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      Declarative agent control 

      Kakas, Antonis C.; Mancarella, P.; Sadri, F.; Stathis, Kostas; Toni, F. (2005)
      In this work, we extend the architecture of agents (and robots) based upon fixed, one-size-fits-all cycles of operation, by providing a framework of declarative specification of agent control. Control is given in terms of ...
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      Do human cognitive differences in information processing affect preference and performance of CAPTCHA? 

      Belk, Marios; Fidas, Christos A.; Germanakos, Panagiotis; Samaras, George S. (2015)
      A Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) is a widely used security defense mechanism that is utilized by service providers to determine whether the entity interacting with their ...
    • Conference Object  Open Access

      An e-learning framework For wound image understanding 

      Prodan, Augustin; Câmpean, Remus; Rusu, Madalina; Prodan, Rodica (University of Cyprus, 2007)
      This paper presents a Java based e-learning framework for analyzing, processing and understanding wound images, to be used in teaching, learning and research activities. We intend to promote e-learning technologies in ...
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      Editorial: Why coordination models and languages in AI? 

      Omicini, A.; Papadopoulos, George Angelos (2001)
      The pervasive spreading of information technology, along with the continuously growing and almost ubiquitous request for intelligence in systems, is giving new life to AI research. At the same time, this introduces new ...
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      Effects of stress on fricatives: Evidence from Standard Modern Greek 

      Themistocleous, Charalambos; Savva, Angelandria; Aristodemou, Andrie (International Speech and Communication Association, 2016)
      This study investigates the effects of stress on the spectral properties of fricative noise in Standard Modern Greek (SMG). Twenty female speakers of SMG participated in the study. Fricatives were produced in stressed and ...
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      Efficient, strongly consistent implementations of shared memory 

      Mavronicolas, Marios; Roth, D. (1992)
      We present linearizable implementations for two distributed organizations of multiprocessor shared memory. For the full caching organization, where each process keeps a local copy of the whole memory, we present a linearizable ...
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      Engineering an agent-based approach to ambient assisted living 

      Spanoudakis, Nikolaos I.; Moraïtis, Pavlos; Dimopoulos, Yannis (University of Salzburg, 2009)
      This paper aims to discuss engineering aspects for an agent-based ambient assisted living system for the home environment. The special requirements of our system are to provide a platform with cost-effective specialized ...
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      Entrainment and vehicle following controllers design for autonomous intelligent vehicles 

      Chien, C. C.; Ioannou, Petros A.; Lai, M. C. (American Automatic Control Council, 1994)
      Entrainment and vehicle following controllers are proposed for autonomous intelligent vehicles in both non-tight and tight vehicle following maneuvers. A nonlinear vehicle model is used for designing the controllers. The ...
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      Exploring database workloads on future clustered many-core architectures 

      Petrides, P.; Diavastos, Andreas; Trancoso, Pedro (2011)
      Decision Support System (DSS) workloads are known to be one of the most time-consuming database workloads that process large data sets. Traditionally, DSS queries have been accelerated using large-scale multiprocessor. In ...
    • Doctoral Thesis  Open Access

      Exploring software cost modelling and estimation with computational intelligence 

      Papatheocharous, Efi (Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Σχολή Θετικών και Εφαρμοσμένων Επιστημών / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, 2012-01)
      Η εκτίμηση του κόστους ανάπτυξης λογισμικού αφορά τη διαδικασία εξισορρόπησης του χρονο-προγραμματισμού και της διάθεσης των πόρων, και ιδιαίτερα των ανθρώπινων πόρων, που απαιτούνται για την ανάπτυξη ενός έργου λογισμικού. ...
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      Extending planning graphs to an ADL subset 

      Koehler, J.; Nebel, B.; Hoffmann, J.; Dimopoulos, Yannis (1997)
      We describe an extension of graphplan to a subset of ADL that allows conditional and universally quantified effects in operators in such a way that almost all interesting properties of the original graph-plan algorithm are ...
    • Doctoral Thesis  Open Access

      Extending structural and functional properties of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps 

      Papaioannou, Maria M. (Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Σχολή Θετικών και Εφαρμοσμένων Επιστημών / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, 2017-05)
      Ο κύριος άξονας της έρευνας που διεξήχθη στα πλαίσια αυτής της διδακτορικής διατριβής είναι η εξερεύνηση διαφόρων λύσεων σε θέματα που αφορούν τον σχεδιασμό, την κατασκευή και την λειτουργικότητα των Ασαφών Γνωστικών Χαρτών ...
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      Fault-tolerant convolution via chinese remainder codes constructed from non-coprime moduli 

      Sundaram, S.; Hadjicostis, Christoforos N. (2008)
      This paper develops a framework for performing fault-tolerant convolution via error-correcting codes based on the chinese remainder theorem (CRT) with non-coprime moduli. In contrast to convolution that is protected through ...
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      First Trimester Noninvasive Prenatal Diagnosis: A Computational Intelligence Approach 

      Neocleous, Andreas C.; Nicolaides, Kypros H.; Schizas, Christos N. (2016)
      The objective of this study is to examine the potential value of using machine learning techniques such as artificial neural network (ANN) schemes for the noninvasive estimation, at 11-13 weeks of gestation, the risk for ...
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      A fuzzy cognitive map model of the repercussions of greek PSI on cypriot economy 

      Papaioannou, Maria; Neocleous, Costas K.; Papageorgiou, Charalambos; Schizas, Christos N. (2013)
      This paper introduces an alternative methodology for developing fuzzy cognitive maps (FCM) for modeling socio-politico-economic systems. The methodology is novel with respect to the proper identification, definition and ...
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      A Fuzzy Cognitive Map system to explore certain scenarios on the Cyprus banking system 

      Papaioannou, Maria; Neocleous, Costas K.; Papageorgiou, Charalambos; Schizas, Christos N. (INSTICC Press, 2014)
      The model of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs) allows a user to investigate how the influencing parameters of a cause-effect system behave under the implementation of desired scenario. Human knowledge and experience is used to ...
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      Getting ready for approximate computing: Trading parallelism for accuracy for dss workloads 

      Trancoso, Pedro (Association for Computing Machinery, 2014)
      Processors have evolved dramatically in the last years and current multicore systems deliver very high performance. We are observing a rapid increase in the number of cores per processor thus resulting in more dense and ...
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      Grid resource ranking using low-level performance measurements 

      Tsouloupas, George; Dikaiakos, Marios D. (2007)
      This paper outlines a feasible approach to ranking Grid resources based on an easily obtainable application-specific performance model utilizing low-level performance metrics. First, Grid resources are characterized using ...
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      Ignoring irrelevant facts and operators in plan generation 

      Nebel, B.; Dimopoulos, Yannis; Koehler, J. (1997)
      It is traditional wisdom that one should start from the goals when generating a plan in order to focus the plan generation process on potentially relevant actions. The graphplan system, however, which is the most efficient ...
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      IHIP: Towards a user centric Individual Human Interaction Proof framework 

      Fidas, Christos A.; Hussmann, H.; Belk, Marios; Samaras, George S. (Association for Computing Machinery, 2015)
      A Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) is a widely used Human Interaction Proof mechanism to protect on-line services against automated software agents. Nowadays, there is a ...