Program

The program at a glance

Program

Program brochure

The program at a glance

  Thursday
23 April		 Friday
24 April		 Saturday
25 April
8:30-9:30 Registration Registration Registration
9:30-11:00 Room A: Plenary 1 Room A: Plenary 2 Room A: Session 10
Room B: Tutorial 2
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Room A: Session 1
Room B: Session 2		 Room A: Session 7
Room B:
Workshop 1, Session 1
Room C: Tutorial 1		 Room A: Session 11
Room B:
Workshop 3, Session 1
Room C:
Workshop 4, Session 1
13:30-14:30 Lunch Lunch Lunch
14:30-16:00 Room A: Session 3
Room B: Session 4		 Room A: Session 8
Room B:
Workshop 1, Session 2
Room C:
Workshop 2, Session 1		 Room A: Session 12
Room B:
Workshop 3, Session 2
Room C:
Workshop 4, Session 2
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break Coffee Break Room A:
Closing Session
16:30-18:00 Room A: Session 5
Room B: Session 6		 Room A: Session 9
Room B:
Workshop 1, Roundtable
Room C:
Workshop 2, Session 2		  
       
21:00-23:00   Gala Dinner  

Conference Sessions

Plenary Session 1: Invited Talk
Chair: I. Vlahavas
Synergies of AI Methods for Robotic Planning & Grabbing, Facial Expressions Recognition, and Blind's Navigation
Nikolaos Bourbakis

Plenary Session 2: Invited Talk
Chair: L. Iliadis
Neural Networks for Modal and Virtual Learning
Dominic Palmer-Brown

Tutorial 1:
Chair: I. Maglogiannis
Multimodal Emotion Recognition in HCI Environments
Kostas Karpouzis

Tutorial 2:
Chair: N. Bassiliades
Capitalization of Collective Knowledge: from Knowledge Engineering to Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Socio-Semantic Web
Nada Matta

Session 1: Intelligent Human-Computer Interaction
Chair: C. Schizas

  • Performance Evaluation of a Speech Interface for Motorcycle Environment (regular)
    Iosif Mporas, Todor Ganchev, Otilia Kocsis, Nikos Fakotakis
  • Learning Rules from User Behaviour (regular)
    Domenico Corapi, Oliver Ray, Alessandra Russo, Arosha Bandara, Emil Lupu, Domenico
  • MobiAct: Supporting Personalized Interaction with Mobile Context-Aware Applications (regular)
    Adrian Stoica, Nikolaos Avouris
  • Semi-tacit Adaptation of Intelligent Environments (short)
    Tobias Heinroth, Achilles Kameas, Hani Hagras, Yacine Bellik
  • Multi-modal System Architecture for Serious Gaming (short)
    Otilia Kocsis, Todor Ganchev, Iosif Mporas, George Papadopoulos, Nikos Fakotakis

Session 2: Decision Support Systems
Chair: I. Maglogiannis
  • A Hybrid Technology for Operational Decision Support in Pervasive Environments (regular)
    Alexander Smirnov, Tatiana Levashova, Nikolay Shilov, Alexey Kashevnik
  • An Expert System Based on Parametric Net to Support Motor Pump Multi-Failure Diagnostic (regular)
    Flavia Bernardini, Ana Garcia, Inhauma Ferraz
  • Providing Assistance during Decision-making Problems Solving in an Educational Modelling Environment (regular)
    Panagiotis Politis, Ioannis Partsakoulakis, George Vouros, Christos Fidas
  • A Fuzzy Knowledge-based Decision Support System for Tender Call Evaluation (short)
    Panos Alexopoulos, Manolis Wallace, Konstantinos Kafentzis, Aristodimos Thomopoulos
  • Extended CNP Framework for the Dynamic Pickup and Delivery Problem Solving (short)
    Zoulel Kouki, Besma Fayech Chaar, Mekki Ksouri

Session 3: Machine Sensing Algorithms & Applications
Chair: L. Iliadis
  • Computational Modeling of Visual Selective Attention Based on Correlation and Synchronization of Neural Activity (regular)
    Kleanthis Neokleous, Christos Schizas
  • Combining Gaussian Mixture Models and Support Vector Machines for Relevance Feedback in Content Based Image Retrieval (regular)
    Apostolos Marakakis, Nikolaos Galatsanos, Aristidis Likas, Andreas Stafylopatis
  • Two Levels Similarity Modelling: a Novel Content Based Image Clustering Concept (short)
    Amar Djouak, Hichem Maaref
  • Intelligent Modification of Colours in Digitized Paintings for Enhancing the Visual Perception of Color-blind Viewers (short)
    Paul Doliotis, George Tsekouras, Christos-Nikolaos Anagnostopoulos, Vassilis Athitsos
  • Locating an Acoustic Source Using a Mutual Information Beamformer (short)
    Osama Alrabadi, Fotios Talantzis, Anthony Constantinides

Session 4: Intelligent Medical Applications
Chair: I. Tsamardinos
  • Background Extraction in Electron Microscope Images of Artificial Membranes (regular)
    Argyroj Karathanou, Jean-Luc Buessler, Hubert Kihl, Jean-Philippe Urban
  • Enhanced Human Body Fall Detection Utilizing Advanced Classification of Video and Motion Perceptual Components (regular)
    Charalampos Doukas, Ilias Maglogiannis, Nikos Katsarakis, Aristodimos Pneumatikakis
  • An Evolutionary Technique for Medical Diagnostic Risk Factors Selection (regular)
    Dimitrios Mantzaris, George Anastassopoulos, Lazaros Iliadis, Adam Adamopoulos
  • Heterogeneous Data Fusion to Type Brain Tumor Biopsies (short)
    Vangelis Metsis, Heng Huang, Fillia Makedon, Aria Tzika
  • Automatic Knowledge Discovery and Case Management: an Effective Way to Use Databases to Enhance Health Care Management (short)
    Luciana Kobus, Fabricio Enembreck, Edson Scalabrin, Joao Dias, Sandra Honorato

Session 5: Fuzzy Logic Techniques & Applications
Chair: A. Tsadiras
  • An Adaptive Resource Allocating Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System with Sensitivity Analysis Resource Control (regular)
    Minas Pertselakis, Natali Raouzaiou, Andreas Stafylopatis
  • An Intelligent Fuzzy Inference System for Risk Estimation Using Matlab Platform: the Case of Forest Fires in Greece (regular)
    Theocharis Tsataltzinos, Lazaros Iliadis, Spartalis Stefanos
  • A Formal Fuzzy Framework for Representation and Recognition of Human Activities (short)
    Suphot Chunwiphat, Patrick Reignier, Augustin Lux
  • Fuzzy Dependencies between Preparedness and Learning Outcome (short)
    Sylvia Encheva, Sharil Tumin
  • Backing-up Fuzzy Control of a Truck-trailer Equipped with a Kingpin Sliding Mechanism (short)
    Georgios Siamantas, Stamatis Manesis

Session 6: Intelligent Commerce Applications
Chair: A. Papadopoulos
  • Certified Trust Model (regular)
    Vanderson Botelho, Fabricio Enembreck,Braulio Avila, Edson Scalabrin, Hilton Azevedo
  • Automated Product Pricing Using Argumentation (regular)
    Nikolaos Spanoudakis, Pavlos Moraitis
  • A Hybrid Approach for Improving Prediction Coverage of Collaborative Filtering (regular)
    Manolis Vozalis, Angelos Markos, Konstantinos Margaritis
  • User Recommendations Based on Tensor Dimensionality Reduction (regular)
    Panagiotis Symeonidis
  • Adaptive Electronic Institutions for Negotiations (short)
    Manolis Sardis, George Vouros

Session 7: Knowledge Representation & Reasoning
Chair: N. Bassiliades
  • Sensing Inertial and Continuously-changing World Features (regular)
    Theodore Patkos, Dimitris Plexousakis
  • Alternative Strategies for Conflict Resolution in Multi-Context Systems (regular)
    Antonis Bikakis, Grigoris Antoniou, Panayiotis Hassapis
  • Towards Predicate Answer Set Programming via Coinductive Logic Programming (regular)
    Richard Min, Ajay Bansal, Gopal Gupta
  • TELIOS: a Tool for the Automatic Generation of Logic Programming Machines (short)
    Alexandros Dimopoulos, Christos Pavlatos, George Papakonstantinou
  • A Logic-based Approach to Solve the Steiner Tree Problem (short)
    Mohamed El Bachir Menai

Session 8: Intelligent Web Applications
Chair: G. Antoniou
  • Revealing Paths of Relevant Information in Web Graphs (regular)
    George Kouzas, Vassileios Kolias, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, Eleftherios Kayafas
  • On the Combination of Textual and Semantic Descriptions for Automated Semantic Web Service Classification (regular)
    Ioannis Katakis, Georgios Meditskos, Grigorios Tsoumakas, Nick Bassiliades, Ioannis Vlahavas
  • Preferential Infinitesimals for Information Retrieval (regular)
    Maria Chowdhury, Alex Thomo, William Wadge
  • OntoLife: an Ontology for Semantically Managing Personal Information (short)
    Eleni Kargioti, Efstratios Kontopoulos, Nick Bassiliades
  • Visualizing RDF Documents (short)
    Aris Athanassiades, Efstratios Kontopoulos, Nick Bassiliades

Session 9: Multi-Agent Techniques & Applications
Chair: A. Artikis
  • A Multi-agent Task Delivery System for Balancing the Load in Collaborative Grid Environment (short)
    Mauricio Paletta, Pilar Herrero
  • An Argumentation Agent Models Evaluative Criteria (short)
    John Debenham
  • ASIC Design Project Management Supported by Multi Agent Simulation (short)
    Jana Blaschke, Christian Sebeke, Wolfgang Rosenstiel
  • MEDICAL_MAS: an Agent-Based System for Medical Diagnosis (short)
    Mihaela Oprea
  • Experimental Evaluation of Multi-Agent Ontology Mapping Framework (short)
    Miklos Nagy, Maria Vargas-Vera
  • AIR_POLLUTION_Onto: an Ontology for Air Pollution Analysis and Control (short)
    Mihaela Oprea

Session 10: Machine Learning Algorithms
Chair: G. Tsoumakas
  • Multi-Source Causal Analysis: Learning Bayesian Networks from Multiple Datasets (regular)
    Ioannis Tsamardinos, Asimakis P. Mariglis
  • Model Identification in Wavelet Neural Networks Framework (regular)
    Achilleas Zapranis, Antonis Alexandridis
  • Reconstruction-based Classification Rule Hiding through Controlled Data Modification (regular)
    Aliki Katsarou, Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis, Vassilios Verykios
  • A Lazy Approach for Machine Learning Algorithms (short)
    Ines M. Galvan, Jose M. Valls, Nicolas Lecomte, Pedro Isasi
  • GF-Miner: a Genetic Fuzzy Classifier for Numerical Data (short)
    Vicky Tsikolidaki, Nikos Pelekis, Yannis Theodoridis

Session 11: Machine Learning Applications
Chair: V. Verykios
  • Mining Patterns of Lung Infections in Chest Radiographs (regular)
    Spyros Tsevas, Dimitris Iakovidis, George Papamichalis
  • Confidence Predictions for the Diagnosis of Acute Abdominal Pain (regular)
    Harris Papadopoulos, Alex Gammerman, Volodya Vovk
  • Computer Log Anomaly Detection Using Frequent Episodes (short)
    Perttu Halonen, Markus Miettinen, Kimmo Hatonen
  • A Genetic Algorithm for the Classification of Earthquake Damages in Buildings (short)
    Peter-Fotios Alvanitopoulos, Ioannis Andreadis, Anaxagoras Elenas
  • Mining Retail Transaction Data for Targeting Customers with Headroom - a Case Study (short)
    Madhu Shashanka, Michael Giering

Session 12: Knowledge Based Applications
Chair: I. Refanidis
  • Behaviour Recognition Using the Event Calculus (regular)
    Alexander Artikis, George Paliouras
  • MSRS - Critique on its Usability via a Path Planning Algorithm Implementatiom (regular)
    George Markou, Ioannis Refanidis
  • A Knowledge Based System for Translating FOL Formulas into NL Sentences (short)
    Aikaterini Mpagouli, Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis
  • Managing Diagnosis Processes with Interactive Decompositions (short)
    Quang-Huy Giap, Stephane Ploix, Jean-Marie Flaus
  • Defining a Task's Temporal Domain for Intelligent Calendar Applications (short)
    Anastasios Alexiadis, Ioannis Refanidis



Workshop Sessions

Workshop 1: Workshop on Biomedical Informatics and Intelligent Approaches in the Support of Genomic Medicine (BMIINT)

Welcome note
The AIAI2009/BMIINT workshop: Scope and overview of presentations
Vassilis Moustakis and George Potamias

Session 1: Integration of Biomedical Information & Data Sources
Chair: V. Moustakis

  • Homogenising access to heterogeneous biomedical data sources
    Erwin Bonsma and Jeroen Vrijnsen
  • COMBIOMED: A Cooperative Thematic Research Network on COMputational BIOMEDicine in Spain
    Fernando Martin-Sanchez, Victoria Lopez-Alonso, Isabel Hermosilla-Gimeno, Guillermo Lopez-Campos, and the COMBIOMED Network
  • Building a System for Advancing Clinico-Genomic Trials on Cancer
    Stelios Sfakianakis, Norbert Graf, Alexander Hoppe, Stefan Ruping, Dennis Wegener, Lefteris Koumakis, and George Zacharioudakis
  • Unification of heterogeneous data towards the prediction of oral cancer reoccurrence
    Konstantinos P. Exarchos, Yorgos Goletsis, Dimitrios I. Fotiadis
  • Cross-platform integration of transcriptomics data
    Georgia Tsiliki, Marina Ioannou and Dimitris Kafetzopoulos

Session 2: Mining Clinico-Genomic Data Sources
Chair: G. Potamias
  • A Simple Algorithm Implementation for Pattern-Matching with Bounded Gaps in Genomic and Proteomic Sequences, on the Grid EGEE Platform, using an intuitive User Interface
    Vegoudakis K. I., Margaritis K. G., Maglaveras N.
  • Discovery of Genotype-to-Phenotype Associations: A Grid-enabled Scientific Workflow Setting
    Lefteris Koumakis, Stelios Sfakianakis, Vassilis Moustakis, and George Potamias
  • Method for relating inter-patient gene copy numbers variations with gene expression via gene influence networks
    Sylvain Blachon, Gautier Stoll, Carito Guziolowski, Andrei Zinovyev, Emmanuel Barillot, Anne Siegel and Ovidiu Radulescu
  • Revealing Disease Mechanisms via Coupling Molecular Pathways Scaffolds and Microarrays: A Study on the Wilm's Tumor Disease
    Alexandros Kanterakis, Vassilis Moustakis, Dimitris Kafetzopoulos, and George Potamias

Roundtable discussion: 'hot;-topics, roadmap, collaborations ...



Workshop 2: Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Approaches for Biometric Template Creation and Multibiometrics Fusion (ArtIBio)

Session 1: Multibiometrics: Databases, open issues and prospects for the future
Chair: N. Tsapatsoulis

  • Behavioral biometrics (invited speech)
    Dimitrios Tzovaras, ITI/CERTH
  • POLYBIO Multibiometrics database: Contents, description and interfacing platform
    Anixi Antonakoudi, Anastasis Kounoudes, Zenonas Theodosiou
  • Facial Biometric Templates and Aging: Problems and Challenges for Artificial Intelligence
    Andreas Lanitis
  • Applied surveillance using biometrics on Agents infrastructures
    Manolis Sardis, Vasilis Anagnostopoulos, Nikos Doulamis

Session 2: Artificial Intelligence methods for single modality biometrics
Chair: B. Dorizzi
  • Gaussian Mixture Model Coupled with Independent Component Analysis for Palmprint Verification
    Raghavendra.R, Bernadette Dorizzi, Ashok Rao, Hemantha Kumar G.
  • Support Vector Machines for Dynamic Biometric Handwriting Classification
    Tobias Scheidat, Marcus Leich, Mark Alexander, Claus Vielhauer
  • Palm geometry biometrics: A score-based fusion approach
    Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Constatinos Pattichis
  • Unsupervised Human Members Tracking Based on an Silhouette Detection and Analysis Scheme
    Costas Panagiotakis, Anastasios Doulamis



Workshop 3: 2nd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Software Engineering (AISEW 2009)

Welcome note
Introduction to AISEW
I. Stamelos

Session 1: AI in SW Development
Chair: I. Stamelos

  • Semantic annotation, publication and discovery of Java software components: an integrated approach
    Zinon Zygkostiotis, Dimitris Dranidis, Dimitris Kourtesis
  • Quality Classifiers for Open Source Software Repositories
    George Tsatsaronis, Maria Halkidi, Emmanouel Giakoumakis
  • A probabilistic Approach for Change Impact Prediction in Object-Oriented Systems
    M.K. Abdi, H. Lounis, H. Sahraoui

Session 2: AI in SW Quality and Management
Chair: S. Bibi
  • Improving Evolutionary Test Data Generation with the Aid of Symbolic Execution
    M. Papadakis and N. Malevris
  • Reliable Confidence Intervals for Software Effort Estimation
    Harris Papadopoulos, Efi Papatheocharous and Andreas S. Andreou
  • Bootstrap confidence intervals for regression error characteristic curves evaluating the prediction error of software cost estimation models
    Nikolaos Mittas, Lefteris Angelis
  • Approaching Software Cost Estimation Using an Entropy-Based Fuzzy k-Modes Clustering Algorithm
    Efi Papatheocharous, Andreas S. Andreou

Workshop Conclusion



Workshop 4: Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Applications in Environmental Protection (AIAEP)

Invited Talk
Artificial Intelligence Applications in the Atmospheric Environment: Status and Future Trends
Kostas D. Karatzas

Session 1: Applications of machine learning techniques in environmental protection
Chair: M. Oprea

  • Hydrological Neural Modeling aided by Support Vector Machines
    Lazaros Iliadis, Stefanos Spartalis
  • Use of AI Techniques for Residential Fire Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks
    Majid Bahrepour, Nirvana Meratnia, Paul J. M. Havinga
  • Estimation of the permeability of granular soils using neuro-fuzzy system
    A. Sezer, A.B. Goktepe , S. Altun
  • A Data Mining System for Estimating a Largesize Matrix for the Environmental Accounting
    Ting Yu, Manfred Lenzen, Blanca Gallego, John Debenham

Session 2: Decision support and knowledge-based systems for environmental protection
Chair: N. Bassiliades
  • Autonomous Inspection Of Complex Environments by Means of Semantic Techniques
    M. Ziegenmeyer, K. Uhl, J.M. Zöllner, R. Dillmann
  • Abductive Reasoning in Environmental Decision Support Systems
    Franz Wotawa, Ignasi Rodriguez-Roda, Joaquim Comas
  • Supporting Decision Making in Maritime Environmental Protection with a Knowledge-based Education and Awareness Approach
    Konstantinos Kotis, Andreas Papasalouros, Nikitas Nikitakos
  • Validation of a knowledge-based risk model for biological foaming in anaerobic digestion simulation
    J. Dalmau, J. Comas, I. Rodríguez-Roda, E. Latrille, J.P. Steyer
  • An Environmental Diagnosis Expert System
    M. Oprea, D. Dunea

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