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Index
Preface .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 3 Organization - Executive and Program Committees ........................................................................................................................................................... 5

Keynotes Lectures ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 9 Tutorials ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................11 Workshops .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................12

Program at a glance .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................18

Analytical Program .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................20 Thursday 27th of September 2012............................................................................................................................................................................................................................20 Fridayday 16th ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................22 Saturday 17h.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................29 Sunday 18th ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................35

General Conference Information ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 36

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Preface
After 50 years of research in Artificial Intelligence (AI), the dream of intelligent machines that use sophisticated and advanced approaches is becoming a reality. AI researchers have already created systems capable of tackling complicated and challenging problems. Scientists have developed analytical models and corresponding systems which can mimic human behavior and cognition, they can understand speech, beat experts human chess players, and countless other feats that can have a potential impact in our everyday lives. It is a fact that humans are a species that learn by training plus trial and error, so it can be considered rational to see AI more as a blessing and less as an inhibition. On the other hand the misuse of AI technology is always a potential. The 8th AIAI conference is supported and sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). It is the official conference of the IFIPs Working Group 12.5 Artificial Intelligence Applications. IFIP was founded in 1960 under the auspices of UNESCO, following the first World Computer Congress held in Paris the previous year. The 1st AIAI conference was held in Toulouse/France in 2004 and since then it has been held annually offering scientists the chance to present the achievements of AI applications in various fields. This Springer volume belongs to the IFIP AICT series. It contains the papers that were accepted to be presented orally at the main event of the 8th AIAI conference and the papers accepted for the 8 workshops that were organized as parallel events, namely: the 2nd AIAB, the 1st AIeIA, the 2nd CISE, the 1st COPA, the 1st IIVC, the 3rd ISQL, the 1st MHDW and the 1st WADTMB. More details on the workshops will be given in the following paragraphs. The 8th AIAI conference was held during 27-30 of September 2012 at the Sithonia peninsula of Halkidiki/Greece. The diverse nature of papers presented demonstrates the vitality of AI computing approaches and proves the very wide range of AI applications as well. On the other hand, this volume contains basic research papers, presenting variations and extensions of several existing methodologies. The response to the call for papers was more than satisfactory with 98 papers initially submitted to the main event. All papers have passed through a peer review process by at least 2 independent academic referees. Where needed a third referee was consulted to resolve any conflicts. In the 8th AIAI conference, 43.9% of the submitted manuscripts (totally 44) were published in the Proceedings as full papers whereas 5.1% as short ones. The authors of accepted papers of the main event come from 17 different countries, namely: Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Iran, Italy, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Tunisia, United States of America. Three keynote speakers were invited to lecture to the 8th AIAI conference. 1. Dr. Danil Prokhorov from Toyota Research Institute NA, Ann Arbor, Michigan will deliver a talk with a title Computational Intelligence in Automotive Applications. 2. Professor David Robertson from University of Edinburgh will talk on Knowledge Engineering on a Social Scale.
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3. Prof. Dr. Bernard De Baets from KERMIT, Ghent University will talk on: Monotonicity issues in fuzzy modelling, machine learning and decision making. Also, two tutorials were organized in the framework of the AIAI 2012. 1. Professor Tatiana Tambouratzis from the University of Piraeus will focus on Identification of Key Music Symbols for Optical Music Recognition and On-Screen Presentation. 2. Professor Costin Badica from (University of Craiova will focus on Negotiations in Multi-Agent Systems. The accepted papers of the 8th AIAI conference are related to the following thematic topics: - Artificial Neural Networks - Bioinformatics - Clustering - Control systems - Data mining - Engineering Applications of AI - Face Recognition - Pattern Recognition - Filtering - Fuzzy Logic - Genetic algorithms, Evolutionary computing - Hybrid Clustering Systems - Image and Video Processing - Multi Agent Systems - Multi attribute DSS - Ontology - Intelligent Tutoring systems - Optimization, Genetic Algorithms - Recommendation Systems - Support Vector Machines - Classification - Text Mining Totally 8 workshops were organized as parallel events to AIAI2012 conference. Each one of these workshops was related to a specific AI topic, and was managed by internationally wellrecognized colleagues, who formed the specific workshop programs mainly by invitation to prominent authors. All workshops had a high correspondence from scientists from all parts of the globe, from Europe to Australia and we would like to thank all participants for this. More specifically, scientists from 13 countries (Australia, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Romania, South Korea, Spain, United Kingdom and USA) submitted interesting and innovative research papers to the eight workshops.
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We are grateful to Profs. Harris Papadopoulos, Efthyvoulos Kyriacou (Frederick University, Cyprus) Prof. Ilias Maglogiannis (University of Central Greece) and Prof. George Anastassopoulos (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece) for their common effort towards the organization of the 2nd Artificial Intelligence Applications in Biomedicine Workshop (AIAB2012). We wish to express our gratitude to Prof. Achilleas Kameas and Dr. Antonia Stefani (Hellenic Open University, Greece) for adding the 1st AI in Education Workshop: Innovations and Applications (AIeIA2012) into the family of the AIAI workshops. We are very happy to see that AIAI workshops are repeated every year with the presentation of new and fresh research efforts. Many thanks to Prof. Andreas Andreou (Cyprus University of Technology) and Dr. Efi Papatheocharous (University of Cyprus) for the organization of the 2nd International Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Software Engineering (CISE2012). We are, also, very happy for the organization of the 1st Conformal Prediction and its Applications Workshop (COPA2012) by Prof. Harris Papadopoulos (Frederick University, Cyprus) and Profs. Alex Gammerman and Vladimir Vovk (Royal Holloway, University of London). The 1st Intelligent Innovative Ways for Video-to-video Communication in Modern Smart Cities Workshop (IIVC2012) was an important part of the AIAI 2012 event and it was driven by the hard work by Drs. Ioannis P. Chochliouros and Ioannis M. Stephanakis (Hellenic Telecommunications Organization - OTE, Greece), and Profs. Vishanth Weerakkody (Brunel University, UK) and Nancy Alonistioti (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens). It is a pleasure to host the 3rd Intelligent Systems for Quality of Life Information Services Workshop (ISQL2012) for one more time in the framework of the AIAI conference. We wish to sincerely thank Profs. Kostas Karatzas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and Mihaela Oprea (University of Petroleum-Gas of Ploesti) for the presentation of AI applications in the crucial topics of sustainable development and quality of life. We would like thank Profs. Spyros Sioutas, Ioannis Karydis and Katia Kermanidis (all with the Ionian University, Greece) for their kind effort to organize the 1st Mining Humanistic Data Workshop (MHDW2012). Finally, we would like to thank Profs Athanasios Tsakalidis and Christos Makris (all with the University of Patras, Greece) for the very successful organization of the 1st Workshop on Algorithms for Data and Text Mining in Bioinformatics (WADTMB2012).

After eight years, the AIAI conference has become a mature well established event with loyal followers and it has plenty of new and qualitative research results to offer to the International scientific community. We hope that these proceedings will be of major interest for scientists and researchers world wide and that they will stimulate further research in the domain of Artificial Neural Networks and AI in general. September 2012 AIAI 2012 Chairs
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Organization
Executive Committee
General chair Honorary chairs Tharam Dillon, Curtin University of Technology, Australia Max Bramer, University of Portsmouth, UK Andreas Andreou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Dominic Palmer Brown, Dean London Metropolitan University, UK Lazaros Iliadis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Ilias Maglogiannis, University of Central Greece Haris Papadopoulos, Frederick University, Cyprus Kostas Karatzas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Spyros Sioutas, Ionian University, Greece Chrisina Jayne, University of Coventry, UK Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Elias Pimenidis, University of East London, UK Ioannis Karydis, Ionian University, Greece

Program Committee co-chairs

Workshop chair

Advisory chair Organizing chairs

Web chair

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Program Committee
Members Aldanondo Michel, Ecole Des Mines D Albi, France Alexandridis Georgios, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Anastassopoulos George, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Andreadis Ioannis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Badica Costin, University of Craiova, Romania Bankovic Zorana, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Bessis Nick, University of Bedfordshire, UK Caridakis Georgios, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Charalambous Christoforos, Frederick University, Cyprus Chatzioannou Aristotelis, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Greece Constantinides Andreas, Frederick University, Cyprus Donida Labati Ruggero, University of Milano, Italy Doukas Charalampos, University of Aegean, Greece Fernandez de Canete Javier, University of Malaga, Spain Flaounas Ilias, University of Bristol, UK Magda Florea Adina, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania Fox Charles, University of Sheffield, UK Gaggero Mauro, National Research Council of Italy Gammerman Alex, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Georgiadis Christos, University of Macedonia, Greece Georgopoulos Efstratios, Hellenic Open University, Greece Hajek Petr, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic Hatzilygeroudis Ioannis, University of Patras, Greece Kabzinski Jacek, Politechniki Lodzkiej, Poland Kalampakas Antonios, Aristotle University, Greece Kameas Achilles, Hellenic Open University, Greece Karpouzis Kostas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Karydis Ioannis, Ionian University, Greece Kefalas Petros, City College, Thessaloniki Greece Kermanidis Katia, Ionian University, Greece Kitikidou Kyriaki, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Kosmopoulos Dimitrios, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Koutroumbas Kostantinos, University of Athens, Greece Kurkova Vera, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic Kyriacou Efthyvoulos, Frederick University, Cyprus Lazaro Jorge Lopez, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain Lorentzos Nikos, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece Lykothanasis Spyridon, University of Patras, Greece Malcangi Mario, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Maragkoudakis Manolis, University of Aegean, Greece
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PC Members (continued)

Marcelloni Francesco, University of Pisa, Italy Margaritis Kostantinos, University of Macedonia, Greece Mouratidis Harris, University of East London, UK Nicolaou Nicoletta, University of Cyprus Onaindia Eva, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Oprea Mihaela, University of Petroleum-Gas, Ploiesti, Romania Papatheocharous Efi, University of Cyprus Partalas Ioannis, Laboratoire d Informatique, Grenoble, France Pericleous Savas, Frederick University, Cyprus Plagianakos Vassilis, University of Central Greece Rao Vijay, India Roveri Manuel, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Sakelariou Ilias, University of Macedonia, Greece Samaras Nikos, University of Macedonia, Greece Schizas Christos, University of Cyprus Senatore Sabrina, Universita degli Studi di Salerno, Italy Sgarbas Kyriakos, University of Patras, Greece Sideridis Alexandros, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece Spartalis Stephanos, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Stamelos Ioannis, Aristotle University, Greece Stephanakis Ioannis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Tambouratzis Tatiana, University of Piraeus, Greece Tsapatsoulis Nikos, Cyprus University of Technology Tscherepanow Marko, University of Bielefeld, Germany Tsiligkiridis Theodoros, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece Tsitiridis Aristeidis, Cranfield University, UK Tsoumakas Grigorios, Aristotle University, Greece Tzouramanis Theodoros, University of Aegean, Greece Verykios Vassilios, University of Thessaly, Greece Voulgaris Zacharias, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Vouyioukas Demosthenis, University of Aegean, Greece Vovk Volodya, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Yialouris Kostas, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece Yuen Peter, Cranfield University, UK

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Keynote Lectures
Prof. Dr. Bernard De Baets
KERMIT, Ghent University, Belgium
Full Professor at Ghent University Co-Editor-in-Chief, Fuzzy Sets and Systems journal

Monotonicity issues in fuzzy modelling, machine learning and decision making

Thursday, September 27 15:30 - 16:30

In many modelling problems, there exists a monotone relationship between one or more of the input variables and the output variable, although this may not always be fully the case in the observed input-output data due to data imperfections. Monotonicity is also a common property of evaluation and selection procedures. In contrast to a local property such as continuity, monotonicity is of a global nature and any violation of it is therefore simply unacceptable. We explore several problem settings where monotonicity matters, including fuzzy modelling, machine learning and decision making.

Dr. Danil Prokhorov

Toyota Research Institute NA, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Vice President for Conferences of the INNS (International Neural Network Society) Associate Editor of Neural Networks, IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks and IEEE Trans. on Autonomous Mental Development Senior Member of both IEEE and INNS

Computational Intelligence in Automotive Applications

Friday, September 28 09:00 - 10:00

Computational intelligence is traditionally understood as encompassing artificial neural, fuzzy and evolutionary methods and associated computational techniques. Different CI methodologies often get combined with each other and with non-CI methods to achieve superior results in various applications. In this presentation I will discuss CI methodological issues and illustrate them with several applications from the areas of vehicle manufacturing, vehicle system monitoring and control, as well as active safety. These will be representative of CI applications in the industry and beyond. I will also discuss some lessons learned about successful and yet-to-besuccessful industrial applications of CI.

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Professor David Robertson

University of Edinburgh, UK
Head of School of Informatics Leader, Software Systems and Processes research group Editor in Chief, AI Review journal, Automated Experimentation journal

Knowledge Engineering on a Social Scale

Saturday, September 29 09:00 - 10:00

For much of its history, formal knowledge representation has aimed to describe knowledge independently of the personal and social context in which it is used, with the advantage that we can automate reasoning with such knowledge using mechanisms that also are context independent. This sounds good until you try it on a large scale and find out how sensitive to context much of reasoning actually is. Humans, however, are great hoarders of information and sophisticated tools now make the acquisition of many forms of local knowledge easy. The question is: how to combine this beyond narrow individual use, given that knowledge (and reasoning) will inevitably be contextualised in ways that may be hidden from the people/systems that may interact to use it? This is the social side of knowledge representation and automated reasoning. I will discuss how the formal reasoning community has adapted to this new view of scale, using examples from my own research and that of others.

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Tutorials
Dr Tatiana Tambouratzis
Associate Professor, Dept. of Industrial Management & Technology, University of Piraeus, Greece

Identification of Key Music Symbols for Optical Music Recognition and On-Screen Presentation

Thursday, September 27 16:30 - 17:30

A novel optical music recognition (OMR) system is put forward, where the custom-made on-screen presentation of the music score (MS) is promoted via the recognition of key music symbols only. The proposed system does not require perfect manuscript alignment or noise removal. Following the segmentation of each MS page into systems and, subsequently,into staves, staff lines, measures and candidate music symbols (CMSs), music symbol recognition is limited to the identification of the clefs, accidentals and time signatures. Such an implementation entails significantly less computational effort than that required by classic OMR systems, without an observable compromise in the quality of the on-screen presentation of the MS. The identification of the music symbols of interest is performed via probabilistic neural networks (PNNs), which are trained on a small set of exemplars from the MS itself. The initial results are promising in terms of efficiency, identification accuracy and quality of viewing.

Dr Costin Badica
Professor, Dept. of Software Engineering, University of Craiova, Romania

Negotiations in Multi-Agent Systems

Friday, September 28 11:45- 12:45

The increasing complexity of real-world problems demands special support for distributed collaborative problem solving. Multi-agent systems (MAS) are lightweight distributed systems that combine interaction, coordination and distribution of computation for collaborative problem solving. Negotiation, i.e. the process by which a group of agents come to a mutually acceptable agreement on some matter is very useful for managing dynamic dependencies between agents. The aim of this tutorial is to introduce the problems and challenges of applying negotiations in MAS using examples from different areas including e-business and disaster management.
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Workshops
1st Mining Humanistic Data Workshop MHDW 2012
Friday, September 28 10:15 - 11:15 12:45 - 14:00 16:20 - 17:20 17:30 - 18:40

Program chairs: Spyros Sioutas, Department of Informatics, Ionian University, Greece Katia Lida Kermanidis, Department of Informatics, Ionian University, Greece Ioannis Karydis, Department of Informatics, Ionian University, Greece Spyros Sioutas, Department of Informatics, Ionian University, Greece

The abundance of available data that is retrieved from or is related to the areas of Humanities challenges the research community in processing and analyzing it. The aim is two-fold: on the one hand, to extract knowledge that will help understand human behavior, creativity, way of thinking, reasoning, learning, decision making, socializing; on the other hand, to exploit the extracted knowledge by incorporating it into intelligent systems that will support humans in their everyday activities. The nature of humanistic data can be multimodal, dynamic, time and space-dependent, and highly complicated. Translating humanistic information, e.g. behavior, state of mind, artistic creation and linguistic utterance, into numerical or categorical low-level data is a significant challenge on its own. New mining techniques, appropriate to deal with this type of data, need to be proposed and existing ones adapted to its special characteristics. The workshop aims to bring together interdisciplinary approaches that focus on the application of innovative as well as existing mining and knowledge discovery techniques (like decision rules, decision trees, association rules, clustering, filtering, learning, classifier systems, neural networks, support vector machines, preprocessing, post processing, feature selection, visualization techniques) to data derived from all areas of Humanistic Sciences, e.g. linguistic, historical, behavioral, psychological, artistic, musical, educational, social etc.

1st Conformal Prediction and its Applications Workshop COPA 2012

Program chairs: Harris Papadopoulos, Frederick University, Cyprus Alex Gammerman, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

Saturday, September 29 13:15 - 14:15 15:20 - 16:40

Quantifying the uncertainty of the predictions produced by classification and regression techniques is an important problem in the field of Machine Learning. Conformal Prediction is a recently developed framework for complementing the predictions of Machine Learning algorithms with reliable measures
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of confidence. The methods developed based on this framework produce well-calibrated confidence measures for individual examples without assuming anything more than that the data are generated independently by the same probability distribution (i.i.d.). Since its development the framework has been combined with many popular techniques, such as Support Vector Machines, k-Nearest Neighbours, Neural Networks, Ridge Regression etc., and has been successfully applied to many challenging real world problems, such as the early detection of ovarian cancer, the classification of leukaemia subtypes, the diagnosis of acute abdominal pain, the assessment of stroke risk, the recognition of hypoxia in electroencephalograms (EEGs), the prediction of plant promoters, the prediction of network traffic demand, the estimation of effort for software projects and the backcalculation of non-linear pavement layer moduli. The framework has also been extended to additional problem settings such as feature selection, outlier detection, change detection in streams and active learning. The aim of this workshop is to serve as a forum for the presentation of new and ongoing work and the exchange of ideas between researchers on any aspect of Conformal Prediction and its applications.

2nd Artificial Intelligence Applications in Biomedicine Workshop AIAB 2012

Program Chairs: Harris Papadopoulos, Frederick University, Cyprus Efthyvoulos Kyriacou, Frederick University, Cyprus Ilias Maglogiannis, University of Central Greece, Greece George Anastassopoulos, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Thursday, September 27 18:00 - 19:30 Saturday, September 29 17:00 - 18:20

Recent technological advances in computer science and biomedicine facilitated the development of complex biomedical systems including sophisticated medical imaging, signal processing systems and computer based decision support tools, assisting diagnosis for better delivery of health care services. Meanwhile, applications of Machine Learning, Neural Computing, Expert Systems, Fuzzy Logic and Evolutionary Computing in biomedicine are continuously emerging. Therefore AI tools and techniques are a vital part of modern computer based systems that handle medical data. The aim of this workshop is to serve as a forum for the presentation of new and ongoing work and the exchange of ideas between researchers interested in the application of AI in any aspect of biomedicine and electronic healthcare.

2nd International Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Software Engineering CISE 2012

Thursday, September 27 18:00 - 19:30

Program chairs: Andreas S. Andreou, Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Efi Papatheocharous, Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
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The CISE workshop focuses on theoretical and applied research related to the utilization of Computational Intelligence techniques in Software Engineering, targeting the provision of alternative, interdisciplinary approaches for tackling problems found in Software Engineering. The aim of the workshop is to host research papers that present practical solutions to emerging Software Engineering issues by applying Computational Intelligence methods. The workshop is associated with research and development advances in many fields of Software Engineering and particularly the study, analysis, design, modelling, implementation and application of Computational Intelligence techniques that tackle significant Software Engineering problems. The topics of interest call, especially, for papers with theoretical and practical importance, while research papers reporting emerging and innovative ideas are also highly desirable. Nature-inspired Computational Intelligence methodologies demonstrate adaptive behaviour and learning ability. As such, they can be effectively utilized to address convoluted problems and applications in real-world environments, where traditional methodologies and approaches find highly complex and difficult to tackle. Particularly, techniques associated with learning, reasoning, optimization and decision making, such as Fuzzy Systems, Artificial Neural Networks, Evolutionary Computing, Swarm Intelligence, Artificial Immune Systems, Dempster-Shafer Theory, Chaos Theory and Multi-valued Logic, may be applied in real-world conditions and serve the Software Engineering community. The integration of Software Engineering with Computational Intelligence is very important to both academic and research communities as well as to software industries. In fact, software development teams adopt a variety of conceptual and algorithmic practices that are combined with Computational Intelligence methods within various areas of Software Engineering, such as Project Management, Risk Analysis, Testing, Cost Estimation and Failure Modelling. Computational Intelligence also provides the means for more precise measurement of software metrics and more effective handling of uncertainty or ambiguity of information.

1st Workshop on Algorithms for Data and Text Mining in Bioinformatics WADTMB 2012
Program chairs: Athanasios Tsakalidis, University of Patras, Greece Christos Makris, University of Patras, Greece

Friday, September 28 12:45 - 14:00 16:20 - 17:20 17:30 - 18:40

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers that are interested in designing, developing and applying efficient data and text mining techniques for discovering the underlying knowledge existing in biomedical data. Bioinformatics is an emerging field of science that plays a crucial role in managing, processing and computationally analyzing biological and biomedical data such as sequences, gene expressions and pathways. Biomedical researchers face the fundamental issue of making efficient use of a tremendous amount of data that is produced and deposited in public, in order to improve and enhance their understanding of complex biomedical systems. As a result, there is an urgent need for novel efficient computational methods and tools to facilitate the process of managing and discovering useful patterns and knowledge from these large biomedical data repositories. Data mining plays an essential role in Bioinformatics since it is the process of automatic discovering of hidden meaningful and useful patterns and correlations in large amounts of
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data. Data mining approaches provide tools for dealing with biomedical problems such as protein structure prediction, efficient clustering of gene expression data and efficient gene classification. Also, of significant importance is biomedical text mining, that is the process of automatically exploiting enormous amount of knowledge available in biomedical literature such as automatic extraction of protein-protein interactions, named entity recognition, text classification and terminology extraction. Although considerable progress has been made recently in these areas, many of the fundamental issues in bioinformatics such as the ability of completely automatic extraction of useful information from structured or unstructured data remain open challenging tasks. The proposed workshop aims at giving the opportunity to researchers to present their original work on issues pertaining to data and text mining in bioinformatics. We encourage papers that present novel mining techniques and tools for the following tasks: Biomedical Database management, Gene expression analysis, Protein structure prediction, Prediction of protein-protein interaction, Text Mining in Biomedical Literature, Web Mining Bioinformatics applications.

1st AI in Education Workshop: Innovations and Applications AIeIA 2012

Program chairs: Achilleas Kameas, Hellenic Open University, Greece Antonia Stefani, Hellenic Open University, Greece

Saturday, September 29 12:15 - 13:15

The use of Information Technologies in Education has been extensively researched in the past few years with a plethora of solutions already in use by numerous organizations. However, user adoption difficulties in real situations has only demonstrated that the primary need is the design of techniques and tools that have a real practical impact and facilitate a paradigm shift in the educational model. This shift in the Educational paradigm is focused on knowledge construction, which will enhance, not replace, the classic information transfer paradigm. The management of knowledge in Educational contexts enables social learning, active collaboration among human peers and especially enhanced presence. The next generation of Information technology tools in Education will facilitate the transformation of information into knowledge, by humans as well as -progressivelyby software agents, providing the electronic underpinning for a global society in business, government, research, science and education. Artificial Intelligence can be a major enabling technology for this type of Educational paradigm. AIs application in Education is one of the oldest yet still promising and most exciting research topics with a significant practical impact. Especially Knowledge Management has yet much to offer in the way computing in education is used. The goal of the Workshop is to assess the impact of Knowledge Management to current Educational practices and more significantly, to identify opportunities, benefits and drawbacks to current practices that will permit progress beyond the state of the art. The Workshop aims at addressing theoretical and practical issues concerning new trends in knowledge discovery, acquisition representation, sharing and reuse. By accepting original contributions from platform and tool providers, researchers and system developers from academia and industry it soughts to be a forum for exchanging ideas and experiences, sharing of best practices and fostering further development in the application of AI in Education.
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1st Intelligent Innovative Ways for Video-to-video Communication in Modern Smart Cities Workshop IIVC 2012

Friday, September 28 12:45 - 14:00 15:00 - 16:00 17:30 - 18:40

Program chairs: Ioannis P. Chochliouros, Hellenic Telecommunications Organizations (OTE) S.A, Greece Ioannis M. Stephanakis, Hellenic Telecommunications Organizations (OTE) S.A, Greece Vishanth Weerakkody, Brunel University, UK Nancy Alonistioti, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece The Digital Agenda for Europe intends to sustain fast and ultrafast Internet access as well as the development and operation of several open platforms able to provide new and innovative products and related services, especially in the framework of the Future Internet (FI). In the present context, both citizens and legal entities (organizations, enterprises-companies, (state) authorities, etc.) in urban environment are facing with a multiplicity of challenges that appropriate investments -or properly selective initiatives- in pioneering ICT-based solutions can help to address and to promote innovative responses, especially those based on user-driven initiatives. Of particular importance become various activities aiming to develop modern solutions or facilities/services of higher quality in communications that should make a beneficial and really effective use of the wider context of the Internet of the Future. Until today, user-driven open innovation methodologies have proven that they can drastically improve the efficiency of the innovation process by bridging between R&D and market entry supporting better and faster take-up of R&D results. In this scope, they are very rapidly becoming the new mainstream method of innovating. Living Labs are specific examples of such open innovation environments in real-life settings, in which user-driven innovation is fully integrated within the co-creation process of new services, products and societal infrastructures. Cities (or urban areas) are continuously faced with major challenges that require investment in innovative solutions (particularly the ICT-based ones) to improve the quality and efficiency of their infrastructures and services offered. Some anticipate and are leaders in adopting smarter development models and may perform a kind of pioneering role in engaging the user in the expected innovation process. Building upon existing user-driven innovation initiatives in Europe, the critical aim is to ensure a wider implementation of open platforms for the provision of Internet-enabled services in cities and thus to include an active involvement of citizens. These platforms should be able to develop innovation ecosystems accelerating the move towards smart cities and providing a wide range of opportunities for new, higher quality, and sustainable services for citizens and businesses as well. In fact, this also delimits the essential framework that is actually taken into account the LiveCity PSP-ICT Project (Grant Agreement No.297291) effort aiming, among other issues, to the development and the operation of suitable applied initiatives (through pilot actions) with the aim of accelerating the uptake of innovative Internet-based technologies and services in cities. These apply user-driven open innovation methodologies across networks of smart cities and may combine: (i) User-driven open innovation, (ii) Connected smart cities, and (iii) Internet-based services. In this scope it should be a matter of particular importance for the LiveCity Project to identify channels
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and or other means for potential interaction with related innovative and extended ecosystems, such as Living Labs, intending to bridge the gap between the development of Internet-based technologies and their rapid uptake in new services.

3rd Intelligent Systems for Quality of Life information Services Workshop ISQL 2012
Program chair: Kostas Karatzas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Program vice-chairs: Lazaros Iliadis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Mihaela Oprea, University Petroleum-Gas of Ploiesti, Romania

Saturday, September 29 15:20 - 16:40 17:00 - 18:20

Quality of Life (QoL) is directly related to environmental pressures and conditions, including air quality, pollen, drinking and bathing water quality, noise pollution, waste production, energy consumption, nutrition and many others. Intelligent systems collect data about the environments status and quality, at the individual user and business level, through the use of participatory environmental sensing and available ICT and web 2.X technologies. Computational intelligence methods are particularly suitable for environmental modeling, knowledge extraction and generation of knowledge intensive e-services content, thus being necessary for the development of QoL information services. On the other hand, the developments in ICT make environmental data & services ubiquitous. The plethora of patterns of everyday life, as well as the availability of various ICT that are interwoven to the urban web, lead to intelligent, personalized and yet easily generalized ways for monitoring, modeling and managing environmental systems and conditions. It is therefore evident that services, systems, applications and algorithms dealing with everyday utility for the individual, are expected to play an important role in supporting QoL. On this basis, QoL environmental information services are expected to make use of personalized access and interactivity to multimodal information, based on user preferences and semantic concepts or human-machine interface systems utilizing information on the affective state of the user. The proposed workshop will address intelligent methods for analyzing and modeling environmental systems and conditions, with the aim to serve the everyday needs of citizens under various QoL states. Human centric approaches in environmental information services will also be addressed, as they require intelligent, knowledgecentric methods and tools, that are flexible, adaptable to environmental problems, and perform better in terms of knowledge mapping and system behavior reproduction.

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Program at a glance
Thursday 27/09/12
08:30-09:00 09:00-10:00

Friday 28/09/12 Registration Invited talk by Prokhrov Session 2 OPT-GA Session 3 Workshop ANN 1 MHDW 1 Coffee Break Tutorial by Badica Workshop Workshop Workshop WADTMB 1 IIVC 1 MHDW 2 Lunch Session 4 LE-DM 1 Session 5 Workshop LE-DM 2 IIVC 2

10:15-11:15 11:15-11:45 11:45-12:45

12:45-14:00

14:00-15:00 15:00-15:30 15:30-16:30

Registration Invited talk by De Baets Tutorial by Tambouratzis Coffee Break

17:40-19:20 15:00-16:20 16:20-16:40

16:30-17:30 17:30-18:00

Coffee Break Session 6 Workshop Workshop 16:40-17:40 FL 1 MHDW 3 WADTMB 2 Session 7 Workshop Workshop FL 2 EAAI 1 MHDW 4 WADTMB 3

Session 1 Workshop Workshop 18:00-19:30 ANN_CL AIAB 1 CISE & PR

20:30

Welcome Reception
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20:30

Gala Dinner

Saturday 29/09/12
08:30-09:00 09:00-10:00

Sunday 30/09/12

Registration Invited talk by Robertson Session 8 CL-PR 1 Session 9 COST EAAI Tutorials & MAS Coffee Break Session 10 Session 11 Workshop MAS MA DSS 1 AIeIA Session 12 Session 13 Workshop CLU 1 IVCP COPA 1 Lunch Session 14 Workshop Workshop CLU 2 COPA 2 ISQL 1 Coffee Break Workshop Workshop ISQL 2 AIAB 2
09:00-17:00

10:00-12:00

11:45-12:15 12:15-13:15

Mount Athos Cruise

13:15-14:15 14:15-15:20

15:20-17:00 16:45-17:15 17:15-18:30

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Detailed Program
Thursday 27/9/2012
Registration (at Athena Pallas Village) Welcome message by Professor Ilias Maglogianis, IFIP representative

15:00-15:30

Keynote Lecture 1
Professor Bernard De Baets

Plenary Session 1
15:30-16:30

Monotonicity issues in fuzzy modelling, machine learning and decision making Chair: Ilias Maglogiannis

Tutorial 1 Professor Tatiana Tambouratzis

Plenary Session 2
16:30-17:30

Identification of key music symbols for optical music recognition and on-screen presentation Chair: Vera Kurkova COFFEE BREAK AIAI Session 1: ANN_CL & PR

17:30-18:00

ANN-Classification & Pattern Recognition

Chair: Tatiana Tambouratzis Support vector machine classification of protein sequences to functional families based on motif selection Danai Georgara, Katia Kermanidis, Ioannis Mariolis A probabilistic approach to organic component detection in Leishmania infected microscopy images Pedro Alves Nogueira, Lus Filipe Tefilo

18:00-19:30

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Combination of M-estimators and neural network model to analyze inside/outside bark tree diameters Kyriaki Kitikidou, Elias Milios, Lazaros Iliadis, Minas Kaymakis lti-classify hybrid multilayered perceptron (HMLP) network for pattern recognition applications Fakroul Ridzuan Hashim, John Soraghan, Lykourgos Petropoulakis Workshop

AIAB 1
Chair: Harris Papadopoulos Future SDP through cloud architectures Foteini Andriopoulou, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos A Mahalanobis distance based approach towards the reliable detection of geriatric depression symptoms co-existing with cognitive decline Christos A. Frentzidis, Maria Diamantoudi, Eirini Grigoriadou, Anastasia Semertzidou, Antonis Billis, Evdokimos Konstantinidis, Manousos A. Klados, Ana B. Vivas, Charalampos Bratsas, Magda Tsolaki, Constantinos Pappas, Panagiotis D. Bamidis Combining outlier detection with random walker for automatic brain tumor segmentation Kanas Kanas, Evangelia I. Zacharaki, Evangelos Dermatas, Anastasios Bezerianos, Kyriakos Sgarbas, Christos Davatzikos Artificial Neural Networks to Investigate the Importance and the Sensitivity of Various Parameters used for the Prediction of Chromosomal Abnormalities Andreas C. Neocleous, Kypros H. Nicolaides, Argiro Syngelaki, Christos N. Schizas, Kleanthis C. Neokleous, Gianna Loizou, Costas K. Neocleous Deployment of pHealth services upon Always Best Connected Next Generation Network Georgia N. Athanasiou, Dimitrios K. Lymberopoulos Workshop

18:00-19:30

CISE
Chair: Andreas Andreou Player modeling using HOSVD towards dynamic difficulty adjustment in videogames Kostas Anagnostou, Manolis Maragoudakis
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18:00-19:30

Proposing a fuzzy adaptation mechanism based on cognitive factors of users for web personalization Efi Papatheocharous, Marios Belk, Panagiotis Germanakos, George Samaras Computational intelligence for user and data classification in hospital software development Masoud Mohammadian, Dimitrios Hatzinakos, Petros Spachos Artificial intelligence applications for risk analysis, risk prediction and decision making in disaster recovery planning for IT Masoud Mohammadian Welcome Reception (at Athena Pallas Village)
20:30

Friday 28/9/2012
Registration (at Athena Pallas Village)
8:30-9:00

Keynote Lecture 2
Professor Danil Prokhrov
Computational intelligence in automotive applications Chair: Bernard de Baets AIAI Session 2: OPT-GA

Plenary Session 3
9:00-10:00

Optimization-Genetic Algorithms
Chair: Spiros Likothanasis A Multi-objective genetic algorithm for software development team staffing based on personality types Constantinos Stylianou, Andreas Andreou An empirical comparison of several recent multi-objective evolutionary algorithms Thomas White, Shan He Fine tuning of a wet clutch engagement by means of a Genetic algorithm Yu Zhong, Abhishek Dutta, Bart Wyns, Clara Mihaela Ionescu, Gregory Pinte, Wim Symens, Julian Stoev, Robin De Keyser
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10:15- 11:15

AIAI Session 3: ANN1

Artificial Neural Networks 1

Chair: Katia Kermanidis Surrogate modelling of solutions of integral equations by neural networks Vera Kurkova On the design and training of bots to play backgammon variants Nikolaos Papahristou, Ioannis Refanidis A representational MDL framework for improving learning power of neural network formalisms Alexey Potapov, Maxim Peterson Workshop

10:15- 11:15

MHDW1
Chair: Spyros Sioutas Web mining to create semantic content - a case study for the environment Georgia Theocharopoulou, Konstantinos Giannakis Melodic string matching via interval consolidation and fragmentation Carl Barton, Emilios Cambouropoulos, Costas S. Iliopoulos, Zsuzsanna Liptak Allocating, detecting and mining sound structures. an overview of technical tools Monika Dorfler Cutting degree of meanders A. Panayotopoulos, P. Vlamos COFFEE BREAK

10:15- 11:15

11:15-11:45

Tutorial 2 Professor Costin Badica

Negotiations in Multi-Agent Systems Chair: Dominic Palmer-Brown

Plenary Session 4
11:45-12:45

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Workshop

WADTMB 1
Chair: Christos Makris Genome-based population clustering: nuggets of truth buried in a pile of numbers? Marina Ioannou, George P. Patrinos, Giannis Tzimas Parallel implementation of the Wu-Manber algorithm using the OpenCL framework Themistoklis K. Pyrgiotis, Charalampos S. Kouzinopoulos, Konstantinos G. Margaritis Querying highly similar structured sequences, via binary encoding and word level operations Ali Alatabbi, Carl Barton, Costas S. Iliopoulos, Laurent Mouchard GapMis-OMP: pairwise short-read alignment on multi-core architectures Tomas Flouri, Costas S. Iliopoulos, Kunsoo Park, Solon P. Pissis Workshop

12:45-14:00

IIVC 1
Chair: Ioannis Chochliouros Developing innovative live video-to-video communications for smarter European cities Ioannis P. Chochliouros, Anastasia S. Spiliopoulou, Evangelos Sfakianakis, Ioannis Stephanakis, Latif Ladid Multimedia content distribution over next-generation heterogeneous networks featuring a service architecture of sliced resources Ioannis P. Chochliouros, Ioannis M. Stephanakis The impact of IPv6 on video-to-video and mobile video communications Ioannis P. Chochliouros, Latif Ladid Workshop

12:45-14:00

MHWD 2
Chair: Katia Kermanidis Collective intelligence in video users activity Ioannis Karydis, Markos Avlonitis, Spyros Sioutas
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12:45-14:00

An integrated ontology-based model for the early diagnosis of Parkinsons disease Athanasios Alexiou, Maria Psiha, Panayiotis Vlamos Learning vague knowledge from socially generated content in an enterprise framework Panos Alexopoulos, John Pavlopoulos, Phivos Mylonas A mobile-based system for context-aware music recommendations Karla Gomes LUNCH AIAI Session 4: LE-DM1
14:00-15:00

Learning and Data Mining 1

Chair: Costin Badica Improved POS-tagging for Arabic by combining diverse taggers Maytham Alabbas, Allan Ramsay Multithreaded implementation of the slope one algorithm for collaborative filtering Efthalia Karydi, Konstantinos Margaritis A regularization network committee machine of isolated regularization networks for distributed privacy preserving data mining Yiannis Kokkinos, Konstantinos Margaritis Experimental identification of pilot response using measured data from a flight simulator Jan Boril, Rudolf Jalovecky AIAI Session 5: LE-DM2

15:00-16:20

Learning and Data Mining 2

Chair: Konstantinos Margaritis Physical Bongard problems Erik Weitnauer - Helge Ritter Taxonomy development and its impact on a self-learning e-recruitment system Evanthia Faliagka, Ioannis Karydis, Maria Rigou, Spyros Sioutas, Athanasios Tsakalidis, Giannis Tzimas Conceptualization, significance study of a new application CS-Mir Kaichun Chang, Carl Barton, Costas S. Iliopoulos
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15:00-16:20

A probabilistic knowledge-based information system for environmental policy modeling and decision making Amin Hosseinian-Far, Elias Pimenidis, Hamid Jahankhani Workshop

IIVC 2
Chair: Ioannis Stephanakis LiveCity: a secure live video-to-video interactive city infrastructure Joao Goncalves, Luis Cordeiro, Patricio Batista, Edmundo Monteiro Enhancing education and learning capabilities via the implementation of video-to-video communications Ioannis P. Chochliouros, Anastasia S. Spiliopoulou, Evangelos Sfakianakis, Ioannis Stephanakis, Donal Morris, Martin Kennedy Utilizing a high definition live video platform to facilitate public service delivery Vishanth Weerakkody, Ramzi El-Haddadeh, Ioannis P. Chochliouros, Donal Morris Video-to-video for e-health: use case, concepts and pilot plan Makis Stamatelatos, George Katsikas, Petros Makris , Nancy Alonistioti, Serafeim Antonakis, Dimitrios Alonistiotis, Panagiotis Theodossiadis COFFEE BREAK AIAI Session 6: FL1

15:00-16:20

16:20-16:40

Fuzzy Logic 1
Chair: Lazaros Iliadis Fuzzy energy-based active contours exploiting local information Stelios Krinidis, Michail Krinidis Fuzzy graph language recognizability Antonios Kalampakas, Stefanos Spartalis, Lazaros Iliadis Fuzzy friction modeling for adaptive control of mechatronic systems Jacek Kabzinski Workshop

16:40-17:40

MHDW 3
Chair: Panayiotis Vlamos
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16:40-17:40

Predicting personality traits from spontaneous modern Greek text: overcoming the barriers Maria Andreou, Eirini Banou, Sofia Fanarioti, Vasilis Komianos, Eleni Moustaka, Katia L. Kermanidis Mood classification using lyrics and audio: a case-study in Greek music Spyros Brilis, Evagelia Gkatzou, Antonis Koursoumis, Karolos Talvis, Katia L. Kermanidis, Ioannis Karydis Success is hidden in the students data Dimitrios Kravvaris, Katia Kermanidis, Eleni Thanou Workshop

WADTMB 2
Chair: Evaggelia Zacharaki Multi-genome core pathway identification through gene clustering Dimitrios M. Vitsios, Fotis E. Psomopoulos, Pericles A. Mitkas, Christos A. Ouzounis On topic categorization of PubMed query results Andreas Kanavos, Christos Makris, Evangelos Theodoridis Molecular modeling and conformational analysis of MuSK protein Vasilis Haidinis, Georgios Dalkas, Konstantinos Poulas, Georgios Spyroulias AIAI Session 7: FL2-EAAI1

16:40-17:40

Fuzzy Logic 2 & Engineering Applications of AI 1

Chair: Elias Pimenidis Adaptive intuitionistic fuzzy inference systems of Takagi-Sugeno type for regression problems Petr Hajek, Vladimir Olej A hybrid method for evaluating biomass suppliers - use of intuitionistic fuzzy sets and multi-periodic optimization Vassilis Gerogiannis, Vasiliki Kazantzi, Leonidas Anthopoulos Correlation between seismic intensity parameters of HHT-based synthetic seismic accelerograms and damage indices of buildings Eleni Vrochidou, Petros Alvanitopoulos, Ioannis Andreadis, Anaxagoras Elenas Improving current and voltage transformers accuracy using artificial neural network Haidar Samet, Farshid Nasrfard Jahromi, Arash Dehghani, Afsaneh Narimani
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17:40-19:20

Modeling of syllogisms in analog hardware Darko Kovacevic, Nikica Pribacic, Radovan Antonic, Asja Kovacevic, Mate Jovic Workshop

MHDW 4
Chair: Ioannis Karydis Data-driven user profiling to support web adaptation through cognitive styles and navigation behavior Panagiotis Germanakos, Efi Papatheocharous, Marios Belk - George Samaras From tags to trends: a first glance at social media content dynamics Evaggelos Spyrou, Phivos Mylonas Mining and estimating users opinion strength in forum texts regarding governmental decisions George Stylios, Dimitrios Tsolis, Dimitrios Christodoulakis Workshop

17:40-19:00

WADTMB 3
Chair: Christos Makris Using an atlas-based approach in the analysis of gene expression maps obtained by voxelation E. Zacharaki, A. Skoura, L. An, D. Smith, V. Megalooikonomou HINT-KB: the human interactome knowledge base Konstantinos Theofilatos, Christos Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitrios Kleftogiannis, Charalampos Moschopoulos, Stergios Papadimitriou, Spiros Likothanassis, Seferina Mavroudi DISCO: a new algorithm for detecting 3D protein structure similarity Nantia Iakovidou, Eleftherios Tiakas, Konstantinos Tsichlas ncRNA-class web tool: non-coding RNA feature extraction and pre-miRNA classification web tool Dimitrios Kleftogiannis, Konstantinos Theofilatos, Stergios Papadimitriou, Athanasios Tsakalidis, Spiros Likothanassis, Seferina Mavroudi

17:40-19:00

Gala Dinner

20:30

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Saturday 29/9/2012
Registration
08:30-09:00

Keynote Lecture 3 Professor David Robertson

Knowledge Engineering on a Social Scale Chair: Danil Prokhorov AIAI Session 8: CL-PR 1

Plenary Session 5
09:00-10:00

Classification Pattern Recognition 1

Chair: David Robertson A Neural Network for spatial and temporal modeling of foF2 data based on satellite measurements Haris Haralambous, Harris Papadopoulos Experiments with face recognition using a novel approach based on CVQ technique Arman Mehrbakhsh, Alireza Khalilian Novel matching methods for automatic face recognition using SIFT Ladislav Lenc, Pavel Krl Detecting glycosylations in complex samples Thorsten Johl, Manfred Nimtz, Lothar Jnsch, Frank Klawonn AIAI Session 9: EAAI&MAS

10:00-11:30

Engineering Applications of AI & Multiattribute Systems

Chair: Jacek Kabzinski A new approach to high impedance fault detection based on correlation functions Haidar Samet, Najmeh Faridnia, Babak Doostanidezfuli Position and velocity predictions of the piston in a wet clutch system during engagement by using a neural network modeling Yu Zhong, Clara-Mihaela Ionescu, Abhishek Dutta, Bart Wyns, Gregory Pinte, Wim Symens, Julian Stoev, Robin De Keyser
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10:00-11:40

Network selection in a virtual network operator environment Ioannis Chamodrakas, Drakoulis Martakos Uniform asymptotic stability and global asymptotic stability for timedelay Hopfield neural networks Aouiti Chaouki, Arbi Adnene, Touati Abderrahmane

COST Tutorial
Chair: Kostas Karatzas Session CT1: Overview of COST Action TD1105 EuNetAir Michele Penza Session CT2: New approaches in outdoor air quality monitoring: mobile sensing, participatory sensing and sensor networks Jan Theunis Session CT3: Applications of sensors for urban air quality monitoring Christoph Hueglin Session CT4: Standards for AQC sensors, creating a more healthy environment Ingrid Bryntse COFFEE BREAK AIAI Session 10: MAS

10:00-12:00

10:00-10:30

10:30-11:00

11:00-11:30

11:30-12:00

11:45-12:15

Multi Agent Systems

Chair: Dominic Palmer Brown Exploring the fesign space of a declarative framework for automated negotiation: initial considerations Alex Muscar, Costin Badica Hybrid and reinforcement multi agent technology for real time air pollution monitoring Antonios Papaleonidas, Lazaros Iliadis

12:15-13:15

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Rule-based behavior prediction of opponent agents using robocup 3D soccer simulation league logfiles Asma Sanam Larik, Sajjad Haider AIAI Session 11: MA_DSS1

Multi Atrribute DSS 1

Chair: Spyros Sioutas Assistant tools for teaching FOL to CF Conversion Foteini Grivokostopoulou, Isidoros Perikos, Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis Effective diagnostic feedback for online multiple-choice questions Ruisheng Guo, Dominic Palmer-Brown, Fang Fang Cai, Sin Wee Lee An ontology-based model for student representation in intelligent tutoring systems for distance learning Ioannis Panagiotopoulos, Aikaterini Kalou, Christos Pierrakeas, Achilles Kameas Workshop

12:15-13:15

AIeIA
Chair: Achilles Kameas Association rules mining from the educational data of ESOG web-based application Stefanos Ougiaroglou, Giorgos Paschalis An ontological approach for domain knowledge modeling and management in e-learning systems Ioannis Panagiotopoulos, Aikaterini Kalou, Christos Pierrakeas, Achilles Kameas Adaptation strategies: a comparison between e-learning and e-commerce techniques Bill Vassiliadis, Antonia Stefani AIAI Session 12: CLU1

12:15-13:15

Clustering 1
Chair: Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis A fast hybrid k-NN classifier based on homogeneous clusters Stefanos Ougiaroglou, Georgios Evangelidis

13:15-14:15

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A spatially-constrained normalized gamma process for data clustering Sotirios Chatzis, Dimitrios Korkinof, Yiannis Demiris GamRec: a clustering method using geometrical background knowledge for GPR data preprocessing Ruth Janning, Tomas Horvath, Andre Busche, Lars Schmidt-Thieme AIAI Session 13: IVCP

Image-Video Classification & Processing

Chair: Ilias Maglogiannis Image threshold selection exploiting empirical mode decomposition Stelios Krinidis, Michail Krinidis Scalable object encoding using multiplicative multilinear inter-camera prediction in the context of free view 3D video Ioannis Stephanakis, George Anastassopoulos Modelling crowdsourcing originated keywords within the athletics domain Zenonas Theodosiou, Nicolas Tsapatsoulis Workshop

13:15-14:15

COPA 1
Chair: Harris Papadopoulos Application of conformal prediction in QSAR Martin Eklund, Ulf Norinder, Scott Boyer, Lars Carlsson Reliable probability estimates based on Support Vector Machines for large multiclass datasets Antonis Lambrou, Harris Papadopoulos, Ilia Nouretdinov, Alexander Gammerman Online detection of anomalous sub-trajectories - a sliding window approach based on conformal anomaly detection and local outlier factor Rikard Laxhammar, Goran Falkman Introduction to conformal predictors based on fuzzy logic classifiers A. Murari, J. Vega, D. Mazon, T. Courregelongue LUNCH
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13:15-14:15

14:15-15:20

AIAI Session 14: CLU2

Clustering 2
Chair: Andreas Andreou Enhancing clustering by exploiting complementary data modalities in the medical domain Samah Fodeh, Ali Haddad, Cynthia Brandt, Matrin Schultz, Michael Krauthammer Extraction of web image information: semantic or visual cues? Georgia Tryfou, Nicolas Tsapatsoulis Trust-aware clustering collaborative filtering: identification of relevant items Cosimo Birtolo, Davide Ronca, Gianluca Aurilio Unsupervised detection of Fibrosis in microscopy images using fractals and fuzzy c-means clustering S.K. Tasoulis, Ilias Maglogiannis, V.P. Plagianakos Workshop

15:20-17:00

COPA 2
Chair: Harris Papadopoulos Conformal prediction for indoor localisation with fingerprinting method Khuong Nguyen, Zhiyuan Luo Multiprobabilistic Venn predictors with Logistic Regression Lia Nouretdinov, Dmitry Devetyarov, Brian Burford, Stephane Camuzeaux, Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj, Ali Tiss, Celia Smith, Zhiyuan Luo, Alexey Chervonenkis, Rachel Hallett, Volodya Vovk, Mike Waterfield, Rainer Cramer, John F. Timms, Ian Jacobs, Usha Menon, Alex Gammerman A conformal classifier for dissimilarity data Frank-Michael Schleif, Xibin Zhu, Barbara Hammer Identification of confinement regimes in tokamak plasmas by conformal prediction on a probabilistic manifold Geert Verdoolaege, Jesus Vega, Andrea Murari, Guido Van Oost Distance metric learning-based conformal predictor Yang Fan, Chen Zhigang, Shao Guifang Online Cluster Approximation via Inequality Shriprakash Sinha
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15:20-17:00

Workshop

ISQL 1
Chair: Kostas Karatzas Low power and bluetooth-based wireless sensor network for environmental sensing using smartphones Siamak Aram, Amedeo Troiano, Francesco Rugiano, Eros Pasero Making sense of sensor data using ontology: a discussion for residential building monitoring Markus Stocker, Mauno Ronkko, Mikko Kolehmainen Personalized environmental service orchestration for quality life improvement Leo Wanner, Stefanos Vrochidis, Marco Rospocher, Jurgen Mossgraber, Harald Bosch, Ari Karppinen, Maria Myllynen, Sara Tonelli, Nadjet Bouayad-Agha, Ulrich Bugel, Gerard Casamayor, Thomas Ert, Desiree Hilbring, Kostas Karatzas, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Tarja Koskentalo, Simon Mille, Anastasia Moumtzidou, Emanuele Pianta, Horacio Saggion, Luciano Serafini, Virpi Tarvainen Agent-based modeling of an air quality monitoring and analysis system for urban regions Mihaela Oprea COFFEE BREAK Workshop

15:20-17:00

16:45-17:15

ISQL 2
Chair: Lazaros Iliadis Extraction of environmental data from on-line environmental information sources Stefanos Vrochidis, Victor Epitropou, Anastasios Bassoukos, Sascha Voth, Kostas Karatzas, Anastasia Moumtzidou, Jurgen Mossgraber, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Ari Karppinen, Jaakko Kukkonen Investigation and forecasting of the common air quality index in Thessaloniki, Greece Ioannis Kyriakidis, Kostas Karatzas, George Papadourakis, Andrew Ware, Jaakko Kukkonen A microcontroller-based radiation monitoring and warning system Vasile Buruiana, Mihaela Oprea
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17:15-18:30

Workshop

AIAB 2
Chair: Ilias Maglogiannis Feature selection study on separate multi-modal datasets. Application on cutaneous melanoma Konstantinos Moutselos, Aristotelis Chatziioannou, Ilias Maglogiannis Random walking on functional interaction networks to rank genes involved in cancer Matteo Re, Giorgio Valentini Fuzzy multi-channel clustering with individualized spatial priors for segmenting brain lesions and infarcts Evangelia I. Zacharaki, Guray Erus, Anastasios Bezerianos, Christos Davatzikos Steps that lead to the diagnosis of thyroid cancer. application of data flow diagram Kallirroi Paschali, Anna Tsakona, Dimitrios Tsolis, Georgios Skapetis

17:15-18:30

Sunday 30/9/2012
Mount Athos cruise
9:00-17.00

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General Conference Information

Registration Help and Support Phone country code Electricity The conference registration will take place each day of the conference (27th - 29th September) 8:30 am - 09:00 am. If you need help or additional information during the symposium please contact one of the 8th AIAI organizers. for Greece is ++30. The voltage/frequency in Greece is AC 230 volts / 50 Hz with a plug of two round pins set parallel to each other (Type B). Non Greek participants may need a plug adapter and/or a voltage converter for electrical appliances. Greece is located in the Eastern European Summer Time (EEST). During the conference the summer Daylight Saving Time is in effect: UTC +3 hours or GMT + 2 hours. Presentation time is (including time for questions): For full papers 20 minutes For short paper 15 minutes For Workshops papers 15 minutes Please be considerate to the other speakers: keep to the allowed time. You can present using laptops located at each presentation room. Earlier during the conference, please go to the room in which you will be presenting in order to copy your presentation files onto the conference laptop computer. Ask for help from the technical stuff at each room. Test it to make sure it runs as expected. Conference venue Athena Pallas Village This property has its own private beach in Elia, 5 miles away from Neos Marmaras. Athena Pallas features 2 restaurants, and a swim-up bar and excellent spa facilities. Athena Pallass beautifully furnished rooms and suites feature wooden beams and stone features. All come complete with satellite TV, air conditioning and minibar. Athena Pallas Villages spa center features massage rooms, sauna, jacuzzi, hammam and indoor heating pool. Guests can also choose from 3 outdoor swimming pools to refresh in. The main restaurant, Doxato, has a rich breakfast and dinner buffet. Regional dishes are served at the Aegean Taste tavern with views of the lovely pool area. There are also 3 snack bars near the pool.

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