Advances in Intelligent Systems

1. Sources of Efficiency in Planning: A Survey.- 2. An Interactive Geometric Constraint Solver.- 3. An Intelligent Agent Framework in VRML Worlds.- 4. Determining the Visual Interpretation of Actions in Interactive Stories.- 5. An Attribute Grammar Driven High-Level Synthesis Paradigm for Control Applications.- 6. A Case Study in Specifying the Denotational Semantics of C.- 7. A Multi-Agent Model for Content-Based Electronic Document Filtering.- 8. An Array Architecture for Syntactic Pattern Recognition.- 9. A Smart Load Balance Scheme for an Automatic Arbitrage Detection System.- 10. Intelligent Guidance in a Virtual University.- 11. Question Answering and Information Extraction from Texts.- 12. Named Entity Recognition from Greek Texts: The GIE Project.- 13. Using Functional Style Features to Enhance Information Extraction from Greek Texts.- 14. Lexical Knowledge Extraction from Technical Texts.- 15. Information Extraction Techniques for Multilevel Text Matching.- 16. Parallel Information Extraction Systems for Multilingual Information Access.- 17. Using Information Extraction for Knowledge Entering.- 18. Eliciting Terminological Knowledge for Information Extraction Applications.- 19. Natural Language Interface to an Agent.- 20. Using Forward Temporal Planning for the Production of Interactive Tutoring Dialogues.- 21. Content-Based Audio Retrieval Using a Generalized Algorithm.- 22. Intelligent Retrieval of Temporal and Periodic Data.- 23. A Java-Based Image Processing System.- 24. Wavelet Image Compression: A Comparative Study.- 25. Effective Image Expansion Using Subband Filterbanks.- 26. Color Image Segmentation for Multimedia Applications.- 27. Transformations Between Pictures from 2D to 3D.- 28. A Multicamera Active 3D Reconstruction Approach.- 29. Video Object Segmentation Using the EM Algorithm.- 30. Estimation of 3D Motion and Structure of Human Faces.- 31. Face Recognition Based on Multiple Representations: Splitting the Error Space.- 32. An Efficient Algorithm for Rendering Parametric Curves.- 33. Gesture Recognition: The Gesture Segmentation Problem.- 34. A Color Coordinate Normalizer Chip.- 35. Stochastic Modeling in GPS Estimation Algorithms.- 36. Digital Image Processing for Weathering Analysis and Planning of Conservation Interventions on Historic Structures and Complexes.- 37. A Thinning-Based Method for Extracting Peri-Urban Road Network from Panchromatic Images.- 38. Integration of Multiple Software Tools for the Design and Analysis of Structures.- 39. Application of Distributed Techniques in a Set of Tools to Climatic Sensor Signal Validation and Data Analysis: DAMOCIA-VAL and DAMOCIA-EXP.- 40. Current Techniques in Distributed Sensor Networks and Connection with AI and GIS: An Overview.- 41. A New Technique for Non-Invasive Assessment of Aortic Pressure Modulations during Treadmill Running.- 42. The Role of Planning in Scheduling Patient Tests in Hospital Laboratories.- 43. Entropy Based Fatigue Identification in Spinal Surface Electromyographic Signals using Wavelets.- 44. European Thematic Network for Intelligent Forecasting.- 45. Review of ANN Based Load Forecasting Research for the EPS of Crete.- 46. Critical Factors in Load Forecasting for the Autonomous Electric Power System of Crete.- 47. Reliability Cost Assessment in Composite Power Systems using the Monte Carlo Simulation Approach.