Wednesday, September 23 08.30 09.00 Registration 09.00 09.15 Welcome and Opening Remarks Prof Ali Doğramacı (Bilkent University) 09.15 09.30 ISCIS History and Erol Gelenbe s contributions Prof M. Ufuk Çağlayan (Boğaziçi University) 09.30 11.00 11.00 11.30 Coffee Break 11.30 12.30 Keynotes I Chair: Prof Ali Doğramacı (Bilkent University) Models and methods for reducing the latency in parallel sparse iterative solvers and sparse matrix kernel Prof Cevdet Aykanat (Bilkent University) Software engineering in the systems context Prof (Emeritus) Harold Bud Lawson (IEEE Computer Pioneer Award) Green computing Prof Sartaj Sahni (University of Florida) Keynotes II Chair: Prof M. Ufuk Çağlayan (Boğaziçi University) Interoperability: the semantic Web and open linked data Prof (Emeritus) Erich Neuhold (University of Vienna) Advances in kernel- based multi- task learning Prof Michael Georgiopoulos (University of Central Florida) 12.30 13.30 Lunch Break 1/6
Wednesday, September 23 (continued) 13.30 15.00 15.00 15.30 Coffee Break Keynotes III Chair: Prof Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College Understanding life: a bioinformatics point of view Prof Jacek Blazewicz (Fellow of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan University of Technology) Discrete and hybrid modelling of gene networks: the example of the circadian rhythm Prof Gilles Bernot (Université de Nice) Data- driven model estimation in network systems from observed equilibria Prof Ioannis Paschalidis (Boston University) Keynotes IV Chair: Prof Michael Georgiopoulos (Dean of Engineering, University of Central Florida) Entropy estimation from multivariate data: robust assessment of structural complexity Prof Danilo Mandic (Imperial College 15.30 17.30 Flattening the tail of response times by using replicas Prof Peter Harrison (Imperial College Performance evaluation of... a laser Dr Alain Jean- Marie (INRIA) Age of information: controlling the freshness of status updates under energy constraints Prof Elif Uysal- Biyikoglu (Middle East Technical University) 18.30 ISCIS Reception, Garden Room, Rector's House, 170 Queen's Gate 2/6
Thursday, September 24 08.30 09.00 Registration Invited Papers: Machine Learning and Neural Networks I Chair: Prof Erol Gelenbe (Imperial College Machine learning approaches for predicting stationary time series Prof Laszlo Gyorfi (Fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Green Computing and Networking Chair: Prof Dimitrios Tzovaras (Center for Research and Technology, Hellas Information Technologies Institute) Performance of an autonomous energy harvesting wireless sensor Erol Gelenbe and Yasin Murat Kadioglu 09.00 11.00 Modeling and simulation of large neuronal ensembles Dr Dan Goodman (Imperial College Towards assessment of energy consumption and latency of LTE UEs during signaling storms Frederic Francois, Omer H. Abdelrahman and Erol Gelenbe 11.00 11.30 Coffee Break 11.30 13.00 Online learning methods in adaptive communication Dr Andras Gyorgy (University of Alberta) Brain- computer interfaces for silent speech Prof Ugur Halici (Middle East Technical University) Invited Papers: Machine Learning and Neural Networks II Chair: Prof Nihal Pekergin (Univ. Paris- Est) On- road vehicle classification based on random neural network and bag- of- visual words Dr Khaled Hussain (Assiut University) Distributed algorithms in intelligent transportation systems Dr Stelios Timotheou (University of Cyprus) A multimedia information system for video content extraction Prof Adnan Yazici (Middle East Technical University) A state- dependent control for green computing Evsey Morozov and Alexander Rumyantsev Environment friendly energy efficient distributed data centers Ahsan Ali and Oznur Ozkasap Modeling power consumption in multicore CPUs with multithreading and frequency scaling Davide Cerotti, Marco Gribaudo, Pietro Piazzolla, Riccardo Pinciroli and Giuseppe Serazzi Network Security I Chair: Prof Albert Levi (Sabancı University) Smart mobile ecosystem security: existing solutions, MNO requirements and business model George Lyberopoulos, Helen Theodoropoulou, Konstantinos Filis and Ioanna Mesogiti A role and activity based access control for secure healthcare systems Naim Alperen Pulur, Duygu Karaoglan Altop and Albert Levi LBP- DCT based copy move forgery detection algorithm Beste Ustubioglu, Guzin Ulutas, Mustafa Ulutas, Nabiyev Vasif and Arda Ustubİoglu 13.00 14.00 Lunch Break 3/6
Thursday, September 24 (continued) 14.00 15.30 15.30 16.30 16.30 17.00 Coffee Break 17.00 18.00 Invited Papers: System and Network Performance Chair: Prof Uğur Halıcı (Middle East Technical University) Diffusion of opinion in social networks: structure, dynamics and games Dr Moez Draief (Huawei Paris Research Lab and Imperial College Macroscopic analysis of huge traces of parallel/distributed applications Dr Jean- Marc Vincent (University of Grenoble) Finite two- layered queueing systems Dr Efrat Perel and Prof Uri Yechiali (Tel Aviv University) Smart Algorithms I Chair: Prof Adnan Yazıcı (Middle East Technical University) A hybrid movie recommender using dynamic fuzzy clustering Fatih Gurcan and Aysenur Birturk Generating minimum height ADSs for partially specified finite state machines Uraz Cengiz Turker and Robert Hierons Line- search aided non- negative least- square learning for random neural network Yonghua Yin Smart Algorithms II Chair: Prof Nihal Pekergin (Universite Paris- Est) A novel concise specification and efficient F- logic based matching of semantic Web services in Flora- 2 Shahin Mehdipour Ataee and Zeki Bayram Fast frequent episode mining based on finite- state machines Stavros Papadopoulos, Anastasios Drosou and Dimitrios Tzovaras Hybrid heuristic algorithms for the multi- objective load balancing of 2D bin packing problems Muhammet Beyaz, Tansel Dokeroglu and Ahmet Cosar Network Security II Chair: Prof Jean- Michel Fourneau (University of Versailles St Quentin) Bandwidth usage- based detection of signaling attacks Mihajlo Pavloski, Gokce Gorbil and Erol Gelenbe A BRPCA based approach for anomaly detection in mobile networks Stavros Papadopoulos, Anastasios Drosou, Nikos Dimitriou, Omer H. Abdelrahman, Gokce Gorbil and Dimitrios Tzovaras Undermining isolation through covert channels in the Fiasco.OC microkernel Jean- Pierre Seifert, Michael Peter, Matthias Petschick, Julian Vetter, Jan Nordholz and Janis Danisevskis Stochastic Modelling and Computer Networks I Chair: Dr Omer Abdelrahman (Imperial College Smoothing the input process in a batch queue Farah Ait Salaht, Hind Castel, Jean- Michel Fourneau, Thierry Mautor and Nihal Pekergin Network- based job dispatching in the Cloud Byungseok Kang Discrete time stochastic automata networks with product form steady- state solution Jean- Michel Fourneau Stochastic Modelling and Computer Networks II Chair: Dr Frederic Francois (Imperial College Modelling dynamics of TCP/IP flows in very large network topologies Monika Nycz, Tomasz Nycz and Tadeusz Czachorski Numerically efficient analysis of a one- dimensional stochastic lac operon model Neslihan Avcu, Nihal Pekergin, Ferhan Pekergin and Cuneyt Guzelis 4/6
Friday, September 25 08.30 09.15 Registration 09.15 10.15 10.15 11.00 Image Processing and Computer Vision Chair: Dr Ferhan Pekergin (Universite Paris- Nord) Brain MR image denoising for Rician noise using intrinsic geometrical information Hamit Soyel, Kamil Yurtkan, Hasan Demirel and Peter McOwan Image analysis in parameter- free setting Yu Zhu and Thomas Zeugmann Age estimation based on hybrid features of facial images Asuman Gunay and Vasif Nabiyev Algorithm Design for Biological and Chemical Systems Chair: Prof Erol Gelenbe (Imperial College Proposal of a new method for de novo DNA sequence assembly using de Bruijn graphs Adriano Donato Couto, Fabio Ribeiro Cerqueira, Ricardo Dos Santos Ferreira and Alcione de Paiva Oliveira Natural Language Processing and Language Design I Chair: Prof Tülin Atmaca (Telecom SudParis) Two- stage feature selection for text classification Levent Ozgur and Tunga Gungor Constructing a Turkish constituency parse tree- bank Olcay Taner Yildiz, Ercan Solak, Semsinur Candir, Razieh Ehsani and Onur Gorgun A TV content augmentation system exploiting rule based named entity recognition method Yunus Emre Isiklar and Nihan Cicekli A comparison study on ensemble strategies and feature sets for sentiment analysis Deniz Aldogan and Yusuf Yaslan Feature selection for enhanced author identification of Turkish text Yasemin Bay and Erbug Celebi 11.00 11.30 Coffee Break A new graph algorithm for the analysis of conformational dynamics of molecules Dominique Barth, Sana Bougueroua, Marie- Pierre Gaigeot, Franck Quessette, Riccardo Spezia and Sandrine Vial 5/6
Friday, September 25 (continued) 11.30 13.00 Wireless Networks Chair: Prof Tadeusz Czachorski (Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics) EASER: Energy aware scalable and reactive replication protocol for MANETs Saeed Nourizadeh Azar, Kaan Karaagacli and Oznur Ozkasap Fractional frequency reuse based adaptive power control scheme for interference mitigation in LTE- advanced cellular network with device- to- device communication Sok Chhorn, Si- O Seo, Ji- Eun Song, Suk- Ho Yoon, Seung- Yeon Kim and Choong- Ho Cho Natural Language Processing and Language Design II Chair: Dr Gökçe Görbil (Imperial College Noun phrase chunking for Turkish using a dependency parser Ilyas Cicekli and Mucahit Kutlu Enabling secure and collaborative document sharing in BIM processes Carlo Argiolas, Nicoletta Dessì, Mariagrazia Fugini and Barbara Pes Tactical graphics description language Ismail Kilinc, Huseyin Ates, Bulent Sabri Ozhorasan and Huseyin Korkmaz Influence of the management protocols on the LTE self- configuration procedures' performance Krzysztof Grochla and Mariusz Slabicki Subcarrier allocation based on graph colouring for LTE soft frequency reuse Krzysztof Grochla and Konrad Połys 13.00 13.15 Closing Remarks 6/6