3rd Annual South East European Doctoral Student Conference Programme
		June 26-27 2008, Venue: STEIN Auditorium, Kalapothaki 2, Thessaloniki - Greece
	Thursday 26/06/2008
09:00 - 09:50	Welcome and Registration
09:50 - 10:00	Welcome message from Mr. Nikos Zaharis, SEERC Director and Dr. Iraklis Paraskakis, Academic Director of SEERC Doctoral Programme
10:00 - 11:00	Keynote Speaker: Professor Eleftherios Iakovou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
	Title of Speech: "Global Trends and Challenges: Impact on Logistics and Supply Chain Management Research"
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break - STUDENT HALL (2nd Floor)
	Session 1: Enterprise Innovation and Development	Session 2: Information and Communication Technologies	Session 3: Governance Politics and Society	Session 4: Risk, Well Bering and Cognition
	Venue: STEIN Auditorium (1st Floor)	Venue: STEIN S1 Room (3rd Floor)	Venue: STEIN S3 Room (4th Floor)	Venue: STEIN S2 Room (3rd Floor)
	Discussants:	Discussants:	Discussants:	Discussants:
	Prof. Sinisa Zaric	Dr Anca Vasilescu	Dr Nikos Sifakis	Dr Lambros Lazuras
	Prof. Elias Carayannis	Dr Petros Kefalas & Dr Anthony Simons	Dr Nicola Rehling
	Chair: Dr Leslie Szamosi	Chair: Dr George Eleftherakis	Chair: Sara Hannam	Chair: Dr Efrosini Kalyva
11:30 - 12:00	Laura Tampieri	Luciana Morogan	Cengiz Haksoz	Mateusz Hedzelek
12:00 - 12:30	Dialechti Fotopoulou	Cristina Tudose	Vesela Vladimirova	Erika Melonashi
12:30 - 13:00	Alper Kayhan	Andrea Corbett	Efthymios Hatzis	Martin Zlatev
13:00 - 13:30	Amira Vejzagic-Ramhorst	Ervin Ramollari	Despina Syrri	Rebecca Beeken
13:30 - 14:00	Mamica Skenderi	Oana Georgescu	Jelena Vasiljevic	Nicusor Florin Bigiu
14:00 - 15:00	LUNCH - STUDENT HALL (2nd Floor)
15:00 - 16:00	POSTER SESSION, Venue: STEIN AUDITORIUM
5 mins per presenter	Cristinel Constantin	Alexandros Karvounis	Pompiliea Cozma
	Andreas Baresel-Bofinger	Dana Murgescu	Cecilia Stan
	Lucia Sotakova	Radu Musat	Alketa Hyso
	Thursday 26/06/2008
	Venue: STEIN Auditorium (1st Floor)	Venue: STEIN S1 Room (3rd Floor)	Venue: STEIN S3 Room (4th Floor)	Venue: STEIN S2 Room (3rd Floor)
	Discussants:	Discussants:	Discussants:	Discussants:
	Prof. Elias Carayannis	Dr Panagiotis Bamidis,	Dr Alkmene Fotiadou &	Dr Suzie Savvidou
	Prof. Sinisa Zaric	Dr Anca Vasilescu & Dr Anthony Simons	Assistant Professor Grigoris Paschalidis
	Chair: Dr. Alexandros Psychogios	Chair:Ioanna Stamatopoulou	Chair: Agnes Brunet	Chair: Dr Martha Kelpi
16.00-16.30	Ivana Zilic	Maria Miroiu	Besa Arifi	Pavlos Malindretos
16.30-17.00	Konstantinos Papapanagiotou	Nicolaie Popescu-Bodorin	Maria Xenitidou	Peter Hlohinec
17.00-17.30	Peggy Panousopoulou	Ioana Cristina Plajer	Onder Cetin
17.30-18.00	Agorasti Toka	Indrit Enesi	Gazela Pudar
18.00-18.30	Dimitris Aidonis	Svetlin Nakov	Giorgos Kardaras

		3rd Annual South East European Doctoral Student Conference Programme
		June 26-27 2008, Venue: STEIN Auditorium, Kalapothaki 2, Thessaloniki - Greece
	Friday 27/06/2008
	Session 1: Enterprise Innovation and Development	Session 2: Information and Communication Technologies	Session 3: Governance Politics and Society	Session 4: Risk, Well Bering and Cognition
	Venue: STEIN Auditorium (1st Floor)	Venue: STEIN S1 Room (3rd Floor)	Venue: STEIN S3 Room (4th Floor)	Venue: STEIN S2 Room (3rd Floor)
	Discussants:	Discussants:	Discussants:	Discussants:
	Prof. Elias Carayannis, Dr Konstantinos Priporas & Prof. Sinisa Zaric	Dr Ilias Sakellariou, Prof. Demosthenes Stamatis, Dr Anthony Simons	Dr Christos Frangonikolopoulos	Dr Elvira Masoura
	Chair: Dr. Michalis Koubouros	Chair: Thanos Hatziapostolou	Chair: Agnes Brunet	Chair: Dr Efrosini Kalyva
09:00 - 09:30	Julia Le Blanc	George Katakalos	Fillipos Proedrou	Cristina Lentini, Tom Foulsham, Maria Nordfang, Kaisu Krohn, Eduarda Pimentel
09:30 - 10:00	Aleksandar Stojkov	Petros Lameras	Matus Halas	Elger Abrahams, MarioAlfredo Parra, Lies Notebaert, Fenia Kalogeropoulou, Helena Rutherforn
10:00 - 10:30	Djordje Mitrovic	Stathis Konstantinidis	Yu Chin Chen	Anders Petersen, Alexandra Touroutoglou, Helen Tibboel, Peter Sytorkowie, Giles Anderson
10:30 - 11:00		M. Fetaji	Rory Shand	Lubna Ahmed, Kiki Zanoloie, Celine Gillbert, Evie Vergauwe, Max Bielecki
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break - STUDENT HALL (2nd Floor)
	Chair: Dr Eftychia Nikolaidou & Dr Alexandros Kapoulas	Chair: Dr Dimitris Dranidis	Chair: Mr Nikos Zaharis Venue: SEERC Seminar Room, SEERC BLDG	Chair: Dr Efrosini Kalyva
11:30 - 12:00	Alin Marius Andries	Margarita Angelidou	Efstratia Synkellou	Elena Canadas, Chiara Comparetti, Sarit Ashkenazi, Charline Urbain, Soghra Akbari
12:00 - 12:30	Maria Hofer	Ognen Paunovski	Panagiota Karametou	Giulia Baroni, Sunsi Panadero, Remy Schmitz, Gerome Mora, Gail thorton
12:30 - 13:00	Adina Nicoleta Candrea	Andrej Luneski	Joao Carvalho	Fenia Kalogeropoulou
13:00 - 14:00	LUNCH - STUDENT HALL (2nd Floor)
	Friday 27/06/2008
14:00-15:00	POSTER SESSION, Venue: STEIN AUDITORIUM
5 mins per presenter	Malgorzata Kalbarczyk	Andreea-Oana Iacobuta	K. Keramida
	Ancuta Popa	Mihai Stefan Mocanu	Mioara Bancescu
	Ilke Kardes	Zlatica Korkaric	M. Raicevic
		Venue: STEIN S1 Room (3rd Floor)		Venue: STEIN S2 Room (3rd Floor)
		Discussants:		Discussants:
		Dr Ilias Sakellariou, Prof. Demosthenes Stamatis, Dr Anthony Simons		Dr George Eleftherakis
		Chair: Dr Anca Vasilescu		Chair: Dr Kostas Dimopoulos
15:00 - 15:30		Constantin Doru		Vladimir Milivojevic
15:30 - 16:00		Goce Armenski		Nikola Milivojevic
				Lucia Hutnikova
WORKSHOP: BUIDLING RESEARCH SKILLS Venue: STEIN AUDITORIUM
16:00 - 17:00	Dr. Petros Kefalas (Download presentation slides)
17:00 - 17:30	Closing of Conference - Concluding Remarks

Research Track 1: Enterprise, Innovation and Development
Konstantinos Papapanagiotou and Dimitrios Vlachos	Decision making in supply chains using simulation: a methodological approach
Ivana Zilic	Six sigma influence on service improvement of hotel companies in Republic of Croatia
Laura Tampieri	The perceived and effective performance evaluation of SMEs developments in transition
Dialechti Fotopoulou, Alexandros Psychogios and Geoffrey Wood	Isomorphic pressures in management education: Greece as an exemplifier of Mediterranean capitalism
Peggy Panousopoulou, Vicky Manthou and Maro Vlachopoulou	Return policies and reverse logistics strategies for environmentally responsible management
Alin Marius Andries and Vasile Cocris	The transmission mechanism of monetary policy in Romania
Djordje Mitrovic	Economic and institutional aspects of the transition to the knowledge-based economy in Serbia
Aleksandar Stojkov	Is the international financial integration growth-conducive? Evidence from Europe
Adina Nicoleta Candrea	The necessity of sustainable tourism planning in Romanian national parks
Amira Vejzagic-Ramhorst, Panayiotis Ketikidis and Robert Huggins	Social capital and clusters, a look at transition countries - literature review
Alper Kayhan	Institutionalisation of family businesses: An interpretive and exploratory enquiry into family entrepreneurship in the textile and clothing industry of Turkey
Maria Hofer and Judit Varsányi	Marketing research, serving for a growing consumption of organic foods in Hungary
Julia Le Blanc	Individual retirement accounts in Europe: Who is in?
Mamica Skenderi, Phil Wright and Constantinos Alexiou	Local companies and technological transfer: Case studies results from Albania.
Agorasti Toka, Eleftherios Iakovou and Dimitrios Vlachos	Design of waste biomass supply chains for energy production
Dimitris Aidonis, Eleftherios Iakovou and Dimitrios Vlachos	Design of reverse flows for construction and demolition waste
Research Track 2: Information and Communication Technologies
Margarita Angelidou	Three case studies of cities that have been nominated as intelligent communities by the intelligent community forum
Constantin Doru	The independent component analysis of clusterized data on principal directions-basis
Vladimir Milivojevic	Simulation model of Drina river basin for hydropower and water resource management
Luciana Morogan	A subliminal channel in the framework of P Systems
Nikola Milivojevic, Nenad Grujovic and Boban Stojanovic	Mathematical model of Serbian-Romanian hydropower system 'Iron Gates'
Djordje Mitrovic	Economic and institutional aspects of the transition to the knowledge-based economy in Serbia
Maria Miroiu	Special tailored boosting method for face recognition
Nicolaie Popescu-Bodorin	Optimal luminance- chrominance downsampling through fast K-Means quantization
Goce Armenski and Marjan Gusev	Designing e-Testing systems in service oriented architecture
Ioana Cristina Plajer	Greyscale image analysis
Ognen Paunovski, George Eleftherakis, and Tony Cowling	A fuzzy reasoning approach to automated detection of emergent herd formations in computer aided simulation
Cristina Tudose	X-Machines model checking
Lucia Hutnikova, Radovan Hudak, and Jozef Zivcak	Scoliosis severity diagnosis: The new application for automatic x-ray image analysis
Oana Georgescu	Minimum flows in networks using dynamic tree implementation
Svetlin Nakov	Automatic acquisition of synonyms by using the web as a corpus
Indrit Enesi and Betim Cico	Application of machine learning techniques and data mining to agents
Petros Lameras, Philippa Levy and Iraklis Paraskakis	Conceptions of teaching using virtual learning environments: A phenomenographic inquiry
Stathis Konstantinidis	A standalone SCORM content repository framework for healthcare education
Andrej Luneski	State of the art in affective computing,challenges and application areas
George Katakalos, Miguel Baptista Nunes and Panayotis Ketikidis	Understanding cultural backgrounds of students from South East Europe studying Greek higher education based in Hofstede
Ervin Ramollari, Dimitris Dranidis and Anthony James Howard Simons	Reliable web service discovery based on formal behavioral modelling
Andrea Smith, Mike Holcombe and Stephen Wood	Computational modelling of the development of human transactive memory systems
Research Track 3: Governance, Politics and Society
Cengiz Haksoz	Minority language education and ethno-linguistic identity: The case of the Turkish minority in post-communist Bulgaria
Vesela Vladimirova	Bilingual communication: Oral versus written [Bulgarians in the Czech Republic]
Efthymios Hatzis	The tracking shot: A passage to the auratic image demonstrated in an analysis of a filmic scene employing the specific directing style of Theo Aggelopoulos
Despoina Syrri	Communities, memories and archives in South East Europe
Jelena Vasiljevic	The role of memory in media in Serbo-Croatian conflict
Besa Arifi	The role of victim in international criminal justice
Maria Xenitidou	Managing the dilemma of stake in Greek accounts of immigrants: National disinterestedness and axiological continua
Onder Cetin	Bosnian intellectuals and the idea of Bosnianhood: Key to deadlock?
Gazela Pudar	The national question and young engaged experts
Panagiota Karametou	Social capital and local development in Greek mountainous rural areas
Fillipos Proedrou	The interplay of liberalism and realism in the Balkans: Real[ist] problems and liberal prescriptions
Matus Halas	Relative and absolute gains problem in international relations
Yu Chin Chen	EU's impact on crisis management in South East Europe
Eftstatia Synkellou	War and peace in the Byzantine world in the late Middle Ages: Ideological and social implications of war in the South-West Balkans
Rory Shand	Problems using MLG in comparative study: Alternatives and solutions
Joao Carvalho	The evolution of Portuguese immigration policy between 1991 and 2004
Giorgos Kardaras	The attitude of intellectuals, officers and the people towards the integration of Goths into the Eastern Roman Empire
Research Track 4: Risk, Well-being and Cognition
Erika Melonashi	Factors related to compliance with antismoking regulation in Albanian health professionals
Martin Zlatev	Perceived work-related benefits of smoking and attitudes towards smoking restrictions in the workplace
Rebecca Beeken	Response-shift & QOL: A priming study
Nicusor Florin Bigiu	Breaking bad news - a Romanian experience
Pavlos Malindretos	Sound assessment of arteriovenous fistula in hemodialysis patients
Peter Hlohinec	Cooperation among students in the dormitory
Fenia Kalogeropoulou	Formal Thought Disorder (FTD) Disrupts IOR in Schizophrenia
Poster Presentations
Lucia Sotakova and Miroslav Badida	Trends in electric and electronic waste recycling in Slovakia
Alexandros Karvounis	Growing or reducing the gap? Regional economic disparities in Greece and UK set within the context of wider EU convergence/divergence patterns
Ancuta Popa	Inflation targeting in Central and Eastearn European countries: Implementation and performance
Dana Murgescu	Acknowlegment of new nations: Hyprocritical international attitude - case study: Former Yugoslavia and the Middle East
Cristinel Constantin	The importance of relationship marketing for the business service providers. Case of Romania
Andreas Baresel-Bofinger	Implementation of green supply chain management in transient economies
Radu Musat, Elena Helerea and Adrian Matoi	Evaluation models of thermal comfort in vehicles
Pompiliea Cozma	Comparisons of verifcations in VDM and the Z Notation formal methods
Alketa Hyso and Betim Cico	Application of machine learning techniques and data mining to agents
Ilke Kardes	A cross-cultural comparison of brand personality
Malgorzata Kalbarczyk	Can income inequalities be equalized without government?
Andreea-Oana Iacobuta	Institutions and transaction costs in Romanian transition
Mioara Bancescu	Sustainable development application for the Romanian energy sector
Cecilia Stan	Application of Taguchi method for the optimization of power consumption in MDF milling
Mihai Stefan Mocanu	A new approach to software pattern detection
Konstantina Keramida	The importance of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the learning process: The case study of mathematics in secondary education in Greece
Zlatica Korkaric	Web page classification based on artificial neural networks
Mile Raicevic, Miroslav Demic and Predrag Milenkovic	Analysis of the justification of vented disk installation onto the front axle in a passenger motor vehicle

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