Methods and Applications”, “Spatial Entropy and Landscape Analysis”, “Modelling Landscape Dynamics: Determinism, Stochasticity and Complexity”, “Geo-Topology: Theory, Models and Applications” and “Spatial Artificial Intelligence” (all monographs, published by Springer).
