Ebook: Advances in Informatics: 10th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, PCI 2005, Volas, Greece, November 11-13, 2005. Proceedings
- Tags: Database Management, Software Engineering, Computer Communication Networks, Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
- Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3746
- Year: 2005
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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This volume contains a subset of the papers presented at the 10th Panhellenic Conference in Informatics (PCI 2005), which took place at the City of Volos, Greece, during November 11–13, 2005. After an international call for papers, 252 full papers were submitted. The number of the submitted papers constitutes a record number for the conf- ence and reveals its growing dynamics. The authors represented universities and institutes from the following countries: Algeria, Bulgaria, China, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland, Greece, The Netherlands, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Malaysia, Poland, Romania, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, UK, and USA. Of the submitted papers, 81 were accepted for inclusion in this volume, giving an acceptance ratio of appr- imately 32. 2%. The papers are classi?ed into 17 thematic sections as follows: – data bases and data mining – algorithms and theoretical foundations – cultural and museum information systems – Internet-scale software/information systems – wearable and mobile computing – computer graphics, virtual reality and visualization – AI, machine learning and knowledge bases – languages, text and speech processing – bioinformatics – software engineering – educational technologies – e-business – computer and sensor hardware and architecture – computer security – image and video processing – signal processing and telecommunications – computer and sensor networks We would like to thank all the ProgramCommittee members and the additional reviewers for devoting time, e?ort and expertise so bounteously.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, PCI 2005, held in Volas, Greece, in November 2005.
The 83 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 252 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on data bases and data mining, algorithms and theoretical foundations, cultural and museum information systems, internet-scale software/information systems, wearable and mobile computing, computer graphics, virtual reality and visualization, AI, machine learning and knowledge bases, languages, text and speech processing, bioinformatics, software engineering, educational technologies, e-business, computer and sensor hardware and architecture, computer security, image and video processing, signal processing and telecommunications, computer and sensor networks.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, PCI 2005, held in Volas, Greece, in November 2005.
The 83 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 252 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on data bases and data mining, algorithms and theoretical foundations, cultural and museum information systems, internet-scale software/information systems, wearable and mobile computing, computer graphics, virtual reality and visualization, AI, machine learning and knowledge bases, languages, text and speech processing, bioinformatics, software engineering, educational technologies, e-business, computer and sensor hardware and architecture, computer security, image and video processing, signal processing and telecommunications, computer and sensor networks.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages -
Closest Pair Queries with Spatial Constraints....Pages 1-13
Database Support for Data Mining Patterns....Pages 14-24
Visual Techniques for the Interpretation of Data Mining Outcomes....Pages 25-35
Towards In-Situ Data Storage in Sensor Databases....Pages 36-46
A Primal-Dual Algorithm for Online Non-uniform Facility Location....Pages 47-56
Routing and Wavelength Assignment in Generalized WDM Tree Networks of Bounded Degree....Pages 57-67
Maximum-Size Subgraphs of P4-Sparse Graphs Admitting a Perfect Matching....Pages 68-79
Boundary Labelling of Optimal Total Leader Length....Pages 80-89
Successive Linear Programs for Computing All Integral Points in a Minkowski Sum....Pages 90-100
The Contribution of Game Theory to Complex Systems....Pages 101-111
Estimated Path Selection for the Delay Constrained Least Cost Path....Pages 112-122
Finding Feasible Pathways in Metabolic Networks....Pages 123-133
One-Dimensional Finger Searching in RAM Model Revisited....Pages 134-144
How to Place Efficiently Guards and Paintings in an Art Gallery....Pages 145-154
Virtual Reality Systems and Applications: The Ancient Olympic Games....Pages 155-165
Auction Scenarios of Cultural Products over the WWW....Pages 166-176
Exploring Cultural Information Interaction Design: A Case Study of a Multimedia Exhibition Based on Customizable User Interfaces....Pages 177-187
Using Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) to Enhance the Museum Visit Experience....Pages 188-198
Trial Evaluation of Wireless Info-communication and Indoor Location-Based Services in Exhibition Shows....Pages 199-210
Epidemic Collaborative Geocast for Reliable Segmented File Sharing in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Devices....Pages 211-222
Investigating Factors Influencing the Response Time in ASP.NET Web Applications....Pages 223-233
Storing and Locating Mutable Data in Structured Peer-to-Peer Overlay Networks....Pages 234-244
Performance Analysis of Overheads for Matrix – Vector Multiplication in Cluster Environment....Pages 245-255
Middleware for Building Ubiquitous Computing Applications Using Distributed Objects....Pages 256-266
A Suffix Tree Based Prediction Scheme for Pervasive Computing Environments....Pages 267-277
Factors That Influence the Effectiveness of Mobile Advertising: The Case of SMS....Pages 278-285
An Improved HCI Method and Information Input Device Using Gloves for Wearable Computers....Pages 286-295
Efficient Parameterization of 3D Point-Sets Using Recursive Dynamic Base Surfaces....Pages 296-306
Interactive Dynamics for Large Virtual Reality Applications....Pages 307-316
A Pictorial Human Computer Interaction to Query Geographical Data....Pages 317-327
Bagging Model Trees for Classification Problems....Pages 328-337
On the Utility of Incremental Feature Selection for the Classification of Textual Data Streams....Pages 338-348
Gossip-Based Greedy Gaussian Mixture Learning....Pages 349-359
A Knowledge Management Architecture for 3D Shapes and Applications....Pages 360-370
Using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps as a Decision Support System for Political Decisions: The Case of Turkey’s Integration into the European Union....Pages 371-381
Developing a Robust Part-of-Speech Tagger for Biomedical Text....Pages 382-392
Weaving Aspect-Oriented Constraints into Metamodel-Based Model Transformation Steps....Pages 393-403
A Graphical Rule Authoring Tool for Defeasible Reasoning in the Semantic Web....Pages 404-414
Initial Experiences Porting a Bioinformatics Application to a Graphics Processor....Pages 415-425
Improving the Accuracy of Classifiers for the Prediction of Translation Initiation Sites in Genomic Sequences....Pages 426-436
A New Test System for Stability Measurement of Marker Gene Selection in DNA Microarray Data Analysis....Pages 437-447
Protein Classification with Multiple Algorithms....Pages 448-456
Computational Identification of Regulatory Factors Involved in MicroRNA Transcription....Pages 457-468
Web Service-Enabled Grid-Based Platform for Drug Resistance Management....Pages 469-479
The Enhancement of Class Model Development Using Business Rules....Pages 480-490
Scenario Networks: Specifying User Interfaces with Extended Use Cases....Pages 491-501
Teaching Programming with Robots: A Case Study on Greek Secondary Education....Pages 502-512
ASPIS: An Automated Information System for Certification and Analysis of Examination Process....Pages 513-522
Bridging the Contextual Distance: The e-CASE Learning Environment for Supporting Students’ Context Awareness....Pages 523-533
Designing Mobile Learning Experiences....Pages 534-544
From e-Business to Business Transformation....Pages 545-547
Trust, Privacy and Security in E-Business: Requirements and Solutions....Pages 548-558
Adoption of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems in Greece....Pages 559-570
Supply Chains of the Future and Emerging Consumer-Based Electronic Services....Pages 571-581
A Quantum Computer Architecture Based on Semiconductor Recombination Statistics....Pages 582-588
TSIC: Thermal Scheduling Simulator for Chip Multiprocessors....Pages 589-599
Tuning Blocked Array Layouts to Exploit Memory Hierarchy in SMT Architectures....Pages 600-610
A Tool for Calculating Energy Consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks....Pages 611-621
Hardware Support for Multithreaded Execution of Loops with Limited Parallelism....Pages 622-632
A Low – Power VLSI Architecture for Intra Prediction in H.264....Pages 633-640
Reducing TPC-H Benchmarking Time....Pages 641-650
CryptoPalm: A Cryptographic Library for PalmOS....Pages 651-660
On the Importance of Header Classification in HW/SW Network Intrusion Detection Systems....Pages 661-671
NGCE – Network Graphs for Computer Epidemiologists....Pages 672-683
Workflow Based Security Incident Management....Pages 684-694
A Deterministic Approach to Balancedness and Run Quantification in Pseudorandom Pattern Generators....Pages 695-704
Protecting Intellectual Property Rights and the JPEG2000 Coding Standard....Pages 705-715
Computationally Efficient Image Mosaicing Using Spanning Tree Representations....Pages 716-724
An MPEG-7 Based Description Scheme for Video Analysis Using Anthropocentric Video Content Descriptors....Pages 725-734
Detecting Abnormalities in Capsule Endoscopic Images by Textural Description and Neural Networks....Pages 735-745
Unsupervised Learning of Multiple Aspects of Moving Objects from Video....Pages 746-756
The Feature Vector Selection for Robust Multiple Face Detection....Pages 757-764
A Low Complexity Turbo Equalizer....Pages 765-775
Bit Error Rate Calculation for DS-CDMA Systems with WDS in the Presence of Rayleigh Fading and Power-Control Error....Pages 776-786
Multivariate AR Model Order Estimation with Unknown Process Order....Pages 787-797
Cortical Lateralization Analysis by Kolmogorov Entropy of EEG....Pages 798-807
Source-Based Minimum Cost Multicasting: Intermediate-Node Selection with Potentially Low Cost....Pages 808-819
Efficient Active Clustering of Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks....Pages 820-827
Evaluation of Audio Streaming in Secure Wireless Access Network....Pages 828-838
Reliable Transmission Using Intermediate Sink or Source Nodes in Sensor Networks....Pages 839-848
A Novel Heuristic Routing Algorithm Using Simulated Annealing in Ad Hoc Networks....Pages 849-857
Balancing HTTP Traffic Using Dynamically Updated Weights, an Implementation Approach....Pages 858-868
A Review of Microsoft Products, Strategy and Technologies....Pages 869-869
Back Matter....Pages -
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, PCI 2005, held in Volas, Greece, in November 2005.
The 83 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 252 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on data bases and data mining, algorithms and theoretical foundations, cultural and museum information systems, internet-scale software/information systems, wearable and mobile computing, computer graphics, virtual reality and visualization, AI, machine learning and knowledge bases, languages, text and speech processing, bioinformatics, software engineering, educational technologies, e-business, computer and sensor hardware and architecture, computer security, image and video processing, signal processing and telecommunications, computer and sensor networks.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages -
Closest Pair Queries with Spatial Constraints....Pages 1-13
Database Support for Data Mining Patterns....Pages 14-24
Visual Techniques for the Interpretation of Data Mining Outcomes....Pages 25-35
Towards In-Situ Data Storage in Sensor Databases....Pages 36-46
A Primal-Dual Algorithm for Online Non-uniform Facility Location....Pages 47-56
Routing and Wavelength Assignment in Generalized WDM Tree Networks of Bounded Degree....Pages 57-67
Maximum-Size Subgraphs of P4-Sparse Graphs Admitting a Perfect Matching....Pages 68-79
Boundary Labelling of Optimal Total Leader Length....Pages 80-89
Successive Linear Programs for Computing All Integral Points in a Minkowski Sum....Pages 90-100
The Contribution of Game Theory to Complex Systems....Pages 101-111
Estimated Path Selection for the Delay Constrained Least Cost Path....Pages 112-122
Finding Feasible Pathways in Metabolic Networks....Pages 123-133
One-Dimensional Finger Searching in RAM Model Revisited....Pages 134-144
How to Place Efficiently Guards and Paintings in an Art Gallery....Pages 145-154
Virtual Reality Systems and Applications: The Ancient Olympic Games....Pages 155-165
Auction Scenarios of Cultural Products over the WWW....Pages 166-176
Exploring Cultural Information Interaction Design: A Case Study of a Multimedia Exhibition Based on Customizable User Interfaces....Pages 177-187
Using Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) to Enhance the Museum Visit Experience....Pages 188-198
Trial Evaluation of Wireless Info-communication and Indoor Location-Based Services in Exhibition Shows....Pages 199-210
Epidemic Collaborative Geocast for Reliable Segmented File Sharing in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Devices....Pages 211-222
Investigating Factors Influencing the Response Time in ASP.NET Web Applications....Pages 223-233
Storing and Locating Mutable Data in Structured Peer-to-Peer Overlay Networks....Pages 234-244
Performance Analysis of Overheads for Matrix – Vector Multiplication in Cluster Environment....Pages 245-255
Middleware for Building Ubiquitous Computing Applications Using Distributed Objects....Pages 256-266
A Suffix Tree Based Prediction Scheme for Pervasive Computing Environments....Pages 267-277
Factors That Influence the Effectiveness of Mobile Advertising: The Case of SMS....Pages 278-285
An Improved HCI Method and Information Input Device Using Gloves for Wearable Computers....Pages 286-295
Efficient Parameterization of 3D Point-Sets Using Recursive Dynamic Base Surfaces....Pages 296-306
Interactive Dynamics for Large Virtual Reality Applications....Pages 307-316
A Pictorial Human Computer Interaction to Query Geographical Data....Pages 317-327
Bagging Model Trees for Classification Problems....Pages 328-337
On the Utility of Incremental Feature Selection for the Classification of Textual Data Streams....Pages 338-348
Gossip-Based Greedy Gaussian Mixture Learning....Pages 349-359
A Knowledge Management Architecture for 3D Shapes and Applications....Pages 360-370
Using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps as a Decision Support System for Political Decisions: The Case of Turkey’s Integration into the European Union....Pages 371-381
Developing a Robust Part-of-Speech Tagger for Biomedical Text....Pages 382-392
Weaving Aspect-Oriented Constraints into Metamodel-Based Model Transformation Steps....Pages 393-403
A Graphical Rule Authoring Tool for Defeasible Reasoning in the Semantic Web....Pages 404-414
Initial Experiences Porting a Bioinformatics Application to a Graphics Processor....Pages 415-425
Improving the Accuracy of Classifiers for the Prediction of Translation Initiation Sites in Genomic Sequences....Pages 426-436
A New Test System for Stability Measurement of Marker Gene Selection in DNA Microarray Data Analysis....Pages 437-447
Protein Classification with Multiple Algorithms....Pages 448-456
Computational Identification of Regulatory Factors Involved in MicroRNA Transcription....Pages 457-468
Web Service-Enabled Grid-Based Platform for Drug Resistance Management....Pages 469-479
The Enhancement of Class Model Development Using Business Rules....Pages 480-490
Scenario Networks: Specifying User Interfaces with Extended Use Cases....Pages 491-501
Teaching Programming with Robots: A Case Study on Greek Secondary Education....Pages 502-512
ASPIS: An Automated Information System for Certification and Analysis of Examination Process....Pages 513-522
Bridging the Contextual Distance: The e-CASE Learning Environment for Supporting Students’ Context Awareness....Pages 523-533
Designing Mobile Learning Experiences....Pages 534-544
From e-Business to Business Transformation....Pages 545-547
Trust, Privacy and Security in E-Business: Requirements and Solutions....Pages 548-558
Adoption of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems in Greece....Pages 559-570
Supply Chains of the Future and Emerging Consumer-Based Electronic Services....Pages 571-581
A Quantum Computer Architecture Based on Semiconductor Recombination Statistics....Pages 582-588
TSIC: Thermal Scheduling Simulator for Chip Multiprocessors....Pages 589-599
Tuning Blocked Array Layouts to Exploit Memory Hierarchy in SMT Architectures....Pages 600-610
A Tool for Calculating Energy Consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks....Pages 611-621
Hardware Support for Multithreaded Execution of Loops with Limited Parallelism....Pages 622-632
A Low – Power VLSI Architecture for Intra Prediction in H.264....Pages 633-640
Reducing TPC-H Benchmarking Time....Pages 641-650
CryptoPalm: A Cryptographic Library for PalmOS....Pages 651-660
On the Importance of Header Classification in HW/SW Network Intrusion Detection Systems....Pages 661-671
NGCE – Network Graphs for Computer Epidemiologists....Pages 672-683
Workflow Based Security Incident Management....Pages 684-694
A Deterministic Approach to Balancedness and Run Quantification in Pseudorandom Pattern Generators....Pages 695-704
Protecting Intellectual Property Rights and the JPEG2000 Coding Standard....Pages 705-715
Computationally Efficient Image Mosaicing Using Spanning Tree Representations....Pages 716-724
An MPEG-7 Based Description Scheme for Video Analysis Using Anthropocentric Video Content Descriptors....Pages 725-734
Detecting Abnormalities in Capsule Endoscopic Images by Textural Description and Neural Networks....Pages 735-745
Unsupervised Learning of Multiple Aspects of Moving Objects from Video....Pages 746-756
The Feature Vector Selection for Robust Multiple Face Detection....Pages 757-764
A Low Complexity Turbo Equalizer....Pages 765-775
Bit Error Rate Calculation for DS-CDMA Systems with WDS in the Presence of Rayleigh Fading and Power-Control Error....Pages 776-786
Multivariate AR Model Order Estimation with Unknown Process Order....Pages 787-797
Cortical Lateralization Analysis by Kolmogorov Entropy of EEG....Pages 798-807
Source-Based Minimum Cost Multicasting: Intermediate-Node Selection with Potentially Low Cost....Pages 808-819
Efficient Active Clustering of Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks....Pages 820-827
Evaluation of Audio Streaming in Secure Wireless Access Network....Pages 828-838
Reliable Transmission Using Intermediate Sink or Source Nodes in Sensor Networks....Pages 839-848
A Novel Heuristic Routing Algorithm Using Simulated Annealing in Ad Hoc Networks....Pages 849-857
Balancing HTTP Traffic Using Dynamically Updated Weights, an Implementation Approach....Pages 858-868
A Review of Microsoft Products, Strategy and Technologies....Pages 869-869
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