JOINT CONFERENCE PROGRAM

MATHEMATICAL METHODS AND COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

(Chairs: Nikos Mastorakis, Alexandros Poularikas, )

WAVELET ANALYSIS AND MULTIRATE SYSTEMS

(Chairs: Alexandros Poularikas, Nikos Mastorakis)

NON-LINEAR ANALYSIS, NON-LINEAR SYSTEMS AND CHAOS

(Chair: Nikos Mastorakis, Catherine Kyrtsou)

DECEMBER 29, 2003

8:00 – 9:00: Plenary Lecture I: Neural Networks: Nonlinear Optimization for Constrained Learning and its Applications

Invited Speaker: S. Perantonis, Research Institute Democritus, Athens, Greece.

9:00-10:00: Plenary Lecture II

Invited Speaker: G. Pavlos, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

10:00-10:30 Coffee-break

10:30-13:30

SESSIONS I and II: Mathematical Methods and Computational Techniques
in Communications and Internet

Chair: Ioannis Pountourakis, Ralph W. Oberste-Vorth

An alternative WDM Architecture and a new MAC Protocol Analysis	Ioannis E. Pountourakis, Alexis Stavdas
A WDMA protocol for a New Control Architecture with Propagation Delay Analysis	Ioannis E. Pountourakis
An Error Sharing & Classification Agent Running on Multimedia Collaboration Environment	Eung-Nam, Ko
Fuzzy Traffic Control of ATM Networks465-204.pdf	Mahdi Jalili-Kharaajoo and Fardad Zand
Investigation of Indoor propagation models at 900 1800 and1900 MHz bands	Aktül Kavas
Active Queue Management: A New Robust Fuzzy Second Order Sliding Mode Control Applied to	Mahdi Jalili-Kharaajoo, Alireza Dehestani And Hassan Motallebpour
HTML transcoding approach for small screen devices	Heesook Shin Soosun Cho, Dongwoo Lee, Eunjeong Choi, Dongwon Han
Proposing a New Architecture for Mobile Information and Consultation Support Systems	Mahdi Jalili-Kharaajoo
Load Frequency Control by Optimization and Eigenvalues	Ahmed El-kashlan
Enhanced flicker removal through stationary block re-examination	Kin Keong Wong, Amitabha Das and Man Nang Chong
Conversational browser for accessing VoiceXML-based IVR services via multi-modal interactions on mobile devices	Jieun Kim, Junsuk Park, Dongwon Han
A Fundamental Frequency Estimation Method for Non-sinusoidal Signal Based on Numerical Differentiation	Wu Jiekang
A design of the transcoder to convert the VoiceXML documents into the XHTML+Voice documents	Jieun Kim, Jieun Park, Junsuk Park, Dongwon Han
Agent-based Approach to Workflow Management	Yunhe Liao, Hinny P. Kong
E-MACSC: A Novel Dynamic Cache Tuning Technique to Maintain the Prescribed Minimum Hit Ratio Consistently for Internet/WWW Applications	Richard S. L. Wu, Allan Kang Ying Wong and Tharam S. Dillon
An FPGA Based Vector Computer for Sparse Matrix-Vector Processing	Muhammad Zafrul Hasan and Sotirios G. Ziavras

Discussion-Conclusions

14:00-16:30

SESSION III: (Invited Session) Non-Linear Systems and Chaos

Organized and Chaired: Thanasis Sfetsos

Bargaining, Nontatonnemet, and Decreasing Density of Wealth Distribution	Takuya Iimura
Lorenz and Rossler Systems with Piecewise-Linear Vector Fields		Jiri Petrzela, Jiri Pospisil, Zdenek Kolka, Stanislav Hanus
Robust adaptive filtering with variable forgetting factor		Zoran Banjac, Branko Kovaϋeviό, Mladen Veinoviό, Milan Milosavljeviό
Design a Nonlinear Adaptive Controller for Power System Stabilizer		Mehran Rashidi, Farzan Rashidi, Hamid Monavar
Design a Nonlinear Fuzzy PID Controller for Control of Nonlinear HVAC Systems		Farzan Rashidi, Aminollah Kermanpour
Simulation of influence of an "opinion souce" over an electorate		Carlo Artemi
Active RLC Circuit Model of the Second-order Dynamical System with Piecewise-linear Controlled Sources		Jaromir Brzobohaty, Jiri Pospisil, Zdenek Kolka, Stanislav Hanus
Quantumlike Chaos in the Frequency Distributions of Bases A, C, G, T in Human Chromosome1 DNA		A. M. Selvam
Hybrid finite element in non-linear structural dynamics of anisotropic tubes conveying axial flow		M. Toorani, A. Lakis
Hénon Mappings and Wada Lakes		Ralph W. Oberste-Vorth

Discussion-Conclusions

16:30-17:00: Coffee Break

17:00-19:30:

SESSION IV: (Invited Session) Non-Linear Models in Financial Economics and
Macroeconomics

Organized and Chaired: Menelaos Karanasos

A Reappraisal of the Inflation-Unemployment Trade o ﬀ	Marika Karanassou, Hector Sala, and Dennis J. Snower
On The Returns Generating Process And The Profitability Of Trading Rules In Emerging Capital Markets	John Hatgioannides and Spiros Mesomeris
Central Bank's Opportunism and the Fisher Effect: a threshold cointegration investigation	Nicolas Million
Agency Costs, Ownership Structure and Corporate Governance Mechanisms in the UK	Chrisostomos Florackis
Nonlinear Phillips Curves, Complex Dynamics and Monetary Policy in a Keynesian Macro Model	Peter Flaschel, Gang Gong, Willi Semmler
Interacting two country business fluctuations. Euroland and the USA	Toichiro Asada, Carl Chiarella, Peter Flaschel, Reiner Franke
Bargaining, Nontantonnement and Decreasing Density of Wealth Distribution	Takuya Limura
The statistical properties of long-memory and exponential acd models	Menelaos Karanasos
Athens and Lisbon Stock Markets: A thermodynamic approach	A.Gkranas, V.L.Rendoumis, H.M.Polatoglu

Discussion-Conclusions

DECEMBER 30, 2003

8:00-9:00: Plenary Lecture III

Invited Speaker: V. Damgov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
9:00-10:00: Plenary Lecture IV

Invited Speaker: R. Clark (Austin Peay State University, USA)

10.00-13.00 (with a Coffee-Break 11.30-12.00)

SESSION V: (Invited Session) Non-Linear Dynamics in Business and Finance

Organized and Chaired: Costantinos Vorlow

Chaos and Complexity in Finance and Economics	Roger W. Clark, George C. Philippatos
Market Resistance and Anti-Social-Percolation	Tom Erez, Sarit Moldovan, Sorin Solomon
The impact of heterogeneous traders’ interaction on stock returns when a subset of them is prone to herd behaviour: a literature review of the incumbent herding literature and a proposed method for modelling this interaction	Vasilis Kallinterakis
Pareto-Zipf’s Law in Variability of Financial Time Series	Robert Kitt
Reaching extreme events with conditional and unconditional models	Lampros Kalyvas, Costas Siriopoulos, Nikolaos Dritsakis
Testing for Changing Persistence in U.S.Treasury On/Off Spreads Under Weighted-Symmetric Estimation	L. Vanessa Smith, Demosthenes N. Tambakis
Modeling Asymmetric and Seasonal effects in CAC 40 Volatility	Terraza Virginie
Identification of typical trading days in the Athens Stock Exchange using intraday data	A. Sfetsos, C. Siriopoulos
Wavelet Exploratory Analysis of the FTSE ALL SHARE Index	Constantinos Vorlow, Antonios Antoniou
Overcoming Barriers to Effective Technology Transfer in Iran Automotive Industries	M. Samiei Nasr

13.00-14.00: Plenary Lecture IV

Invited Speaker: T. Sfetsos (Democritos, Athens)

Discussion-Conclusions

15:00-19:30 (with Coffee Break 17:00 – 17:30)

SESSIONS VI, VII, VIII: Wavelet Methods and other mathematical tools in
electrical engineering

Chair: Zoran Bojkovic, Vassilis Kodogiannis

	Wavelet Exploratory Analysis of the FTSE ALL SHARE Index	Antonios Antoniou, Costantinos E. Vorlow
	Conversion technology for visual and auditory web contents	Heesook Shin, Soosun Cho, Dongwoo Lee, Eunjeong Choi, Dongwon Han
	An Approach to Dynamic Division of Web Pages for Displaying on Small Screen Devices	Eunjeong Choi, Soosun Cho, Dongwoo Lee, Heesook Shin, Dongwon Han
	Calculation of the axial component Bz at any point inside a magnetic field coil for plasma torches.	Halis Abderrahmane, Zehar Khaled, Benarioua Younes, Bouzit Nacereddine.
	Self-Adaptive Fitness Formulation: Theory and applications	R. Farmani, J.A. Wright, G.A. Walters and D.A. Savic
	An inverse problem for the heat transfer in electric cables	Daniela Carstea, Ion Carstea
	Subband crosscorrelation analysis based speech classification in noisy environment	Zied Lachiri, Noureddine Ellouze
	Identification Process, Design and Implementation Decoupling Controller for Binary Distillation Column Control	Sutanto Hadisupadmo, RJ.Widodo, Harijono AT, Tatang HS
	Similarity Searches in Heterogeneous Feature Spaces	Tilmann Steinberg, Fillia S. Makedon, James C. Ford, Yuhang Wang
	A New Hybrid Algorithm TS+SS for the Weighted Max-Sat Problem	Boughaci Dalila, Drias Habiba
	Applied wavelet techniques in image coding standards	Dragorad Milovanovic, Zoran Bojkovic
	Mixed Lognormal Distributions for Financial Applications	Dietmar Leisen
	Maternal and Fetal ECG Separation using Pitch Synchronous Wavelet Expansion	Afef Elloumi Zied Lachiri Noureddine Ellouze
	A Parallel Distributed Arithmetic Implementation of the Discrete Wavelet Transform	Ali Al - Haj
	Experimental Analysis of Changes in Uncertainty and Robustness in the Kind of Inverted Pendulum Fuzzy Controller	Dragan Z. Saletic, Dusan M. Velasevic, Nikos E. Mastorakis
	Distimulus chromatic measurement systems	D. Tomtsis, V. Kodogiannis, P. Chountas
	Direct and indirect blind equalizers of noisy fir channels: deterministic methods	Mohammed Elhajjami , Fatiha Mrabti, Mohcine Zouak

Discussion-Conclusions

20:30 BANQUET

DECEMBER 31, 2003

8:00-9:00 Plenary Lecture V

Genetic Algorithms and Applications: The GENETICA Software package,
Dr. Lefteris Virirakis, National Technical University of Athens.

9:00-14:30: (with a break at 11:30-12:30 for NEW YEAR’S CAKE CEREMONY - GIFTS)

SESSIONS IX, X and XI: Non-Linear Mathematics and Systems. Chaotic phenomena.

Chair: Demetrios Kazakos, Leonardo Acho Zuppa

Analysis of responses of three-dimensional spiking oscillators to pulse-train input	Hidehiro Nakano and Toshimichi Saito
Periodic oscillatory solution in delayed competitive-cooperative neural networks: a decomposition approach	Jinde Cao and Kun Yuan
Evolutionary Neural Networks for Timeseries Prediction	Adam V. Adamopoulos, Efstratios E. Georgopoulos, Spiridon D. Likothanassis
Dynamic Data Visualization (DDV)	Nazar Younis, Raied Salman
A hierarchical clustering method based on the computation of gravity	Christian Kuhn
Robust Control of Nonlinear HVAC Systems via Emotional Critic Based Intelligent Controller	Farzan Rashidi
Speed Control and Torque Ripple Minimization of Switch Reluctance Motor Using Genetic Algorithm	Farzan Rashidi
Control of Nonlinear Systems via Temporal Difference Learning Based Intelligent Controller and Context Reasoning	Javad Abdi, Farzan Rashidi
Nonlinear algebraic identifiability and equalizability	El Asmi Sadok and Negy Youssef
Endogenous Fluctuations in a Cournotian Monopolistic Competition Model with Free Entry and Market Power Variability	Yves Kuhry
Control-transverse and Graph Dynamics and relations to Backstepping	Efthimios Kappos
Solutions of the Generalized Verhulst Equations and Other Related Dynamic Equations	B Lawrence
Secure Communication via a Chaotic Jerk System	Nicolas Marguet, Leonardo Acho Zuppa, Julio Cesar Rolón Garrido
On the Solvability for Parabolic Equations with one Space Variable	Martin Lopez Morales
Chaos Generator via SCR Relaxation Oscillator	Sinuhe Benitez, Leonardo Acho, Julio C. Rolon G.
A chaotic oscillator using the Van der Pol dynamic immersed into a Jerk system	Leonardo Acho Zuppa, Julio C. Rolón Garrido, and Sinuhé Benítez Escobar
Masking System Design for Gray-Level Images Using Finite Time Synchronization of two Chaotic Lorenz Systems	Leonardo Acho Zuppa , Julio C. Rolón Garrido, and Víctor Hernández Rosas
Nonlinear electromagnetic wave propagation in isotropic and anisotropic antiferromagnetic media	V. Veerakumar, N.Mastorakis
An improved realization of the chua's circuit using RC-op amps	Cherif Aissi, Demetrios Kazakos
A method to design chaotic conditionally reset linear systems	Cherif Aissi, Demetrios Kazakos
Slow Time Variant Image Visualization	Raied Salman, Nazar Younis

Discussion-Conclusions

12.30-19.30

SESSIONS XII, XIII and XIV: Mathematics and Computational Techniques in
Electrical Engineering

Chair: Sotiris Ziavras, Zoran Bojkovic

Adaptive Integrated RF Transceivers for Wireless Communications: Invited Paper	Yuanjin Zheng
A combined SVM regression methodology for modelling robotic manipulators inverse dynamics	D. A. Karras
Efficient Neural Network Modeling Based On Dataflow Computing Languages	D. A. Karras
Nonlinear Control of Rigid Manipulators Based on Approximate Solution of HJB Equation	Asadollah Ghazavi, Hossein Rouhani And Mahdi Jalili-Kharaajoo
Effective Flicker Removal through Repetitive Corrections	Kin Keong Wong, Amitabha Das and Man Nang Chong
Similarity Searches in Heterogeneous Feature Spaces	Tilmann Steinberg, James Ford, Yuhang Wang, Fillia Makedon
ARION - An Ancient Greek Music Composer	Dionysios Politis, Konstantinos Vandikas, Nikolaos Gekas, Konstantinos Daglis
Ontology-based Image Retrieval	Wei Zheng, Yi Ouyang, James Ford, Fillia S. Makedon
On Constrained Optimization Approach to Object Segmentation	Chia Han, Xun Wang, Feng Gao, Zhigang Peng, Xiaokun Li, Lei He, William Wee
Uncertainty analysis in the prediction of human operator violation using neural networks	Zhicheng Zhang, Frederic Vanderhaegen, Patrick Millot
Determination of All Stabilizing Constant Feedback Gains for Open-loop Unstable Second-order Systems with Time Delay	Karam Shabani and Mahdi Jalili-Kharaajoo
A Linear Programming Approach for Calculation of All Stabilizing Parameters of Lead-Lag Compensator for Continuous-Time Plants	Fardad Zand and Mahdi Jalili-kharaajoo
Active Queue Management: A New Robust Fuzzy Second-Order Sliding Mode Control Algorithm	Morteza Mosavi, Mahdi Jalili-kharaajoo, Alireza Dehestani
Computational Intelligence and Active Networks	Behzad Moshiri, Mahdi Jalili-kharaajoo
Numerical method for solving an elliptic equation	Olga Martin
Mobile Commerce Applications: An Engineering Perspective	Hinny P. H. Kong
A multi-factor concept on guiding constraint relaxation in distributed constraint satisfaction	Jingxuan Ma
Software Development to Control the Scorbot ER VII Robot With a PC	António Ferrolho, Manuel Crisóstomo
Image Quality Indices Based on Fuzzy Discrimination Information Measures	Ioannis K. Vlachos, George D. Sergiadis
A speech analysis technique based on a modeling of the masking properties of the peripheral auditory system	Ouni Kaïs, Ellouze Noureddine
The Interval Digital Images Processing	Aarão Lyra, Benjamin René Callejas Bedregal, Roberto Callejas Bedregal and Adrião Duarte Dória Neto
Design and Simulation of a 4 GHz Folded-Cascode CMOS LC Quadrature VCO for RF Image-Reject Transceivers	S. M. Rezaul Hasan
Indirect Neural Control: A Robustness Analysis Against Perturbations	André Laurindo Maitelli, Oscar Gabriel Filho
A Novel Hybrid Pulse Excitation - Coded Excitation Scheme to Improve the Signal to Noise Ratio in Ultrasound Imaging	Naser Asadi, S. K. Setarehdan, H. Soltanianzadeh
Numerical simulation of coupled fields	Daniela Carstea, Ion Carstea
Maneuvering Target Tracking	Farhad Besharati, Nasrollah Eskandari and Faezeh Besharati

DECEMBER 29, 2003

SESSION III: (Invited Session) Non-Linear Systems and Chaos

DECEMBER 30, 2003

SESSION V: (Invited Session) Non-Linear Dynamics in Business and Finance

DECEMBER 31, 2003

V. Veerakumar, N.Mastorakis

Yuanjin Zheng

D. A. Karras

D. A. Karras

Olga Martin

Hinny P. H. Kong

António Ferrolho, Manuel Crisóstomo

Ioannis K. Vlachos, George D. Sergiadis

Ouni Kaïs, Ellouze Noureddine

Aarão Lyra, Benjamin René Callejas Bedregal, Roberto Callejas Bedregal and Adrião Duarte Dória Neto

S. M. Rezaul Hasan

André Laurindo Maitelli, Oscar Gabriel Filho

Naser Asadi, S. K. Setarehdan, H. Soltanianzadeh

Daniela Carstea, Ion Carstea

Farhad Besharati, Nasrollah Eskandari and Faezeh Besharati