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Tuesday 29.5
9.00 -9.30 Conference Opening
9.30 -10.30 Keynote Talk: Cardiovascular Health Informatics: Predicting the Risk of Stroke Based on Ultrasound Image Analysis of the Atherosclerotic Carotid Plaque, Prof. Costas Pattichis, University of Cyprus
10.30-10.50 Coffee Break
10.50-12.10 Machine Learning
Chair: Vassilis Plagianakos
Greedy Unsupervised Multiple Kernel Learning, Grigorios Tzortzis, Aristidis Likas
Credit Rating Using a Hybrid Voting Ensemble, Elias Kamos, Foteini Matthaiou, Sotiris Kotsiantis
Learning from mixture of experimental data: a constraint-based approach, Vincenzo Lagani, Ioannis Tsamardinos, Sofia Triantafillou
Information Sharing via Collaborative Reinforcement Learning, George Vouros
12.10-13.30 Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Chair: George Vouros
Clustering of High Dimensional Data Streams, Sotiris Tasoulis, Dimitris Tasoulis, Vassilis Plagianakos
Semantic Query Answering in Digital Libraries, Ilianna Kollia, Kostas Rapantzikos, Giorgos Stamou, Andreas Stafylopatis
Word Sense Disambiguation as an Integer Linear Programming Problem, Vicky Panagiotopoulou, Iraklis Varlamis, Ion Androutsopoulos, George Tsatsaronis
An online kernel-based clustering approach for value function approximation, Nikolaos Tziortziotis, Konstantinos Blekas
13.30-14.30 Lunch Break
14.30-15.50 AI Applications I
Chair: Konstantinos Blekas
An intelligent tool for anatomical object segmentation using deformable surfaces, Konstantinos Delibasis, Argiris Christodoulidis, Ilias Maglogiannis
Emerge-Sort: Swarm Intelligence Sorting, Dimitris Kalles, Vicky Mperoukli, Andreas Papandreadis
SWRL2COOL: Object-Oriented Transformation of SWRL in the CLIPS Production Rule Engine, Emmanouil Rigas, George Meditskos, Nick Bassiliades
iThink: A Library for Classical Planning in Video-games, Vassileios-Marios Anastassiou, Panagiotis Diamantopoulos, Stavros Vassos, Manolis Koubarakis
15.50-16.10 Coffee Break
16.10-17.30 Special Session: Artificial Intelligence in Bioinformatics
Chair: Pantelis Bagos
Towards better prioritization of epigenetically modified DNA regions, Ernesto Iacucci, Dusan Popovic, Georgios A. Pavlopoulos, Leon-Charles Tranchevent, Marijke Bauters, Bart De Moor, Yves Moreau
Mining cell cycle literature using support vector machines, Theodoros Soldatos, Georgios A. Pavlopoulos
CW-PRED: A HMM-based method for the classification of cell wall-anchored proteins of Gram-positive bacteria, Danai Fimereli, Konstantinos Tsirigos, Zoi Litou, Theodore Liakopoulos, Pantelis Bagos, Stavros Hamodrakas
Predicting Human miRNA Target Genes Using a Novel Evolutionary Methodology, Dimitris Kleftogiannis, Konstantinos Theofilatos, Spiros Likothanassis, Athanasios Tsakalidis, Seferina Mavroudi, Aigli Korfiati
17.30-18.30 EETN General Assembly
20.30-22.30 Welcome Barbecue

End of 1st Day










Wednesday 30.5
9.00-10.20 Neural Networks
Chair: Sotiris Kotsiantis

Evolutionary Optimization of a Neural Network Controller for Car Racing Simulation, Damianos Galanopoulos, Christos Athanasiadis, Anastasios Tefas


Parallelism, localization and chain gradient tuning combinations for fast scalable Probabilistic Neural Networks in data mining applications, Yiannis Kokkinos, Konstantinos Margaritis



Exploiting Quadratic Mutual Information for Discriminant analysis, Vasileios Gavriilidis, Anastasios Tefas


A SOM-based Validation Approach to a Neural Circuit Theory of Autism, Spyridon Revithis, Georgios Tagalakis

10.20-11.20 Keynote Talk: Data Clustering: From the Past to the Future, Dr. Dimitris Tasoulis, Winton Capital Management, United Kingdom
11.20-11.40 Coffee Break
11.40-13.20 Special Session: Advancing Translational Biological Research through the incorporation of Artificial Intelligence methodologies
Chair: Aristotelis Chatziioannou


Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction for the Analysis of Obesity in a Nutrigenetics Context, Katerina Karayianni, Ioannis Valavanis, Keith Grimaldi, Konstantina Nikita


Coupling Regulatory Networks and Microarays: Revealing Molecular Regulation of Breast Cancer Treatment Responses, Lefteris Koumakis, Vassilis Moustakis, Michalis Zervakis, Dimitris Kafetzopoulos, George Potamias



A Galaxy workflow for the functional annotation of metagenomic samples, Eleftherios Pilalis, Eythymios Ladoukakis, Fragiskos Kolisis, Aristotelis Chatziioannou


Bioinformatic analysis of expression data of ApoE deficient mice, Olga Papadodima, Allan Sirsjo, Aristotelis Chatziioannou


Gene ontology semi-supervise possibilistic clustering of gene expression data, Ioannis Maraziotis, George Dimitrakopoulos, Anasatasios Bezerianos

13.20-14.30 Lunch Break
14.30-15.30 Special Session: Intelligent Annotation of Digital Content
Chair: Dimitris Iakovidis

Ontology-Based Automatic Image Annotation Exploiting Generalized Qualitative Spatial Semantics, Christos Smailis, Dimitris Iakovidis


Image interpretation by combining ontologies and bayesian networks, Spiros Nikolopoulos, Georgios Papadopoulos, Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Ioannis Patras


Advanced Cancer Cell Characterization and Quantification of Microscopy Images, Theodosios Goudas, Ilias Maglogiannis

17.00-20.00 Excursion to Thermopiles and Visiting of Museum
20.00-22.30 Gala Dinner at Agios Loukas restaurant

End of 2nd Day










Thursday 31.5
9.00-10.20 Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Chair: Stavros Perantonis

Constraint Propagation as the Core of Local Search, Nikolaos Pothitos, George Kastrinis, Panagiotis Stamatopoulos


Bagged Nonlinear Hebbian Learning Algorithm for Fuzzy Cognitive Maps working on classification tasks, Elpiniki Papageorgiou, Panagiotis Oikonomou, Arthi Kannappan

Distributed Instance Retrieval in E-DDL(HQ+){SHIQ} Representation Framework, Giorgos Santipantakis, George Vouros


Extending Generalized Arc Consistency, Anastasia Paparrizou, Kostas Stergiou
10.20-11.40 Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms
Chair: Nick Bassiliades

Application of the Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm to Competitive Viral Marketing, Wan-Shiou Yang, Shi-Xin Weng


Tracking Differential Evolution Algorithms: An adaptive approach through multinomial distribution tracking with exponential forgetting, Michael Epitropakis, Dimirtis Tasoulis, Nicos Pavlidis, Vassilis Plagianakos, Michael Vrahatis



An AZP-ACO Method for Region-Building, Angelos Mimis, Antonis Rovolis, Marianthi Stamou


Parameter Tuning of Hybrid Nature-Inspired Intelligent Metaheuristics for Solving Financial Portfolio Optimization Problems, Vassilios Vassiliadis, Georgios Dounias, Tzanetos Alexandros


11.40-12.00 Coffee Break
12.00-13.20 AI Applications II
Chair: Vangelis Karkaletsis

Forecasting Fraudulent Financial Statements with Committee of Cost-Sensitive Decision Tree Classifiers, Elias Zouboulidis, Sotiris Kotsiantis


Forecasting Corporate Bankruptcy with an Ensemble of Classifiers, Despina Deligianni, Sotiris Kotsiantis


Detecting Human Features in Summaries - Symbol Sequence Statistical Normality, George Giannakopoulos, George Vouros, Vangelis Karkaletsis


Acoustic Bird Activity Detection on Real-Field Data, Todor Ganchev, Iosif Mporas, Olaf Jahn, Klaus Riede, Karl-L. Schuchmann, Nikos Fakotakis

13.20-14.30 Lunch Break
14.30-15.30 Special Session: Intelligent, Affective, and Natural Interfaces
Chair: George Caridakis

An Adaptive Dialogue System With Online Dialogue Policy Learning, Alexandros Papangelis, Nikolaos Kouroupas, Vangelis Karkaletsis, Fillia Makedon


Affective, Natural Interaction using EEG: sensors, application and future directions, Charline Hondrou, George Caridakis


Affective Computing on Elderly Physical and Cognitive Training within Live Social Networks, Evdokimos Konstantinidis, Antonis Billis Billis, Eirini Grigoriadou, Stathis Sidiropoulos, Sevi Fasnaki, Panagiotis Bamidis


15.30-15.50 Coffee Break
15.50-17.30 Special Session: Unified Multimedia Knowledge Representation and Processing
Chair: Ioannis Anagnostopoulos

Semantic Video Abstracting: Automatic Generation of Movie Trailers based on Video Patterns, Till von Wenzlawowicz, Otthein Herzog


Learning to Case-tag Modern Greek Text, Katia Lida Kermanidis, Antonis Koursoumis, Evangelia Gkatzou, Antigoni Founta, Vassiliki Mavriki, Karolos Talvis, Spyros Mprilis, Ahmad Aliwat



Understanding how visual context influences multimedia content analysis problems, Phivos Mylonas


Block Operator Context Scanning for Commercial Tracking, Ioannis Giannoukos, Vassilis Vrachnakis, Christos-Nikolaos Anagnostopoulos, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, Vassili Loumos



Identifying Conceptual Layers in the Ontology Development Process, Manolis Wallace, Panos Alexopoulos, Phivos Mylonas

17.30-18.00 Conference Closing