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The 23rd International Conference on Information and Software Technologies (ICIST 2017) is taking place in Druskininkai, the larg-est resort in southern Lithuania.

The scientific conference programme includes three invited talks, two tutorials, research paper presentations in parallel sessions, and one Q&A session.

There were 135 submissions this year and 51 paper was selected for publication. Every paper was reviewed by at least two mem-bers of the international Programme Committee consisting of 106 reviewers (supported by 69 additional reviewers) and representing more than 90 academic institutions. We believe that the selection of accepted papers presented in the conference proceedings book is a good reflection of the latest research on the selected topics.

The conference papers present recent results as well as discuss research challenges, propose methodologies and describe new applications in four major areas that are covered during the con-ference, namely, Information Systems, Business Intelligence for Information and Software Systems, Software Engineering, and In-formation Technology Applications. The chapters on the aforemen-tioned areas are further subdivided according to the eight special sessions that are to be held at the conference. They are the follow-ing: (a) Innovative Applications for Knowledge Transfer Support, (b) e-Health Information Systems, (c) Information and Software

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Technologies for Intelligent Power Systems, (d) Intelligent Methods for Data Analysis and Computer-Aided Software Engineering, (e) Intelligent Systems and Software Engineering Advances, (f) Smart e-Learning Tech-nologies and Applications, (g) Language Technologies, and (h) Internet-of-Things in Mobility Applications.

For the fifth time already, the Conference Proceedings are published by Springer as a part of Communications in Computer and Information Sci-ence (CCIS) series and will be referred in Clarivate Analytics.

The conference was made possible due to the support of the Faculty of Informatics, Kaunas University of Technology, and Research Council of Lithuania, whose contribution is gratefully acknowledged.

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General ChairEduardas Bareiša Kaunas University of Technology / Lithuania

Programme Committee ChairRobertas Damaševičius Kaunas University of Technology / Lithuania

Special Section ChairsIrene Krebs University of Technology Cottbus / GermanyMarcin Woźniak Silesian University of Technology / PolandDanguolė Rutkauskienė Kaunas University of Technology / LithuaniaAudrius Lopata Vilnius University / Lithuania

Maria Dolores Afonso Suárez SIANI University Institute / Spain

Rolf Engelbrecht ProRec Germany / GermanyJustyna Patalas-Maliszewska University of Zielona Gora / PolandEmiliano Tramontana University of Catania / ItalyChristian Napoli University of Catania / Italy

Carsten Wolff Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts / Germany

Christian Reimann Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts / Germany

Pasi Kuvaja University of Oulu / Finland

Jurgita Kapočiūtė-Dzikienė Vytautas Magnus University / Lithuania

Peter Dirix University of Leuven / Belgium

Algirdas Pakštas London Metropolitan University / UK

Vira Shendryk Sumy State University / Ukraine

Radu Adrian Vasiu Politehnica University of Timisoara / Romania

Vytenis Punys Kaunas University of Technology / Lithuania

Giedrius Vanagas Lithuanian University of Health Sciences / Lithuania

Local Organizing CommitteeVilma Mikašytė (Chair) Kaunas University of Technology / Lithuania

Romas ŠleževičiusKaunas University of Technology / Lithuania

Lina RepšienėKaunas University of Technology / Lithuania

Gintarė Dzindzelėtaitė Kaunas University of Technology / Lithuania

Gintarė Lukoševičiūtė Kaunas University of Technology / Lithuania

SponsorsResearch Council of LithuaniaFaculty of Informatics / Kaunas University of Technology

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Key Notes and Speakers

Prof. dr. Boris Stilman

Boris Stilman is a Professor of Com-puter Science at the University of Colorado Denver (UC Denver), USA and the Chairman and CEO of STIL-MAN Advanced Strategies (STIL-MAN), LLC, USA. In 1972, he gradu-ated in Mathematics from Moscow State University (MGU) and received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in Moscow in 1984. After graduation from MGU until 1988, in Moscow, USSR, he was involved in the ad-vanced research project PIONEER, led by a former World Chess Cham-pion Professor Mikhail Botvinnik. The goal of the project was to dis-cover and formalize an approach utilized by the most advanced chess experts in solving chess problems almost without search. While the program PIONEER has never played complete chess games, it solved a number of complex end-games and positions from the games of World Chess Champions. This project has never been finished, however, based on these experiences over a number

of years, in Moscow, dr. Stilman developed experimental and math-ematical foundations of the new ap-proach to search problems in Artifi-cial Intelligence.In 1990-91, while at McGill Univer-sity, Montreal, Canada, based on this approach, he developed Lin-guistic Geometry (LG), a new theory for solving abstract board games. LG allows us to avoid combinatorial explosion by changing the paradigm from search to construction (from analysis to synthesis). It is scalable of solving complex real world prob-lems that are considered intractable by conventional approaches. Since 1991, he was developing the theory and applications of LG at UC Den-ver. A leap in the development of LG was made in 1999, when dr. Stil-man (with a group of scientists and engineers) founded STILMAN, LLC. Since then, he combines his profes-sorship at UC Denver with his lead-ership role of the Chairman and CEO at STILMAN.

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A growing number of LG applica-tions developed at STILMAN have passed comprehensive testing and are currently transitioning to the real world command and control sys-tems in the USA. The LG software is currently considered vital for the national defence in the USA and UK. Currently, dr. Stilman is involved in research on discovering the nature of the Primary Language of the hu-man brain (as introduced by J. von

Neumann) via investigating major algorithms, crucial for development of humanity, LG and the Algorithm of Discovery. Dr. Stilman published several books, over 200 research papers, and received numerous re-search awards and grants, including those from the US and UK govern-ment research agencies, such as DARPA and major defence compa-nies, such as Boeing.

Key Note Talk “Intelligent Strategies for Defense Systems”Thursday, October 12th, 11.00–12.00

At the time when Artificial Intelli-gence (AI) comes to fashion, and many authorities claim that it rep-resents the greatest power and, simultaneously, the grave danger to the humanity, it is important to evaluate the most advanced ap-proaches in AI, especially those in defence. Linguistic Geometry (LG) is a type of game theory scalable to solving complex real world prob-lems that are considered intractable by conventional approaches. Mod-ern applications of LG, related to the US national defence, generate, in real time, courses of action that are highly creative and even exceed the level of those developed by hu-man commanders. Currently, the

US Army, the US Navy, and Missile Defence Agency are adopting the LG software to a wide spectrum of defence systems around the world. I will review defence applications of LG, from modern battles going backward in history to the ancient ones as well as the history of de-velopment of theory of LG. I will introduce the hypothesis that LG is not an invention but a result of discovery of the ancient algorithm of efficient warfighting crucial for development of human intelligence.

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Tutorial “From Primary to Conventional Science” Friday, October 13th, 16.00–18.00

Presentation/Q&A Session “Turning University Research into the Real World Systems” Saturday, October 14th, 09.00–10.30

In this tutorial, I will introduce our hypothesis about the structure of the Primary Language of the hu-man brain, which goes back to J. von Neumann who hypothesized its existence in 1957. According to von Neumann, the Primary Lan-guage should have empowered all the Secondary languages, i.e., hu-man symbolic languages and sci-ences. I will explain how this is ac-complished with introduction of the Language of Visual Streams. This tutorial includes the details of com-munication between the primary and conventional languages and scienc-es and demonstrates examples of such communication. The science visual streams may generate new knowledge because they include the discovery streams controlled by the Algorithm of Discovery (AD). We assume that there exists a universal AD, the ultimate tool utilized by the

human brain for discovering new al-gorithms and perfecting the existing ones. The AD makes discoveries via visual streams within the primary science and then reflects them in the secondary science, the conven-tional one. One of the goals of our research is to understand the AD to the level, which will permit produc-ing discoveries on demand. Several examples of discoveries rediscov-ered employing the simulated AD are included in the tutorial. Each ex-ample consists of a series of thought experiments that turn a piece of the primary science to the conventional one. Those examples include dis-covery of the grammar of shortest trajectories in Linguistic Geometry (by Stilman), discovery of the Dou-ble Helix, the structure of DNA (by Watson and Crick), and discovery of the formulas of differentiation (by Newton and Leibnitz).

In the USA, many research-oriented start-ups are the university spin-offs, i.e., they were originally cre-

ated within the university’s environ-ment. I will describe chronologically the process of creation, survival,

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and subsequent take-off of such companies on example of STILMAN Advanced Strategies, the company created in 1999 as a spin-off of the University of Colorado at Denver. In-telligent software tools developed at STILMAN for the US Army beat all competition around the world and are considered vital for the US na-tional defense. This lecture includes a comparison of roles of investors, competitive government contracts, large businesses, and foreign sourc-es in obtaining working capital for small companies.on the US govern

ment system of competitive awards, especially, in defense, including SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) as well as those from the federal agencies such as DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Agen-cy), US Army, US Navy, etc. I will provide details of the relationship of a university and spin-off businesses. Special attention will be paid to the role of customers in developing new problem domains, theoretical ideas, and turning those ideas into working systems.

Prof. dr. Jerzy Grzymala-Busse

Prof. dr. Jerzy W. Grzymala-Busse is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Uni-versity of Kansas since August of 1993. His research interests include data mining, machine learning, knowledge discovery, expert sys-tems, reasoning under uncertainty, and rough set theory. He is an au-thor or co-author of four books, he edited 12 books, and published over 300 articles. He is a member of Ed-

itorial Boards of the Foundations of Computing and Decision Science, Fundamenta Informaticae, Interna-tional Journal of Hybrid Intelligent System, Transactions on Rough Sets, International Journal of Fuzzy Systems and Rough Systems, Inter-national Journal of Computer & Sys-tems Engineering and Internation-al Journal of Granular Computing, Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems. He served as a chair or member of

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Key Note Talk “Mining Imperfect Data” Thursday, October 12th, 12.30–13.30

In this talk, imperfect data are de-fined as inconsistent and/or incom-plete. Our approach to mining such data is based on rough set theory. For inconsistent data, a generaliza-tion of lower and upper approxima-tions called a probabilistic approx-imation is a successful choice. For

incomplete data, a number of dif-ferent global approximations, such as singleton, subset and concept approximations as well as local approximations may be used. We present some theoretical and ex-perimental results on mining imper-fect data.

Program Committees for many in-ternational conferences. He is a re-cipient of best paper awards in nu-merous international conferences. He is a recipient of many awards for teaching excellence. Listed in Marquis Who is Who in the World, Who is Who in America, etc. He is a member of the Association for Com-puting Machinery, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelli-gence, International Rough Set Soci-

ety and Upsilon Pi Epsilon. Between 2010 and 2014, he was a member of the International Rough Set Society Steering Committee, and starting from 2014, he is the elected chair of the IRSS Advisory Board. He is a Fellow of the International Rough Set Society as well as a member of the IEEE Granular Computing Tech-nical Committee and IEEE SMC So-ciety Technical Committee on Soft Computing.

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Prof. dr. Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem

Prof. dr. Abdel-Badeh M. Salem is a professor emeritus of Com-puter Science since September 2007 until now. He was a former Vice Dean of the Faculty of Com-puter and Information Sciences at Ain Shams University, Cairo-Egypt (1996-2007). He was a professor of Computer Science at Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University from 1989 to 1996. He was a Director of Scientific Computing Center at Ain Shams University (1984-1990). His research includes intelligent com-puting, expert systems, medical in-formatics, and intelligent e-learning technologies. He has published around 350 papers in refereed jour-nals and conference proceedings in these areas. He has been involved in more than 400 conferences and workshops as an Int. Program Committee, organizer and Session Chair. He is an author and co-au-thor of 15 Books in English and Ara-bic Languages. He was one of the founders of the following events, First Egyp-tian Workshop on Expert Systems

1987, Int. Cairo Conference on Ar-tificial Intelligence Applications in 1992, and Int. Conf. on Intelligent Computing and Information Sys-tems 2002, and one of the main sustainers of annual Int. Romanian Internet Learning Workshop Project (RILW), 1997. In addition, he was the secretary of Egyptian Computer Society (1984-1990), member of National Committee in Informatics – Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (1992-200), mem-ber of Egyptian Committee in the Inter-Governmental Informatics Program, IIP-UNISCO, Paris (1988-1990) and coordinator of the Annual International Conference for Sta-tistics, Scientific Computing, and Social and Demographic Research (1983-1990). In addition, he was a partner of the MEDCAMPUS Pro-jects on Methodologies and Tech-nologies for Distance Education in Mediterranean (1993-1995).He is a member of the Editorial Board of the following Journals: Int. Journal of Computing and Infor-mation Sciences (IJCIS), Canada;

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Key Note Talk “Artificial Intelligence Technology in Health Informatics” Friday, October 13th, 10.00–11.00

Egyptian Computer Science Jour-nal, EC Newsletter, Education in Computing and Computers in Edu-cation, Italy; Scientific Journal of Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Series Informatica, Cluj – Napoca, Romania; International Journal of Intelligent Computing in Medical Sciences and Image Processing (IC-MED), Japan; Egyptian Jour-nal for Specialized Studies, Faculty of Specific Education, Ain Shams University, Egypt; Int. Journal of In-telligent Computing & Information Science (IJICIS), Egypt; Enforma-tika Transactions on Engineering, Computing and Technology, World Enformatika Society, Turkey; and Int. Journal of Soft Computing Ap-proaches (IJSCA), Eurojournals.He is a member of the following international scientific societies:

American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), USA; British Computer Society, Expert Systems Specialist Group (SGES), Int. Neural Network Society (INNS), USA; As-sociation for the Advancement of Computing Education (AACE), USA; Int. Society for Computers and their Applications (ISCA) (NC, USA, Dec. 95); Int. Society for Telemedicine & eHealth ISfTeH, Switzerland; Int. Federation for Information Process-ing (IFIP) Technical Committee WG 12.5, Knowledge-Oriented Devel-opment of Applications, Austria (from 2000 until now), Int. Associa-tion for Science and Technology for Development (IASTED), TC on AI and Expert Systems, Int. Asso-ciation for Science and Technology for Development, Canada, (from 2000 until now).

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is science and technology and is based on many disciplines, such as comput-er science, philosophy, psychology, mathematics, biology, linguistics, knowledge computing, and engi-neering. AI has been mainly studied

as computer-based technologies. Various intelligent methodologies, computational techniques and knowledge-based systems have been developed for automated rea-soning and learning. AI technolo-gies are robust, can be successfully

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Tutorial “Exploiting Artificial Intelligence Technology in Smart Education and Learning” Saturday, October 14th, 11.00–12.00

and health care. The talk covers the following applications: (a) ex-pert systems using the case-based reasoning approach for cancer and heart diagnosis, (b) ontological en-gineering approach for breast can-cer knowledge management, and (c) mining patient data using rough sets theory to determine thrombo-sis disease.

applied to complex problems, effi-ciently adaptive, and usually have a parallel computational architecture. For those reasons, they have been proved to be effective and efficient in developing intelligent systems for many tasks in health sciences.The aim of this talk is to make an overview of some of AI techniques and approaches as well as their ap-plications in medical informatics

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Thursday, 12th October

9.00– 10.00RegistrationReception desk, Grand Spa Lietuva, V. Kudirkos str. 45, Druskininkai

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Opening CeremonyProf. dr. Robertas Damaševičius, Faculty of Informatics, Kaunas University of Technology

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KEY NOTE Prof. dr. Boris Stilman“Intelligent Strategies for Defense Sys-tems” University of Colorado Denver, USA

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KEY NOTE Prof. dr. Jerzy Grzymala-Busse “Mining Imperfect Data”University of Kansas, USA

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13.30–15.00 LUNCH / Restaurant Grand Spa

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Cultural Programme and DinnerCheese making and tasting;Exploring local traditions;A hearty campfire dinner.

Friday, 13th October

9.00–10.00RegistrationReception desk, Grand Spa Lietuva, V. Kudirkos str. 45, Druskininkai

10.00–11.00

KEY NOTE Prof. dr. Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem“Artificial Intelligence Technology in Health Informatics”Ain Shams University, Egypt

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SESSION 1. Information Systems

Special Session on e-Health Information Systems Chaired by Prof. dr. Rolf Engelbrecht, Conference Hall “Neris”

1. Privacy Matters: Detecting Nocuous Patient Data Exposure in Online Physi-cian Reviews Frederik S. Bäumer, Nicolai Grote, Joschka Kersting, Michaela Geierhos

2. Implementation and Evaluation of a Decision Support Systems for the Pa-tients of a Laboratory Service Georgy Kopanitsa, Zhanna Kopanitsa

3. Decision Support System for Medical Care Quality Assessment Based on Health Records Analysis in Russia Maksim Taranik, Georgy Kopanitsa

SESSION 2. Information SystemsSpecial Session on Innovative Applications for Knowledge Transfer Support Chaired by Prof. dr. Justyna Patalas-Maliszewska, Conference Hall “Ūla”1. Role of “Bridge Person” in Software Development Project

Līga Bormane, Solvita Bērziša

2. A Knowledge-Management System for the Innovation-Strategy Develop-ment of SME Enterprises Sławomir Kłos, Katarzyna Skrzypek, Karol Dabrowski

3. Exemplar Functionalities of the Intelligent System for Tacit-Knowledge-Transfer Support for an IT Company Justyna Patalas-Maliszewska, Irene Krebs

4. A Model of the Knowledge Assessment Using Bayes’ Network Małgorzata Śliwa, Justyna Patalas-Maliszewska

SESSION 3. Software EngineeringSpecial Session on Intelligent Systems and Software Engineering Advances Chaired by Prof. dr. Carsten Wolff, Conference Hall “Ratnyčėlė”

1. Ensemble of Classifiers Based on Simple Granules of Knowledge Piotr Artiemjew

2. A Method for Solving the Time Fractional Heat Conduction Inverse Problem Based on Ant Colony Optimization and Artificial Bee Colony Algorithms Rafał Brociek, Damian Słota

3. Extraction and Analysis of Voice Samples Based on Short Audio Files Dawid Połap, Marcin Woźniak

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SESSION 4. Information Systems

Special Session on Information and Software Technologies for Intelligent Power Systems Chaired by Prof. dr. Algirdas Pakštas, Conference Hall “Ūla”

1. Models of Decision Making in Planning the Structure of Hybrid Renewable Energy System Olha Shulyma, Vira Shendryk, Yuliia Parfenenko, Sergii Shendryk

2. Software Architecture for an ORC Turbine – Case Study for an Intelligent Technical System in the Era of the Internet of Things Carsten Wolff, Mathias Knirr, Tobias Pallwitz, Hüseyin Igci, Klaus-Peter Priebe, Peter Schulz, Jörn Strumberg

13.30–15.00 LUNCH / Restaurant Grand Spa

15.00–16.30 Sessions

SESSION 1. (part 2) Information Systems

Special Session on e-Health Information Systems Chaired by Prof. dr. Rolf Engelbrecht, Conference Hall “Neris”

4. Investigation of Predicting Functional Capacity Level for Huntington Disease Patients Andrius Lauraitis, Rytis Maskeliūnas

5. TIROL: The Extensible Interconnectivity Layer for mHealth Applications Christoph Stach, Frank Steimle, Ana Cristina Franco da Silva

SESSION 3. (part 2) Software Engineering

Special Session on Intelligent Systems and Software Engineering Advances Chaired by Dr. Marcin Woźniak, Conference Hall “Ratnyčėlė” 5. Parallelization of Fast Sort Algorithm

Zbigniew Marszałek

6. Automated Scheduling for Tightly-Coupled Embedded Multi-Core Systems Using Hybrid Genetic Algorithms Pedro Cuadra, Lukas Krawczyk, Robert Höttger, Philipp Heisig, Carsten Wolff

7. Detection of Important Features from Images Using Heuristic Approach Dawid Połap, Marcin Woźniak

4. Problem of Bathymetric Big Data Interpolation for Inland Mobile Navigation System Marta Włodarczyk-Sielicka, Natalia Wawrzyniak

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Tutorial “From Primary to Conventional Science”Prof. dr. Boris StilmanUniversity of Colorado Denver, USA

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19.00–21.00 FOURCHETTE / Swedish Restaurant of Hotel Lietuva***

Saturday, 14th October

8.00–9.00RegistrationReception desk, Grand Spa Lietuva, V. Kudirkos str. 45, Druskininkai

9.00–10.30

Presentation/Q&A Session “Turning University Research into the Real World Systems” Prof. dr. Boris StilmanUniversity of Colorado Denver, USA

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Tutorial “Exploiting Artificial Intelligence Technology in Smart Edu-cation and Learning”Prof. dr. Abdel-Badeeh M. SalemAin Shams University, Egypt

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SESSION 5. Information Technology Applications

Special Session on Language Technologies Chaired by Assoc. prof. Jurgita Kapočiūtė-Dzikienė, Conference Hall “Neris”

1. Towards Creation of a Lithuanian Lemmatizer for Open Online Collaborative Machine Translation Jurgita Kapočiūtė-Dzikienė, Vincent Berment, Erika Rimkutė

2. Using Sentiment Analysis on Local Up-to-the-Minute News: An Integrated Approach Joschka Kersting, Michaela Geierhos

3. Automatic Spoken Language Identification by Digital Signal Processing Methods. Tatar and Russian Languages Rustam Latypov, Ruslan Nigmatullin, Evgeni Stolov

4. Using Morphological and Semantic Features for the Quality Assessment of Russian Wikipedia Włodzimierz Lewoniewski, Nina Khairova, Krzysztof Węcel, Nataliia Stratiienko, Witold Abramowicz

5. Analysis of References Across Wikipedia Languages Włodzimierz Lewoniewski, Krzysztof Węcel, Witold Abramowicz

SESSION 6. Business Intelligence for Information and Software Systems

Special Session on Intelligent Methods for Data Analysis and Computer-Aided Software Engineering Chaired by Prof. dr. Audrius Lopata, Conference Hall “Ūla”

1. Migration from COBOL to SOA: Measuring the Impact on Web Services Interfaces Complexitye Cristian Mateos, Alejandro Zunino, Sanjay Misra, Diego Anabalon, Andres Flores

2. Statistical Arbitrage Trading Strategy in Commodity Futures Market with the Use of Nanoseconds Historical Data Mantas Vaitonis, Saulius Masteika

3. Knowledge-Based UML Models Generation from Enterprise Model Tech-nique Ilona Veitaitė, Audrius Lopata

4. Data Mining in Agri Warehouses Using MODWT Wavelet Analysis Ken Bailey, Mark Roantree, Martin Crane, Andrew McCarren

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SESSION 7. Information Technology Applications

Special Session on Smart e-Learning Technologies and ApplicationsChaired by Assoc. prof. Danguolė Rutkauskienė, Conference Hall “Ratnyčėlė”

1. Virtual Reality in Education: New Ways to Learn Tomas Blažauskas, Rytis Maskeliūnas, Reda Bartkutė, Vitalija Keršienė, Indre Jurkevičiutė, Mindaugas Dubosas

2. Informatics Based Tasks Development in the Bebras Contest Management System Valentina Dagienė, Gabrielė Stupurienė, Lina Vinikienė

3. Online Fault Detection Methodology of Question Moodle Database Using Scan Statistics Method Aleksejs Jurenoks, Svetlana Jurenoka, Leonids Novickis

4. On Personalised Learning Units Evaluation Methodology Julija Kurilova, Saulius Minkevicius, Eugenijus Kurilovas

5. The Study of Gender Equality in Information Sciences Research Institu-tions in Lithuania Virginija Limanauskienė, Danguolė Rutkauskienė, Vitalija Keršienė, Eduardas Bareiša, Robertas Damaševičius, Rytis Maskeliūnas, Aleksandras Targamadzė

13.40–15.00 LUNCH / Restaurant Grand Spa

15.00–15.30CLOSING CEREMONY. BEST PAPER AWARDSProf. dr. Robertas Damaševičius

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Grand Spa is a complex of hotels and conference centre, which welcomes its visitors to have a pleasant stay in Druskininkai. In the very centre of the resort, cherishing old traditions of mineral wa-ter treatment, you will find a luxurious Dzūkija Apartment Hotel 4* PLUS, Hotel Druskininkai 4* with a presidential suite, and a modern Hotel Lietuva 3* PLUS. The visitors are offered a number of high-quality treatment, wellness and spa procedures, entertainment in the hotel’s water park, physical therapy, massages, services of dental clinics and beauticians. You are welcome to rebuild your physical and spiritual strength in Druskininkai Grand SPA Lietuva treatment centre, which is one of the largest and most modern in the Baltic countries. Choose from more than a hundred health and wellness procedures; use the services of clinical diagnostic labora-tory, dental clinics, and opticians. SPA Namai, situated in the treat-ment centre, offers the most effective beauty therapies along with a unique opportunity to enjoy the exceptional amber procedures in the Amber Room. The guests of the hotel are offered access to high-end restaurants, bars, and active leisure facilities.

Grand Spa Lietuva

V. Kudirkos Str. 45, LT-66120 Druskininkai, Lithuania

Phone +370 313 51200, e-mail reservation@grandspa.lt

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Druskininkai (population 24 000) is a year-round international resort offering mineral bath, mud and climate therapies, located 120 km from Vilnius and Kaunas. The name of Druskininkai derives from the word “salt” (“druska” in Lithuanian). That’s why you can always find various interpretations of the term here. The town hosts the In-ternational contemporary music festival “Druskomanija” (“Salt ma-nia”), plein air of artists “Druskos metamorfozės“ (“Metamorphosis of Salt”), exhibitions of hand-made goods made from salt, lessons of the craft for children.

For more information about Druskininkai see http://www.info.druskininkai.lt/en/

This Year’s Cultural Event

Cheese Making and Tasting and Exploring the Local CustomsAll participants of ICIST 2017 are invited to join cultural-education-al event during the conference.

• A cheerful farmer named Gražina, who has received several awards, will tell you the way from the meadow to the table of cheese. She will show you her farm and the basement, where blue-veined cheeses are matured;

• You will taste more than 15 types of cheese and Lithuanian wine;

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• You will try to produce some dairy production by yourself;

• You will meet some animals at the farm and ride a horse-drawn car-riage;

• You will meet two more Dzūkians – a mother and her son – and by exploring the local customs, participating in games, competitions, and dances, help them find him a worthy bride;

• You will have a typical Lithuanian campfire dinner.

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Kaunas University of Technology, with its eight faculties, a branch in Panevėžys, high school (gymnasium), progymnasium and nine re-search centres, is the second largest university in Lithuania. About 80% of Lithuania’s industrial engineers have graduated from KTU. In 1990, KPI was restructured and brought into line with most West-ern universities. Under Parliamentary decision, it was then granted its present university status and name. Currently Kaunas University of Technology is the largest technical university in Lithuania. More information about Kaunas University of Technology can be found at http://ktu.edu

Faculty of InformaticsThe Faculty of Informatics of Kaunas University of Technology was established in 1977. The faculty currently consists of five depart-ments:

• Department of Multimedia Engineering,

• Department of Information Systems,

• Department of Computer Science,

• Department of Software Engineering,

• Department of Applied Informatics,

and two research centres:

• Centre of Real Time Computer Systems,

• Centre of Information Systems Design Technology.

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The faculty offers the choice of Informatics, Informatics Engineering, Me-dia Information Technology, Information Systems, and Software Systems Bachelor’s degree programmes. Those pursuing a Master’s degree can choose from five study programmes:

• Informatics,

• Information Technologies,

• Computer-Assisted Education,

• Software Engineering,

• Information Systems Engineering.

Graduates of Master degree studies can pursue the academic career by choosing Informatics or Informatics Engineering doctoral studies.

Each year the Faculty of Informatics accepts around 500 new students seeking Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, respectively. In 2017, we have more than 1 850 Bachelor, 200 Master and 36 Doctoral students.

The Faculty also publishes a scientific journal, Information Technology and Control (indexed by Clarivate Analytics, www.itc.ktu.lt, e-mail: itc@ktu.lt).

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The International Conference on Information and Software Technologies (ICIST) is an international annual event, organized by Kaunas University of Technology. In 2018, the University will organize the 24th ICIST Conference from 4th to 6th October in Vilnius, Lithuania.

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ORGANIZATION

24th International Conference on Information and Software Technologies October 4th–6th, 2018, Vilnius, Lithuania

ICIST is organised by Kaunas University of Technology, a well-known technical university of the Baltic States. In 2018, the conference will switch its location to Vilnius. ICIST 2018 will take place at Vilnius Grand Resort, a luxurious country estate set within 395 acres of magnificent sprawling forest and lake scenery. The complex welcomes its visitors with spacious rooms and suites, a championship golf course, a renowned spa and fitness centre, special events, and much more. All of the aforementioned just 20 minutes from the buzz of Lithuania’s capital city, Vilnius.

LOCATION

General ChairEduardas Bareiša, Kaunas, Lithuania

PC ChairRobertas Damaševičius, Kaunas, Lithuania

Local Organising Committee Chair: Vilma Mikašytė, Kaunas, Lithuania

Local Organising Committee: icist@ktu.lt

PROCEEDINGS AND PUBLICATIONThe paper’s size should not exceed 5000 words and 12 pages (fee for extra pages is 10 EUR per page). Accepted papers will be published as a volume of Springer-Verlag CCIS. CCIS is in- dexed in Scopus, Thomson Reuters ISI Proceedings.

More information is on http://icist.if.ktu.lt/index.php/ICIST/pages/view/AuthorsPages

DEADLINES

01 02 2018 – Call for Special Session proposal.

26 03 2018 – Full paper submission. Final call.

23 04 2018 – Notification of acceptance.

28 06 2018 – Print ready paper submission.

04 10 2018 – 06 10 2018 – Conference. Research sessions.

INFORMATION SYSTEMSSpecial Sessions on - Innovative Applications for Knowledge Transfer Support;- e-Health Information Systems;- IT Technologies for Intelligent Power Systems

Methodologies for Information Systems Development; Conceptual Modelling, Ontologies, and Databases; Business Processes and Business Rules; Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Modelling; Distributed Information Systems and Semantic Web; Quality of Information Systems

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE FOR INFORMATION AND SOFTWARE SYSTEMS Special Session on Intelligent Methods for Data Analysis and Computer-Aided Software Engineering

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Decision Support Systems;Natural Language Processing; Knowledge-Based System Engineering

SOFTWARE ENGINEERINGSpecial Session on Intelligent Systems and Software Engineering Advances

Software and Systems Engineering Methodologies; Model-Driven Development, SOA; Component-Based Development; Distributed, Mobile, and Open Architectures; Cloud Computing Software Quality and Testing; CASE Tools for Software Development; Security and Trust

IT APPLICATIONSSpecial Sessions on - Smart e-Learning Technologies and Applications;- Internet-of-Things in Mobility Applications;- Language Technologies

E-Government and Public Sector;Enterprise Applications;IT in Teaching and Learning;Internet of Things and Smart Environments;Wireless and Mobile Applications;Computer Graphics and Multimedia

More information and registration on http://icist.if.ktu.lt/

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Useful Information

Lithuanian Time

Useful Phone Numbers

Currency

Lithuania is located in the Eastern European Time Zone, GMT+2.

Emergency call 112

Information 118

Kaunas Airport (Karmėlava)Information: (+370 6) 12 44 442

Vilnius Airport

Information:

(+370 5) 230 66 66

Kaunas Bus StationInformation:

(+370 37) 40 90 60

Kaunas Railway Station

Information:

(8700) 55 111

Euro (€)

Vilnius Bus Station

Information:

(8900) 1661

Vilnius Railway StationInformation:

(8700) 55 111

Taxi (Druskininkai)

B. Basalykienė taxi:

(+370 31) 35 13 13

E. Buras taxi: (+370 313) 5 55 55

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