19. ICTAI 2007: Patras, Greece
19th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2007), October 29-31, 2007, Patras, Greece, Volume 2. IEEE Computer Society 2007
Information Retrieval I
Ioannis Kanaris, Efstathios Stamatatos: Webpage Genre Identification Using Variable-Length Character n-Grams. 3-10
Sylvain Lamprier, Tassadit Amghar, Bernard Levrat, Frédéric Saubion: Document Length Normalization by Statistical Regression. 11-18
Sylvain Lamprier, Tassadit Amghar, Bernard Levrat, Frédéric Saubion: On Evaluation Methodologies for Text Segmentation Algorithms. 19-26
Information Retrieval II
Dario Bonino, Fulvio Corno, Paolo Pellegrino: Versatile RDF Representation for Multimedia Semantic Search. 32-38
Danilo Schmidt, Gabriela Lindemann, Thomas Schrader: First Steps towards an Intelligent Catalogue within the Open European Nephrology Science Center - OpEN.SC. 39-44
Manolis Maragoudakis: A Bayesian Network Model for Information Retrieval from Greek Texts. 50-54
Intelligent Agents I
Takashi Kokawa, Yoshiya Takeuchi, Ryota Sakamoto, Hitoshi Ogawa, Victor V. Kryssanov: An Agent-Based System for the Prevention of Earthquake-Induced Disasters. 55-62
Benjamin Fonooni: Rational-Emotional Agent Decision Making Algorithm Design with OWA. 63-66
Jean-Michel Contet, Franck Gechter, Pablo Gruer, Abderrafiaa Koukam: Application of Reactive Multiagent System to Linear Vehicle Platoon. 67-70
Masood Raza, Venkat V. S. S. Sastry: Command Agents with Human-Like Decision Making Strategies. 71-74
Intelligent Agents II
Jonathan Gaudreault, Jean-Marc Frayret, Gilles Pesant: Discrepancy-Based Method for Hierarchical Distributed Optimization. 75-81
Chi-Kong Chan, Ho-fung Leung: A Distributed Mechanism for Non-transferable Utility Buyer Coalition Problem. 82-86
Matthieu Boussard, Maroua Bouzid, Abdel-Illah Mouaddib: Multi-criteria Decision Making for Local Coordination in Multi-agent Systems. 87-90
Jean-Paul Jamont, Michel Occello: Designing Embedded Collective Systems: The DIAMOND Multiagent Method. 91-94
Intelligent Tutoring and E-Learning Systems
Chun Wai Liew, Joel A. Shapiro, Donald E. Smith: Knowledge Based Mechanisms for Tutoring Systems in Science and Engineering. 95-102
Salvatore Garruzzo, Domenico Rosaci, Giuseppe M. L. Sarnè: MASHA-EL: A Multi-Agent System for Supporting Adaptive E-Learning. 103-110
Luis de Marcos, Carmen Pagés, José-Javier Martínez, José Antonio Gutiérrez: Competency-Based Learning Object Sequencing Using Particle Swarms. 111-116
Christos E. Christodoulopoulos, Kyparisia A. Papanikolaou: A Group Formation Tool in an E-Learning Context. 117-123
Knowledge Discovery I
Mondelle Simeon, Robert J. Hilderman: Exploratory Quantitative Contrast Set Mining: A Discretization Approach. 124-131
Chris Seiffert, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Jason Van Hulse, Amri Napolitano: Mining Data with Rare Events: A Case Study. 132-139
Samah Jamal Fodeh, Pang-Ning Tan: Incorporating Background Knowledge for Subjective Rule Evaluation. 148-155
Knowledge Discovery II

Martin Atzmüller, Frank Puppe, Hans-Peter Buscher: Onto Confounding-Aware Subgroup Discovery. 163-170
Minghua Zhang, Wynne Hsu, Mong-Li Lee: Finding Orientation-Sensitive Patterns in Snapshot Databases. 171-178
Knowledge Discovery III
Gianluigi Folino, Clara Pizzuti, Giandomenico Spezzano: An Adaptive Distributed Ensemble Approach to Mine Concept-Drifting Data Streams. 183-188
Paula Cecilia Fritzsche, Dolores Rexachs, Emilio Luque: Applying Data Mining to Define TSP Asymptotic Time Complexity. 189-192
Ken-ichi Fukui, Kazuhisa Sato, Junichiro Mizusaki, Kazumi Saito, Masayuki Numao: Combining Burst Extraction Method and Sequence-Based SOM for Evaluation of Fracture Dynamics in Solid Oxide Fuel Cell. 193-196
Xiaohua Zhou, Xiaodan Zhang, Xiaohua Hu: Dragon Toolkit: Incorporating Auto-Learned Semantic Knowledge into Large-Scale Text Retrieval and Mining. 197-201
Knowledge Extraction
John L. Pfaltz: Establishing Logical Rules from Empirical Data. 202-209
Anna Koufakou, Enrique G. Ortiz, Michael Georgiopoulos, Georgios C. Anagnostopoulos, Kenneth M. Reynolds: A Scalable and Efficient Outlier Detection Strategy for Categorical Data. 210-217
Dimitrios Tsonos, Gerasimos Xydas, Georgios Kouroupetroglou: A Methodology for Reader's Emotional State Extraction to Augment Expressions in Speech Synthesis. 218-225
Yunsong Guo, Bart Selman: ExOpaque: A Framework to Explain Opaque Machine Learning Models Using Inductive Logic Programming. 226-229
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning I

Efstratios Kontopoulos, Nick Bassiliades, Grigoris Antoniou: Visual Stratification of Defeasible Logic Rule Bases. 238-245
Sandra de Amo, Arnaud Giacometti: Temporal Conditional Preferences over Sequences of Objects. 246-253
Matthew Williams, Anthony Hunter: Harnessing Ontologies for Argument-Based Decision-Making in Breast Cancer. 254-261
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning II
Omar Doukari, Eric Würbel, Robert Jeansoulin: A New Model for Belief Representation and Belief Revision Based on Inconsistencies Locality. 262-269
Nikolaos I. Spanoudakis, Konstantina Pendaraki: A Tool for Portfolio Generation Using an Argumentation Based Decision Making Framework. 270-273
Nikos Papadakis, Grigoris Antoniou, Dimitris Plexousakis: The Ramification Problem in Temporal Databases: Concurrent Execution with Conflicting Constraints. 274-278
Konstantinos N. Vavliakis, Andreas L. Symeonidis, Georgios T. Karagiannis, Pericles A. Mitkas: Eikonomia-An Integrated Semantically Aware Tool for Description and Retrieval of Byzantine Art Information. 279-282
Machine Learning I
Zhendong Zhao, Lei Yuan, Yuxuan Wang, Forrest Sheng Bao, Shun-Yi Zhang, Yan-Fei Sun: A Novel Model of Working Set Selection for SMO Decomposition Methods. 283-290
Khurum Nazir Junejo, Asim Karim: Automatic Personalized Spam Filtering through Significant Word Modeling. 291-298
Yan Zhou, Zach Jorgensen, W. Meador Inge: Combating Good Word Attacks on Statistical Spam Filters with Multiple Instance Learning. 298-305
Machine Learning II
Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Moiz Golawala, Jason Van Hulse: An Empirical Study of Learning from Imbalanced Data Using Random Forest. 310-317
Ioannis Partalas, Ioannis Feneris, Ioannis P. Vlahavas: Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning Using Strategies and Voting. 318-324
Antonia Kyriakopoulou: Using Clustering and Co-5raining to Boost Classification Performance. 325-330
Xiuquan Li, Zhidong Deng: A Machine Learning Approach to Predict Turning Points for Chaotic Financial Time Series. 331-335
Machine Learning III
Jeremias B. Machado, Wagner Caradori do Amaral, Ricardo J. G. B. Campello: Design of OBF-TS Fuzzy Models Based on Multiple Clustering Validity Criteria. 336-339
Mahmoud Zennaki, Ahmed Ech-Cherif, Jean-Charles Lamirel: Using Reactive Tabu Search in Semi-supervised Classification. 340-344
Georgios Bardis, Vassilios Golfinopoulos, Georgios Miaoulis, Dimitri Plemenos: Abstract Description Refinement Using Incremental Learning and Scene Reconstruction. 345-348
Machine Learning IV
Katia Kermanidis, Nikos Fakotakis: One-sided Sampling for Learning Taxonomic Relations in the Modern Greek Economic Domain. 354-361
Lazaros S. Iliadis: An intelligent Artificial Neural Network evaluation system using Fuzzy Set Hedges: Application in wood industry. 366-369
Neural Networks I
Chun-Cheng Peng, George D. Magoulas: Adaptive Nonmonotone Conjugate Gradient Training Algorithm for Recurrent Neural Networks. 374-381
Chien-Cheng Lee, Cheng-Yuan Shih: Time Series Prediction Using Robust Radial Basis Function with Two-Stage Learning Rule. 382-387
Harris Papadopoulos, Volodya Vovk, Alexander Gammerman: Conformal Prediction with Neural Networks. 388-395
Neural Networks II
Efstratios F. Georgopoulos, Sotiris M. Giannaropoulos: Solving Resource Management Optimization Problems in Contact Centers with Artificial Neural Networks. 405-412
Nikolaos Ampazis, Helen Iakovaki, Georgios Dounias: Author Identification of E-mail Messages with OLMAM Trained Feedforward Neural Networks. 413-417
Bae-Muu Chang, Hung-Hsu Tsai, Pao-Ta Yu: Character Recognition Based on Neural Network and Dempster-Shafer Theory. 418-423
Nikolaos D. Doulamis, Georgios Bardis, John Dragonas, George Miaoulis: Optimal Recursive Designers' Profile Estimation in Collaborative Declarative Environment. 424-427
NL Processing and Understanding I
Dimitrios P. Lyras, Kyriakos N. Sgarbas, Nikolaos D. Fakotakis: Using the Levenshtein Edit Distance for Automatic Lemmatization: A Case Study for Modern Greek and English. 428-435
Takuya Fukuda, Masataka Izumi, Takao Miura: Word Segmentation Using Domain Knowledge Based on Conditional Random Fields. 436-439
Saleem Abuleil: Using NLP Techniques for Tagging Events in Arabic Text. 440-443
Anne-Laure Ligozat, Brigitte Grau, Anne Vilnat, Isabelle Robba, Arnaud Grappy: Towards an Automatic Validation of Answers in Question Answering. 444-447
NL Processing and Understanding II
Niladri Chatterjee, Shiwali Mohan: Extraction-Based Single-Document Summarization Using Random Indexing. 448-455
Keven Ates, Kang Zhang: Constructing VEGGIE: Machine Learning for Context-Sensitive Graph Grammars. 456-463
Dimitris Bilidas, Maria Theologou, Vangelis Karkaletsis: Enriching OWL Ontologies with Linguistic and User-Related Annotations: The ELEON System. 464-467
Belén Díaz-Agudo, Juan A. Recio-García, Pedro A. González-Calero: Natural Language Queries in CBR Systems. 468-472
Search and Heuristics
Richard J. Wallace: Determining the Basis for Performance Variations in CSP Heuristics. 473-480
Cheuk Fun Bede Leung, Olli Kamarainen, Barry Richards: Approaches to the Subnet Generation Problem. 481-488
Djamal Habet, Lionel Paris, Belaid Benhamou: Consistent Neighborhood for the Satisfiability Problem. 497-501
Speech Processing and Understanding
Theodoros Kostoulas, Todor Ganchev, Iosif Mporas, Nikos Fakotakis: Detection of Negative Emotional States in Real-World Scenario. 502-509
Iosif Mporas, Todor Ganchev, Mihalis Siafarikas, Theodoros Kostoulas: Comparative Evaluation of Speech Parameterizations for Speech Recognition. 510-513
Mihalis Siafarikas, Todor Ganchev, Nikos Fakotakis: Wavelet Packet Bases for Speaker Recognition. 514-517
Alexandros Lazaridis, Panagiotis Zervas, Georgios Kokkinakis: Segmental Duration Modeling for Greek Speech Synthesis. 518-521
Vision and Video Processing
Nikolaos G. Bourbakis, Anna Esposito, Despina Kavraki: Multi-modal Interfaces for Interaction-Communication between Hearing and Visually Impaired Individuals: Problems and Issues. 522-530
Lei Xiong, Nanning Zheng, Qubo You, Jianyi Liu, Shaoyi Du: Eye Synthesis Using the Eye Curve Model. 531-534
Chien-Cheng Lee, Yu-Chun Chiang, Cheng-Yuan Shih, Hau-Ming Huang: Caption Localization and Detection for News Videos Using Frequency Analysis and Wavelet Features. 539



