* Welcome Party - held at Casa Universitarilor situated in the city center on Em. de Martonne Street, no. 1.

* Banquet - held at the Chios restaurant and casino, located in the heart of the Central Park in Cluj-Napoca

Intelligent Systems

Session IS-1 (Friday, August 29, 2008, 09:00 - 10:40):

09:00 - 09:30 - Event Analysis and Interpretation of Human Activity for Augmented Reality-based Assistant Systems
Alexander Bannat, Juergen Gast, Frank Wallhoff

09:30 - 10:00 - Observation and Adaptation of a learning session based on a multi-agent system : An experiment
Gligor Calin Loghin, Thiebault Carron, Jean Charles Marty, Mircea Florin Vaida

10:00 - 10:20 - Intelligent Strategies for Several Zero-, One- and Two-Player Games
Mugurel Ionut Andreica, Nicolae Tapus

10:20 - 10:40 - Q-learn Argumentation Schemes for Car Sales Dialogues
Adrian Groza

Session IS-2 (Friday, August 29, 2008, 11:00-12:40):

11:00 - 11:30 - Hierarchical cluster kernels for supervised and semi-supervised learning
Zalan Bodo

11:30 - 12:00 - Improving Classification Accuracy through Feature Selection
Camelia Vidrighin-Bratu, Tudor Muresan, Rodica Potolea

12:00 - 12:20 - Multi Agent Trust for Belief Combination on the Semantic Web
Miklos Nagy, Maria Vargas-Vera, Enrico Motta

12:20 - 12:40 - The use of the medical ontology for a semantic-based fusion system inBiomedical Informatics - Application to Alzheimer Disease
Roxana-Oana Teodorescu, Cosmin Cernazanu-Glavan, Vladimir-Ioan Cretu, Daniel Racoceanu

Computer Vision

Session CV-1 (Tr-1) - Tracking (Friday, August 29, 2008, 09:00 - 10:30):

09:00 - 09:30 - Adaptive and Robust Road Tracking System Based on Stereovision and Particle Filtering
Radu Danescu, Sergiu Nedevschi

09:30 - 10:00 - Visual Tracking with Filtering Algorithms
Botond Attila Bocsi, Lehel Csato

10:00 - 10:30 - Object tracking from stereo sequences using particle filter
Catalin Golban, Sergiu Nedevschi

Session CV-2 (DA) - Driving Assistance (Friday, August 29, 2008, 11:00 - 12:30):

11:00 - 11:30 - On Using the Hough Transform for Driving Assistance Applications
Valiantsin Hardzeyeu, Frank Klefenz

11:30 - 12:00 - Forward Collision Detection using a Stereo Vision System
Sergiu Nedevschi, Andrei Vatavu, Florin Ioan Oniga, Marc Michael Meinecke

12:00 - 12:30 - Curb Segments Detection with Temporal Filtering for Urban Driving Scenarios
Florin Ioan Oniga, Sergiu Nedevschi, Meinecke Marc Michael

Session CV-3 (Tr-2) - Tracking (Friday, August 29, 2008, 14:00 - 15:30):

14:00 - 14:30 - Tracking of polyhedral objects
Sorin Curila, Cornelia E. Gordan, Mircea Curila

14:30 - 15:00 - Camera Motion Estimation Using Monocular and Stereo-Vision
Silviu Bota, Sergiu Nedevschi

15:00 - 15:30 - Image Features Detection using Phase Congruency and Its Application in Visual Servoing
Adrian Burlacu, Corneliu Lazar

Session CV-4 (PR-1) - Pattern Recognition (Friday, August 29, 2008, 16:00 - 17:50):

16:00 - 16:30 - Meta-classifier for Pedestrian Attitude Recognition
Raluca Borca-Muresan, Sergiu Nedevschi

16:30 - 17:00 - An Eigenspace-Based Approach for Human Fall Detection Using Integrated Time Motion Image and Multi-class Support Vector Machine
Homa Foroughi, Hadi Sadoghi Yazdi, Hamidreza Pourreza

17:00 - 17:30 - A Short Term and Long Term Learning Based on Fuzzy Transaction Repository and Feature Re-Weighting
Malihe Javidi, Hamid Reza Pourreza, Hadi Sadoghi Yazdi

17:30 - 17:50 - Kidney CT Image Segmentation Using Multi-Feature EM Algorithm, Based on Gabor Filters
Sergiu Nedevschi, Anca Ciurte, George Mile

Session CV-5 (MI) - Medical Imaging (Saturday, August 30, 2008, 09:00 - 10:30):

09:00 - 09:30 - 3D Femoral Bone Approximation in Prosthesed Hip Radiographies
Laura Maria Florea, Constantin Vertan, Corneliu Nicolae Florea

09:30 - 10:00 - The Imagistic Textural Model of the Prostatic Adenocarcinoma
Delia Mitrea, Sergiu Nedevschi, Bogdan Petrut, Ioan Coman

10:00 - 10:30 - Statistical Methods for Automatic Segmentation of Elastographic Images
Sergiu Nedevschi, Cosmin Pantilie, Tiberiu Marita, Sorin Dudea

Session CV-6 (PR-2) - Pattern Recognition (Saturday, August 30, 2008, 11:00 - 12:50):

11:00 - 11:30 - Global Gabor features for rotation invariant object classification
Ioan Buciu, Ioan Nafornita, Ioannis Pitas

11:30 - 12:00 - Off-line Recognition of Handwritten Numeral Strings Composed from Two-digits Partially Overlapped Using Convolutional Neural Networks
Dan Ciresan, Dan Pescaru

12:00 - 12:30 - Robust Camera Calibration of Soccer Video using Genetic Algorithm
Reza Pourreza, Morteza Khademi, Hamidreza Pourreza, Habib Rajabi Mashhadi

12:30 - 12:50 - Extended Two-Dimensional PCA for Efficient Face Representation and Recognition
Mehran Safayani, Mohammad Taghi Manzuri Shalmani, Mahmoud Khademi

Software Engineering

Session SE-1 (Friday, August 29, 2008, 14:00 - 15:30):

14:00 - 14:30 - On Clustering based Aspect Mining
Grigoreta Sofia Cojocar, Gabriela (Serban) Czibula

14:30 - 15:00 - Annotation of Concurrent Changes in Collaborative Software Development
Claudia-Lavinia Ignat

15:00 - 15:30 - CAPTCHA Systems for Disabled People
Mohammad Shirali-Shahreza, Sajad Shirali-Shahreza

Session SE-2 (Friday, August 29, 2008, 16:00 - 17:30):

16:00 - 16:30 - Generating Logic-Based Representations for Programs
Calin Jebelean, Ciprian-Bogdan Chirila, Anca Maduta

16:30 - 17:00 - Comparative metric semantics for modern communication abstractions
Eneia Nicolae Todoran

17:00 - 17:30 - Formal Verification and Implementation of Real Time Operating System Based Applications
Tudor Zaharia, Piroska Haller

Distributed Computing

Session DC-1 (Friday, August 29, 2008, 09:00 - 10:30):

09:00 - 09:30 - Fluent calculus-based Web service composition - A mapping between OWL-S and fluent calculus
Viorica Rozina Chifu, Ioan Salomie, Emil St. Chifu

09:30 - 10:00 - Real-Time Java and Multi-Core Architectures
Vlad Olaru, Anca Hangan, Gheorghe Sebestyen, Gavril Saplacan

10:00 - 10:30 - Ontology-Based Distributed Health Record Management System
Calin Cenan, Gheorghe Sebestyen, Gavril Saplacan, Dan Radulescu

Session DC-2 (Friday, August 29, 2008, 11:00 - 12:40):

11:00 - 11:30 - Evaluation of Multi-Objective Decentralized Scheduling for Applications in Grid Environment
Florin Pop, Ciprian Dobre, Valentin Cristea

11:30 - 12:00 - RAP - A Basic Context Awareness Model
Ioan Salomie, Tudor Cioara, Ionut Anghel, Mihaela Dinsoreanu

12:00 - 12:20 - A Context Awareness Model Enhanced with Autonomic Features
Ioan Salomie, Ionut Anghel, Tudor Cioara, Mihaela Dinsoreanu

12:20 - 12:40 - Self-stabilizing Synchronization Algorithms on Oriented Chains
Doina Bein, Ajoy Datta, Lawrence Larmore

Networking

Session N-1 (Friday, August 29, 2008, 14:00 - 15:30):

14:00 - 14:30 - DTNServ: A case for Service Classes in Delay Tolerant Networks
Michael Demmer

14:30 - 15:00 - Identity-Based Encryption for Security in Delay Tolerant Networks
Rabin Patra, Sonesh Surana, Sergiu Nedevschi jr.

15:00 - 15:30 - Informal specification-based performance evaluation of security protocols
Bela Genge, Piroska Haller, Iosif Ignat, Ovidiu Ratoi

Session N-2 (Saturday, August 30, 2008, 09:00 - 10:30):

09:00 - 09:30 - Establishing and Fixing a Freshness Flaw in a Key-Distribution and Authentication Protocol
Reiner Dojen, Ioana Lasc, Tom Coffey

09:30 - 10:00 - Learning, Self-Scheduling TDMA (LeSS-TDMA) for Wireless Sensor Networks
Victor Cionca, Thomas Newe, Vasile Dadarlat

10:00 - 10:30 - Design and Implementation of a High Quality TRNG in FPGA
Cristian Klein, Octavian Cret, Alin Suciu

Session N-3 (Saturday, August 30, 2008, 11:00 - 12:30):

11:00 - 11:30 - Impact of Coverage Preservation Techniques on Prolonging the Network Lifetime in Traffic Surveillance Applications
Codruta Istin, Dan Pescaru

11:30 - 12:00 - Periodic Real-Time Data Flows over General Purpose Networks
Ramona Marfievici, Anca Hangan, Gheorghe Sebestyen

12:00 - 12:30 - Using Data Aggregation to Prolong the Lifetime of Wide-area Wireless Sensor
Cristian Vasar, Octavian Prostean, Ioan Filip, Iosif Szeidert, Andreea Robu