Artificial Intelligence: Methods and Applications: 8th Hellenic Conference on AI, SETN 2014, Ioannina, Greece, May 15-17, 2014. Proceedings

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by  Aristidis Likas

Aristidis Likas
Konstantinos Blekas
Dimitris Kalles (Eds.)
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Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 8445
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UniversityofAlberta,Edmonton,Canada
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HokkaidoUniversity,Sapporo,Japan
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DFKIandSaarlandUniversity,Saarbrücken,Germany
Aristidis Likas Konstantinos Blekas
Dimitris Kalles (Eds.)
Artificial Intelligence:
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8th Hellenic Conference on AI, SETN 2014
Ioannina, Greece, May 15-17, 2014
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AristidisLikas
KonstantinosBlekas
UniversityofIoannina
DepartmentofComputerScienceandEngineering
45110,Ioannina,Greece
E-mail:{arly,kblekas}@cs.uoi.gr
DimitrisKalles
HellenicOpenUniversity
SchoolofScienceandTechnology
26335,Peribola,Patras,Greece
E-mail:[email protected]
ISSN0302-9743 e-ISSN1611-3349
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Preface
This volume contains the papers presented at the 8th Hellenic Conference on
ArtificialIntelligence(SETN2014),the officialmeetingoftheHellenic Artificial
IntelligenceSociety(EETN).TheSETN2014conferencetookplaceinIoannina,
Greece,duringMay15–17,2014,andwasorganizedbytheDepartmentofCom-
puter Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina, Greece, in collaboration
with the Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Society.
SETN was first held in 1996 (University of Piraeus) and then in 2002 (Aris-
totle University of Thessaloniki). Since then it has occurred biannually: at the
UniversityoftheAegean(2004,2008),theUniversityofCrete(2006),theNCSR
Demokritos(2010),andtheUniversityofCentralGreece(2012).Overtheyears,
SETN has become one of the premier events for the discussion and dissemina-
tion of research results in the field of AI, produced mainly by Greek scientists
frominstitutesbothinGreeceandaroundtheworld.Thetwomajorgoalsofthe
conferenceare(a)topromoteresearchinAI,oneofthemostexcitingandactive
research areas in computer science and engineering and (b) to bring together
scientists and engineers from academia and industry to discuss the challeng-
ing problems encountered and the solutions that could be adopted. In addition,
SETN conferences aim at increasing international participation. This year we
had submissions from all over the world: USA, Australia, UK, Germany, Italy,
France, Austria, Denmark, Norway,Czech Republic, China, and Tunisia among
others.
The technical program of SETN 2014 included three plenary talks from dis-
tinguished keynote speakers:
– Planning for Complex Physical Systems, Lydia E. Kavraki,Rice University,
USA.
– Making Educational Software more Reactive to Users: How AI Can Help,
George D. Magoulas, University of London, UK.
– Multisensory Data-Driven Systems to Promote Safe Exercising in Chronic
Conditions, Fillia Makedon, University of Texas at Arlington, USA.
Theconferenceattractedpapersubmissionsby229authorsfrom21countries(11
European).Thedecisionforeachsubmittedpaperwasbasedontheevaluationof
atleasttworeviewers.ThereviewswereperformedbyaninternationalProgram
Committee consisting of 107 members as well as from 11 additional reviewers.
The review process was very selective and, as a result, 34 out of 60 papers
submitted as regular (10-14 pages) were accepted. In addition, five submissions
wereacceptedasshortpapers(6pages).Finally,another15paperswereaccepted
and presented in the following four special sessions:
– ActionLanguages:Theory&Practice,organizedbyAlexanderArtikis,Marco
Montali, Theodore Patkos, and Stavros Vassos.
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– Computational Intelligence Techniques for Biosignal Analysis and Evalua-
tion, organized by Chrysostomos Stylios and Lenka Lhotska.
– GameArtificialIntelligence,organizedbyAntoniosLiapis,SpyridonSamoth-
rakis, Georgios N. Yannakakis, and Stavros Vassos.
– Multimodal Recommendation Systems and Their Application to Tourism,
organized by Constantine Kotropoulos and Pavlos Efraimidis.
All the 54 papers presented at the conference are included in this proceedings
volume. An indication of the scientific quality is that the International Journal
of Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) agreed to publish a special issue with
extended versions of selected papers presented at the conference.
The SETN 2014 programalso included the following four tutorials:
– Accessing 3D Object Collections (Instructor: Ioannis Pratikakis).
– Community Detection and Evaluation in RealGraphs, (Instructors:Christos
Giatsidis, Fragkiskos D. Malliaros, and Michalis Vazirgiannis).
– Engineering Competitive Multi-Agent Systems (Instructors: Alexander Ar-
tikis and Jeremy Pitt).
– Game Artificial Intelligence, (Instructors:Antonios Liapis and Georgios N.
Yannakakis).
Theeditorswouldliketothankallthosewhocontributedtotheimplementation
ofSETN2014.Inparticular,wewouldliketoexpressourgratitudetotheOrga-
nizingCommittee(andespeciallytoNikolaosTziortziotis)forimplementingthe
conferencescheduleinatimelyandflawlessmanner,theSteeringCommitteefor
itsassistanceandsupport,theProgramCommitteeandtheadditionalreviewers
who did valuable work under a tight time schedule, and the three distinguished
keynote speakers for their kind participation.
Wewouldalsoliketothankourfinancialsponsors:theUniversityofIoannina,
Greece, the Hellenic Open University, Greece, and Klidarithmos Publications.
WeowespecialthankstoSpringeraswellastotheSpringerteamand,especially,
to Alfred Hofmann, Anna Kramer, and Frank Holzwarth for their continuous
help andsupport in preparingand publishing this volume ofLNCS/LNAI. Last
but not least, we are indebted to all authors who considered this conference as
a forum for presenting and disseminating their research work, as well as to all
conferenceparticipantsfortheiractiveengagementandtheircontributiontothe
success of SETN 2014.
May 2014 Aristidis Likas
Konstantinos Blekas
Dimitris Kalles
Organization
SETN 2014 was organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engi-
neering of the University of Ioannina, Greece, and the Hellenic Artificial Intelli-
gence Society (EETN).
General Chairs
Aristidis Likas University of Ioannina, Greece
Konstantinos Blekas University of Ioannina, Greece
Dimitris Kalles Hellenic Open University, Greece
Steering Committee
Vangelis Karkaletsis NCSR Demokritos, Greece
Ilias Maglogiannis University of Pireaus, Greece
Vassilis Plagianakos University of Thessaly, Greece
Constantine Spyropoulos NCSR Demokritos, Greece
Ioannis Vlahavas Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
George Vouros University of Pireaus, Greece
Organizing Committee
Nikolaos Tziortziotis University of Ioannina, Greece
Grigoris Tzortzis University of Ioannina, Greece
Antonis Ioannidis University of Ioannina, Greece
Evaggelos
Kourakos-Mavromichalis University of Ioannina, Greece
Konstantinos Tziortziotis University of Ioannina, Greece
Program Committee
Christos-Nikolaos
Anagnostopoulos University of the Aegean, Greece
Andreas Andreou Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
Ion Androutsopoulos Athens University of Economics and Business,
Greece
Grigoris Antoniou University of Huddersfield, UK
Avi Arampatzis Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Antonis Argyros University of Crete and FORTH, Greece
VIII Organization
Alexander Artikis NCSR Demokritos, Greece
Nick Bassiliades Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Antonis Bikakis University College London, UK
Didac Busquets Imperial College London, UK
Georgios Chalkiadakis Technical University of Crete, Greece
Vasileios Chasanis University of Ioannina, Greece
Sotirios Chatzis Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
Federico Chesani University of Bologna, Italy
Vaclav Chudacek Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
Theo Damoulas New York University, USA
Christos Dimitrakakis University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Georgios Dounias University of the Aegean, Greece
Pavlos S. Efraimidis Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Jacqueline Fairley Emory University, USA
Todor Ganchev Technical University of Varna, Bulgaria
Antonios Gasteratos Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Basilis Gatos NCSR Demokritos, Greece
Efstratios Georgopoulos Technological Educational Institute of
Peloponnese, Greece
George Georgoulas Technological Educational Institute of Epirus,
Greece
Manolis Gergatsoulis Ionian University, Greece
Artemis Hatzigeorgiou University of Thessaly, Greece
Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis University of Patras, Greece
Dimitris Iakovidis Technological Educational Institute of Lamia,
Greece
Lazaros Iliadis Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Argyris Kalogeratos Ecole Normale Suprieure de Cachan, France
Alexandros Kalousis University of Geneva, Switzerland
Achilles Kameas Hellenic Open University, Greece
Vangelis Karkaletsis NCSR Demokritos, Greece
Kostas Karpouzis National Technical University of Athens,
Greece
Petros Karvelis Technological Institute of Epirus, Greece
Petros Kefalas University of Sheffield, UK
Katia Lida Kermanidis Ionian University, Greece
Iasonas Kokkinos Ecole Centrale de Paris, France
Stefanos Kollias National Technical University of Athens,
Greece
Lisimachos Kondi University of Ioannina, Greece
Stasinos Konstantopoulos NCSR Demokritos, Greece
Dimitrios Kosmopoulos Technological Educational Institute of Crete,
Greece
Constantine Kotropoulos Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Organization IX
Manolis Koubarakis National and Kapodistrian University of
Athens, Greece
Costas Koutras University of Peloponnese, Greece
Konstantinos Koutroumbas National Observatory of Athens, Greece
Antonios Liapis IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Jorge Lobo Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
George Magoulas University of London, UK
Manolis Maragoudakis University of the Aegean, Greece
Nikolaos Mavridis New York University, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Loizos Michael Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Phivos Mylonas National Technical University of Athens,
Greece
Mark Nelson IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Nikos Nikolaidis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
George Nikolakopoulos Lulea University of Technology, Sweden
Christophoros Nikou University of Ioannina, Greece
Georgios Paliouras NCSR Demokritos, Greece
Michail Panagopoulos Ionian University, Greece
Christos Papatheodorou Ionian University, Greece
Konstantinos Parsopoulos University of Ioannina, Greece
Ioannis Partalas Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble,
France
Theodore Patkos FORTH, Greece
Nicos Pavlidis Lancaster University, UK
Pavlos Peppas University of Patras, Greece
Diego Perez University of Essex, UK
Georgios Petasis NCSR Demokritos, Greece
Sergios Petridis NCSR Demokritos, Greece
Vassilis Plagianakos University of Central Greece, Greece
Dimitris Plexousakis University of Crete, Greece
George Potamias FORTH, Greece
Ioannis Pratikakis Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Mike Preuss TU Dortmund, Germany
Ioannis Refanidis University of Macedonia, Greece
Regis Riveret Imperial College London, UK
Ilias Sakellariou University of Macedonia, Greece
Spyridon Samothrakis University of Essex, UK
Kyriakos Sgarbas University of Patras, Greece
Andreas Stafylopatis National Technical University of Athens,
Greece
Efstathios Stamatatos University of the Aegean, Greece
Stefano Bromuri University of Applied Sciences Western
Switzerland
Kostas Stergiou Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
X Organization
Giorgos Stamou National Technical University of Athens,
Greece
Chrysostomos Stylios Technological Educational Institute of Epirus,
Greece
Anastasios Tefas Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Michalis Titsias Athens University of Economics and Business,
Greece
Julian Togelius IT University of Compenhagen, Denmark
Panos Trahanias University of Crete, Greece
Ioannis Tsamardinos University of Crete, Greece
George Tsihrintzis University of Piraeus, Greece
Grigorios Tsoumakas Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Nikolaos Tziortziotis University of Ioannina, Greece
Grigorios Tzortzis University of Ioannina, Greece
Nikolaos Vassilas Technological Educational Institute of Athens,
Greece
Stavros Vassos Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Michalis Vazirgiannis Athens University of Economics and Business,
Greece
Maria Virvou University of Piraeus, Greece
Konstantinos Vlachos National Technical University of Athens,
Greece
Ioannis Vlahavas Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Nikos Vlassis University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Dimitrios Vogiatzis NCSR Demokritos, Greece
Michael N. Vrahatis University of Patras, Greece
George Vouros University of Piraeus, Greece
Dimitris Vrakas Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Stefanos Zafeiriou Imperial College London, UK
Michalis Zervakis Technical University of Crete, Greece
Additional Reviewers
Christos Berberis International Hellenic University, Greece
Anestis Fachantidis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Theodoros Giannakopoulos NCSR Demokritos, Greece
Ioannis Kavakiotis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Aris Kosmopoulos NCSR Demokritos, Greece
Remous-Aris Koutsiamanis Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Anastasia Krithara NCSR Demokritos, Greece
Christos Rodosthenous Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Eleftherios Spyromitros-Xioufis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Giorgos Stamatelatos Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Chrysostomos Zeginis University of Crete, Greece