Αντώνης Χ. Χρυσόπουλος

Maria Th. Kotouza, Alexandros-Charalampos Kyprianidis, Sotirios-Filippos Tsarouchis, Antonios C. Chrysopoulos and Pericles A. Mitkas

Evolving Systems, 2021 Mar

Nowadays, the fashion clothing industry is moving towards “fast” fashion, offering a wide variety of products based on different patterns and styles, usually characterized by lower costs and ambiguous quality. The retails markets are trying to present regularly new fashion collections while trying to follow the latest fashion trends at the same time. The main reason is to remain competitive and keep up with ever-changing customer demands. Fashion designers draw inspiration from social media, e-shops, and fashion shows that set the new fashion trends. In this direction, we propose Science4Fashion, an AI end-to-end system that facilitates fashion designers by collecting and analyzing data from many different sources and suggesting products according to their needs. An overview of the system’s modules is presented, emphasizing data collection, data annotation using deep learning models, and product recommendation and user feedback processes. The experiments presented in this paper are twofold: (a) experiments regarding the evaluation of clothing attribute classification, and (b) experiments regarding product recommendation using the baseline kNN enriched by the frequency-based clustering algorithm (FBC), achieving promising results.

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author={Maria Th. Kotouza and Alexandros-Charalampos Kyprianidis and Sotirios-Filippos Tsarouchis and Antonios C. Chrysopoulos and Pericles A. Mitkas},
title={Science4Fashion: an end-to-end decision support system for fashion designers},
journal={Evolving Systems},
year={2021},
month={03},
date={2021-03-12},
url={https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12530-021-09372-7},
doi={https://doi.org/10.1007/s12530-021-09372-7},
issn={1868-6486},
abstract={Nowadays, the fashion clothing industry is moving towards “fast” fashion, offering a wide variety of products based on different patterns and styles, usually characterized by lower costs and ambiguous quality. The retails markets are trying to present regularly new fashion collections while trying to follow the latest fashion trends at the same time. The main reason is to remain competitive and keep up with ever-changing customer demands. Fashion designers draw inspiration from social media, e-shops, and fashion shows that set the new fashion trends. In this direction, we propose Science4Fashion, an AI end-to-end system that facilitates fashion designers by collecting and analyzing data from many different sources and suggesting products according to their needs. An overview of the system’s modules is presented, emphasizing data collection, data annotation using deep learning models, and product recommendation and user feedback processes. The experiments presented in this paper are twofold: (a) experiments regarding the evaluation of clothing attribute classification, and (b) experiments regarding product recommendation using the baseline kNN enriched by the frequency-based clustering algorithm (FBC), achieving promising results.}
}

Evridiki Papachristou, Antonios Chrysopoulos and Nikolaos Bilalis

The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 2020 Oct

In the clothing industry, design, development and procurement teams have been affected more than any other industry and are constantly being under pressure to present more products with fewer resources in a shorter time. The diversity of garment designs created as new products is not found in any other industry and is almost independent of the size of the business. The proposed research is being applied to a Greek clothing manufacturing company with operations in two different countries and a portfolio of diverse brands and moves in two dimensions: The first dimension concerns the perfect transformation of the product design field into a field of action planning that can be supported by artificial intelligence, providing timely and valid information to the designer drawing information from a wider range of sources than today’s method. The second dimension of the research concerns the design and implementation of an intelligent and semi-autonomous decision support system for everyone involved in the sample room. This system utilizes various machine learning techniques in order to become a versatile, robust and useful “assistant”: multiple clustering and classification models are utilized for grouping and combining similar/relevant products, Computer Vision state-of-the-art algorithms are extracting meaningful attributes from images and, finally, a reinforcement learning system is used to evolve the existing models based on user’s preferences.

@article{Papachristou2020,
author={Evridiki Papachristou and Antonios Chrysopoulos and Nikolaos Bilalis},
title={Machine learning for clothing manufacture as a mean to respond quicker and better to the demands of clothing brands: a Greek case study},
journal={The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology},
year={2020},
month={10},
date={2020-10-06},
url={https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00170-020-06157-1},
doi={https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-020-06157-1},
issn={1433-3015},
abstract={In the clothing industry, design, development and procurement teams have been affected more than any other industry and are constantly being under pressure to present more products with fewer resources in a shorter time. The diversity of garment designs created as new products is not found in any other industry and is almost independent of the size of the business. The proposed research is being applied to a Greek clothing manufacturing company with operations in two different countries and a portfolio of diverse brands and moves in two dimensions: The first dimension concerns the perfect transformation of the product design field into a field of action planning that can be supported by artificial intelligence, providing timely and valid information to the designer drawing information from a wider range of sources than today’s method. The second dimension of the research concerns the design and implementation of an intelligent and semi-autonomous decision support system for everyone involved in the sample room. This system utilizes various machine learning techniques in order to become a versatile, robust and useful “assistant”: multiple clustering and classification models are utilized for grouping and combining similar/relevant products, Computer Vision state-of-the-art algorithms are extracting meaningful attributes from images and, finally, a reinforcement learning system is used to evolve the existing models based on user’s preferences.}
}

Maria Th. Kotouza, Antonios C. Chrysopoulos and Pericles A. Mitkas

European Energy Market (EEM), 2017 14th International Conference, pp. 1-6, IEEE, Dresden, Germany, 2017 Jun

In recent years, the Smart Grid paradigm has opened a vast set of opportunities for all participating parties in the Energy Markets (i.e. producers, Distribution and Transmission System Operators, retailers, consumers), providing two-way data communication, increased security and grid stability. Furthermore, the liberation of distribution and energy services has led towards competitive Energy Market environments [4]. In order to maintain their existing customers\' satisfaction level high, as well as reaching out to new ones, suppliers must provide better and more reliable energy services, that are specifically tailored to each customer or to a group of customers with similar needs. Thus, it is necessary to identify segments of customers that have common energy characteristics via a process called Consumer Load Profiling (CLP) [16].

@inproceedings{2017Kotouza,
author={Maria Th. Kotouza and Antonios C. Chrysopoulos and Pericles A. Mitkas},
title={Segmentation of Low Voltage Consumers for Designing Individualized Pricing Policies},
booktitle={European Energy Market (EEM), 2017 14th International Conference},
pages={1-6},
publisher={IEEE},
address={Dresden, Germany},
year={2017},
month={06},
date={2017-06-06},
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abstract={In recent years, the Smart Grid paradigm has opened a vast set of opportunities for all participating parties in the Energy Markets (i.e. producers, Distribution and Transmission System Operators, retailers, consumers), providing two-way data communication, increased security and grid stability. Furthermore, the liberation of distribution and energy services has led towards competitive Energy Market environments [4]. In order to maintain their existing customers\\' satisfaction level high, as well as reaching out to new ones, suppliers must provide better and more reliable energy services, that are specifically tailored to each customer or to a group of customers with similar needs. Thus, it is necessary to identify segments of customers that have common energy characteristics via a process called Consumer Load Profiling (CLP) [16].}
}

Antonios Chrysopoulos, Christos Diou, Andreas Symeonidis and Pericles A. Mitkas

Electric Power Systems Research, 132, pp. 78-93, 2016 Mar

The Smart Grid paradigm can be economically and socially sustainable by engaging potential consumers through understanding, trust and clear tangible benefits. Interested consumers may assume a more active role in the energy market by claiming new energy products/services on offer and changing their consumption behavior. To this end, suppliers, aggregators and Distribution System Operators can provide monetary incentives for customer behavioral change through demand response programs, which are variable pricing schemes aiming at consumption shifting and/or reduction. However, forecasting the effect of such programs on power demand requires accurate models that can efficiently describe and predict changes in consumer activities as a response to pricing alterations. Current work proposes such a detailed bottom-up response modeling methodology, as a first step towards understanding and formulating consumer response. We build upon previous work on small-scale consumer activity modeling and provide a novel approach for describing and predicting consumer response at the level of individual activities. The proposed models are used to predict shifting of demand as a result of modified pricing policies and they incorporate consumer preferences and comfort through sensitivity factors. Experiments indicate the effectiveness of the proposed method on real-life data collected from two different pilot sites: 32 apartments of a multi-residential building in Sweden, as well as 11 shops in a large commercial center in Italy.

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title={Response modeling of small-scale energy consumers for effective demand response applications},
journal={Electric Power Systems Research},
volume={132},
pages={78-93},
year={2016},
month={03},
date={2016-03-01},
url={http://issel.ee.auth.gr/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Response-modeling-of-small-scale-energy-consumers-for-effective-demand-response-applications.pdf},
abstract={The Smart Grid paradigm can be economically and socially sustainable by engaging potential consumers through understanding, trust and clear tangible benefits. Interested consumers may assume a more active role in the energy market by claiming new energy products/services on offer and changing their consumption behavior. To this end, suppliers, aggregators and Distribution System Operators can provide monetary incentives for customer behavioral change through demand response programs, which are variable pricing schemes aiming at consumption shifting and/or reduction. However, forecasting the effect of such programs on power demand requires accurate models that can efficiently describe and predict changes in consumer activities as a response to pricing alterations. Current work proposes such a detailed bottom-up response modeling methodology, as a first step towards understanding and formulating consumer response. We build upon previous work on small-scale consumer activity modeling and provide a novel approach for describing and predicting consumer response at the level of individual activities. The proposed models are used to predict shifting of demand as a result of modified pricing policies and they incorporate consumer preferences and comfort through sensitivity factors. Experiments indicate the effectiveness of the proposed method on real-life data collected from two different pilot sites: 32 apartments of a multi-residential building in Sweden, as well as 11 shops in a large commercial center in Italy.}
}

Konstantinos Vavliakis, Anthony Chrysopoulos, Kyriakos C. Chatzidimitriou, Andreas L. Symeonidis and Pericles A. Mitkas

SimuTools, 2015 Dec

Energy gives personal comfort to people, and is essential for the generation of commercial and societal wealth. Nevertheless, energy production and consumption place considerable pressures on the environment, such as the emission of greenhouse gases and air pollutants. They contribute to climate change, damage natural ecosystems and the man-made environment, and cause adverse eects to human health. Lately, novel market schemes emerge, such as the formation and operation of customer coalitions aiming to improve their market power through the pursuit of common benets.In this paper we present CASSANDRA, an open source1,expandable software platform for modelling the demand side of power systems, focusing on small scale consumers. The structural elements of the platform are a) the electrical installations (i.e. households, commercial stores, small industries etc.), b) the respective appliances installed, and c) the electrical consumption-related activities of the people residing in the installations.CASSANDRA serves as a tool for simulation of real demandside environments providing decision support for energy market stakeholders. The ultimate goal of the CASSANDRA simulation functionality is the identication of good practices that lead to energy eciency, clustering electric energy consumers according to their consumption patterns, and the studying consumer change behaviour when presented with various demand response programs.

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author={Konstantinos Vavliakis and Anthony Chrysopoulos and Kyriakos C. Chatzidimitriou and Andreas L. Symeonidis and Pericles A. Mitkas},
title={CASSANDRA: a simulation-based, decision-support tool for energy market stakeholders},
booktitle={SimuTools},
year={2015},
month={00},
date={2015-00-00},
url={http://issel.ee.auth.gr/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/CASSANDRA_SimuTools.pdf},
abstract={Energy gives personal comfort to people, and is essential for the generation of commercial and societal wealth. Nevertheless, energy production and consumption place considerable pressures on the environment, such as the emission of greenhouse gases and air pollutants. They contribute to climate change, damage natural ecosystems and the man-made environment, and cause adverse eects to human health. Lately, novel market schemes emerge, such as the formation and operation of customer coalitions aiming to improve their market power through the pursuit of common benets.In this paper we present CASSANDRA, an open source1,expandable software platform for modelling the demand side of power systems, focusing on small scale consumers. The structural elements of the platform are a) the electrical installations (i.e. households, commercial stores, small industries etc.), b) the respective appliances installed, and c) the electrical consumption-related activities of the people residing in the installations.CASSANDRA serves as a tool for simulation of real demandside environments providing decision support for energy market stakeholders. The ultimate goal of the CASSANDRA simulation functionality is the identication of good practices that lead to energy eciency, clustering electric energy consumers according to their consumption patterns, and the studying consumer change behaviour when presented with various demand response programs.}
}

Antonios Chrysopoulos, Christos Diou, A.L. Symeonidis and Pericles A. Mitkas

EAAI, 35, pp. 299- 315, 2014 Oct

In contemporary power systems, small-scale consumers account for up to 50% of a country?s total electrical energy consumption. Nevertheless, not much has been achieved towards eliminating the problems caused by their inelastic consumption habits, namely the peaks in their daily power demand and the inability of energy suppliers to perform short-term forecasting and/or long-term portfolio management. Typical approaches applied in large-scale consumers, like providing targeted incentives for behavioral change, cannot be employed in this case due to the lack of models for everyday habits, activities and consumption patterns, as well as the inability to model consumer response based on personal comfort. Current work aspires to tackle these issues; it introduces a set of small-scale consumer models that provide statistical descriptions of electrical consumption patterns, parameterized from the analysis of real-life consumption measurements. These models allow (i) bottom-up aggregation of appliance use up to the overall installation load, (ii) simulation of various energy efficiency scenarios that involve changes at appliance and/or activity level and (iii) the assessment of change in consumer habits, and therefore the power consumption, as a result of applying different pricing policies. Furthermore, an autonomous agent architecture is introduced that adopts the proposed consumer models to perform simulation and result analysis. The conducted experiments indicate that (i) the proposed approach leads to accurate prediction of small-scale consumption (in terms of energy consumption and consumption activities) and (ii) small shifts in appliance usage times are sufficient to achieve significant peak power reduction.

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author={Antonios Chrysopoulos and Christos Diou and A.L. Symeonidis and Pericles A. Mitkas},
title={Bottom-up modeling of small-scale energy consumers for effective Demand Response Applications},
journal={EAAI},
volume={35},
pages={299- 315},
year={2014},
month={10},
date={2014-10-01},
url={http://issel.ee.auth.gr/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Bottom-up-modeling-of-small-scale-energy-consumers-for-effective-Demand-Response-Applications.pdf},
doi={http://10.1016/j.engappai.2014.06.015},
keywords={Small-scale consumer models;Demand simulation;Demand Response Applications},
abstract={In contemporary power systems, small-scale consumers account for up to 50% of a country?s total electrical energy consumption. Nevertheless, not much has been achieved towards eliminating the problems caused by their inelastic consumption habits, namely the peaks in their daily power demand and the inability of energy suppliers to perform short-term forecasting and/or long-term portfolio management. Typical approaches applied in large-scale consumers, like providing targeted incentives for behavioral change, cannot be employed in this case due to the lack of models for everyday habits, activities and consumption patterns, as well as the inability to model consumer response based on personal comfort. Current work aspires to tackle these issues; it introduces a set of small-scale consumer models that provide statistical descriptions of electrical consumption patterns, parameterized from the analysis of real-life consumption measurements. These models allow (i) bottom-up aggregation of appliance use up to the overall installation load, (ii) simulation of various energy efficiency scenarios that involve changes at appliance and/or activity level and (iii) the assessment of change in consumer habits, and therefore the power consumption, as a result of applying different pricing policies. Furthermore, an autonomous agent architecture is introduced that adopts the proposed consumer models to perform simulation and result analysis. The conducted experiments indicate that (i) the proposed approach leads to accurate prediction of small-scale consumption (in terms of energy consumption and consumption activities) and (ii) small shifts in appliance usage times are sufficient to achieve significant peak power reduction.}
}

Antonios Chrysopoulos, Christos Diou, Andreas L. Symeonidis and Pericles Mitkas

Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2013), pp. 45-50, Atlanta, GA, USA, 2013 Jan

Locating software bugs is a difficult task, especially if they do not lead to crashes. Current research on automating non-crashing bug detection dictates collecting function call traces and representing them as graphs, and reducing the graphs before applying a subgraph mining algorithm. A ranking of potentially buggy functions is derived using frequency statistics for each node (function) in the correct and incorrect set of traces. Although most existing techniques are effective, they do not achieve scalability. To address this issue, this paper suggests reducing the graph dataset in order to isolate the graphs that are significant in localizing bugs. To this end, we propose the use of tree edit distance algorithms to identify the traces that are closer to each other, while belonging to different sets. The scalability of two proposed algorithms, an exact and a faster approximate one, is evaluated using a dataset derived from a real-world application. Finally, although the main scope of this work lies in scalability, the results indicate that there is no compromise in effectiveness.

@inproceedings{2013ChrysopoulosIAT,
author={Antonios Chrysopoulos and Christos Diou and Andreas L. Symeonidis and Pericles Mitkas},
title={Agent-based small-scale energy consumer models for energy portfolio management},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2013)},
pages={45-50},
address={Atlanta, GA, USA},
year={2013},
month={01},
date={2013-01-01},
url={http://issel.ee.auth.gr/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Agent-based-small-scale-energy-consumer-models-for-energy-portfolio-management.pdf},
keywords={Load Forecasting},
abstract={Locating software bugs is a difficult task, especially if they do not lead to crashes. Current research on automating non-crashing bug detection dictates collecting function call traces and representing them as graphs, and reducing the graphs before applying a subgraph mining algorithm. A ranking of potentially buggy functions is derived using frequency statistics for each node (function) in the correct and incorrect set of traces. Although most existing techniques are effective, they do not achieve scalability. To address this issue, this paper suggests reducing the graph dataset in order to isolate the graphs that are significant in localizing bugs. To this end, we propose the use of tree edit distance algorithms to identify the traces that are closer to each other, while belonging to different sets. The scalability of two proposed algorithms, an exact and a faster approximate one, is evaluated using a dataset derived from a real-world application. Finally, although the main scope of this work lies in scalability, the results indicate that there is no compromise in effectiveness.}
}

Themistoklis Diamantopoulos, Andreas Symeonidis and Anthonios Chrysopoulos

Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce. Designing Trading Strategies and Mechanisms for Electronic Markets, pp. 30-44, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013 Jan

In contemporary energy markets participants interact with each other via brokers that are responsible for the proper energy flow to and from their clients (usually in the form of long-term or short- term contracts). Power TAC is a realistic simulation of a real-life energy market, aiming towards providing a better understanding and modeling of modern energy markets, while boosting research on innovative trad- ing strategies. Power TAC models brokers as software agents, competing against each other in Double Auction environments, in order to increase their client base and market share. Current work discusses such a bro- ker agent architecture, striving to maximize his own profit. Within the context of our analysis, Double Auction markets are treated as microeco- nomic systems and, based on state-of-the-art price formation strategies, the following policies are designed: an adaptive price formation policy, a policy for forecasting energy consumption that employs Time Series Analysis primitives, and two shout update policies, a rule-based policy that acts rather hastily, and one based on Fuzzy Logic. The results are quite encouraging and will certainly call for future research.

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author={Themistoklis Diamantopoulos and Andreas Symeonidis and Anthonios Chrysopoulos},
title={Designing robust strategies for continuous trading in contemporary power markets},
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pages={30-44},
publisher={Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
year={2013},
month={01},
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url={http://issel.ee.auth.gr/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Designing-Robust-Strategies-for-Continuous-Trading-in-Contemporary-Power-Markets.pdf},
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abstract={In contemporary energy markets participants interact with each other via brokers that are responsible for the proper energy flow to and from their clients (usually in the form of long-term or short- term contracts). Power TAC is a realistic simulation of a real-life energy market, aiming towards providing a better understanding and modeling of modern energy markets, while boosting research on innovative trad- ing strategies. Power TAC models brokers as software agents, competing against each other in Double Auction environments, in order to increase their client base and market share. Current work discusses such a bro- ker agent architecture, striving to maximize his own profit. Within the context of our analysis, Double Auction markets are treated as microeco- nomic systems and, based on state-of-the-art price formation strategies, the following policies are designed: an adaptive price formation policy, a policy for forecasting energy consumption that employs Time Series Analysis primitives, and two shout update policies, a rule-based policy that acts rather hastily, and one based on Fuzzy Logic. The results are quite encouraging and will certainly call for future research.}
}

Athanasios Papadopoulos, Konstantinos Toumpas, Antonios Chrysopoulos and Pericles A. Mitkas

IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligent and Games (CIG), pp. 63-70, Granada, Spain, 2012 Sep

This paper discusses the design and implementation of a highly efficient MiniMax algorithm for the game Abalone.For perfect information games with relatively low branching factor for their decision tree (such as Chess, Checkers etc.) anda highly accurate evaluation function, Alpha-Beta search proved to be far more efficient than Monte Carlo Tree Search. In recentyears many new techniques have been developed to improve the efficiency of the Alpha-Beta tree, applied to a variety of scientific fields. This paper explores several techniques for increasing the efficiency of Alpha-Beta Search on the board game of Abalone while introducing some new innovative techniques that proved to be very effective. The main idea behind them is the incorporation of probabilistic features to the otherwise deterministic Alpha-Beta search.

@inproceedings{2012PapadopoulosCIG,
author={Athanasios Papadopoulos and Konstantinos Toumpas and Antonios Chrysopoulos and Pericles A. Mitkas},
title={Exploring Optimization Strategies in Board Game Abalone for Alpha-Beta Seach},
booktitle={IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligent and Games (CIG)},
pages={63-70},
address={Granada, Spain},
year={2012},
month={09},
date={2012-09-11},
url={http://issel.ee.auth.gr/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Exploring-Optimization-Strategies-in-Board-Game-Abalone-for-Alpha-Beta-Search.pdf},
abstract={This paper discusses the design and implementation of a highly efficient MiniMax algorithm for the game Abalone.For perfect information games with relatively low branching factor for their decision tree (such as Chess, Checkers etc.) anda highly accurate evaluation function, Alpha-Beta search proved to be far more efficient than Monte Carlo Tree Search. In recentyears many new techniques have been developed to improve the efficiency of the Alpha-Beta tree, applied to a variety of scientific fields. This paper explores several techniques for increasing the efficiency of Alpha-Beta Search on the board game of Abalone while introducing some new innovative techniques that proved to be very effective. The main idea behind them is the incorporation of probabilistic features to the otherwise deterministic Alpha-Beta search.}
}

Kyriakos C. Chatzidimitriou, Antonios C. Chrysopoulos, Andreas L. Symeonidis and Pericles A. Mitkas

Agent and Data Mining Interaction 2011 Workshop held in conjuction with the conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS) 2011, pp. 228-247, 2011 Apr

In recent years, Time Series Prediction and clustering have been employed in hyperactive and evolving environments -where temporal data play an important role- as a result of the need for reliable methods to estimate and predict the pattern or behavior of events and systems. Power Stock Markets are such highly dynamic and competitive auction environments, additionally perplexed by constrained power laws in the various stages, from production to transmission and consumption. As with all real-time auctioning environments, the limited time available for decision making provides an ideal testbed for autonomous agents to develop bidding strategies that exploit time series prediction. Within the context of this paper, we present Cassandra, a dynamic platform that fosters the development of Data-Mining enhanced Multi-agent systems. Special attention was given on the efficiency and reusability of Cassandra, which provides Plug-n-Play capabilities, so that users may adapt their solution to the problem at hand. Cassandra’s functionality is demonstrated through a pilot case, where autonomously adaptive Recurrent Neural Networks in the form of Echo State Networks are encapsulated into Cassandra agents, in order to generate power load and settlement price prediction models in typical Day-ahead Power Markets. The system has been tested in a real-world scenario, that of the Greek Energy Stock Market.

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author={Kyriakos C. Chatzidimitriou and Antonios C. Chrysopoulos and Andreas L. Symeonidis and Pericles A. Mitkas},
title={Enhancing Agent Intelligence through Evolving Reservoir Networks for Prediction in Power Stock Markets},
booktitle={Agent and Data Mining Interaction 2011 Workshop held in conjuction with the conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS) 2011},
pages={228-247},
year={2011},
month={04},
date={2011-04-19},
url={http://issel.ee.auth.gr/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Enhancing-Agent-Intelligence-through-Evolving-Reservoir-Networks-for-Predictions-in-Power-Stock-Markets.pdf},
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abstract={In recent years, Time Series Prediction and clustering have been employed in hyperactive and evolving environments -where temporal data play an important role- as a result of the need for reliable methods to estimate and predict the pattern or behavior of events and systems. Power Stock Markets are such highly dynamic and competitive auction environments, additionally perplexed by constrained power laws in the various stages, from production to transmission and consumption. As with all real-time auctioning environments, the limited time available for decision making provides an ideal testbed for autonomous agents to develop bidding strategies that exploit time series prediction. Within the context of this paper, we present Cassandra, a dynamic platform that fosters the development of Data-Mining enhanced Multi-agent systems. Special attention was given on the efficiency and reusability of Cassandra, which provides Plug-n-Play capabilities, so that users may adapt their solution to the problem at hand. Cassandra’s functionality is demonstrated through a pilot case, where autonomously adaptive Recurrent Neural Networks in the form of Echo State Networks are encapsulated into Cassandra agents, in order to generate power load and settlement price prediction models in typical Day-ahead Power Markets. The system has been tested in a real-world scenario, that of the Greek Energy Stock Market.}
}

Antonios C. Chrysopoulos, Andreas L. Symeonidis and Pericles A. Mitkas

Agents and Data Mining Interaction workshop AAMAS 2009, pp. 111-125, Springer-Verlag, Budapest, Hungary, 2009 May

Like in any other auctioning environment, entities participating in Power Stock Markets have to compete against other in order to maximize own revenue. Towards the satisfaction of their goal, these entities (agents - human or software ones) may adopt different types of strategies - from naive to extremely complex ones - in order to identify the most profitable goods compilation, the appropriate price to buy or sell etc, always under time pressure and auction environment constraints. Decisions become even more difficult to make in case one takes the vast volumes of historical data available into account: goods\\\\92 prices, market fluctuations, bidding habits and buying opportunities. Within the context of this paper we present Cassandra, a multi-agent platform that exploits data mining, in order to extract efficient models for predicting Power Settlement prices and Power Load values in typical Day-ahead Power markets. The functionality of Cassandra is discussed, while focus is given on the bidding mechanism of Cassandra\\\\92s agents, and the way data mining analysis is performed in order to generate the optimal forecasting models. Cassandra has been tested in a real-world scenario, with data derived from the Greek Energy Stock market.

@inproceedings{2009ChrysopoulosADMI,
author={Antonios C. Chrysopoulos and Andreas L. Symeonidis and Pericles A. Mitkas},
title={Improving agent bidding in Power Stock Markets through a data mining enhanced agent platform},
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abstract={Like in any other auctioning environment, entities participating in Power Stock Markets have to compete against other in order to maximize own revenue. Towards the satisfaction of their goal, these entities (agents - human or software ones) may adopt different types of strategies - from naive to extremely complex ones - in order to identify the most profitable goods compilation, the appropriate price to buy or sell etc, always under time pressure and auction environment constraints. Decisions become even more difficult to make in case one takes the vast volumes of historical data available into account: goods\\\\\\\\92 prices, market fluctuations, bidding habits and buying opportunities. Within the context of this paper we present Cassandra, a multi-agent platform that exploits data mining, in order to extract efficient models for predicting Power Settlement prices and Power Load values in typical Day-ahead Power markets. The functionality of Cassandra is discussed, while focus is given on the bidding mechanism of Cassandra\\\\\\\\92s agents, and the way data mining analysis is performed in order to generate the optimal forecasting models. Cassandra has been tested in a real-world scenario, with data derived from the Greek Energy Stock market.}
}

Anthonios C. Chrysopoulos, Andreas L. Symeonidis and Pericles A. Mitkas

Third Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Student Conference, pp. 245-267, IGI Global, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2009 Apr

The scope of this chapter is the presentation of Data Mining techniques for knowledge extraction in proteomics, taking into account both the particular features of most proteomics issues (such as data retrieval and system complexity), and the opportunities and constraints found in a Grid environment. The chapter discusses the way new and potentially useful knowledge can be extracted from proteomics data, utilizing Grid resources in a transparent way. Protein classification is introduced as a current research issue in proteomics, which also demonstrates most of the domain – specific traits. An overview of common and custom-made Data Mining algorithms is provided, with emphasis on the specific needs of protein classification problems. A unified methodology is presented for complex Data Mining processes on the Grid, highlighting the different application types and the benefits and drawbacks in each case. Finally, the methodology is validated through real-world case studies, deployed over the EGEE grid environment.

@inproceedings{2009ChrysopoulosECEDSC,
author={Anthonios C. Chrysopoulos and Andreas L. Symeonidis and Pericles A. Mitkas},
title={Creating and Reusing Metric Graphs for Evaluating Agent Performance in the Supply Chain Management Domain},
booktitle={Third Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Student Conference},
pages={245-267},
publisher={IGI Global},
address={Thessaloniki, Greece},
year={2009},
month={04},
date={2009-04-10},
url={http://issel.ee.auth.gr/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Creating-and-Reusing-Metric-Graphs-for-Evaluating-Agent-Performance-in-the-Supply-Chain-Management-Domain.pdf},
keywords={Evaluating Agent Performance},
abstract={The scope of this chapter is the presentation of Data Mining techniques for knowledge extraction in proteomics, taking into account both the particular features of most proteomics issues (such as data retrieval and system complexity), and the opportunities and constraints found in a Grid environment. The chapter discusses the way new and potentially useful knowledge can be extracted from proteomics data, utilizing Grid resources in a transparent way. Protein classification is introduced as a current research issue in proteomics, which also demonstrates most of the domain – specific traits. An overview of common and custom-made Data Mining algorithms is provided, with emphasis on the specific needs of protein classification problems. A unified methodology is presented for complex Data Mining processes on the Grid, highlighting the different application types and the benefits and drawbacks in each case. Finally, the methodology is validated through real-world case studies, deployed over the EGEE grid environment.}
}