Contents Foreword viii Acknowledgements x Theoretical Advances in AI 1 An Evolving Oblique Decision Tree Ensemble Architecture for Continuous Learning Applications 3 Ioannis Christou, Sofoklis Efremidis Clustering Improves the Exploration of Graph Mining Results 13 Edgar de Graaf, Joost Kok, Walter Kosters Robustness of learning algorithms in handling noise in imbalanced datasets 21 D. Anyfantis, M. Karagiannopoulos, S. Kotsiantis, P. Pintelas A Wrapper for Reweighting Training Instances for Handling ImbalancedDatasets 29 M. Karagiannopoulos, D. Anyfantis, S. Kotsiantis, P. Pintelas Solving Traveling Salesman Problem Using Combinational Evolutionary Algorithm 37 Mohammad Reza Bonyadi, S. Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi, Hamed Shah Hosseini Graph Based Workflow Validation 45 Anastasios Giouris, Manolis Wallace Intelligent Internet Systems: Emerging Technologies and Applications 55 Resource sharing in multi-agent systems through multi-stage negotiation 57 Panos Alexopoulos Increasing interactivity in IPTV using MPEG-21 descriptors 65 Christos-Nikolaos Anagnostopoulos, George Tsekouras, Damianos Gavalas, Daphne Economou, Ioannis Psoroulas Dynamic Reliability Assessment of Multiple Choice Tests in distributedE-Leaning Environments: A Case Study 73 Ioanna Likourentzou, George Mpardis ,Vassilis Nikolopoulos, Vassili Loumos Service Decomposition and Task Allocation in Distributed Computing Environments 81 Malamati Louta, Angelos Michalas Classification of Web Documents using Fuzzy Logic Categorical DataClustering 93 George Tsekouras, Christos Anagnostopoulos, Damianos Gavalas, Economou Dafni Measuring Expert Impact on Learning how to Play a Board Game 101 Dimitris Kalles Intelligent Systems in Electronic Healthcare 115 A Web Based System Enabling Distributed Access and Intelligent Processingof Biological Data in Grid Environments 117 Ilias Maglogiannis, John Soldatos, Aristotelis Chatzioannou, Vasilis Milonakis, Yiannis Kanaris ANDROMEDA: A MATLAB Automated cDNA Microarray Data Analysis Platform 127 Aristotelis Chatziioannou, Panagiotis Moulos Mining Interesting Clinico-Genomic Associations: The HealthObs Approach 137 George Potamias, Lefteris Koumakis, Alexandros Kanterakis, Vassilis Moustakis, Dimitrsi Kafetzopoulos, Manolis Tsiknakis A Patient Fall Detection System based on Support Vector Machines 147 Charalampos Doukas, Ilias Maglogiannis, Philippos Tragas, Dimitris Liapis, Gregory Yovanof A web-based service for improving conformance to medication treatmentand patient-physician relationship 157 Nikolaos Riggos, Ilias Skalkidis, George Karkalis, Maria Haritou, Dimitris Koutsouris AI in Business and Finance 163 Informed Agents: Integrating Data Mining and Agency 165 John Debenham, Simeon Simoff Agents methodologies for e-Chartering market design 175 Manolis Sardis, Ilias Maglogiannis Applications of Nature-Inspired Intelligence in Finance 187 Vasilios Vasiliadis, Georgios Dounias Staff Performance Appraisal Using Fuzzy Evaluation 195 Nureize Arbaiy, Zurinah Suradi Extraction of Cause Information from Newspaper Articles ConcerningBusiness Performance 205 Hiroyuki Sakai, Shigeru Masuyama A fast parallel algorithm for frequent itemsets mining 213 Dora Souliou, Aris Pagourtzis, Panayiotis Tsanakas Applications of AI in Industry and Daily Round 221 Genetic Algorithms for Municipal Solid Waste Collection and Routing Optimization 223 Nikolaos Karadimas, Katerina Papatzelou and Vassili Loumos A Multi-Agent Design for a Home Automation System Dedicated to Po
