Hercma 2007 conference hellenic european research on

Nonconforming spline collocation methods in irregular domains

SUN W.¹, WU J.² and ZHANG X.¹, ⁽¹⁾ Dept. Of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong, China, ⁽²⁾ Institute of Applied Physics and Comp. Mathematics, Beijing, China
17.00- 17.30 4H-2

Least squares data fitting by using the signs of divided differences

DEMETRIOU I.C.¹ and LIPITAKIS E.A.², ⁽¹⁾ Dept. of Economics, University of Athens, ⁽²⁾ Dept. of Informatics, Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece
17.30- 18.00 4H-3

A curvilinear method for large scale optimization problems

APOSTOLOPOULOU M.¹, SOTIROPOULOS D.² and BOTSARIS C.¹, ⁽¹⁾ Dept. of Mathematics, University of Patras, ⁽²⁾ Dept. of Informatics, Ionian University, Greece
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Session 5A: NEW HORIZONS IN COMPUTING-II*

Chairman: Professor T. Asano, Advanced Inst. of Science & Technology, Japan

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18.00- 18.30 5A-1

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

IZUMI T. and WADA K., Dept. of Computer Science & Engng, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
18.30- 19.00 5A-2

Theoretical and practical issues of evacuation planning in urban areas

KAMIYAMA N., KATOH N. and TAKIZAWA A., Dept. of Architecture and Arch. Engng, Kyoto University, Japan
19.00- 19.30 5A-3

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

TOKUYAMA T., Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Japan
19.30- 20.00 5A-4

Session Discussion

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Session 5B: Numerical Methods for Singular Integral Equations and Fractional Differential Equations- II*

Chairman: Professor N.J. Ford, University of Chester, England

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18.00- 18.30 5B-1

Mathematical models of plant species interactions in harsh climates

EKAKA-A N. E.-O. and FORD N.J., Dept. Mathematics, University of Chester, U.K.
18.30- 19.00 5B-2

Frequency domain methods for continuous and discrete Volterra equations

HOGAN G., National Council for Special Education, Republic of Ireland
19.00- 19.30 5B-3

Comparative methodologies for biological signal modelling

SOUTHALL G.J., NTI- University of Chester, U.K.
19.30- 20.00 5B-4

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

LUMB P.M., Dept. Mathematics, University of Chester, U.K.

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Existence of solution and numerical methods for forward-backward equations

FORD N.J.¹, LUMB P.M.¹, LIMA P.M.² and TEODORO M.F.<sup>2

(1)</sup> Dept. Mathematics, University of Chester, U.K., ⁽²⁾ Center of Mathematics & Applications-IST, Lisboa, Portugal

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Session Discussion

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Session 5C: Minisymposium:Advanced Topics in Communications*

Chairpersons: Prof. R.C. Papademetriou, University of Portsmouth, England and Prof. Mung Chiang, Princeton University, USA

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18.00- 18.30 5C-1

Reliable resynchronization of sequential decoders

CHERUBINI G., IBM Research, Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
18.30- 19.00 5C-2

Don’t optimize existing protocols, design optimizable protocols

JIAYUE HE, MUNG CHIANG and REXFORD J., Princeton University, USA
19.00- 19.30 5C-3

Multi-postpath-based lookahead multiconstraint QoS routing

DONG-WON SHIN¹, CHONG E.K.P.² and SIEGEL H.J.², ⁽¹⁾ Samsung Networks, Seoul, Korea, ⁽²⁾ Colorado State University, USA
19.30- 20.00 5C-4

A signal-subspace steering vector beamformer robust to pointing errors

MANIKAS A., ELISSAIOS G. and EFSTATHOPOULOS G., Imperial College, London, England
20.00- 20.30 5C-5

Efficient Simulation methodologies for wireless Multimedia Communication Systems

PAPAZOGLOU P. ¹, KARRAS D.² and PAPADEMETRIOU R.¹, ⁽¹⁾ Univ. of Portsmouth, England, ⁽²⁾ TEI-Chalkis, Greece
20.30- 21.00 5C-6

Minimum distance improvement method for sequential detectors

GURCAN M., WELIWITEGODA D. and CHANDRA G., Imperial College, England

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Session 5D: Minisymposium: Educational and Language

Technology- ii*

Organizers and Chairpersons: Professor M. Grigoriadou &

Dr. I. Malagardi, ELTL-Dept. of Informatics & Telecomm., University of Athens

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18.00- 18.30 5D-1

Understanding the programming variable concept with animated interactive analogies

DOUKAKIS D.¹, GRIGORIADOU M.² and TSAGANOU GR.², ⁽¹⁾ IPGS-BACS, University of Athens, ⁽²⁾ Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications, Univ. of Athens,

18.30- 19.00 5D-2

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

ALEXANDRIS C., Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP), Greece
19.00- 19.30 5D-3

Computational discovery of Ontology and Axioms for Geometry

KONTOS J., ARMAOS I. and MALAGARDI I., University of Athens, Greece
19.30- 20.00 5D-4

PsychoGreekWordNet Computational Dictionary of Psychology

KREMIZIS A., KONSTANTINIDI I., PAPADAKI M., MALAGARDI I. and GRIGORIADOU M., ELT Lab, Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications, Univ. of Athens, Greece
20.00- 20.30 5D-5

Text generation for the description of action sequences

MALAGARDI I. and KONTOS J., University of Athens, Greece
20.30- 21.00 5D-6

Metacognitive question answering from Euclid’s Elements text

KONTOS J. and ARMAOS I., AIG- Dept. of Philosophy and History of Sciences, Univ. of Athens, Greece

Session 5E: Minisymposium: Defining the Grid:

Experiences and Future Trends –II*

Organizers & Chairpersons: Dr. G. Gravvanis, Democritus Univ. of Thrace, GR,

Dr. J.P. Morrison, Univ. College of Cork, Ireland

Dr. H. Stockinger, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

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18.00- 18.30 5E-1

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

PEREZ M., SANCHEZ A., MONTES J. and GUEANT P., DATSI-FI, University of Madrid, Spain
18.30- 19.00 5E-2

When the Grid becomes pervasive: A vision on pervasive grids

PARASHAR M.¹ and PIERSON J.-M.², ⁽¹⁾ Rutgers University, USA, ⁽²⁾ IRIT-University Paul Sabatier, France
19.00- 19.30 5E-3

The grid taken literally

VINTER B., Dept. of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
19.30- 20.00 5E-4

New directions in computing on demand (CoD)

VAFOPOULOS M.¹, GRAVVANIS G.² and PLATIS A.³ , ⁽¹⁾ DCTC-University of Aegean, ⁽²⁾ Dept. of Electr. & Engng, Univ. of Thrace, ⁽³⁾ DFME-Univ. of Aegean, GR
20.00- 20.30 5E-5