{"title":"Under-sampling based on sparse data/parity patterns in STBC-OFDM environment","authors":"N. Petrellis","doi":"10.1145/2801948.2802016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2801948.2802016","url":null,"abstract":"An under-sampling method recently presented by the author has been extended to 2×2 STBC-OFDM (Space-Time Block Code -Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) in this paper based on the data sparseness and the predictability of the parity patterns. The occasional data sparseness is exploited in order to reduce the ADC (Analog Digital Converter) sampling rate, the memory requirements and the operations required by the FFT/IFFT (Fast Fourier Transform -- Inverse FFT) in specific time intervals. The prediction of parity bit patterns generated by sparse data reduces the error by a factor of 1/3.","PeriodicalId":305252,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 19th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129836974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Panagiotis Bourelos, George Kousiouris, Orfefs Voutyras, T. Varvarigou
{"title":"Heating schedule management approach through decentralized knowledge diffusion in the context of social internet of things","authors":"Panagiotis Bourelos, George Kousiouris, Orfefs Voutyras, T. Varvarigou","doi":"10.1145/2801948.2802009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2801948.2802009","url":null,"abstract":"In the forefront of efforts to curb energy consumption and as a consequence decrease greenhouse emissions, cities as well as individuals, turn to the field of Smart Homes to optimize their heating schedules through IoT-enabled solutions. However in many cases efforts are focusing on algorithms and systems requiring large amounts of processing power and constant data availability to be effective. In this paper, an approach tailored to the constrained resources in the IoT domain is introduced that is based on the Social IoT paradigm, instead of centralized computational nodes. The framework enables Smart Home Gateways to seek solutions to their heating schedule needs through communication of actual observations with fellow homes rather than brute force calculations based on probabilistic models that may require centralized approaches. Using the provided IoT components of the COSMOS ecosystem, Smart Homes may run purpose-built applications that use stored Knowledge, communicate it throughout the Network of Things and act on it in ways which aid the end users in retrieving relevant solutions. Raspberry-based simulations indicate that this diffusion of Knowledge as well as the improvements and evaluations through feedback performed on it, allow for the creation of a lightweight and resource effective approach, on the problem of Heating Management.","PeriodicalId":305252,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 19th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123758120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coherent optical wireless: realizing fiber-like connections out of thin air","authors":"T. Kamalakis, P. Kanakis, A. Bogris","doi":"10.1145/2801948.2802005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2801948.2802005","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, coherent optical wireless (COWs) technology is proposed for indoor high data rate communication applications. We discuss several design issues and the architecture of the optical wireless coherent transceiver. We also present an initial system demonstrator along with some initial performance results.","PeriodicalId":305252,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 19th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122826804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I. Chatzigiannakis, Dimitrios Amaxilatis, Spyros Livathinos
{"title":"A collective awareness platform for energy efficient smart buildings","authors":"I. Chatzigiannakis, Dimitrios Amaxilatis, Spyros Livathinos","doi":"10.1145/2801948.2801993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2801948.2801993","url":null,"abstract":"Building Energy Management Systems (BEMS) are mature computer-based systems that manage, control and monitor different building technical services (such as heating, lighting etc.) and the energy consumption of devices used by the building. In the recent years, significant efforts have been made towards the integration of sensor devices and embedded computing systems with the Internet, thus transforming BEMS into a new era of Internet Buildings. Smart buildings can learn and even anticipate the needs of a buildings' occupants, including their preferences for light, temperature and other services, resulting in energy savings through targeted supply. In this work we argue that in such future buildings, it will be simply infeasible to expect individuals to be aware of the full range of potentially relevant possibilities and be able to pull them together manually. We thus propose a system that proactively guides users' interactions based on their preferences and constraints. We develop a collective awareness platform where the control of the smart building is balanced between the people and machines. We present the basic design principles, the implementation details and our experimental findings after evaluating our system in a real-world testbed.","PeriodicalId":305252,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 19th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122828637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ranking tokens with class label frequencies for medical article classification","authors":"K. Fragos, C. Skourlas","doi":"10.1145/2801948.2802022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2801948.2802022","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a new method for medical article classification is proposed based on exploiting information from local and global class label frequencies in training corpus. The proposed method partially overcomes the low accuracy rate of KNN classifier. First, it uses a lexical approach to identify tokens in the medical document article and then, it uses local and global class label frequencies in a sophisticated way similar to traditional tf-idf weighting scheme to devise the weighted function in classification process. The evaluation experiments on the collection of medical documents, called Ohsumed, show that the method proposed here significantly outperforms traditional KNN classification.","PeriodicalId":305252,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 19th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126927940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A simulation platform for evaluating DoS attacks in wireless sensor networks","authors":"E. Darra, Christina Skouloudi, S. Katsikas","doi":"10.1145/2801948.2801949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2801948.2801949","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been studied in depth for several decades. Their main role is to provide bridges between the virtual world of information technology and the real physical world. They promise unprecedented new abilities to observe and understand large-scale, real-world phenomena at a fine spatio-temporal resolution. However, this potential does not come for free; WSNs have been known to be vulnerable to several types of attacks aiming at compromising their security. Among these types, Denial of Service (DoS) attacks stand out, as most WSNs are vulnerable to such attacks, which affect the routing behavior. This paper introduces a simulation platform, based on the network simulator ns-2, that allows the in-depth study of DoS attacks against WSNs. We simulate and analyze the performance of routing protocols for WSNs using a scenario-based experiment, in order to analyze the network's behavior under all the simulated attacks, namely Blackhole, Flooding, Rushing and Selective Forwarding. The analysis involves several network characteristics and is aimed towards identifying easily measured features that can be used for efficiently detecting and classifying DoS attacks in WSNs.","PeriodicalId":305252,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 19th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127099528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performance-optimized pages' architecture, navigation and images techniques for JQuery mobile sites","authors":"Andreas Gizas, Sotiris P. Christodoulou","doi":"10.1145/2801948.2801995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2801948.2801995","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile clients have been on the rise and Web sites are becoming more accessible by portable devices like tablets and smartphones. Mobile sites are built on standards such as HTML5, CSS3 and other modern web technologies like JQuery Mobile, and they run on any mobile platform with a modern, standards-compliant web browser. However, the performance and usability of such sites are often insufficient. In this work we study the performance of jQuery Mobile web sites, investigate how the synergy with other technologies or techniques could be used to improve performance and conclude to a set of design patterns and coding practices, focused on jQuery Mobile framework, with emphasis on the architecture of the pages, navigation system and images loading techniques.","PeriodicalId":305252,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 19th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127655884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V. Fotopoulos, Anastasios Fanariotis, T. Orphanoudakis, A. Skodras
{"title":"Remote FPGA laboratory course development based on an open multimodal laboratory facility","authors":"V. Fotopoulos, Anastasios Fanariotis, T. Orphanoudakis, A. Skodras","doi":"10.1145/2801948.2801950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2801948.2801950","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper the implementation of a remote FPGA laboratory course is proposed, based on a low cost but powerful FPGA development board, the ALTERA DE0-Nano which is powered by an Altera Cyclone IV Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) IC. The course is developed based on an open multimodal laboratory facility at the Digital Systems and Media Computing Laboratory of the Hellenic Open University. The course consists of laboratory exercises in the form of VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) design experiments that the end user can conduct from his or her Personal Computer through a graphical web interface and Altera's Quartus II EDA (Electronic Design Automation) software on hardware that is connected and set-up on a remote server while observing the results in real time. The exercises created for this course are designed to be both educational and interesting while being geared towards entry-level users thus producing a trouble-free RL (Remote Laboratory) that in turn maximizes educational gain.","PeriodicalId":305252,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 19th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133568393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. G. Grylonakis, C. Filelis-Papadopoulos, G. Gravvanis
{"title":"On the numerical solution of the generalized dirichlet-neumann map for the 2D laplace equation using modified generic factored approximate sparse inverse preconditioning","authors":"E. G. Grylonakis, C. Filelis-Papadopoulos, G. Gravvanis","doi":"10.1145/2801948.2801991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2801948.2801991","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, a new transform method for solving boundary value problems for linear and integrable nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) in two dimensions was proposed by A.S. Fokas. This method produces an analytic, integral representation of the solution in the complex k-plane along with a generalized Dirichlet-Neumann map. The key step of this approach is the solution of the global relation, an equation involving known information of the derivative of the solution, coupled with an unknown component of the same derivative on the boundary. This unified approach seeks a solution to this unknown component, without solving in the interior of the domain. The global relation can be solved analytically for several equations with simple boundary conditions, however for more complicated boundary value problems approximations are sought, based on numerical methods. For the numerical solution of the global relation, a collocation-type method was recently introduced. Hence, we consider the proposed method for the 2D Laplace equation in several regular convex polygons with an arbitrary number of edges. The linear system, resulting by the collocation-type method, was solved by the Explicit Preconditioned Generalized Minimum Residual restarted method in conjunction with the Modified Generic Factored Approximate Sparse Inverse matrix. Numerical results indicating the applicability and performance of the proposed preconditioning scheme are provided, along with discussions on the implementation details of the method.","PeriodicalId":305252,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 19th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115379984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Samarakou, E. Fylladitakis, D. Karolidis, A. Papadakis, P. Prentakis, G. Tsaganou
{"title":"How an open learning environment affects the motivation of secondary and higher education students","authors":"M. Samarakou, E. Fylladitakis, D. Karolidis, A. Papadakis, P. Prentakis, G. Tsaganou","doi":"10.1145/2801948.2802002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2801948.2802002","url":null,"abstract":"Technology mediated learning is very actively and widely researched, yet there are few studies on if and how open learning environments (OLEs) affect the motivation of students. It is very important to showcase not only the effect on different groups of students but on students in various educational levels. This paper is a report on the findings of a study conducted in parallel, using the same OLE, on the students of a postgraduate engineering course and on the lyceum students attending their mandatory secondary education curriculum. The students used the Student Diagnosis, Assistance, Evaluation System based on Artificial Intelligence (StuDiAsE), an open learning system for unattended student diagnosis, assistance and evaluation based on artificial intelligence. The report indicates that the use of the OLE has particularly beneficial effects on the performance of certain student groups.","PeriodicalId":305252,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 19th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114565097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}