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ISCIS 2010 Technical Programme
Day 1: Wednesday 22 September 2010
8:30-9:30
Registration/Coffee
9:30 Welcome
9:45-10:35
Keynote 1 - Prof Sir Tony Hoare FRS
(Chair: Erol Gelenbe, Room: WLTH)
10:40-11:40
SESSION 1.1: Optimisation
(Chair: Javier Barria, Room: WLTH)
Network flow approaches for an asset-task assignment problem with execution
uncertainty Stelios Timotheou (Imperial College London, UK)
Improving the Time Efficiency of ILP-based Multi-Relational Concept Discovery with
Dynamic Programming Approach Alev Mutlu (Middle East Technical University, Turkey),
Mehmet Ali Berk (Aselsan Inc, Turkey), Pinar Senkul (Middle East Technical University,
Turkey)
A Genetic Algorithm Approach to the Artillery Target Assignment Problem Burcin Sapaz,
Ismail Toroslu, Gokturk Ucoluk (METU, Turkey)
SESSION 1.2: Statistical Analysis
(Chair: Ethem Alpaydin, Room: City of London 3)
Density Sensitive Based Spectral Clustering Qingsheng Zhu, Peng Yang (Chongqing
University, China)
Dependence Analysis for Regression Test Suite Selection and Augmentation Hasan Ural
(University of Ottawa, Canada), Husnu Yenigun (Sabanci University, Turkey)
FLIP-ECOC: A Greedy Optimization of the ECOC Matrix Cemre Zor, Berrin Yanikoglu
(Sabanci University, Turkey), Terry Windeatt (University of Surrey, UK), Ethem Alpaydin
(Bogazici University, Turkey
SESSION 1.3: Hardware
(Chair: Ricardo Lent, Room: Conference Room)
Defect-Tolerant Logic Mapping for Nanocrossbars based on Two-Dimensional Sort
Sezer Goren, H. Fatih Ugurdag, Okan Palaz (Bahcesehir University, Turkey)
Hybrid Heuristics for Optimizing Energy Consumption in Embedded Systems Maha Idrissi
Aouad (INRIA Nancy - Grand Est, France), René Schott (IECN – LORIA, France), Olivier
Zendra (INRIA Nancy - Grand Est, France)
A Truly Random Number Generator Based on a Pulse Excited Cross Coupled Chaotic
Oscillator Salih Ergun (TUBITAK, Turkey)
11.40-12.40 Lunch break
12:40-13:30
Keynote 2 - Prof Richard M. Karp
(Chair: Adnan Yazici, Room: WLTH)
13:30-14:30
SESSION 2.1: Wireless Networks
(Chair: Georgia Sakellari, Room: WLTH)
An Energy Efficient Location Service for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Zijian Wang, Eyuphan
Bulut, Boleslaw Szymanski (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
A heuristic for fast convergence in interference-free channel assignment using D1EC
coloring Fabio Campoccia (University of Palermo, Italy), Vincenzo Mancuso (INRIA Sophia
Antipolis)
Combining Monitoring and Privacy-Protection Perspectives in a Semantic Model for IP
Traffic Measurements Georgios Lioudakis, (NTUA, Greece), Giuseppe Tropea (CNIT, Italy),
Iakovos Venieris, Dimitra Kaklamani (NTUA, Greece), Nicola Blefari-Melazzi (Università
degli Studi di Roma, Italy)
SESSION 2.2: Document Processing
(Chair: Adnan Yazici, Room: City of London 3)
Summarization of Documentaries Kezban Demirtas (Middle East Technical University,
Turkey), Ilyas Cicekli (Bilkent University, Turkey), Nihan Cicekli (Middle East Technical
University, Turkey)
A Hybrid Named Entity Recognizer for Turkish with Applications to Different Text Genres
Dilek Küçük (Tubitak Uzay, Turkey), Adnan Yazici (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
Translation Relationship Quantification: A Cluster-Based Approach and its Application to
Shakespeare's Sonnets Fazli Can, Ethem Can, Ceyhun Karbeyaz (Bilkent University, Turkey)
SESSION 2.3: Movie Processing
(Chair: Ugur Halici, Room: Conference Room)
A Content Boosted Collaborative Filtering Approach For Movie Recommendation Based
On Local & Global Similarity and Missing Data Prediction Gözde Özbal, Hilal Karaman,
Ferda Nur Alpaslan (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
Analysis of Face Recognition Algorithms for Online and Automatic Annotation of
Personal Videos Mehmet C. Yılmaztürk, İlkay Ulusoy, Nihan Kesim Cicekli (Middle East
Technical University, Turkey)
Suggest Me a Movie: A Multi-Client Movie Recommendation Application on Facebook
Seda Cakiroglu, Aysenur Birturk (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
14:30-15:00 Coffee break
15:00-17:00
INVITED SESSION: Gene Regulatory Networks
(Chair: Erol Gelenbe, Room: WLTH)
Data sources and computational approaches for cell signalling pathway modelling
Rengul Atalay, MD, PhD, (Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Bilkent
University, Ankara, Turkey)
Novel approaches to identify cellular signalling pathways in health and disease
Soo-Hyun Kim (Division of Basic Medical Sciences, St. George's Medical School, University of
London, UK)
Reconstructing networks from experimental and natural genetic perturbations
Florian Markowetz (Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Research Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre,
UK)
On persistence of chemical reaction networks: similarities and discrepancies between
discrete and continuous models David Angeli (Imperial College London, UK)
Using stochastic process algebra to model circadian clocks Jane Hillston (University of
Edinburgh, UK)
SESSION 3.1: Image Processing 1
(Chair: Ugur Halici, Room: City of London 3)
Automatic and Self-adaptive Facial Expression Tracking Jing Chi (Shandong Economic
University, China)
Eye contact with a virtual character using a vision-based head tracker Miaolong Yuan,
Gim Guan Chua, Farzam Farbiz, Susanto Rahardja (Institute for Infocomm Research,
Singapore)
Texture Classification and Retrieval Based on Complex Wavelet Subbands Turgay Celik,
Tardi Tjahjadi (University of Warwick, UK)
Two-Dimensional Mellin and Mel-Cepstrum for Image Feature Extraction Serdar Çakir, A.
Enis Çetin (Bilkent University, Turkey)
Similarity-Transformation Invariant Reversible Watermarking for 3D Models Xifeng Gao,
Caiming Zhang, Yan Huang, Xia Hu, Anping Zhu (Shandong University, China)
A Novel Image Compression Method Based on Classified Energy and Pattern Blocks:
Initial Results Umit Guz, Hakan Gurkan (Isik University, Turkey), B. Siddik Yarman (Istanbul
University, Turkey)
SESSION 3.2: Algorithms 1
(Chair: Alain Jean-Marie, Room: Conference Room)
Learning in the feed-forward Random Neural Network: A Critical Review
Michael Georgiopoulos, Cong Li (University of Central Florida, USA), Taskin Kocak
(Bahcesehir University, Turkey)
Using Mixture of Experts Method in Combining Search-Guiding Heuristics for Theorem
Proving Cemal Acar Erkek, Tunga Güngör (Boğaziçi University, Turkey)
A Roadmap for Semantifying Recommender Systems Using Preference Management
Dilek Tapucu, Fatih Tekbacak (Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey), Murat Osman Unalir
(Ege University, Turkey), Seda Kasap (Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey)
Queues with limited volume - a diffusion approximation approach Tadeusz Czachorski
(Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland), Tomasz Nycz (Silesian University, Poland), Ferhan
Pekergin (LIPN, Universite Paris-Nord, France)
17:00-17:50
Keynote 3 - Prof Steve Furber CBE FRS
(Chair: Hakki Toroslu, Room: WLTH)
18:20-20:30 Welcome Reception
Day 2: Thursday 23 September 2010
9:00-9:50
Keynote 4 - Prof Samson Abramsky FRS
(Chair: Volkan Atalay, Room: WLTH)
10.00-10.30 Coffee break
10:30-12:30
SESSION 4.1: Performance Models
(Chair: Mustafa Gurcan, Room: WLTH)
Scheduling services in a queueing system with impatience and setup costs
Alain Jean-Marie (INRIA, France), Emmanuel Hyon (University Paris West Nanterre La
Défense, France)
Multiple Class Symmetric G-networks with Phase Type Thu Ha Dao Thi (CNRS, France),
Jean Michel (PRiSM, Universite de Versailles St-Quentin, France), Minh Anh Tran (Universite
de Paris Est Creteil, France)
Stochastic comparisons applied to G-Networks with catastrophes Hind Castel (Institut
TELECOM, France), Jean-Michel Fourneau (PRISM, Université de Versailles, France), Nihal
Pekergin (LACL, Univ-Paris, France)
Measures for Evaluating the Software Agent Pro-Activity Hector Soza (Universidad
Católica del Norte, Chile), Fernando Alonso, José Fuertes, Loïc Martínez (Universidad
Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
On product-form approximations of cooperating stochastic models Andrea Marin
(University of Venice, Italy), Maria Grazia Vigliotti (Imperial College London, UK)
Exactly Solvable Stochastic Processes for Traffic Modelling Maxim Samsonov, Cyril
Furtlehner (Inria Saclay, France), Jean-Marc Lasgouttes (Inria Rocquencourt, France)
SESSION 4.2: Face & Gender Recognition
(Chair: Ugur Halici, Room: City of London3)
Face Signatures Derived from the Trace Transform Marsyita Hanafi, Maria Petrou
(Imperial College London, UK)
Gender and Age Group Classifications for Video Annotation Gokhan Yaprakkaya, Ilkay
Ulusoy, Nihan Cicekli (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
Gender Classification via Gradientfaces K. Berker Loğoğlu, Ahmet Saracoğlu, Ersin Esen,
(Tubitak, Turkey), A. Aydın Alatan (METU, Turkey)
Adult Image Content Classification Using Global Features and Skin Region Detection
Hakan Sevimli, Ersin Esen, Tuğrul K. Ateş, Ezgi C. Ozan, Mashar Tekin, K. Berker Loğoğlu,
Ayça Müge Sevinç, Ahmet Saracoğlu (TÜBİTAK, Turkey), Adnan Yazıcı, A. Aydın Alatan
(METU, Turkey)
An SVD based Common Matrix Method for Face Recognition: Single Image per Person
Meltem Apaydın, Ümit Turhal (Bilecik University, Turkey), Alpaslan Duysak (Dumlupınar
University, Turkey)
Shape and Texture based Face Recognition on Overlapping 3D Sub-regions Goksel Gunlu,
Hasan S Bilge (Gazi University, Turkey)
12.30-13.30 Lunch break
13:30-15:00
INVITED SESSION: Probability Models in Systems and Computing
(Chair: Aurel Lazar, Room: WLTH)
Queues, Words and Particles Moez Draief (Intelligent Systems and Networks Group,
Imperial College London, UK)
Verifying Probabilistic Programs: Three Easy Pieces Joel Ouaknine (Computer Laboratory,
Oxford University, UK)
Opportunistic Computing: Computational Model and its Performance Erol Gelenbe
(Intelligent Systems and Networks Group, Imperial College London, UK)
15.00-15.30 Coffee break
15.30-16.10
Keynote 5 - Prof Aurel Lazar
(Chair: Bolek Szymanski, Room: WLTH)
16.10-16.50
Keynote 6 - Prof Randy Katz
(Chair: Andreas Stafylopatis, Room: WLTH)
19:00-21:00 Conference Reception and Dinner
The reception and dinner will take place at
The Serpentine Bar & Kitchen in Hyde Park by the lake
Day 3: Friday 24 September 2010
9:00-11:00
Computer Systems Research in Hong Kong
(Chair: Nihan Cicekli, Room: WLTH)
Optimal Design of Web Information Contents for E-Commerce Applications
Alfredo Milani, Valentino Santucci (University of Perugia, Italy), Clement Leung (Hong Kong
Baptist University, Hong Kong)
Data Engineering in Graph Databases Byron Choi, Haibo Hu, Jianliang Xu (Hong Kong
Baptist University, Hong Kong)
Actor Petri net Model: toward Suitable and Flexible Level Representation of Scientific
Workflows Nanshan Du , Qing Li (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Yiwen Liang
(Wuhan University, China), Farong Zhong (Zhejiang Normal University, China)
Kernel and Spectral Methods for Learning the Semantics of Images Horace Ip (City
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Semantic Music Information Retrieval Using Collaborative Indexing and Filtering
Clement Leung, W. S. Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
SESSION 5.1: Algorithms 2
(Chair: Adnan Yazici, Room: City of London 3)
Partially Persistent B-trees with Constant Worst Case Update Time George Lagogiannis,
Nikos Lorentzos (Agricultural University of Athens, Greece)
Faster Montgomery Modular Multiplication without Pre-computational Phase For Some
Classes of Finite Fields Ferruh Ozbudak, Sedat Akleylek, Murat Cenk (Middle East Technical
University, Turkey)
Univariate Margin Tree Olcay Yildiz (Isik University, Turkey)
Transformational Programming and the Derivation of Algorithms Martin Ward, Hussein
Zedan (De Montfort University, UK)
Factorizing three-way binary data Radim Belohlavek, Vilem Vychodil (Palacky University,
Czech Republic)
Boosting Pattern Matching Performance via k-bit Filtering M. Oguzhan Kulekci, Jeffrey
Scott Vitter, Bojian Xu (Texas A&M University, USA)
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00
SESSION 6.1: Discovery Science
(Chair: Ilkay Ulusoy, Room: WLTH)
Efficient Algorithms for Discovering of Frequent and Maximal Substructures from Large
Semistructured Data Hiroki Arimura (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Discrete Structure Manipulation for Discovery Science Problems Shin-ichi Minato, S.
Minato (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Recent Experiences in Parameter-Free Data Mining Thomas Zeugmann, Kimihito Ito, Yu
Zhu (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Conceptual Hierarchical Clustering of Documents using Wikipedia knowledge
Gerasimos Spanakis, Georgios Siolas, Andreas Stafylopatis (National Technical University of
Athens, Greece)
SESSION 6.2: Distributed Algorithms
(Chair: George Loukas, Room: City of London 3)
An Information Theory Based Behavioral Model for Agent-Based Crowd Simulations
Cagatay Turkay (University of Bergen, Norway), Emre Koc, Selim Balcisoy (Sabanci
University, Turkey)
Task-Parallel FP-Growth on Cluster Computers Gulistan Ozdemir Ozdogan and Osman
Abul (TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey)
An adaptive system for movement decision support in building evacuation
Avgoustinos Filippoupolitis (Imperial College London, UK)
A Maximum Degree Self-Stabilizing Spanning Tree Algorithm Deniz Cokuslu (Izmir
Institute of Technology, Turkey), Kayhan Erciyes (Izmir University, Turkey), Abdelkader
Hameurlain (Université Paul Sabatier, France)
13.00-13.45 Lunch break
13:45-15:45
SESSION 7.1: Networks
(Chair: Ricardo Lent, Room: WLTH)
A Low-latency and Self-adapting Application Layer Multicast Ricardo Lent, Omer H.
Abdelrahman, Gokce Gorbil (Imperial College London, UK)
A Data-Centric Framework for Network Enabled C4ISR Software Systems Huseyin Nihal
Karaca, Haci Mehmet Yuksel, Eray Tuzun, Ismail Kilinc, Buyurman Baykal (Havelsan, Turkey)
A Decentralised, Measurement-based Admission Control Mechanism for Self-Aware
Networks Georgia Sakellari (Imperial College London, UK)
Energy-aware Routing with Two-group Allocation in Ad Hoc Networks Jihai Zhou,
Mustafa Gurcan, Anusorn Chungtragarn (Imperial College London, UK)
Priority Encoding of Image Data in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks for Border
Surveillance Kerem Irgan, Cem Unsalan, Sebnem Baydere (Yeditepe University, Turkey)
ProFID: Practical Frequent Item Set Discovery in Peer-to-Peer Networks Emrah Çem,
Oznur Ozkasap (Koc University, Turkey)
SESSION 7.2: Image Processing 2
(Chair: Maria Petrou, Room: City of London 3)
Classication of Multispectral Satellite Land Cover Data by 3D Local Discriminant Bases
Algorithm Habil Kalkan (Middle East Technical University, Suleyman Demirel University,
Turkey), Cagri Tekinay (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands), Yasemin Yardimci
(Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
Binary and Ternary Coded Structured Light 3D Scanner for Shiny Objects Rifat Benveniste,
Cem Unsalan (Yeditepe University, Turkey)
A Compression Method Based on Compressive Sampling for 3-D Laser Range Scans of
Indoor Environments Oguzcan Dobrucali, Billur Barshan (Bilkent University, Turkey)
Cepstrum Based Method for Moving Shadow Detection in Video Fuat Cogun, A. Enis Cetin
(Bilkent University, Turkey)
Joint Utilization of Appearance and Geometry for Scene Logo Retrieval Medeni Soysal
(TÜBİTAK UZAY, Turkey), A. Aydın Alatan (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
Spatial Sampling for Image Segmentation Mariano Rivera, Oscar Dalmau (Centro de
Investigacion en Matematicas A.C., Mexico), Washington Mio (Florida State University,
USA)
15:45-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:00
SESSION 8.1: Databases
(Chair: Ilyas Cicekli, Room: WLTH)
A Context-Sensitive Approach for Ontology Mapping Using Concepts Substitution
Semantics Islam Elgedawy (METU-NCC, Northern Cyprus)
Providing Scalability for an Automated Web Service Composition Framework Ertay Kaya
(Middle East Technical University, Turkey), Mehmet Kuzu (University of Texas at Dallas,
USA), Nihan Cicekli (METU, Turkey)
Distributed Database Design with Genetic Algorithm and Relation Clustering Heuristic
Ender Sevinc, Ahmet Cosar (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
SESSION 8.2: Bioinformatics
(Chair: Rengul Atalay, Room: City of London 3)
Developing a Scoring Function for NMR Structure-based Assignments using Machine
Learning Mehmet Cagri Calpur, Hakan Erdogan, Bulent Catay (Sabanci University, Turkey),
Bruce Randall Donald (Duke University, USA), Mehmet Serkan Apaydin (Sabanci University,
Turkey)
Data and Model Driven Hybrid Approach to Activity Scoring of Cyclic Pathways
Zerrin Isik, Volkan Atalay (Middle East Technical University, Turkey), Cevdet Aykanat,
Rengul Cetin-Atalay (Bilkent University, Turkey)
A Novel Hybrid Electrocardiogram Signal Compression Algorithm with Low Bit-Rate
Hakan Gurkan, Umit Guz (Isik University, Turkey), B. Siddik Yarman (Istanbul University,
Turkey)
17:00 End of Conference
ISCIS 2010 Technical Programme at A Glance
Day 1: Wednesday 22 September 2010
Room: WLTH
08.30 – 09.30
09.30
09.45–10.35
10.40 – 11.40
11.40– 12.40
12.40– 13.30
13.30 – 14.30
14.30 – 15.00
15.00 – 17.00
17.00 – 17.50
18.20 – 20.30
Room: City of London 3
Room: Conference
room
Registration/Coffee
Welcome (Room: WLTH)
Keynote 1 (Room: WLTH)
Prof Sir Tony Hoare FRS - Unifying Theories of Data Flow
Optimisation
Statistical Analysis
Hardware
Lunch Break
Keynote 2 (Room: WLTH)
Prof Richard M. Karp - What Makes an Algorithm Great
Wireless Networks
Document Processing
Movie Processing
Coffee Break
Gene Regulatory
Image Processing 1
Algorithms 1
Networks
(Invited Session)
Keynote 3 (Room: WLTH)
Prof Steve Furber - Biologically-Inspired Massively-Parallel Architectures Computing Beyond a Million Processors
Welcome Reception
Day 2: Thursday 23 September 2010
Room: WLTH
09.00-09.50
10.00-10.30
10.30-12.30
12.30-13.30
13.30-15.00
15.00-15.30
15.30-16.10
16.10-16.50
19.00-21.00
Room: City of London 3
Keynote 4 (Room: WLTH)
Prof Samson Abramsky FRS - Quantum Information Flow -- A Computer
Science Perspective
Coffee Break
Performance Models
Face & Gender recognition
Lunch Break
Probability Models in Systems and Computing
(Invited Session, Room: WLTH)
Coffee Break
Keynote 5 (Room: WLTH)
Prof Aurel Lazar - Time Encoding Machines and Elements of Spike Processing
Keynote 6 (Room: WLTH)
Prof Randy Katz - A Computer Scientist Looks at the Energy Problem
Conference Reception and Dinner
Day 3: Friday 24 September 2010
09.00-11.00
11.00-11.30
11.30-13.00
13.00-13.45
13.45-15.45
15.45-16.00
16.00-17.00
17.00
Room: WLTH
Room: City of London 3
Computer Systems Research in Hong
Algorithms 2
Kong
Coffee Break
Discovery Science
Distributed Algorithms
Lunch Break
Networks
Image Processing 2
Coffee Break
Databases
Bioinformatics
End of Conference