SMTDA 2012
2nd Stochastic Modeling Techniques and Data Analysis International Conference

 Panorama Hotel                 5 - 8 June 2012 Chania Crete Greece

Scientific Committee

C. H. Skiadas, Technical University of Crete, Chania Crete Greece (Chair)

A. Andronov, Transport and Telecommunications Institute, Riga, Latvia

Y. Bakouros, Industrial Management Lab., Univ. of Western Macedonia, Greece
N. Balakrishnan, McMaster University, Canada
M. H. Bacelar Nicolau, University of Lisbon, Portugal
H. W. Block, Department of Statistics, University of Pittsburgh, USA
M. Brown, The City College, CUNY, USA
E. Bulinskaya, Moscow State University, Russia
J. Caiado, Centre for Appl. Math. and Economics, Technical Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal
E. Canuto, Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

T. Chatzipantelis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

M. Christodoulou, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece
I. Dimotikalis, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Greece
D. Donchev, St. Kliment Ohridsky University, Bulgaria

N. Farmakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

A. Giovanis, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Greece
J. Glaz, University of Connecticut, Stors, USA
G. Govaert, Universite de Technologie de Compiegne, France
A. Guenoche, University of Marseille, France
Y. Guermeur, LORIA-CNRS, France
S. Haberman, Cass Business School, City University, London, UK

D. Ho, IBM, Paris, France 
P. Imkeller, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany
J. Janssen, EURIA et ENST-Bretagne, Brest, France and JACAN, Tubize, Belgium

A. Kalamatianou, Panteion University of Political Sciences, Athens, Greece

U. Kamps, Institut fur Statistik und Wirtschaftsmathematik, RWTH Aachen, Germany
A. Karagrigoriou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
A. Katsirikou, University of Piraeus, Greece (Secretary)
W. Klonowski, Lab. Biosignal Anal. Fundamentals, Polish Acad. of Sciences, Poland
A. Kohatsu-Higa, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
G. E. Kokolakis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

T. Kollo, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Tartu, Estonia

K. Kołowrocki, Department of Mathematics, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland

N. Komninos, URENIO, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
D. G. Konstantinides, Dept. Stat. and Actuarial Sci.. University of the Aegean, Greece

E. J. Kontoghiorghes, Univ. of Cyprus and Queen Mary, Univ. of London, UK

S. Lallich, University Lyon 2, France
L. Lebart, CNRS, ENST, Paris, France
M.-L. Ting Lee, University of Maryland, USA
C. Lefevre, ULB, Bruxelles, Belgium
P. Lenca, Telecom Bretagne, France
N. Limnios, University de Technologie de Compiene, France
Bo H. Lindquvist, Norvegian Institute of Technology, Norway
G. MacKenzie, Univerity of Limerick, Ireland

P. Mahanti. Dept. of Comp. Sci. and Appl. Statistics, Univ. of New Brunswick, Canada

R. Manca, University La Sapiensa, Roma, Italy
L. Markus, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary
S. McClean, University of Ulster at Coleraine, Northern Ireland

T. Mills, Loddon Mallee Integrated Cancer Service, Australia

L. Minkova, Dept. of Probability, Oper. Res. and Statistics, Univ. of Sofia, Bulgaria
K. Mosler, University of Koeln, Germany
T. Papaioannou, Universities of Pireaus and Ioannina, Greece
L. Sakalauskas, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius, Lithuania
G. Saporta, CNAM, Paris, France
W. Sandmann, Dept. of Mathematics, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany

J. M. Sarabia, Department of Economics, University of Cantabria, Spain

P. Sirirangsi, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
C. Skiadas, Hanover College, Indiana, USA

R. Szekli, University of Wroclaw, Poland
T. Takine, Osaka University, Japan
P. Taylor, University of Melbourne, Australia
M. J. Valderrama, Universidad de Granada, Spain

P.-C.G. Vassiliou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

W. Wefelmeyer, Mathematical Institute, University of Cologne, Germany
V. Zaiats, Escola Politecnica Superior, Universitat de Vic, Barcelona, Spain
K. Zografos, Department of Mathematics, University of Ioannina, Greece
Plenary Talks


Prof. Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Cure Rate Models and Associated Inferential Complexities and Some Solutions



Prof. Hans-J. Lenz
Institute of Information Science
Institute of Statistics and Econometrics
Freie University, Berlin, Germany


Data Cleansing at the Data Entry to assert Semantic Consistency



Prof. Bruce G. Lindsay
Willaman Professor of Statistics
Department Head
Department of Statistics
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA, USA

On using an eigen-analysis of Fisher's information matrix to perform projection pursuit



Prof. Jie Xiong
Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

Stochastic filtering and optimal control