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MATHEMATICAL METHODS,

COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES, NON-LINEAR SYSTEMS, INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS

Proceedings of the 10th WSEAS International Conference on

MATHEMATICAL METHODS, COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES and INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (MAMECTIS '08)


NON-LINEAR ANALYSIS, NON-LINEAR SYSTEMS and CHAOS (NOLASC'08)

Proceedings of the 8th WSEAS International Conference on WAVELET ANALYSIS and MULTIRATE SYSTEMS (WAMUS'08)

Corfu, Greece, October 26-28, 2008

Mathematics and Computers in Science and Engineering A Series of Reference Books and Textbooks

Published by WSEAS Press www.wseas.org

ISSN: 1790-2769 ISBN: 978-960-474-012-3

MATHEMATICAL METHODS, COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES, NON-LINEAR SYSTEMS, INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS Proceedings of the 10th WSEAS International Conference on MATHEMATICAL METHODS, COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES and INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (MAMECTIS '08) Proceedings of the 7th WSEAS International Conference on NON-LINEAR ANALYSIS, NON-LINEAR SYSTEMS and CHAOS (NOLASC'08) Proceedings of the 8th WSEAS International Conference on WAVELET ANALYSIS and MULTIRATE SYSTEMS (WAMUS'08) Corfu, Greece, October 26-28, 2008 Mathematics and Computers in Science and Engineering A Series of Reference Books and Textbooks Published by WSEAS Press www.wseas.org Copyright © 2008, by WSEAS Press All the copyright of the present book belongs to the World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society Press. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the Editor of World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society Press. All papers of the present volume were peer reviewed by two independent reviewers. Acceptance was granted when both reviewers' recommendations were positive. See also: http://www.worldses.org/review/index.html

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World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society

MATHEMATICAL METHODS,

COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES, NON-LINEAR SYSTEMS, INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS


MATHEMATICAL METHODS, COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES and INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (MAMECTIS '08)


NON-LINEAR ANALYSIS, NON-LINEAR SYSTEMS and CHAOS (NOLASC'08)

Proceedings of the 8th WSEAS International Conference on WAVELET ANALYSIS and MULTIRATE SYSTEMS (WAMUS'08)

Corfu, Greece, October 26-28, 2008 Editors:

Prof. Nikos E. Mastorakis, MIUE (ASEI), Hellenic Naval Academy, Greece Prof. Marios Poulos, Ionio University, Corfu, Greece Prof. Valeri Mladenov, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria Prof. Zoran Bojkovic, Technical University of Belgrade, Serbia Prof. Dana Simian, University Lucian Blaga of Sibiu, Romania Prof. Stamatios Kartalopoulos, University of Oklahoma, USA Prof. Argyrios Varonides, University of Scranton, USA Prof. Constantin Udriste, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania

International Program Committee Members: Lotfi Zadeh, USA Dimitri Bertsekas, USA / GREECE Leonid Kazovsky, USA Stamatios Kartalopoulos, USA / GREECE George Vachtsevanos, USA / GREECE Ronald Yager, USA Demetrios Kazakos, USA / GREECE Theodore Trafalis, USA / GREECE Spyros Tragoudas, USA / GREECE Metin Demiralp, Turkey Kleanthis Psarris, USA / GREECE Argyrios Varonides, USA / GREECE Huda Abdullah, MALAYSIA Shahrum Abdullah, MALAYSIA Praveen Agarwal, INDIA Hafaifa Ahmed, ALGERIA Noel Shammas, UK Vladimir Aslanov, RUSSIA Igor Astrov, ESTONIA Carlos Aviles-Cruz, MEXICO Nikos Bardis, GREECE Kvetoslav Belda, CZECH REPUBLIC Palma Camastra, ITALY Ion Carstea, ROMANIA Daniela Carstea, ROMANIA Dumitru Cazacu, ROMANIA C.C. Henry Chan, TAIWAN Wlodzimierz Choromanski, POLAND Juan Ramón Díaz Santos, SPAIN Harald Funke, FRANCE Daniel Garcia, SPAIN Ioannis Gonos, GREECE Victor Grigoras, ROMANIA

Seon-Kwan Han, KOREA Carlos Hernández Franco, SPAIN Emanullah Hizel, TURKEY Jaroslav Hlava, CZECH REPUBLIC Nobutoshi Ikeda, JAPAN Mohammad Mehdi Karkhanehchi, IRAN Khairurrijal Khairurrijal, INDONESIA Raquel Lacuesta, SPAIN Olga Martin, ROMANIA Chul Hyun Lee, KOREA Jaime Lloret Mauri, SPAIN Dorin Dumitru Lucache, ROMANIA Martin Macko, CZECH REPUBLIC Juan A. Marin-Garcia, SPAIN Richard Naidoo, SOUTH AFRICA Mohd Zaki Nuawi, MALAYSIA Marios Poulos, GREECE Ioannis Pountourakis, GREECE Puntani Pongsumpun, THAILAND K V Ramana, INDIA Nicolas Ratier, FRANCE Maria Rizzi, ITALY Lungu Romulus, ROMANIA Luminita Scutaru, ROMANIA Irma Siller-Alcalá, MEXICO Anil Swarnkar, INDIA Horatiu Teodorescu, ROMANIA Fragkiskos Topalis, GREECE Popescu Theodor Dan, ROMANIA Ioannis Tzouvadakis, GREECE Matei Vinatoru, ROMANIA Petr Ekel, BRAZILIA Petr Wolf, CZECH REPUBLIC

Preface This book contains the proceedings of the 10th WSEAS International Conference on MATHEMATICAL METHODS, COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES and INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (MAMECTIS '08), proceedings of the 7th WSEAS International Conference on NON-LINEAR ANALYSIS, NON-LINEAR SYSTEMS and CHAOS (NOLASC'08), and proceedings of the 8th WSEAS International Conference on WAVELET ANALYSIS and MULTIRATE SYSTEMS (WAMUS'08) which were held in Corfu, Greece, October 26-28, 2008. These conferences aim to disseminate the latest research and applications in Circuits, Networks, Automation, Control, Robotics, Instrumentation and Measurement, Non-Linear Systems in Science, Non-Linear Systems in Engineering, Construction of wavelets, Wavelet Transforms and other relevant topics and applications. The friendliness and openness of the WSEAS conferences, adds to their ability to grow by constantly attracting young researchers. The WSEAS Conferences attract a large number of well-established and leading researchers in various areas of Science and Engineering as you can see from http://www.wseas.org/reports. Your feedback encourages the society to go ahead as you can see in http://www.worldses.org/feedback.htm The contents of this Book are also published in the CD-ROM Proceedings of the Conference. Both will be sent to the WSEAS collaborating indices after the conference: www.worldses.org/indexes In addition, papers of this book are permanently available to all the scientific community via the WSEAS E-Library. Expanded and enhanced versions of papers published in this conference proceedings are also going to be considered for possible publication in one of the WSEAS journals that participate in the major International Scientific Indices (Elsevier, Scopus, EI, ACM, Compendex, INSPEC, CSA .... see: www.worldses.org/indexes) these papers must be of high-quality (break-through work) and a new round of a very strict review will follow. (No additional fee will be required for the publication of the extended version in a journal). WSEAS has also collaboration with several other international publishers and all these excellent papers of this volume could be further improved, could be extended and could be enhanced for possible additional evaluation in one of the editions of these international publishers.

Finally, we cordially thank all the people of WSEAS for their efforts to maintain the high scientific level of conferences, proceedings and journals.

Table of Contents Plenary Lecture I: Geometrical Approach of Multi-Time Maximum Principle 15Constantin Udriste

Plenary Lecture II: Mathematical Modeling of Forest Fire Initiation 17Valeriy Perminov

Plenary Lecture III: Nature Inspired Algorithms in Intelligent Systems Modeling 19Dana Simian

Plenary Lecture IV: Global Optimization Strategies for Improved Bandwidth Management in Wireless Communications

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Dimitrios A. Karras

Plenary Lecture V: Intelligent Systems 22Ioan-Gheorghe Ratiu

Plenary Lecture VI: Outliers in Bilinear Time Series Model 24Azami Zaharim

Special Session I: Advanced Multimedia Annotation Tools and Methods 25Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Anastasis Kounoudes amd Klimis Ntalianis

Special Session II: Advanced Techniques and Simulations for Defense Applications 27Nikolaos G. Bardis and Nikolaos V. Karadimas

Reconstruction of Nonlinear Dynamics of a Cracked Rotor by Time Delay and Embedding Technique

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Alfayo A Alugongo and Sithebe Thembelani

Qualitative Behavior of Mixing Phenomena - the Case of Axisymmetric Extensional Flows 38Adela Ionescu and Daniela Coman A Gentle Introduction to the Boundary Element Method in Matlab/Freemat 46Stephen Kirkup and Javad Yazdani The Proposed Autonomous Mobile Robot Navigation System 53Ouarda Hachour

Constructive Formal Conversion of Moore Machine to Deterministic Finite Automata 59Shagufta Riaz and Nazir Ahmad Zafar

A Genetic_FPGA Algorithm Path planning of an Autonomous Mobile Robot 66Ouarda Hachour

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Buckling of Rectangular Laminated Composite Thin Plates Subject to Non-uniform In-plane Loading - A Differential Quadrature Approach

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M. Mohieddin Ghomshei and H. Oulad Dameshghie

Minimum Vertex Guard Problem for Orthogonal Polygons: a Genetic Approach 78Antonio L. Bajuelos, Santiago Canales, Gregorio Hernandez and Ana Mafalda Martins

Non-linear Effect of Noise around Highway On-Ramp 84Ding-Wei Huang

Bus Schedule Interfered by Traffic Lights 90Wei-Neng Huang

Implementation of the DWT using Intel IA-32 SIMD Extensions 96Enrique P. Martin and Jose Salvado

Component-based Face Detection in Colour Images 101Jamal Ahmad Dargham and Ali Chekima

Fuzzy Usability Evaluation of Information Systems in Public Administration 106Miloslav Hub and Michal Zatloukal

Chaotic and Higher Harmonic Oscillations in a Nonlinear ON-OFF Circuit with a Synchronous Switch

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Nizar Jabli, Hedi Khammari and M.Faouzi Mimouni

Theoretical Approach to Estimate the Air Rate in a Heated Medium Temperature Furnace 119Minea Alina Adriana

A New Approach in Obtaining Transfer Function for a Large- Scale Linear Network 122Rashidi, F.R.M. ; Ismail, R.M.T.R. and Ishak, R.

Towards a Semantic Self-Organising Web Page-Ranking Mechanism using Computational Geometry

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Marios Poulos and Sozon Papavlasopoulos

A Global Bibliometric Index for a Published Article 132Sozon Papavlasopoulos and Marios Poulos

Rough Concept Analysis for Rough Classification 137Yu-Kyung Kang and Suk-Hyung Hwang

Mathematical Modeling of Forest Fire Initiation 143Valeriy Perminov

Structural Reliability Improvement using Non-Linear and Adaptive Multi-Model Techniques 149Vassilios C. Moussas


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Comparison of Nonlinear Methods for Hematocrit Estimation from the Transduced Anodic Current Curve

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Hieu Trung Huynh, Jung-Ja Kim and Yonggwan Won

A Simulation of the Sport Small Arms Trigger Mechanisms 162Martin Macko

Enhancing Tidal Prediction Accuracy in Singapore Regional Model Using Local Model Approach

165

Yabin Sun, Piyamarn Sisomphon, Vladan Babovic and Eng Soon Chan

Low Voltage Chaotic Oscillator 171O. Tsakiridis, D. Sklavounos and J. Stonham Probability Model for Costs 193Daniela Damian

Aspects Regarding the Length of Typical Trails in a Web Site 203Nicoleta David

Friction and Heat transfer in Slip flow Boundary Layer at Constant Heat Flux Boundary Conditions

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M.H. Yazdi, S. Abdullah, I. Hashim, A. Zaharim and K. Sopian

Geometric Entities Related by Inequalities 214Constantin Udriste and Dragos Cioroboiu

Magnetic Dynamics Around a Configuration of Two Square AntiHelmholtz Coils 222Constantin Udriste and Monica Pirvan

A New Approach in Wavelet based Speech Compression 228Jalal Karam


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Features Sets based on Fuzzy Reasoning for Automatic Sea Floor Characterization 234Mircea Boscoianu, Cristian Molder, Janel Arhip, Mihai I. Stanciu and Iulian C. Vizitiu

Decision Fusion for Improved Automatic License Plate Recognition 240Mircea Boscoianu, Cristian Molder, Janel Arhip, Mihai I. Stanciu and Iulian C. Vizitiu

Analytical Model of the CKC-Based Activity Index Variance 246Rok Istenic and Damjan Zazula

iSCSI Protocol Adaptation with 2-Way TCP Hand Shake Mechanism for an Embedded Multi-Agent Based Health Care System

250

Shaikh Muhammad Allayear, Sung Soon Park and Jaechun No

On the Erosion Process Prediction of the Ductile Materials 256Viorel-Puiu Paun, Constantin Udriste and Constantin Patrascoiu

Toward a Multi-Agent Model for the Care of Patients at The Emergency Department 264Amani Daknou, Hayfa Zgaya, Slim Hammadi and Herve Hubert

Fast Algorithm for Detecting the Most Unusual Part of Digital Images with Application to Medical Databases

270

Kostadin Koroutchev and E. Korutcheva

Adaptive Authentication System for Behavior Biometrics using Supervised Pareto Self Organizing Maps

277

Masanori Nakakuni, Hiroshi Dozono and Shinsuke Itou

Base Selection Method for Recognition of Exon-Intron Boundaries 283Susumu Katayama and Yujiro Tomoshige

Automatic Control based on Wasp Behavioral Model and Stochastic Learning Automata 289Florin Stoica and Dana Simian

Using A* Algorithm for Directed Linear Arrangement Problem 295Derchian Tsaih, Guangming Wu, Shaoshin Hung and Chinshan Wu

On Integrated Ant Colony Optimization Strategies for Improved Channel Allocation in Large Scale Wireless Communications

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P.M. Papazoglou, D.A. Karras and R.C. Papademetriou

Structural Reliability Improvement using Non-Linear and Adaptive Multi-Model Techniques 307Vassilios C. Moussas

A Critical Overview on the Recent Advances in Channel Allocation Strategies for Voice and Multimedia Services in Wireless Communication Systems and the Applicability of Computational Intelligence Techniques

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P.M. Papazoglou, D.A. Karras and R.C. Papademetriou


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A Novel Neural Network Model Upon Biological and Electrical Perceptions 321Saki Yatano, Atsushi Fukasawa and Yumi Takizawa

Analysis Method for Time-Space Sequences by a Novel Neural Network 326Yumi Takizawa, Saki Yatano and Atsushi Fukasawa

On Lagrange Interpolation 332Dana Simian and Corina Simian

Genetical Programming Evolving Algorithms 338Mircea Iosif Neamtu

Advanced AI Techniques for Web Mining 343Ioan Dzitac and Ioana Moisil

Performance Improvements of a Kohonen self Organizing Classification Algorithm on Sparse Data Sets

347

Francesco Maiorana

An Upgraded Petri Net Model of Systolic Architecture for Solving Differential Equations Based on Taylor’s Method

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Perica Strbac, Milan Tuba and Dana Simian

A Generalization and a Quasi-Fractal Scheme of the Fibonacci Integer Sequence 359J-B. Cazier, C. Mandakas and V. Gekas

Fortran Codes for Computing the Acoustic Field Surrounding a Vibrating Plate by the Rayleigh Integral Method

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Stephen Kirkup

Electromagnetic Simulation by the FDTD method in Java 370Stephen Kirkup, Irfan Mulla, Goodchild Ndou and Javad Yazdani

On Stability and Ambiguous Representation of Shock Wave Discontinuity: Numerical Analysis on the Basis of Model Equation of State

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A.V. Konyukhov, A.P. Likhachev, V.E. Fortov and A.M. Oparin

Vertical Mining with Incomplete Data 380Faris Alqadah, Zhen Hu and Lawrence J. Mazlack

The Suitability of Statistical Distribution in Fitting Wind Speed Data 386Azami Zaharim, Siti Khadijah Najid, Ahmad Mahir Razali and Kamaruzzaman Sopian

Performance Testing of Wireless Intelligent Sensor and Actuator Network (WISAN) on a Pre-Stressed Concrete Bridge

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M. F. M. Zain, V. Krishnamurthy, E. Sazonov, M. Jamil and I.M. Taib


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Mathematical Regression Model for the Prediction of Concrete Strength 396M. F. M. Zain, Suhad M. Abd, K. Sopian, M. Jamil and Che-Ani A.I

Growth of Peas Pisum Sativum L. in the Presence of Diesel and Bacteria Consortia in Peat and Sandy Soil

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Laila Dubova, Olga Muter, Alina Mihailova, Ina Alsina, Vilhelmine Steinberga, Baiba Limane and Dzidra Zarina

Critical Analysis of GHG Emissions Generate by the Fossil Fuel Power Plant 408Cristian Dinca, Cosmin Marculescu, Adrian Badea and Cora Gheorghe

Global Optimization of Non-Linear Systems of Equations by Simulating the Flight of a Projectile in the Conformational Space

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Nicholas Harkiolakis

Using RFID Technology in Produce Traceability 421Ruey-Shun Chen, C-C Chen, K.C. Yeh, Y-C Chen and C-W, Kuo

Identification a Potential Wave Energy Location in Malaysia using GIS 426K.N. Abdul Maulud, O.A Karim, K. Sopian, Z. Md. Darus and E.E. Mohd. Ramly

Potential of Wind Energy in Sustainable Development of Resort Island in Malaysia: A Case Study of Pulau Perhentian (Perhentian Island)

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Zuhairuse Md Darus, Nor Atikah Hashim, Siti Nurhidayah Abdul Manan, Mohd Azhar Abdul Rahman, Khairul Nizam Abdul Maulud and Othman Abdul Karim

Special Session I: Advanced Multimedia Annotation Tools and Methods 437

Automatic Annotation of Multimedia Content by User Clickthroughs: Enhancing the Performance of Multimedia Search Engines

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Klimis Ntalianis, Anastasios Doulamis, Nicolas Tsapatsoulis and Nikolaos Doulamis

PIDALION: A Reconfigurable Agent-based Multimedia Search Engine Platform 447Anastasios Doulamis and Klimis Ntalianis

A Multi-level Video Annotation Tool based on XML-dictionaries 455Anastasis Kounoudes, Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Zenonas Theodosiou and Marios Milis

Semantically Annotating and Querying Databases 461Georgios Th. Karagiannis

Semantic Image Annotation via Hierarchical Classification 469Nicolas Tsapatsoulis and Klimis Ntalianis

Special Session II: Advanced Techniques and Simulations for Defense Applications 479

Risk Preparedness and Management Scheme for Military Units 481Nikolaos V. Karadimas, Nikolaos Doukas and Nikolaos P. Papastamatiou


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Design of a Secure Chat Application based on AES Cryptographic Algorithm and Key Management

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Nikolaos G. Bardis and Konstantinos Ntaikos Integrated Information Life-Cycle, Data Management and Secret Key Lifecycle Management for Military Applications

492

Nikolaos Doukas, Konstantinos Ntaikos and Nikolaos Bardis Effectiveness Data Transmission Error Detection using Check Sum Control for Military Applications

498

Nikolaos Doukas and Nikolaos Bardis Blind Source Separation for Digital Data Protection 503Nikolaos Doukas and Nikolaos V. Karadimas Author Index 511


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Plenary Lecture I

Geometrical Approach of Multi-Time Maximum Principle

Professor Constantin Udriste

University Politehnica of Bucharest Faculty of Applied Sciences

Department of Mathematics, Splaiul Independentei 313 Bucharest 060042,

ROMANIA

Email: [email protected],

Abstract: Many science and engineering problems can be formulated as optimization problems that are governed by contact distributions (multi-time Pfaff evolution systems)

and by cost functionals expressed as multiple integrals or curvilinear integrals. Our paper discuss the contact distribution constrained optimization problems, focussing on a geometric approach of multi-time maximum principle. This extends the work of Pontryaguin in the ODEs case to include the case of normal PDEs or, more general, the distribution case.

Section 1 formulates and proves a multi-time maximum principle for the case of multiple integral functionals. Section 2 establishes a version of multi-time maximum principle for the case of curvilinear integral functionals. Though a multiple integral functional is mathematically equivalent to a curvilinear integral functional (Section 3), their meaning is totally different in real life problems. Section 4 deals with a multi-time maximum principle approach of variational calculus in the case of nonintegrability.

Brief Biography of the Speaker:

Important Career Positions: Dean, Director, Chair, Full Professor 1990-, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Department of Mathematics.

Number of PhD Students: 25 in due time and 13 Doctors in Mathematics.

Membership of Associations: AMS, 1987; Tensor Society, 1985; Balkan Society of Geometers, President, 1994;

Publications: over 40 books; 200 papers; 200 communications.

Honors: D. Hurmuzescu Prize, Romanian Academy, 1985; Award MEI, 1988; Correspondent Member, Academia Peloritana, Messina, 1997; Titular Member, Academy of Romanian Scientists, 2007; Honorary Member, World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society, 2008-;

Organizer: The International Conference of Differential Geometry and Dynamical Systems, University Politehnica of Bucharest, October 5-7, 2007; 7th WSEAS International Conference on Systems Theory and Scientific Computation (ISTASC'07), Vouliagmeni Beach, Athens, Greece, August 24-26 (2007); European Computing Conference, Vouliagmeni Beach, Athens, Greece, September 24-26, 2007; 12th WSEAS International Conference


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on Applied Mathematics, Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 29-31, 2007; 7th WSEAS International Conference on Circuits, Systems, Electronics, Control and Signal Processing, Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 29-31, 2007; Chair-Committee: American Conference on Applied Mathematics (Math’08) and Management, Marketing and Finances (MMF’08), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, March 24-26, 2008; International Program Committee: The Applied Computing Conference (ACC-08), Istanbul, Turkey, May 27-30, 2008.

Fields of Interest: Differential Geometry, Optimizations on Riemannian Manifolds, Magnetic Dynamical Systems, Geometric Dynamics.


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Plenary Lecture II

Mathematical Modeling of Forest Fire Initiation

Professor Valeriy Perminov

Belovo Branch of Kemerovo State University Sovetskaya Street 41, Belovo,

Kemerovo region Russia, 652600.


Abstract: A mathematical model for the description of heat and mass transfer processes at forest fire initiation has been designed. This model is based on an analysis of known experimental data and using concept and methods from reactive media mechanics. Within the framework of this model, the forest and combustion products are considered as a homogeneous two temperatures, reacting, non - deformed medium. Temperatures of condensed (solid) and gaseous phases are separated out. The first includes a dry organic substance, moisture (water in the liquid-drop state), condensed pyrolysis and combustion products (coke, ash) and mineral part of forest fuels. In the gaseous phase we separate out only the components necessary to describe reactions of combustion (oxygen, combustible products of pyrolysis of forest fuels and the rest inert components). The solid phase constituting forest fuels has no intrinsic velocity, and its volumetric fractions, as compared to the gaseous phase, can be neglected in appropriate equations because a volume unit of wood. It is considered that 1) the flow has a developed turbulent nature, molecular transfer being neglected, 2) gaseous phase density doesn't depend on the pressure because of the low velocities of the flow in comparison with the velocity of the sound, 3) forest canopy is supposed to be non-deformed porous medium. The research is done by means of mathematical modeling of physical processes. It is based on numerical solution of Reynolds equations for chemical components and equations of energy conservation for gaseous and condensed (for canopy) phases. To describe the transfer of energy by radiation we use a diffusion approximation. It should be noted that the system of equations describes processes of transfer within the entire region of the forest massif, which includes the space between the underlying surface and the base of the forest canopy, the forest canopy and the space above it, while the appropriate components of the data base are used to calculate the specific properties of the various forest strata and the near-ground layer of atmosphere. This approach substantially simplifies the technology of solving problems of predicting the state of the medium in the fire zone numerically. The boundary-value problem we solve numerically using the method of splitting according to physical processes. In the first stage, the hydrodynamic pattern of flow and distribution of scalar functions was calculated. The system of ordinary differential equations of chemical kinetics obtained as a result of splitting was then integrated. A discrete analog was obtained by means of the control volume method using the SIMPLE like algorithm. The accuracy of the program was checked by the method of inserted analytical solutions. The time step was selected automatically. Fields of temperature, velocity, component mass fractions, and volume fractions of phases were obtained numerically. At the moment of ignition the gas combustible products of pyrolysis burn away, and the concentration of oxygen is rapidly reduced. The temperatures of both phases reach a maximum value at the point of ignition. The ignition processes is of a gas-phase nature—that is, initial heating of solid and gaseous phases occurs and moisture is evaporated. Then the decomposition process into condensed and volatile pyrolysis products starts, the later being ignited in the forest canopy. Note also that the transfer of energy from the fire source takes place due to radiation; the value of radiation heat flux density is small compared to that of the convective heat flux. As a result of heating of forest fuel elements, moisture evaporates, and pyrolysis occurs accompanied by the release of gaseous products, which then ignite. We can note that the isosurfaces of temperature are deformed by the action of wind. In the vicinity of the source of heat and mass release, heated air masses and products of pyrolysis and combustion float up. The wind field in the forest canopy interacts with the gas-jet obstacle that forms from the forest fire source and from the ignited forest canopy. Recirculating flow forms beyond the zone of heat and mass release,


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while on the windward side the movement of the air flowing past the ignition region accelerates. Under the influence of the wind the tilt angle of the flame is increased. As a result this part of the forest canopy, which is shifted in the direction of the wind from the center of the surface forest fire source, is subjected to a more intensive warming up. Mathematical model and the results of the calculation give an opportunity to evaluate critical condition of the forest fire initiation, which allows applying the given model for estimation of preventing forest fires conditions.

Brief Biography of the Speaker: Surname or Family Name: Perminov First name: Valeriy Birth date: October, 22 1958 Degrees: 1995 - Candidate of Science in Fluid mechanics Tomsk State University (this degree is equivalent to a doctorate degree - Ph.D in Fluid Mechanics). 1981 - Diploma as mathematics, Kemerovo State University. Positions held: 1997 - up to now - Deputy Director and Lecture (Assistant professor), Belovo Branch of Kemerovo State University. 1995-1996 - Assistant Professor of physical mechanics department at the faculty of mechanics and mathematics of the Tomsk State University. 1988-1995 - Senior research worker of physical mechanics department of Tomsk State University. 1984-1987 - A post-graduate student of physical mechanic department of Tomsk State University 1982-1983 - A probability student of physical mechanics department of Tomsk State University. 1981 - An assistant of the department of High mathematics, Kemerovo Technological Institution. Courses

Tomsk State University: 1. Programming (FORTRAN, PASCAL) - 1994-1996. 2. Numerical methods of mechanics of continuous media - 1995-1996. 3. Mechanics of reacting media and ecology - 1995 – 1996. 4. Forest Fire Physics - 1996. Belovo Branch of Kemerovo State University: 1. High mathematics – 1996 – up to now. 2. Differential Equations - 1997- 1999 3. Mechanics of continuous media - 1997- 2006. 4. Numerical methods - 1997- up to now 5. Mathematical modeling - 2000-up to now

My scientific interests are connected with the application of the methods of mechanics of reacting medium to the forest fires and ecological problems of environmental pollution. Mainly, it is a problem of creation of mathematical models for description of forest fires. Besides, I apply numerical methods for solution of partial differential equation systems, which are used in these models for description of forest fires. I've compiled some computer programs (I prepared my programs with the FORTRAN language. I have published over 80 papers in different editions. I took part in Russian and international grants. I took part in different all Russian and international conferences devoted to the problems of transfer processes, forest fires and ecology.


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Plenary Lecture III

Nature Inspired Algorithms in Intelligent Systems Modeling

Professor Dana Simian

Dept. of Computer Science University Lucian Blaga of Sibiu

ROMANIA


Abstract: Metaheuristics inspired from nature have gained increasing attention in recent years. They represent a powerful approach to solve NP-difficult problems. There are many examples of adaptive behaviour in natural multi-agent systems. The most known examples are ant colony behaviour and wasp colony behaviour The bio-inspired Ant Colony Optimization model simulates real ant behaviour to find the minimum length path between the ant nest and the food source. The wasp inspires algorithms are based on the model for the selforganization that takes place within a colony of wasps In a colony of wasps, interactions between members of the colony and the local environment result in dynamic distribution of tasks such as foraging and brood care. In addition, a hierarchical social order among the wasps of the colony is formed . .Self-organization, interactions between members of the colony and the local environment, direct and indirect interactions between individuals are very useful in artificial multiagent systems. Computational analogies of natural systems have served as inspiration for multi-agent optimization and control algorithms. Systems composed of several interacting autonomous agents have a big potential to be used in complex problems solving.

The aim of this lecture is to make a survey of ant and wasp based algorithms and models for solving complex optimization problems. Examples of applications of nature inspired algorithms for modeling multiagent systems in various fields are presented and analysed.

Brief Biography of the Speaker: Dana Simian received the diploma. in engineering from the University of Sibiu, Romania, the diploma. in Mathematics - Informatics from the University Babes-Bolyai of Cluj-Napoca, Romania and the Ph.D. in Mathematics from Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj- Napoca, She is Assoc. Prof. to the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences, University Lucian Blaga of Sibiu, Romania. She has a great experience in algorithms and numerical methods for modelling and optimization. She organized many special sessions within WSEAS conferences and many international workshop on topics related to modeling, approximation and optimization. She was a member of many scientific committees of international conferences. She has published more than 50 papers on a wide variety of subjects relating to multivariate interpolation, optimization, modeling, multiagent systems. She is co-editor of 6 WSEAS book series. She is author of 10 scientific books. She has been included in “Who is Who in the World” in 2006. She participated in many research grants.


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Plenary Lecture IV

Global Optimization Strategies for Improved Bandwidth Management in Wireless Communications

Professor Dimitrios A. Karras

Dept. Automation, Chalkis Institute of Technology,

Chalkis, GREECE

Emails: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

Abstract: Bandwidth management is one of the fundamental issues in wireless communications. The corresponding allocation schemes can not be static due to the dynamically changing traffic conditions and network performance. Thus, more sophisticated strategies adapted to current network conditions must be investigated and applied. Recently, various approaches have been proposed for channel allocation based on intelligent techniques such as multi-agent technology and genetic algorithms. These approaches constitute heuristic solutions to resource management problem. The goal of this plenary speech is two fold. First, is to present global optimization strategies for bandwidth management, based on computational intelligence techniques. Second, is to illustrate the development and application of a novel global optimization scheme, based on the ant colony optimization approach. Such an approach has not been proposed so far for solving the channel allocation problem in wireless communication systems. A comprehensive heuristic methodology based on global optimization and intelligent techniques like ant colony optimization and multi-agents is herein proposed. Simulation results show network performance improvement of the proposed global optimization strategy based on computational intelligence.

Brief Biography of the Speaker: Dimitrios A. Karras, PhD received his Diploma and M.Sc. Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 1985 and the Ph. Degree in Electrical Engineering, from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 1995, with honours. From 1989-1995 he was with the National Centre of Scientific Research as a collaborating researcher. From 1995-2000 he served as a visiting professor in the University of Ioannina, Dept. Informatics and in the University of Piraeus, Dept. Business Administration. From 2000-2003 he was with the Hellenic Aerospace Industry as technical Manager in Telecommunications projects as well as with the Hellenic Open University, Dept. Informatics as a visiting professor. In addition he was collaborating with the University of Hertfordshire as an external professor. Since 2004, he has been with the Chalkis Institute of Technology, Automation Dept., Greece as full professor in Digital Systems as well as with the Hellenic Open University, Dept. Informatics as a visiting professor. He has published more than 40 research Journal papers in various areas of pattern recognition, image/signal processing and neural networks and more than 120 research papers in International Scientific Conferences. His research interests span the fields of pattern recognition, neural networks and computational/ artificial intelligence, multidimensional digital signal processing, image processing and analysis, communications and security, biomedical engineering as well as parallel and fast algorithms.

Dr. Karras is Editor in Chief of the journal “International Journal of Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering (IJSISE)”, InderScience Publishers, http://www.inderscience.com/browse/ index.php?journalCODE=ijsise He has served as General Chair in the Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition, AIPR-07, Orlando, Florida, USA, July 9-12, 2007, in the International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice, SETP-07, Orlando, Florida, USA, July 9-12 2007 as well as in the International conference on Automation,


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Robotics and Control Systems, ARCS-08, Orlando, Florida, USA, July 7-10 2008. He was Programme Chair in the international conference IWSSIP 2005, September 2005, Chalkis, Greece.

Dr. Karras research efforts have been supported by a research grant in DKFZ- Germany in 1995, he is listed in a number of International Who's Who, he has served as session chair/ international program committee member in many International Scientific Conferences and as a referee in many research journals/conferences. Dr. Karras is a member of IEEE, a member of ACM as well as a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece.


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Plenary Lecture V

Intelligent Systems

Professor Ioan-Gheorghe Ratiu

Department of Mathematics, Information and Social-Human Sciences,

“George Baritiu” University Brasov,

ROMANIA

Emails: [email protected]

Abstract: Many definitions of intelligence exist, but for our purposes we use the following: intelligence is the ability to reach ones objectives. A system is more intelligent if it reaches its objectives faster and easier. This includes the ability to learn to do this. The intelligence of a system is a property of its mind. The mind is the functioning of its brain. Intelligent System (IS) is a system that learns during its existence. (In other words, it learns, for each situation, which response permits it to reach its objectives.) It continually acts, mentally and externally, and by acting reaches its objectives more often than pure chance would indicate.

This paper approaches the subject of paradigms for the categories of intelligent systems. First we can look at the term paradigm in its scientific meaning and then we make acquaintance with the main categories of intelligent systems (expert systems, intelligent systems based on genetic algorithms, artificial neuronal systems, fuzzy systems, hybrid intelligent systems). We will see that every system has one or more paradigms, but hybrid intelligent systems combine paradigms because they are made of different technologies.

Brief Biography of the Speaker:

Academic Positions:

• Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Informatics and Socio-Human Sciences, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Head of the Information Technology & Communication Department at “George Baritiu” University of Brasov, Romania, where, since 2006, he has held several academic positions.

• He has experience in Information Technology & Communication, Informatics & ECDL, Office Automation, Databases, Radiolocation, and Education.

Scientific activity:

• He has published a total of 5 books (2 books abroad), has participated in 3 national research projects, has published 41 various papers in conference proceedings or refereed journals (14 papers have been published abroad), has participated with 4 papers at the WSEAS Conferences, has published 2 articles in WSEAS Transactions, and he is a reviewer of WSEAS.

Studies:

• Ph.D. in Automatic Control, “Transilvania” University of Brasov (2006); • Licensed Officer in Radiolocation, Electrical Engineering, Electro-Mechanics, Electrical Machines and

Apparatus, Ministry of Defence (1995); Licensed in Military Sciences, Aviation, Anti-Aircraft Defence and


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Naval Faculty, Academy for Higher Military Studies of Bucharest (1993); Radiolocation Officer, Anti-Aircraft Artillery, Missiles and Radiolocation Military School for Active Officers of Brasov (1973);

• Licensed in Electrical Machines and Apparatus, Faculty of Mechanics, “Transilvania” University of Brasov (1981);

Experience:

• Assistant of the Department of Mathematics, Informatics and Socio-Human Sciences, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Director of the Education Planning and Organisation Department, “George Baritiu” University of Brasov (2002 – 2006);

• Commandant, Deputy Commandant for Education, Chief of Education Department, Chief Bureau, Chief of the Combat Training Bureau, Chief lecturer of the Combat Tactics and Applications Department, Lecturer of the Electronics and Radiolocation Department of the Air Force Non-commissioned and Technical Non-commissioned Officer School, “Avram Iancu” Radiolocation Military Institute; Anti-Aircraft Artillery and Missiles and Radiolocation Military School for Active Officers of Brasov; Technical Quality Control Service team leader, National General Inspectorate for Product Quality Control, Bucharest (1975 – 2001);

• Radar station team leader, Air Space Surveillance System of the Romanian Air Force (1973 – 1975).


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Plenary Lecture VI

Outliers in Bilinear Time Series Model

Assoc Professor Azami Zaharim

Coordinator for the Unit Fundamental Engineering Studies Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment,

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 UKM, Bangi, Selangor

MALAYSIA

Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Abstract: Ruberti et al. [1972] and Mohler [1973] initiated the idea of bilinear models with applications on control theory. A real in-depth statistical study was started by Granger and Anderson [1978a]. They presented various types of bilinear models and discussed the invertibility and stationarity properties of the models. They also showed that bilinear model performs well compared to linear model when applied to the Wőlfer sunspot data and the IBM daily common stock closing prices as available in Box and Jenkins [1976]. Another interesting feature of bilinear model is the fact that it is merely an extension of the linear ARMA model as well as being a simplified case of nonlinear Volterra series expansions (Weiner [1958]). Most discussion on detection of outliers is for the linear case. As for bilinear model, only Chen [1996] and Zaharim [1996] had explored the area. Chen used the Gibbs sampling method for general bilinear model but only considered one type of outlier only, the additive outlier. On the other hand, Zaharim used the least squares method for simple bilinear model to detect four type of outliers, the additive outlier (AO), innovational outlier (IO), temporary change (TC) and level change (LC). In this article, work by Zaharim [1996] is extended for BL(1,1,1,1). It is shown that the detection procedure performs well in detecting each type of outlier.

Brief Biography of the Speaker: Azami Zaharim worked first 13 years as a lecturer in the Universiti Teknologi MARA (University of MARA Technology - UiTM) before joining the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (National University of Malaysia - UKM) in the year 2003. He is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment UKM, and is currently Coordinator for the Unit Fundamental Engineering Studies. He obtained his BSc(Statistics and Computing) with Honours from North London University, UK in 1988 and PhD (Statistics) in 1996 from University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. He specialize in statistics, public opinion, engineering education and renewable energy resources.

He has until now published over 80 research papers in Journals and conferences, conducted more than 15 public opinion consultancies and delivered 3 keynotes/invited speeches at national and international meetings. He is currently the head of Renewable Energy Resources and Social Impact Research Group under the Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI). In the year 2007, he headed the Engineering Mathematics Research Group. At the same time, he is currently active involve in outcome based education (OBE) approach at the national level and the chairman of the Engineering Education Research Group since 2005. He is also involved actively in the research for the future of engineering education in Malaysia 2006 under the Ministry of Higher Education of Malaysia.


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Special Session I

Advanced Multimedia Annotation Tools and Methods

Aims and Scope

Several billions of multimedia files exist in loosely structured repositories (e.g. the Web) and their number grows rapidly every day. Currently less than 10 % of this information is professionally annotated, while the rest is either incompletely annotated or not annotated at all. As a result in most cases multimedia search engines achieve low precision and recall, while users are not satisfied by the retrieved content. To overcome these problem advanced multimedia annotation tools and methods should be implemented.

The purpose of this session is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the area of multimedia annotation from various disciplines. It aims at providing an integrated platform to present original methods, tools, and applications of Multimedia Annotation, emphasizing on semantics Therefore, the session serves as a forum enabling experience exchange between academia and industry, as well as between researchers working in different research branches.

Topics Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

• Multimedia annotation tools • Hierarchical Video Annotation • Image Annotation through Machine Learning • Automatic annotation of broadcast news • Integrated annotation systems • Annotation of cultural content • Automatic annotation through content authentication • Automatic annotation by event authentication • Annotation by user interaction • Annotation by content matching • Annotation by keyword matching • Ontologies and Multimedia Annotation

Session Organizers Dr. Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Communication and Internet Studies, Cyprus University of Technology, 31 Archbishop Kyprianos Str., CY-3036, Limassol, Cyprus, Tel.:+357 25002614 Email: [email protected] , URL: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~nicolast/ Dr. Anastasis Kounoudes, Chief Technical Officer, SignalGenerix Ltd., Archiishop Leontiou Α' Str., Maximos Court B', CY- 3504, Limassol, Cyprus, Tel.: + 357 25870072 Email: [email protected] , URL: http://www.philips.ac.cy/cgibin/hweb?-A=731&-V=organization Dr. Klimis Ntalianis, Senior Researcher, Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens 9, Iroon Polytechniou Str., 15780, Zografou, Athens, Greece, Phone: +30-210- 6812434 Email: [email protected] , URL: http://www.image.ntua.gr/~kntal


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Brief Biographies of the Organizers:

Dr. Nicolas Tsapatsoulis graduated from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the National Technical University of Athens in 1994 and received his Ph.D degree in 2000 from the same University. He has worked at the School of Electrical and Computer Eng. of the National Technical University of Athens (2000-2002) as a Research Assistant, being responsible for the project "ORESTEIA" IST-2000-26091, and at the Institute of Communications and Computer Systems, Athens, Greece, being a Class C' Researcher (2002-2003). During the academic period 2003-2004 he was with the Computer Science Dept. of the University of Cyprus being a Visiting Lecturer. The academic period 2004 - 2005 he served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the same department. Since September 2005 he works as a Technical Manager for the CRPF project OPTOPOIHSH: Development of knowledge-based Visual Attention models for Perceptual Video Coding.

He is a member of the Technical Chambers of Greece and Cyprus and a member of IEEE Signal Processing and Computer societies. He has published fourteen papers in international journals, eight papers in books and more than 52 in proceedings of international conferences. His research has been recognized by the international research community through more than 320 citations.

He served as Technical Program Co-Chair for the VLBV'01 workshop and he is a reviewer of several scientific journals (IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, etc). His current research interests lie in the areas of visual-attention based video coding, advanced human computer interaction, machine vision, and image and video processing.

Dr. Anastasis Kounoudes received his Meng in Computer Engineering and Informatics from the University of Patras, Greece, in 1997 and his PhD in Digital Signal Processing from Imperial College in 2000. During the period 2000-2002 he worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the Communications and Digital Signal Processing Group of Imperial College. He also worked with DERA (UK Ministry of Defence) and Qinetiq as researcher and technical consultant. In February 2002 he joined Domain Dynamics Ltd in London as a senior researcher and application engineer. Since January 2004, Dr Kounoudes holds the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Information Systems at the Philips College. His research interests include speaker verification, speech recognition, image processing for medical applications, underwater and wireless communications and ad-hoc networks. He recently received two grants from the Research Promotion Foundation for research in the area of speech biometric security systems. Dr Kounoudes serves as a reviewer of IEEE signal processing letters and a full member of the IEEE, the IEEE Communication Society and Cyprus Computer Society, and associate member of the City & Guilds, Imperial College (ACGI).

Dr. Klimis Ntalianis is a Senior Researcher at the National Technical University of Athens. He received the B.Sc. and the Ph.D. both from National Technical University of Athens. He is the author of more than 60 scientific papers. He has received scholarships and awards from the Institute of Computer and Communication Systems, the National Scholarships Foundation, the National Technical University of Athens and other Foundations. His research interests lie in the areas of encryption systems, data/information hiding algorithms, advanced human authentication technologies and multimedia analysis.

Program Committee:

• Anastasios Doulamis, University of Crete, GREECE • Anthony G. Constantinides, Imperial College London, UK • Angelos Amditis, i-sense Group - ICCS, GREECE • George Bebis, University of Nevada, USA • Stefanos Kollias, National Technical University of Athens, GREECE • Nikolaos Doulamis, National Technical University of Athens, GREECE • Antonis Karatzias, DIAS Publishing House, CYPRUS • Andreas Schmidt, FZI, GERMANY • Ioan Mihu, University of Sibiu, ROMANIA • Ole Hansen, University College Nordjylland, DENMARK • Georgios Karagiannis, Ormylia Art Diagnosis Center, GREECE • Nikos Papadakis, National Technical University of Athens, GREECE • Guido Cortelazzo, University of Padova, ITALY • Marios Hadjieleftheriou, AT&T, USA • Emmanouil Piperakis, Deutsche Securities Inc., JAPAN


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Special Session II

Advanced Techniques and Simulations for Defense Applications

Aims and Scope

The purpose of this session is to bring together researchers and practitioners from various disciplines, working in the areas of Defence and Defence applications. It aims to provide an integrated platform to present original methods, tools, techniques and innovative applications on IS&T for Defence and Intelligence. Therefore, the session serves as a forum enabling experience exchange between academia and industry, as well as between researchers working in different research branches.

Topics Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

• Information Security • Privacy and Security • Cryptography • Cryptanalysis • Hacking and Cracking • Risk Analysis • Threat Assessment/Modeling • IW and Information Infrastructure Protection • Biometric in the military applications • Artificial Intelligence in the military applications • Database Management • Data Mining and Data Warehousing • Knowledge Management • Military Decision Making • Military Systems Interoperability • Digitized Battlefield and C4ISR • Terrorism and Bioterrorism • Advanced signal processing for military applications • Early Warning Systems • GIS Systems • Crisis Management Systems • Pattern Recognition Systems • Applied information technology for military training

Session Organizers

Dr. Nikolaos G. Bardis, Adjunct Professor, Hellenic Army Academy, Hellenic Naval Academy, Hellenic Air force Academy; GREECE Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.sse.gr; http://www.haf.gr; http://www.hna.gr; http://www.rgcds.org Dr. Nikolaos V. Karadimas, Adjunct Professor, Hellenic Army Academy, Hellenic Air force Academy; GREECE Email: [email protected]


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Brief Biographies of the Organizers:

Nikolaos G. Bardis received the diploma of Computer Engineering and the PhD degree from National Technical University of Ukraine (Polytechnic Institute of Kiev) in 1995 and 1999 respectively. In 2000 the degrees was recognized as similar of the Hellenic Patra’s Polytechnic Institute on Department of Computer Science. He is an Adjunct Professor High Military Educational Institution, Hellenic Army Academy, Hellenic Naval Academy, Hellenic Air force Academy and research scientist at High Military Educational Institution (Hellenic Army Academy, Hellenic Naval Academy, Hellenic Air force Academy), at the National Centre for Scientific Research "Demokritos"- Greece on Applied Technologies Department & Net Media Lab and adjunct an Assistant Professor in the Automation Department at the Technological Education Institute (T.E.I) of Chalkida (Greece). His research interests include cryptography and data security, information theory, artificial intelligence, databases, software engineering and applications in Defence and in the Military Applications. He is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece, TPC COMSOC - IEEE, WSEAS, and RGCDS.

Nikolaos V. Karadimas was born in Athens, Greece and he received a Bachelor’s degree with Honours in Electronic Engineering and a Masters degree in Computer Science from Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland in 1997 and 1998, respectively. He also holds a Masters degree in Distributed and Multimedia Information Systems (1999) from Heriot-Watt University, Scotland. In 2007 he received a PhD degree from the National Technical University of Athens. Since 2007, he is a post-doctoral researcher at the Multimedia Technology Laboratory within National Technical University of Athens and a lecturer (407/80) at the High Military Educational Institution, Hellenic Army Academy. He is teaching in Technical NCO Academy and in Technological Educational Institute of Piraeus, as well. He is a Chartered Engineer and a member of the Greek Technical Chamber, of the IEEE, of WSEAS and of IET. His research interests are in the fields of Databases, Optimization Techniques, Geographical Information Systems, and Decision Support Systems with emphasis in the Military Applications.


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Author Index

Abd, S. M. 396 Abdul Karim, O. 431 Abdul Manan, S. N. 431 Abdul Maulud, K.N. 426, 431 Abdul Rahman, M. A. 431 Abdullah, S. 207 Adriana, M. A. 119 Allayear, S. M. 250 Alqadah, F. 380 Alsina, I. 403 Alugongo, A. A. 29 Arhip, J. 234, 240 Babovic, V. 165 Badea, A. 408 Bajuelos, A. L. 78 Bardis, N. G. 486, 492, 498 Boscoianu, M. 234, 240 Canales, S. 78 Carstea, C.-G. 176, 182, 187, 198 Cazier, J.-B. 359 Chan, E.S. 165 Che-Ani, A.I. 396 Chekima, A. 101 Chen, C.-C. 421 Chen, R.-S. 421 Chen, Y.-C. 421 Cioroboiu, D. 214 Coman, D. 38 Constantinescu, C. 187 C-W, Kuo 421 Daknou, A. 264 Dameshghie, H. O. 72 Damian, Dana 176, 182 Damian, Daniela 193 Dargham, J. A. 101 Darus, Z. Md. 426, 431 David, N. 176, 182, 203 Dinca, C. 408 Doukas, N. 481, 492, 498, 503 Doulamis, A. 439, 447 Doulamis, N. 439 Dozono, H. 277 Dubova, L. 403

Dzitac, I. 343 Fortov, V.E. 376 Fukasawa, A. 321, 326 Gekas, V. 359 Gheorghe, C. 408 Ghomshei, M. M. 72 Hachour, O. 53, 66 Hammadi, S. 264 Harkiolakis, N. 414 Hashim, I. 207 Hashim, N. A. 431 Hernandez, G. 78 Hu, Z. 380 Huang, D.-W. 84 Huang, W.-N. 90 Hub, M. 106 Hubert, H. 264 Hung, S. 295 Huynh, H. T. 156 Hwang, S.-H. 137 Ionescu, A. 38 Ishak, R. 122 Ismail, R.M.T.R. 122 Istenic, R. 246 Itou, S. 277 Jabli, N. 112 Jamil, M. 390, 396 Kang, Y.-K. 137 Karadimas, N. V. 469, 503 Karagiannis, G. Th. 461 Karam, J. 228 Karim, O.A. 426 Karras, D.A. 300, 314 Katayama, S. 283 Khammari, H. 112 Kim, J.-J. 156 Kirkup, S. 46, 364, 370 Konyukhov, A.V. 376 Koroutchev, K. 270 Korutcheva, E. 270 Kounoudes, A. 455 Krishnamurthy, V. 390 Likhachev, A.P. 376


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Limane, B. 403 Macko, M. 162 Maiorana, F. 347 Mandakas, C. 359 Marculescu, C. 408 Martin, E. P. 96 Martins, A. M. 78 Mazlack, L. J. 380 Mihailova, A. 403 Milis, M. 455 Mimouni, M.F. 112 Moisil, I. 343 Molder, C. 234, 240 Moussas, V.C. 149, 307 Mulla, I. 370 Muter, O. 403 Najid, S. K. 386 Nakakuni, M. 277 Ndou, G. 370 Neamtu, M. I. 338 No, J. 250 Ntaikos, K. 486, 492 Ntalianis, K. 439, 447, 469 Oparin, A.M. 376 Papademetriou, R.C. 300, 314 Papastamatiou, N. P. 481 Papavlasopoulos, S. 127, 132 Papazoglou, P.M. 300, 314 Park, S. S. 250 Patrascoiu, C. 256 Patrascu, L. 176, 182, 198 Patrascu, N. 176, 182, 198 Paun, V.-P. 256 Pearsica, M. 176, 182, 187 Perminov, V. 143 Pirvan, M. 222 Poulos, M. 127, 132 Ramly, E.E.M. 426 Rashidi, F.R.M. 122 Ratiu, I.-G. 176, 182, 187, 198 Razali, A. M. 386

Riaz, S. 59 Salvado, J. 96 Sazonov, E. 390 Simian, C. 332 Simian, D. 289, 332, 353 Sisomphon, P. 165 Sklavounos, D. 171 Sopian, K. 207, 386, 396, 426 Stanciu, M. I. 234, 240 Steinberga, V. 403 Stoica, F. 289 Stonham, J. 171 Strbac, P. 353 Strimbu, C. 187 Sun, Y. 165 Taib, I.M. 390 Takizawa, Y. 321, 326 Thembelani, S. 29 Theodosiou, Z. 455 Tomoshige, Y. 283 Tsaih, D. 295 Tsakiridis, O. 171 Tsapatsoulis, N. 439, 455, 469 Tuba, M. 353 Udriste, C. 214, 222, 256 Vizitiu, I. C. 234, 240 Won, Y. 156 Wu, C. 295 Wu, G. 295 Yatano, Saki 321, 326 Yazdani, J. 46, 370 Yazdi, M.H. 207 Yeh, K.C. 421 Zafar, N. A. 59 Zaharim, A. 207, 386 Zain, M. F. M. 390, 396 Zarina, D. 403 Zatloukal, M. 106 Zazula, D. 246 Zgaya, H. 264


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