HERCMA 2007 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

 

CONTENTS

 

 

Invited Papers

 

HOARE C.A.R.

Grand Challenges in Computer Science

 

COFFMAN E.G.

Random Phenomena in Algorithmic Self Assembly: Computing Times at Nanoscale

 

SUGIHARA K.

Three- Dimensionalization of Escher’s Impossible World

 

GILES M.

Monte Carlo evaluation of sensitivities in Computational Finance

 

TSITSIKLIS J.N.

Computational complexity in Markov decision theory

 

PHILLIPS P.A.

E-business Strategy and Performance: Is this a Curate’s Egg?

 

SATO T.

Simulation Science: Revealing the Feature

 

TYRTYSHNIKOV E.

Low-rank structures and tensor approximations for huge-size data sets

 

ZHOU AIHUI

Two-scale Finite Element Discretizations and their Applications

 

TOLSTYKH A.I.

Multioperators strategy for constructing arbitrary-order approximations and schemes for parallel calculations

 

Special Sessions Papers

 

Minisymposium: Numerical Methods for Singular Integral Equations and Fractional Differential Equations

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FORD N.J. and DIETHELM. K.

Numerical methods for distributed order differential equations

 

KUCHLER U.

Statistical inference for affine stochastic delay differential equations from discrete time observations

 

MALIQUE ABDUL M.

Numerical methods for oscillatory delay differential equations

 

EKAKA-A N. E.-O. and FORD N.J.

Mathematical models of plant species interactions in harsh climates

 

HOGAN G.

Frequency domain methods for continuous and discrete Volterra equations

 

SOUTHALL G.J.

Comparative methodologies for biological signal modelling

 

FORD N.J. and LUMB P.M.

Periodic delay differential equations with commensurate period and delay: Detecting small solutions numerically

 

FORD N.J., LUMB P.M., LIMA P.M. and TEODORO M.F.

Existence of solution and numerical methods for forward-backward equations

 

HILFER R. and SEYBOLD H.J.

Computation of the generalized Mittag-Leffler function and its inverse in the complex plane

 

DIOGO T.

Numerical solution of a singular Volterra integral equation

 

 

THOMAS S.M.

Extrapolation methods for a Volterra integral equation with weak singularity

 

 

 

Minisymposium: NEW HORIZONS IN COMPUTING

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ASANO T. and TERAMOTO S.

On-line uniformity of points

 

SUGIHARA K. and NISHIDA T.

Stable computation of the optimal path for a boat on a water stream and its applications

 

ITO H. and MIYAGAWA H.

Snaky is a winner with one handicap

 

IZUMI T. and WADA K.

A crash-tolerant consensus algorithm in presence of probabilistic message omission

 

KAMIYAMA N., KATOH N. and TAKIZAWA A.

Theoretical and practical issues of evacuation planning in urban areas

 

TOKUYAMA T.

Efficient å-net construction for an application to ad-hoc network

 

 

Minisymposium: Educational and Language Technology

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GRIGORIADOU M., BLITSAS P. and MAROULI A.

Knowledge representation for automatic technical text comprehension

 

XANTHI S.

Proposals for creating a bilingual computational dictionary in the frame of special education field

 

GRIGORIADOU M., KARIDIS T., KORNILAKIS H. and GOULI E.

Exploiting Link to Wordnet tool in a concet mapping learning environment

 

ALEXANDRIS C.

Transferability of directed dialogs in the citizenshield dialog system to monolingual and multilingual applications

 

 

 

 

 

DOUKAKIS D., GRIGORIADOU M. and TSAGANOU GR.

Understanding the programming variable concept with animated interactive analogies

 

KONTOS J., ARMAOS I. and MALAGARDI I.

Computational discovery of Ontology and Axioms for Geometry

 

KREMIZIS A., KONSTANTINIDI I., PAPADAKI M., MALAGARDI I. and GRIGORIADOU M.

PsychoGreekWordNet Computational Dictionary of Psychology

 

KERAMIDAS G. and MALAGARDI I.

The analysis of the meaning of everyday words in the microcosm of Computer Science

 

KONTOS J. and ARMAOS I.

Metacognitive question answering from Euclid’s Elements text

 

MALAGARDI I. and KONTOS J.

Text generation for the description of action sequences

 

MALAGARDI I. and KONTOS J.

Motion Verbs and Vision

KREMIZIS A., KONSTANTINIDI I., PAPADAKI M., KERAMIDAS G. and GRIGORIADOU M.

Greek Wordnet extension in the domain of Psychology and Computer Science

 

 

Minisymposium: Information Systems Engineering

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HARAMIS G.E., SOUBENIOTIS D., FOTIADIS T. and HATZITHOMAS L.

Structured systems development

 

FOUNTOUKIS S.G. and HARAMIS G.E.

Towards an efficient reliable and low cost integrated information system in the organization

 

CHASSAPIS C., SPYRIOUNI D., THEODOROU D. and PETROPOULOS J.

Computer simulation and analysis methodology for the detection of nanostructure in amorphous polymers and elucidation of its effect on diffusion phenomena therein

 

 

DIMITRANTZOU A., LIAKOPOULOU G., FOTOPOULOU G., VALTSIS N., DAMASKOS G., KARAKITSIOS I. and ZAXAROPOULOS A.

Interview as a tool of Information Systems requirements definition

 

PAPASAVA A.

Shaping the firm’s learning environment: Moving from transferring knowledge objects to creating knowledge generation contexts

 

TSAGKAS F.N. and PROTOPAPAS A.L.

A comparison of methodologies for the determination of the option value for the environmental resources

 

SPATHOULAS G. and VENNOU P.

Design and management of academic institutions’ information systems

 

TSIALTAS CH. and KYRIMIS G.

Information system disaster recovery procedure and the human factor

 

HATZITHOMAS L. and FOTIADIS T.

The success of ERP systems: A comparative study between open source and commercial systems

 

MOUE A.S. (Unavailable, W-PC)

A famous heat engine and the information theory

 

CONSTANTOPOULOU C., ANDRAS CH. and DELIGIAURI A.

The power of Internet and the reflection of Information Technology in the daily Greek Press

 

KOSMOPOULOS A.

Challenging e-democracy: An overview of regulatory and legal implications with regard to ICT’s

 

SIMAIOFOROS TH.-A.

Genesis and Generation: The mathematical and philosophical theory of Timaios of Lokros

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Minisymposium:NON-LINEAR PHYSICAL PHENOMENA:

SOME RECENT STUDIES

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FAMELIS I. TH., EHRHARDT M. and BRATSOS A.

A discrete Adomian decomposition method for the discrete nonlinear Schrodinger equation

 

BRATSOS A., PAPAKOSTAS T., FAMELIS I., DELIS A. & NATSIS D.

An implicit numerical scheme for the atmospheric pollution

 

BRATSOS A.G.

A fourth order numerical scheme for the sine-Gordon equation

 

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Minisymposium: Defining the Grid:

                          Experiences and Future Trends

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KOUTRAS V., PLATIS A. and GRAVVANIS G.

Software rejuvenation on a grid computing environment for higher availability based on approximate inverse preconditioning

 

CASTAIN R.

Whither the Grid? Future directions and issues

 

PATIL A., NORVIK C., POWER D. and MORRISON J.

Implementing fine and coarse grained payment mechanisms using WebCom

 

CHOUHAN P., PATIL ARCH., PATIL AD. and MORRISON J.

WebCom core information module

 

PARASHAR M. and PIERSON J.-M.

When the Grid becomes pervasive: A vision on pervasive grids

 

SANCHEZ A., MONTES J., GUEANT P. and PEREZ M.

Lessons learnt from cluster computing: How they can be applied to grid environments

 

VINTER B.

The grid taken literally

 

VAFOPOULOS M., GRAVVANIS G. and PLATIS A.

New directions in computing on demand (CoD)

 

 

PETSOUNIS K.

Introduction to Data Analysis and Parallel Computing with MATLAB

 

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Minisymposium: Recent Innovations in Business

and Industrial Statistics

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PSARAKIS S., KIANI M. and PANARETOS J.

Contribution to monitor the standard deviation of a quality characteristic

 

ZAMBA G., TSIAMYRTZIS P. and HAWKINS D.

Bayesian statistical process control: An application to syndromic surveillance

 

MYTALAS G. and ZAZANIS M.

Quality inspection and cycle times in Manufacturing systems

 

ANTZOULAKOS D., KOUTRAS M. and RAKINTZIS A.

A new start-up demonstration test

 

KASKAVELIS E. and ARVANITIS A.

Process monitoring and fault detection using multivariate statistical process control –Case study from ELVAL aluminium DC casting process

 

BERSIMIS F., BERSIMIS S. and PSARAKIS S.

Multivariate control charts: A comparative study

 

NIKOLOPOULOS C, and YANNACOPOULOS A.

Optimal advertising policy in stochastic environments

 

SACHLAS A., PAPAIOANNOU T. and BERSIMIS S,

Controlling non-normal multivariate processes using information theoretic control charts

 

TSIPTSIS K.

Data mining in the framework of analytical CRM

 

PSARAKIS S., PANARETOS J. and KIANI M.

A control chart for monitoring process variability

 

 

 

 

 

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Minisymposium: Hybrid Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Management

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KARAGIANNOPOULOS M., ANYFANTIS D., KOTSIANTIS S. and PINTELAS P.

Feature selection for regression problems

 

TSIRIDIS D., ZAHARAKIS I. and KAMEAS A.

The role of indirect communication in emerging collective behaviours

 

KANELLOPOULOS D.

Intelligent multimedia adaption for universal multimedia access

 

LAZARINIS F.

Adding adaptive behaviour using information retrieval techniques to Greek e-shop search engines

 

TZELEPIS D. and TAMPAKAS V.

Using text mining techniques for analysing financial reports

 

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Minisymposium:Advanced Topics in Communications

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JIAYUE HE, MUNG CHIANG and REXFORD J.

Don’t optimize existing protocols, design optimizable protocols

 

DONG-WON SHIN, CHONG E.K.P. and SIEGEL H.J.

Multi-postpath-based lookahead multiconstraint QoS routing

 

CHERUBINI G.

Reliable resynchronization of sequential decoders

 

MANIKAS A., ELISSAIOS G.  and EFSTATHOPOULOS G.

A signal-subspace steering vector beamformer robust to pointing errors

 

GURCAN M., WELIWITEGODA D. and CHANDRA G.

Minimum distance improvement method for sequential detectors

 

PAPAZOGLOU P., KARRAS D. and PAPADEMETRIOU R.

Efficient Simulation methodologies for wireless multimedia communications systems

 

 

 

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Minisymposium: Computational Advances in Finance

and Management

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PSILLAKI M., TSOLAS I. and MARGARITIS D..

Evaluation of credit risk based on firm performance

 

PAPADEMETRIOU R., OSBORN A. and CHALVATZIS I.

MagLab- An Intelligent Management Learning Environment  

 

ANGELIDIS T. and TESSAROMATIS N.

Beta and specific risk forecasting: Implications for portfolio Management

 

LIPITAKIS A. and PHILLIPS P.

E-business strategies and adaptive algorithmic schemes

 

TSERKEZOS D. and THANOU E.

Portfolio Management: An investigation of the implications of measurement errors in stock prices on the creation, management andevaluation of stock portfolios, using stochastic simulations

 

ZAPRANIS A. and ALEXANDRIDIS A.

Modelling temperature time-dependent mean reversion with neural networks in the context of derivatives pricing

FRANGOS N., VRONTOS S. and YANNACOPOULOS A.

A computational approach for the calculation of value at risk using a partial differential equation 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contributed Papers

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Computational Mathematics

and its Applications

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SUN W., WU J. and ZHANG X.

Nonconforming spline collocation methods in irregular domains

 

DEMETRIOU I.C. and LIPITAKIS E.A.

Least squares data fitting by using the signs of divided differences

 

APOSTOLOPOULOU M., SOTIROPOULOS D. and BOTSARIS C.

A curvilinear method for large scale optimization problems

 

GRAPSA T.N. and MALIHOUTSAKI E.N.

A Newton’s method without direct evaluation of nonlinear function values

 

NIKOLOPOULOS C.V. and ZOURARIS G.

Numerical solution of a non-local elliptic problem modelling a thermistor with a finite element and a finite volume method

 

ZOURARIS G.E.

A linearly implicit Finite Element method for a Klein-Gordon-Schrodinger type system

 

LI F.-L., HU X.-Y. and ZHANG L.

Left and right inverse eigenpairs problem for the symmetrizable matrices

 

MAKROGLOU ATH. and KONSTANTINIDES D.

Second order Volterra integro-differential equations arising in ultimate ruin theory: An overview combined with numerical treatment

 

TYRTYSHNIKOV E., OSELEDETS I and ZAMARASHKIN N.

A new paradigm for construction of structured preconditioners

 

HADJIDIMOS A. and TZOUMAS M.

Using Extrapolation for the solution of the linear complementary problem

 

NOUTSOS D.

On Stein-Rosenberg type theorems for nonnegative splittings

 

VASSALOS P., NOUTSOS D. and SERRA CAPIZZANO S.

The conditioning of FD matrix sequences coming from semi-elliptic differential equations

 

SIFALAKIS A., FULTON S., PAPADOPOULOU E. & D SARIDAKIS Y.

On the iterative analysis of the generalized Dirichlet-Neumann map for Elliptic PDE’s

 

 

 

FinancIAL COMPUTING AND METHODOLOGIES

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MANSINI R., OGRYCZAK W. and GRAZIA SPERANZA M.

Tail Gini’s risk measures and related linear programming models for portfolio optimization

 

BARTKOWIAK A.

Comparing the distribution of the WIG20 and S&P500 index

 

PEFFERLY R.J.

Government debt collection metrics in the Estonian Market

 

LISGARA E.G. and ANDROULAKIS G.S.

An applied methodology for the prediction of time series’ local optima

 

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Computer Mathematics, Programming

and Software Applications

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VOUDOURIS D., SAMPSON M. and PAPAKONSTANTINOU G.

Variable reordering for reversible wave cascades

 

PANAGOPOULOS I., PAVLATOS C., DIMOPOULOS A. and PAPAKONSTANTINOU G.

Hardware solution of a first-order Diophantine equation

 

SAMPSON M., VOUDOURIS D., KALATHAS M. & PAPAKONSTANTINOU G.

A Quantum algorithm for finding minimal exclusive-or expressions for incompletely specified Boolean functions

 

TSELEPIS I., BEKAKOS M., NIKITAKIS A. and LIPITAKIS E.A.

MD5 hash algorithm hardware realization on a reconfigurable FPGA platform

 

SALAMANOS N., ALEXOGIANNI E. and VAZIRGIANNIS M.

AD-SHARE: An advertising method in P2P systems based on reputation management

 

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Computing & Algorithmic Methodologies

                 with Applications

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VERGINIS D.G.

Confidence intervals for nonparametric quantile estimators

 

HARHALAKIS S., SAMARAS N. and FRAGIADAKI E.

An extended evaluation of a collection of TCP congestion control algorithms

 

HARHALAKIS S., SAMARAS N. and FRAGIADAKI E.

An improved method for experimental evaluations of TCP congestion control algorithms

 

MARGARIS A., SOURAVLAS S., KOTSIALOS E. & ROUMELIOTIS M.

WinSPT- A software tool for speech signal processing

 

LIPITAKIS A.

Adaptive algorithmic methods and dynamical singular perturbation techniques for e-business problems and strategic management methodologies

 

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Bio-Informatics, Simulation and

                 Info-medical applications

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ANDREADIS I., SPYROU G., ANTARAKI A., GIANNAKOPOULOU G., KOULOHERI D., ZOGRAFOS G., NIKITA K. and LIGOMENIDES P.A.

Combining SVM and rule based classifiers for optimal classification in breast cancer diagnosis

 

VALAVANIS I., SPYROU G. and NIKITA K.

Investigating the structure of protein similarly networks both on sequence and structure level

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Parallel & Distributed Computing 

                          and Applications

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DENIS C., JEZEQUEL F. and SCOTT N.S.

High performance computation: Numerical music or numerical noise?

 

VIOLENTIS J., KOUTRAS V., PLATIS A. and GRAVVANIS G.

Asymptotic availability of an electrical substation via a semi-Markov process computed by generalized approximate inverse preconditioning

 

MICHAILIDIS P.D. and MARGARITIS K.G.

Parallelization of multiple string matching on a cluster platform

 

SOURAVLAS S., KOTSIALOS E., MARGARIS A. & ROUMELIOTIS M.

On simulating parallel algorithms with VHDL

 

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Dynamical Systems and Programming Models

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BENMAKROUHA F. and HESPEL CH.

Validation of a particular class of dynamical systems

 

BENMAKROUHA F. and HESPEL CH.

Generating formal power series and stability of bilinear systems

 

PRANEVICIUS H. and SUTIENE K.

The effect of copula on scenario tree structure

 

 

 

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