Title of Session: Hybrid Intelligent Decision Technologies: Approaches and Applications

Name of Chair: Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, University of Patras, Greece

Name of Co-Chairs: Constantinos Koutsojannis, TEI of Patras, Greece

                                       Jim Prentzas, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Details of Session:

This special session is intended to become a forum for exchanging experience and ideas among researchers and practitioners who are dealing with combining intelligent methods in order to enhance decision making. The combination of different intelligent methods is a very active research area in Artificial Intelligence (AI). The aim is to create integrated or hybrid methods that benefit from each of their components. It is generally believed that complex decision making problems can be easier solved with such integrated or hybrid methods. Different types of integrated approaches have been developed. Several of the existing methods combine what are called soft computing methods (e.g. fuzzy logic, neural networks and genetic algorithms) either among themselves or with more traditional AI technologies such as logic and rules. Another stream of efforts integrates case-based reasoning and machine learning with soft computing and traditional AI methods. Yet another integrates agent-based approaches with logic and also non-symbolic approaches. Some of the combinations have been extensively used like neuro-symbolic methods combining neural networks with symbolic methods, neuro-fuzzy methods combining neural networks and fuzzy methods, and methods combining rule-based and case-based reasoning. Integrated or hybrid methods have enhanced decision making in many areas such as medicine, biology and bioinformatics, e-learning, finance, legal reasoning, crisis management, failure analysis, industry, data networks, evaluation, prediction and several others.

Topics of interest in the context of improving some aspect of decision making include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Neuro-Symbolic Approaches/Systems
• Neuro-Fuzzy Approaches/Systems
• Case-Based Reasoning Integrations
• Genetic Algorithms Integrations
• Fuzzy-Evolutionary Systems
• Hybrid Knowledge Representation Approaches/Systems
• Integrations of Neural Networks
• Intelligent Agents Integrations
• Hybrid and Distributed Ontologies
• Combinations and Web Intelligence
• Combinations and Web Mining

• Applications of integrated or hybrid methods to support decision making in areas such as the following:
  • e-Commerce
  • e-Business
  • e-Learning
  • Medicine & Health Care
  • Bioinformatics and Biology
  • Legal Reasoning
  • Data Networks
  • Finance
  • Robotics
  • Crisis Management
  • Modelling and Prediction
  • Industry
  • Military applications

Website URL:

http://www.intelhealthphysicslab.gr/

Email & Contact Details:

Constantinos Koutsojannis

Assistant Professor

Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Patras,

Department of Physiotherapy

Psaron 6

Aigion, 25100

Greece

Phone: +30-2691062850               +30-2691062850     

Fax: +30-2691022058

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Jim Prentzas

Assistant Professor

Democritus University,

Department of Education Sciences in Pre-School Age

Nea Chili,

Alexandroupolis, 68100

Greece

Phone: +30-25510-30086              +30-25510-30086    

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Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis

Assistant Professor

University of Patras,

Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics

Patras, 26500

Greece

Phone: +30-2610-960374               +30-2610-960374     

Fax: +30-2610-960321

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PC COMMITTEE

Grigorios Beligiannis (University of Western Greece, Greece)

George Dounias (Dept. of Financial and Management Engineering, University of the Aegean, Greece)

Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis(Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, Uvinersity of Patras, Greece)

Tzung-Pei Hong (National Univeristy of Kaohsiung, Taiwan)

Voula Georgopoulos (Dep of Speech Therapy, Technological Educational Institute of Patras, Greece)

Constaninos Koutsojannis (Department of Physiotherapy, Technological Educational Institute of Patras, Greece)

George Magoulas (School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK)

Toni Moreno (Department of Computer Science & Maths, University Rovira i Virgili, Spain)

Basileios Tampakas (Department of Acounting, Technological Educational Institute of Patras, Greece)

Vasile Palade (Computing Laboratory, Oxford University, UK)

Jim Prentzas (Department of Education Sciences in Pre-School Age, Democritus University, Greece)

David Sanchez (Department of Computer Science & Maths, University Rovira i Virgili, Spain)

Douglas Vieira (University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Zaharakis Ioannis (Technological Educational Institute of Patras, Greece)