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Ilias Maglogiannis, Lazaros Iliadis, John Macintyre, Markos Avlonitis,
Antonios Papaleonidas

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Luís Soares Barbosa*<sup>1)</sup>, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

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Jacques Carette, Department of Computer Science, McMaster University, Hamilton,
ON, Canada

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Arthur Tatnall<sup>1)</sup>, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

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TC 10 – Computer Systems Technology

Achim Rettberg, Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences, Hamm, Germany

TC 11 – Security and Privacy Protection in Information Processing Systems

Steven Furnell<sup>1)</sup>, Plymouth University, UK

TC 12 – Artificial Intelligence

Eunika Mercier-Laurent<sup>1)</sup>, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France

TC 13 – Human-Computer Interaction

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Ilias Maglogiannis · Lazaros Iliadis · John Macintyre · Markos Avlonitis · Antonios Papaleonidas
Editors

Artificial Intelligence
Applications
and Innovations

20th IFIP WG 12.5 International Conference, AIAI 2024
Corfu, Greece, June 27–30, 2024
Proceedings, Part IV

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Springer
Editors

Ilias Maglogiannis
University of Piraeus
Piraeus, Greece

Lazaros Iliadis
Democritus University of Thrace
Xanthi, Greece

John Macintyre
University of Abertay
Dundee, UK

Markos Avlonitis
Informatics
Ionian University
Corfu, Greece

Antonios Papaleonidas
Democritus University of Thrace
Xanthi, Greece

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Preface

The 20th Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI) conference offered a deep insight into both rapid advances and timely creative applications of AI. From a technological perspective, the computational effectiveness of AI keeps doubling annually, as novel algorithms emerge, capable of offering suitable modeling prototypes in a multidisciplinary spectrum of applications (e.g., industry, finance, healthcare, cybersecurity, education). Financially speaking, the Machine Learning market share for 2029 is expected to reach the amount of 209.91 billion dollars. From this point of view, the role of the AIAI scientific conference keeps increasing every year, as a well-established forum for Artificial Intelligence researchers worldwide.

Beyond its technical part, the conference presents ethical-moral AI related aspects to the international community. Several moral and ethical aspects arise from the ability of AI to act autonomously, something that calls for the development of new legislative frameworks.

AIAI is a mature international scientific conference with a long/successful history and a well-established brand name, following and spreading the evolution of intelligent systems.

The first event was organized in Toulouse, France in 2004. Since then, it has had a continuous and dynamic presence as a major global, but mainly European, scientific event. Regarding the venues, it has been organized in China, Greece, Cyprus, Australia, Spain and France. It has always been technically supported by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and more specifically by the Working Group 12.5, which is interested in AI applications.

Following a long-standing tradition, this Springer volume belongs to the IFIP AICT series, and it contains the papers that were accepted to be presented orally at the AIAI 2024 conference. An additional volume comprises the papers that were accepted and presented at the workshops that were held as parallel events. The event was held during June 27-30, 2024, at the Ionian University, in Corfu, Greece. The diverse nature of papers presented demonstrates the vitality of AI algorithms and approaches. It certainly proves the very wide range of AI applications as well.

The response of the international scientific community to the AIAI 2024 main event call for papers was more than satisfactory, with 213 papers initially submitted. All papers were peer reviewed (single blind) by at least two independent academic referees.

Where needed, a third referee was consulted to resolve any potential conflicts. A total of 100 papers (47% of the submitted manuscripts) were accepted to be published in the proceedings as full papers (12+ pages long) while at the same time 8 short papers (10 to 11 pages) were accepted due to their significant academic strength.

June 2024

Lazaros Iliadis
Ioannis Karydis
Elias Pimenidis
Antonios Papaleonidas
# Organization

## General Co-chairs

Ilias Maglogiannis

John MacIntyre

Plamen Angelov

Markos Avlonitis

University of Piraeus, Greece

DUTh, Greece/University of Abertay, UK

Lancaster University, UK

Ionian University, Greece

## Program Co-chairs

Lazaros Iliadis

Ioannis Karydis

Elias Pimenidis

Antonios Papaleonidas

Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Ionian University, Greece

University of the West of England, UK

Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

## Steering Committee

Ilias Maglogiannis

Lazaros Iliadis

Eunika Mercier-Laurent

University of Piraeus, Greece

Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France

## Honorary Chairs

Petia Koprinkova

Vera Kurkova

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

## Organizing Co-chairs

Markos Avlonitis

Antonios Papaleonidas

Anastasios Panagiotis
Psathas

Katia Linda Kermanidis

Ionian University, Greece

Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Ionian University, Greece

## Advisory Co-chairs

Barbara Hammer

George Magoulas

Bielefeld University, Germany

Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Doctoral Consortium Co-chairs

Manuel Domínguez

Universidad de León, Spain

Serafin Alonso

Universidad de León, Spain

Publication and Publicity Co-chairs

Antonios Papaleonidas

Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Anastasios Panagiotis
Psathas

Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Dionysios Koulouris

University of Piraeus, Greece

Liaison Chair

Ioannis Chocliouros

Hellenic Telecommunication Organization, Greece

Workshops Co-chairs

Peter Hajek

University of Pardubice, Czech Republic

Spyros Sioutas

University of Patras, Greece

Christos Makris

University of Patras, Greece

Special Sessions and Tutorials Co-chairs

Andreas S. Andreou

Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus

Harris Papadopoulos

Frederick University, Cyprus

Local Organizing/Hybrid Facilitation Committee

Aggeliki Tsouka

Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Alvertos Ioannis Mourikis

Ionian University, Greece

Anastasios Panagiotis
Psathas

Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Anna Karagianni

Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Athanasios Kalantzis

Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Christina Gkizioti

Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Despina Mouratidi

Ionian University, Greece

Devis Beshello

Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Eleni Vlachou

Ionian University, Greece

Evangelos Alvanitopoulos

Ionian University, Greece

Gregory Gasteratos

Ionian University, Greece

Ioanna-Maria Erentzi

Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Ioannis Skopelitis

Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Lambros Kazelis

Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Leonidas Skopelitis

Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Marina Kritikou

Ionian University, Greece
Nikiforos Mpotzoris Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Nikolaos-Marios Polymenakos Ionian University, Greece

Nikolaos Avgoustis Ionian University, Greece

Nikos Zervis Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Panagiotis Restos Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Spyridon Tzimiris Ionian University, Greece

Stefanos Nikiforos Ionian University, Greece

Styliani Karyda Ionian University, Greece

Tassos Giannakopoulos Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Vasileios Kotsaris Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

## Program Committee

Achilleas Andronikos Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Greece

Adrien Durand-Petiteville Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil

Alaa Mohasseb University of Portsmouth, UK

Alexander Ryjov Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

Alexios Papaioannou Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Greece

Aliki Stefanopoulou Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Greece

Anastasios Panagiotis Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Andreas Kanavos Ionian University, Greece

Antonio Morán University of León, Spain

Antonios Kalampakas AUM, Kuwait

Antonios Papaleonidas Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Aristidis Likas University of Ioannina, Greece

Asimina Dimara Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Greece

Athanasios Kallipolitis University of Piraeus, Greece

Athanasios Koutras University of the Peloponnese, Greece

Athanasios Tsadiras Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Banafsheh Rekabdar Portland State University, USA

Binyu Zhao Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Bo Mei Texas Christian University, USA

Boudjelal Meftah University of Mustapha Stambouli, Mascara, Algeria

Cen Wan Birkbeck, University of London, UK

Charalampos Lazaridis Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Greece

Chengqiang Huang Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., China

Christos Diou Harokopio University of Athens, Greece

Christos Makris University of Patras, Greece
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    <td>Claudio Giorgio<br>Giancaterino</td>
    <td>Intesa Sanpaolo Vita, Italy</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Cunjian Chen</td>
    <td>Monash University, Australia</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Cyril de Bodt</td>
    <td>UCLouvain, Belgium</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Daniel Pérez</td>
    <td>University of León, Spain</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Daniel Stamate</td>
    <td>Goldsmiths, University of London, UK</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Daniel Vašata</td>
    <td>Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>David Dembinsky</td>
    <td>German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence,<br>Germany</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Davide Zambrano</td>
    <td>CWI, Netherlands</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Dehao Yuan</td>
    <td>University of Maryland, USA</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Denise Gorse</td>
    <td>University College London, UK</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Diana Laura Borza</td>
    <td>Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Diego García</td>
    <td>University of Oviedo, Spain</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Dimitrios Michail</td>
    <td>Harokopio University of Athens, Greece</td>
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    <td>Doina Logofătu</td>
    <td>Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany</td>
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    <td>Douglas McLelland</td>
    <td>BrainChip, France</td>
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    <td>Douglas Nyabuga</td>
    <td>Mount Kenya University, Rwanda</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Dulani Meedeniya</td>
    <td>University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka</td>
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    <td>Eleni Vlachou</td>
    <td>Ionian University, Greece</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Elias Dritsas</td>
    <td>University of Patras, Greece</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Elias Pimenidis</td>
    <td>University of the West of England, UK</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Evangelos Alvanitopoulos</td>
    <td>Ionian University, Greece</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Federico Corradi</td>
    <td>Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Federico Vozzi</td>
    <td>CNR, Italy</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Flora Ferreira</td>
    <td>University of Minho, Portugal</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Florin Leon</td>
    <td>Technical University of Iasi, Romania</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Fotios Kounelis</td>
    <td>Imperial College London, UK</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Gaetano Di Caterina</td>
    <td>University of Strathclyde, UK</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>George Magoulas</td>
    <td>Birkbeck, University of London, UK</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Georgios Alexandridis</td>
    <td>University of the Aegean, Greece</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Georgios Drakopoulos</td>
    <td>Ionian University, Greece</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Georgios Karatzinis</td>
    <td>Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH),<br>Greece</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Gerasimos Vonitsanos</td>
    <td>Hellenic Open University, Greece</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Gregory Gasteratos</td>
    <td>Ionian University, Greece</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Habib Khan</td>
    <td>Sejong University, South Korea</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Haopeng Chen</td>
    <td>Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Hina Afridi</td>
    <td>NTNU, Norway</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Hiroyasu Ando</td>
    <td>Tohoku University, Japan</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Honggang Zhang</td>
    <td>University of Massachusetts Boston, USA</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Hongye Cao</td>
    <td>Northwestern Polytechnical University, China</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Hugo Carneiro</td>
    <td>University of Hamburg, Germany</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Iakovos Michailidis</td>
    <td>Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH),<br>Greece</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Ignacio Díaz-Blanco</td>
    <td>University of Oviedo, Spain</td>
  </tr>
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<table>
  <tr>
    <td>Ilias Maglogiannis</td>
    <td>University of Piraeus, Greece</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis</td>
    <td>University of Patras, Greece</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Ioannis Karamitsos</td>
    <td>RIT, United Arab Emirates</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Ioannis Livieris</td>
    <td>University of Piraeus, Greece</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Ioannis Papaioannou</td>
    <td>Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Greece</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Ioannis Pierros</td>
    <td>Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Ioannis Karydis</td>
    <td>Ionian University, Greece</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Iraklis Varlamis</td>
    <td>Harokopio University of Athens, Greece</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Jan-Gerrit Habekost</td>
    <td>University of Hamburg, Germany</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Jérémie Sublime</td>
    <td>ISEP, France</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Jianhua Xu</td>
    <td>Nanjing Normal University, China</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Joost Vennekens</td>
    <td>KU Leuven, Belgium</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Juan J. Fuertes</td>
    <td>University of León, Spain</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Kamil Dedecius</td>
    <td>Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Katia Lida Kermanidis</td>
    <td>Ionian University, Greece</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Khoa Phung</td>
    <td>University of the West of England, UK</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Kohulan Rajan</td>
    <td>Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Konstantinos Moutselos</td>
    <td>University of Piraeus, Greece</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Kostadin Cvejoski</td>
    <td>Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Kun Zhang</td>
    <td>Inria and École Polytechnique, France</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Kyriakoula Fanaridou</td>
    <td>Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Greece</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Laurent Mertens</td>
    <td>KU Leuven, Belgium</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Laurent Perrinet</td>
    <td>AMU CNRS, France</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Lazaros Iliadis</td>
    <td>Democritus University of Thrace, Greece</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Leon Bobrowski</td>
    <td>Bialystok University of Technology, Poland</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Lia Morra</td>
    <td>Politecnico di Torino, Italy</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Ling Guo</td>
    <td>Northwest University, China</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Madalina Erascu</td>
    <td>West University of Timisoara, Romania</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Magda Friedjungová</td>
    <td>Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Marcello Trovati</td>
    <td>Edge Hill University, UK</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Matthew Evanusa</td>
    <td>University of Maryland, USA</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Matthias Möller</td>
    <td>Örebro University, Sweden</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Matus Tomko</td>
    <td>Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Md Delwar Hossain</td>
    <td>Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Michail-Antisthenis Tsompanas</td>
    <td>University of the West of England, UK</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Michel Salomon</td>
    <td>Université de Franche-Comté, France</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Miguel Ángel Prada</td>
    <td>Universidad de León, Spain</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Minal Suresh Patil</td>
    <td>Umeå Universitet, Sweden</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Mirjana Ivanovic</td>
    <td>University of Novi Sad, Serbia</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Mohamed Elleuch</td>
    <td>ENSI, Tunisia</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Narendhar Gugulothu</td>
    <td>TCS Research, India</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Nathan Duran</td>
    <td>University of the West of England, UK</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Nikolaos Avgoustis</td>
    <td>Ionian University, Greece</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<table>
  <tr>
    <td>Nikolaos Marios<br>Polymenakos</td>
    <td>Ionian University, Greece</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Nikolaos Passalis</td>
    <td>Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Nikolaos Polatidis</td>
    <td>University of Brighton, UK</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Nikos Kanakaris</td>
    <td>University of Patras, Greece</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Nikos Karacapilidis</td>
    <td>University of Patras, Greece</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Odysseas Bouzos</td>
    <td>Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH),<br>Greece</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Olivier Teste</td>
    <td>Université de Toulouse, France</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Oscar Fontenla-Romero</td>
    <td>University of A Coruña, Spain</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Panagiotis Pintelas</td>
    <td>University of Patras, Greece</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Panayotis Gratsanis</td>
    <td>Ionian University, Greece</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Paulo Cortez</td>
    <td>University of Minho, Portugal</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Petia Koprinkova-Hristova</td>
    <td>Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Petr Hajek</td>
    <td>University of Pardubice, Czech Republic</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Petra Vidnerová</td>
    <td>Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Petros Kefalas</td>
    <td>University of Sheffield International Faculty, Greece</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Petros Tzallas</td>
    <td>Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH),<br>Greece</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Ricardo Marcacini</td>
    <td>University of São Paulo, Brazil</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Riccardo Renzulli</td>
    <td>University of Turin, Italy</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Rodrigo Clemente Thom de<br>Souza</td>
    <td>Federal University of Paraná, Brazil</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Roman Mouček</td>
    <td>University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Salvatore Aiello</td>
    <td>Politecnico di Torino, Italy</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Seiya Satoh</td>
    <td>Tokyo Denki University, Japan</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Serafin Alonso</td>
    <td>University of León, Spain</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Shu Eguchi</td>
    <td>Aomori University, Japan</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Simon Hakenes</td>
    <td>Ruhr University Bochum, Germany</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Song Guo</td>
    <td>Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology,<br>China</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Sotiris Kotsiantis</td>
    <td>University of Patras, Greece</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Stefanos Nikiforos</td>
    <td>Ionian University, Greece</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Stylianos Papargyris</td>
    <td>Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Thanasis Moustakas</td>
    <td>Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH),<br>Greece</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Theodor Panagiotakopoulos</td>
    <td>Hellenic Open University, Greece</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Tiyu Fang</td>
    <td>Shandong University, China</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Tomasz Kapuscinski</td>
    <td>Rzeszow University of Technology, Poland</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Toshiharu Sugawara</td>
    <td>Waseda University, Japan</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Umer Mushtaq</td>
    <td>Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas, France</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>V. Ramasubramanian</td>
    <td>International Institute of Information Technology<br>Bangalore, India</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Vaios Papaioannou</td>
    <td>University of Patras, Greece</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Vandana Ladwani</td>
    <td>International Institute of Information Technology<br>Bangalore, India</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<table><tr><td>Vilson Luiz Dalle Mole</td><td>UTFPR, Brazil</td></tr><tr><td>Xia Feng</td><td>Civil Aviation University of China, China</td></tr><tr><td>Xingpeng Zhang</td><td>Southwest Petroleum University, China</td></tr><tr><td>Xuewen Wang</td><td>China University of Geosciences, China</td></tr><tr><td>Yang Shao</td><td>Hitachi Ltd., Japan</td></tr><tr><td>Yeh-Ching Chung</td><td>Chinese University of Hong Kong in Shenzhen, China</td></tr><tr><td>Zaneta Swiderska-Chadaj</td><td>Warsaw University of Technology, Poland</td></tr><tr><td>Zhao Yang</td><td>Leiden University, Netherlands</td></tr><tr><td>Zhaoyun Ding</td><td>NUDT, China</td></tr><tr><td>Zhenjie Yao</td><td>Chinese Academy of Sciences, Singapore</td></tr><tr><td>Ziad Doughan</td><td>Beirut Arab University, Lebanon</td></tr><tr><td>Zilong Lin</td><td>Indiana University Bloomington, USA</td></tr><tr><td>Zuobin Xiong</td><td>University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA</td></tr></table>
Keynote Lectures
# Developmental Robotics for Language
Learning, Trust and Theory of Mind

Angelo Cangelosi

University of Manchester and Alan Turing Institute, UK

**Abstract.** Growing theoretical and experimental research on action and language processing and on number learning and gestures clearly demonstrates the role of embodiment in cognition and language processing. In psychology and neuroscience, this evidence constitutes the basis of embodied cognition, also known as grounded cognition (Pezzulo et al. 2012). In robotics and AI, these studies have important implications for the design of linguistic capabilities in cognitive agents and robots for human-robot collaboration and have led to the new interdisciplinary approach of Developmental Robotics, as part of the wider Cognitive Robotics field (Cangelosi and Schlesinger 2015; Cangelosi and Asada 2022). During the talk we will present examples of developmental robotics models and experimental results from iCub experiments on the embodiment biases in early word acquisition and grammar learning (Morse et al. 2015; Morse and Cangelosi 2017) and experiments on pointing gestures and finger counting for number learning (De La Cruz et al. 2014). We will then present a novel developmental robotics model, and experiments, on Theory of Mind and its use for autonomous trust behavior in robots (Vinanzi et al. 2019, 2021). The implications for the use of such embodied approaches for embodied cognition in AI and cognitive sciences, and for robot companion applications will also be discussed.

**Short Bio:** Angelo Cangelosi is Professor of Machine Learning and Robotics at the University of Manchester (UK) and co-director and founder of the Manchester Centre for Robotics and AI. He was selected for the award of the European Research Council (ERC) Advanced grant (funded by UKRI). His research interests are in cognitive and developmental robotics, neural networks, language grounding, human robot-interaction and trust, and robot companions for health and social care. Overall, he has secured over £38m of research grants as coordinator/PI, including the ERC Advanced eTALK, the UKRI TAS Trust Node and CRADLE Prosperity, the US AFRL project THRIVE++, and numerous Horizon and MSCAs grants. Cangelosi has produced more than 300 scientific publications. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journals Interaction Studies and IET Cognitive Computation and Systems, and in 2015 was Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Development. He has chaired numerous international conferences, including ICANN2022 Bristol, and ICDL2021 Beijing. His book "Developmental Robotics: From Babies to Robots" (MIT Press) was published in January 2015, and translated in Chinese and Japanese. His latest book "Cognitive Robotics" (MIT Press), coedited with Minoru Asada, was recently published in 2022.
# AI and Cybersecurity: Friend or Foe?

Haris Mouratidis

Director of Institute for Analytics and Data Science – IADS, Professor of Data Science and Statistics, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, UK

**Abstract.** We live in an era of unprecedented technological advancement that has an impact on every aspect of the human life. Within that environment, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity are two areas where innovation and challenges intersect with profound implications. On one hand, AI, with its transformative capabilities, is revolutionising how we process information, make decision and interact with technology, while on the other hand, cybersecurity provides essential tools to safeguard the digital infrastructures that we depend on. In this talk I will discuss the interplay between the two, exploring both the benefits of using AI for cybersecurity and cybersecurity for AI, but also the challenges that such co-existence introduces. Drawing on real-world case studies and insights, I will discuss how machine learning, threat detection and analytics can empower organisations and individuals to improve their cybersecurity but also how AI-driven tactics give rise to sophisticated cyber threats. I will then emphasize the necessity for collaborative initiatives spanning both AI and cybersecurity domains. I will stress the importance of continuous shared research and education to foster an environment where the coexistence of AI and cybersecurity not only enhances our digital landscape but also minimizes associated risks.

**Short Bio:** Haralambos (Haris) Mouratidis is Professor and Director of the Institute for Analytics and Data Science (IADS) at the University of Essex. Before, he was professor of secure software engineering and founding director of the Centre for Secure, Intelligent and Usable System (CSIUS) at the University of Brighton. His research interests include cybersecurity data science (with focus on AI and machine learning and data analytics for cybersecurity risk management, threat modelling and data protection), intelligent data security engineering (with focus on the development of novel methodologies and techniques to improve privacy by design and security by design and AI-enabled model based security engineering), and Threat modelling and privacy protection for AI and data science (with focus on adversarial attacks on machine learning and machine learning facilitated adversarial mechanisms). He has published more than 210 papers and he has secured funding of c.£30M, funded mostly by the UK and the EU. He is Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and “Standard-maker” of the British Standards Institution for the “Privacy-By-Design” and “Software and Systems Engineering” national committees. He is elected Vice-Chair of the IFIP WG on Secure Engineering, Expert Fellow of the UK Digital Economy Network Plus, on the register of ENISA’s experts and was member of the ENISA WG on European Cybersecurity Skills Framework (ECSF). He has been invited subject expert for events
organised by national and international organisations (e.g. EU, NATO); more recently he spoke about AI-driven Privacy-by-Design, on an event organised by the European Commission and led discussion on challenges of Automated Software Engineering towards GDPR compliance at a meeting organised by the European Research Executive Agency.
# An Evolutionary Approach to the Autonomous Design and Fabrication of Robots for Operation in Unknown Environments

Emma Hart

FRSE, Professor at Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

**Abstract.** Robot design is traditionally the domain of humans – engineers, physicists, and increasingly AI experts. However, if the robot in intended to operate in a completely unknown environment (for example clean up inside a nuclear reactor) then it is very difficult for human designers to predict what kind of robot might be required. Evolutionary computing is a well-known technology that has been applied in various aspects of robotics for many years, for example to design controllers or body-plans. When coupled with advances in materials and printing technologies that allow rapid prototyping in hardware, it offers a potential solution to the issue raised above, for example enabling colonies of robots to evolve and adapt over long periods of time while situated in the environment they have to work in. However, it also brings new challenges, from both from an algorithmic and engineering perspective. The additional constraints introduced by the need for example to manufacture robots autonomously, to explore rich morphological search-spaces and develop novel forms of control require some re-thinking of “standard” approaches in evolutionary computing, particularly on the interaction between evolution and individual learning. I will discuss some of these challenges and propose and showcase some methods to address them that have been developed during a recent project.

**Short Bio:** Professor Emma Hart has worked in the field of Evolutionary Computing for over 20 years. Her current work is mainly centred in Evolutionary Robotics, bringing together ideas on using artificial evolution as tool for optimisation with research that focuses on how robots can be autonomously designed and fabricated, and endowed with the ability to continually learn over a lifetime, improving performance as they gather information from their own or other robots' experiences. The work has attracted significant media attention including recently in the New Scientist, and the Guardian. She gave a TED talk on this subject at TEDWomen in December 2021 in Palm Springs, USA which has attracted over 1 million views since being released online in April 2022. She was the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Evolutionary Computation (MIT Press) from 2017–2024 and an elected member of the ACM SIG on Evolutionary Computing. In 2022, she was honoured to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for her contributions to the field of Computational Intelligence and was awarded the ACM SIGEVO Award for Outstanding Contribution to Evolutionary Computation in 2023.
Workshop

The 4th Workshop on “Artificial Intelligence and Ethics” (AI & ETHICS).

The 4th AIETH workshop is an interactive workshop led by Professor John MacIntyre, with short presentations from the panel members and an open Q&A session where the audience members are able to ask, and answer, important questions about the current and future development of Generative AI models. Sauvik Banerjee, Larry Medsker, Jody Westby, Peter Smith as distinguished scholars, participated with excellent presentations. Their profile is described in the following paragraphs.

Prof Sauvik Banerjee, Technologist, Technocrat, Tech-Futurist is a globally rec-
ognized technologist and entrepreneur with over 23 years of experience. He has
launched over 500 internet platforms across 4 continents, including projects like
Reliance JIO and TataCLiQ. As a TEDx Speaker and MIT Startup Hub mentor, Sauvik
focuses on technology futurism and the impact of AI on human lives.

Larry Medsker is a Research Professor at the The George Washington University. Larry Medsker is presently Chair of the ACM US Technology Policy Committee, Research Professor of Physics at George Washington University (GWU) and at the University of Vermont. He is also Research Professor in the Human-Technology Collaboration Lab at GWU and Founding Director of the university's Masters' Program in Data Science. Medsker serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of AI and Ethics, Associate Editor of Neural Computing and Applications, and Policy Officer for ACM's Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (SIGAI). He is the author of four books and over 100 publications on neural networks and AI. Peter Smith is an Emeritus Professor of the University of Sunderland. Jody Westby have made very interesting talks on AI and Ethics.

CV of Professor John Macintyre

John MacIntyre is Visiting Professor of Artificial Intelligence at a number of univer-
sities around the world and was a senior leader at the University of Sunderland, from
where he retired as Pro Vice Chancellor in 2023 after 30 years in Higher Education. He
has published over 200 papers on applied artificial intelligence, engineering, computer
science, management and leadership, and has supervised 12 PhDs and numerous
postgraduate research master's projects. He was a Governor at East Durham College
for eight years and has served on numerous regional and national charities and other
representative bodies, including several years as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the
National Association of College and University Entrepreneurs (NACUE) which pro-
motes entrepreneurship including curriculum development and mentoring in both FE
and HE institutions across the UK and in Europe. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Neural
Computing & Applications, one of the world's leading peer-reviewed journals in
applied artificial intelligence, a role he has held since 1996, and is co-Editor-in-Chief
for AI and Ethics, a peer-reviewed journal he established with his long-standing col-
league Professor Larry Medsker of George Washington University in the USA in 2020.
AI and Ethics has rapidly become recognised as a leading publication for peer-review
work on the ethical issues emerging from the developments in artificial intelligence and
related technologies. John is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufacture and
Commerce (FRSA), a Member of the British Computer Society (MBCS), a member
of the International Neural Network Society (MINNS), and a Chartered Engineer
(CEng).
# Contents – Part IV

## Deep Learning/Convolutional

Deep Sleep Recognition Based on CNNs and Data Augmentation. 3
Ruixuan Chen, Linfeng Sui, Mo Xia, and Jianting Cao

Gamified Crowd Management Utilizing AR and Computer Vision on the Edge. 14
Dionysios Koulouris, Andreas Menychtas, and Ilias Maglogiannis

KeepOriginalAugment: Single Image-Based Better Information-Preserving Data Augmentation Approach. 27
Teerath Kumar, Alessandra Mileo, and Malika Bendechache

Using DCGANs and HOG + Patch-Based CNN for Face Spoofing Mitigation. 41
John Jenkins and Kaushik Roy

Vertical Federated Image Segmentation. 54
Paul K. Mandal and Cole Leo

## Recommendation/Classification

A Machine Learning Approach for Points of Interest Extraction and Event Classification. 69
Pedro Dias, Flora Ferreira, Pedro M. F. Guimarães, Weronika Wojtak, Wolfram Erlhagen, Sérgio Monteiro, Emanuel Sousa, and Estela Bicho

An Empirical Analysis of Data Reduction Techniques for k-NN Classification. 83
Stylianos Eleftheriadis, Georgios Evangelidis, and Stefanos Ougiaroglou

Controlling Popularity Bias in Sequential Recommendation Models. 98
Brandon Weaver, Melody Moh, and Teng-Sheng Moh

Enhanced Item Recommendation via Graph Properties in Sparse Data. 111
Şükrü Demir İnan Özer and Günce Keziban Orman
<table><tbody><tr><td>Active Learning with Unfiltered Informativeness Technique for Object Detection</td><td>252</td></tr><tr><td>Rafael Amauri Diniz Augusto, Mohamad Ghassany, Faten Chaieb, and Fouad Hadj Selem</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Assist of AI in a Smart Learning Environment</td><td>263</td></tr><tr><td>Konstantinos Crysanthos Sofianos, Michael Stefanidakis, Alexios Kaponis, and Linas Bukauskas</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Finding Logical Vulnerability in Policies Using Three-Level Semantic Framework</td><td>276</td></tr><tr><td>Karolina Bataityte, Vassil Vassilev, and Olivia Jo Gill</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>From Tweets to Reddit: Leveraging Semi-supervised Domain Adaptation for Improving Data Filtering</td><td>290</td></tr><tr><td>Shelly Gupta, Jumanah Alshehri, Ameen Abdel Hai, Hussain Otudi, and Zoran Obradovic</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Retail Store Customer Behavior Analysis System: Design and Implementation</td><td>305</td></tr><tr><td>Tuan Dinh Nguyen, Keisuke Hihara, Tung Cao Hoang, Yumeka Utada, Akihiko Torii, Naoki Izumi, Nguyen Thanh Thuy, Du Tien Pham, and Long Quoc Tran</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><strong>Multi Agent/Ontologies/Robotics</strong></td></tr><tr><td>A MARL-Based Approach for Easing MAS Organization Engineering</td><td>321</td></tr><tr><td>Julien Soulé, Jean-Paul Jamont, Michel Occello, Louis-Marie Traonouez, and Paul Théron</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>EVO: An Ontology for the Field of Electric Vehicles</td><td>335</td></tr><tr><td>Ioannis Kivrakidis, Emmanouil S. Rigas, and Nick Bassiliades</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Incremental Conflict-Based Search for Multi-agent Path Finding in Dynamic Environment</td><td>349</td></tr><tr><td>Yu Wang, Yuhong Shi, Jianyi Liu, and Xinhu Zheng</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Integrating LLMs in the Engineering of a SAR Ontology</td><td>360</td></tr><tr><td>Dimitrios Doumanas, Andreas Soularidis, Konstantinos Kotis, and George Vouros</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>
<table><tr><td>LFENav: LLM-Based Frontiers Exploration for Visual Semantic Navigation</td><td>375</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Yuhong Shi, Jianyi Liu, and Xinhu Zheng</td></tr><tr><td>Author Index</td><td>389</td></tr></table>