Elpida Keravnou Papailiou
CS Department, University of Cyprus

Research Publications Teaching Profile Summary Educational Activities
  Publications
 
Books

1. Combi C., Keravnou-Papailiou E., and Shahar Y. (2010), Temporal Information Systems in Medicine, Springer, 376 pages (ISBN 978-1-4419-6542-4 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-6543-1).

2. Keravnou E.T. (2000), Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems (distance learning text book for the undergraduate curriculum in Computer Science, written in Greek), Greek Open University, 384 pages (ISBN: 960-538-181-8).

3. Lavrac N., Keravnou E.T., and Zupan B. (editors) (1997), Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 310 pages.

4. Keravnou E.T. (editor) (1992), Deep Models for Medical Knowledge Engineering, Elsevier Science Publishers, 285 pages.

5. Johnson L. and Keravnou E.T. (1988), Expert Systems Architectures, Chapman and Hall (formerly by Kogan-Page), 266 pages.

6. Keravnou E.T. and Johnson L. (1986), Competent Expert Systems: a case study in fault diagnosis, (UK) Chapman and Hall (formerly by Kogan-Page), (USA) McGraw-Hill, 320 pages.

7. Johnson L. and Keravnou E.T. (1985), Expert Systems Technology: a Guide, Information Technology Series, Abacus Press, 184 pages.

 
   
  Papers in International Journals
 


8. Keravnou-Papailiou E. (2009), Flexibility through Learning Outcomes: implications for quality, EUA Bologna Handbook, September 2009, article B 2.3-2 (pages 1-14), Raabe Academic Publishers.

9. Keravnou-Papailiou E. (2007), Implementing ECTS at the University of Cyprus, EUA Bologna Handbook, December 2007, article C 3.3-2 (pages 1-22), Raabe Academic Publishers.

10. Adlassnig K.-P., Combi C., Das A.K, Keravnou E.T., and Pozzi G. (2006) "Temporal Representation and Reasoning in Medicine: Research Directions and Challenges", Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 38(2), pp.101-113. [pdf]

11. Kazeli, H., Christofides, T. and Keravnou E.T. (2003), "An intelligent hybrid decision support system for the management of water resources", International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol.17, pp.837-862.

12. Keravnou E.T. (2002), "Temporal Constraints in Clinical Diagnosis", Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, Vol.12, pp.49-67 (invited).

13. Keravnou E.T. and Washbrook J. (2001), "Abductive Diagnosis Using Time-Objects: Criteria for the Evaluation of Solutions", Computational Intelligence, Vol.17, No.1, pp.87-131. [pdf]

14. Keravnou E.T. and Lavrac N. (2001), "AIM Portraits: Tracing the Evolution of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Predicting its Future in the New Millennium", Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Vol.23, No.1, pp.1-4.

15. Keravnou E.T. (1999), "A Multidimensional and Multigranular Model of Time for Medical Knowledge-Based Systems", Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (special issue on Intelligent Temporal Information Systems in Medicine), Vol.13, pp.73-120.

16. Lavrac N., Kononenko I., Keravnou E.T., Kukar M., and Zupan B. (1998), "Intelligent Data Analysis for Medical Diagnosis: Using Machine Learning and Temporal Abstraction", AI Communications, Vol.11, pp.191-218.

17. Christodoulou E. and Keravnou E.T. (1998), "Metareasoning and Meta-level Learning in a Hybrid Knowledge-Based Architecture", Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Vol.14(1,2), pp.53-81.

18. Christodoulou E. and Keravnou E.T. (1997), "Integrating Multiple Problem Solvers in Knowledge-Based Systems", The Knowledge Engineering Review, Vol.12:2, pp.181-207.

19. Keravnou E.T. (1996), "Temporal Diagnostic Reasoning Based on Time-Objects", Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (special issue on Temporal Reasoning in Medicine), Vol.8, No.3, pp.235-265.

20. Keravnou E.T. (1996), “Temporal Reasoning in Medicine", Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Vol. 8, No.3, pp.187-191.

21. Keravnou E.T. (1995), "Temporal Vagueness in Medical Reasoning", Int J. Systems Research and Info Science Vol. 7, pp.3-28.

22. Keravnou E.T., Dams F., Washbrook J., Hall C.M., Dawood R.M and Shaw D. (1994), "Modelling Diagnostic Skills in the Domain of Skeletal Dysplasias", Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, Vol.45, pp.239-260.

23. Chapman N., Fox M., Keravnou E.T., Lee M., Levene M., Long D., Rounce P., Offen R., Samet P. and Winder R. (1993), "Slick Systems" and "Happy Hackers": experience with group projects at UCL", Software Engineering Journal, May 1993, pp 132-136.

24. Keravnou E.T., Dams F. and Washbrook J. (1993), "Towards Competent Information-Acquisition Interactions between an Expert System and its User", Knowledge-Based Systems, Vol.6, No.3, pp 141-156. [pdf]

25. Keravnou E.T., Dams F., Washbrook J., Dawood R.M, Hall C.M and Shaw D. (1992), "Background Knowledge in Diagnosis", Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Vol.4, No.4, pp 263-279. [pdf]

26. Washbrook J. and Keravnou E.T. (1990), "Making Deepness Explicit", Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Vol.2, pp.129-134. [pdf]

27. Keravnou E.T., Washbrook J. (1990), "A Temporal Reasoning Framework used in the Diagnosis of Skeletal Dysplasias", Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Vol.2, No.5, pp.239-265. [pdf]

28. Keravnou E.T. (1990), "What is a Deep Expert System? an analysis of first generation limitations and a review of second generation architectures" (Invited lecture at the 8th Summer School on Computing Techniques in Physics: Man-Machine Interface in Scientific Environment, Sept 19-29, 1989, Skalsky Dvur, Czechoslovakia) Computer Physics Communications, Vol. 61, pp.3-12.

29. Keravnou E.T., Washbrook J. (1989), "What is a Deep Expert System: an analysis of the architectural requirements of second generation expert systems", Knowledge Engineering Review, Vol.4, No.3, pp.205-233. [pdf]

30. Keravnou E.T. and Washbrook J. (1989), "Deep and Shallow Models in Medical Expert Systems", (delivered at the 5th Annual Meeting on Expert Systems in Medicine, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London, March 1988), Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp.11-28. [pdf]

31. Keravnou E.T. and Johnson L. (1989), "Towards a Generalized Model of Diagnostic Behaviour", Knowledge-Based Systems, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp.165-177. [pdf]

32. Keravnou E.T. and Johnson L. (1987), "Intelligent Handling of Data by Integration of Commonsense Reasoning", Knowledge-Based Systems, Vol.1, pp.32-42.

33. Keravnou Ε.Τ. and Johnson L. (1987), “NEOCRIB: An Expert Fault Finding System that Articulates the Competence of Field Engineers”, Fehlertolerierende Rechensysteme, pp.107-118.

34. Keravnou E.T. and Johnson L. (1986), "Competent Expert Systems", Int. J. Systems Research and Info. Science, pp.45-56.

35. Keravnou E.T. (1986),"Automated Reasoning in Fault Diagnosis and Verification", Int. J. Systems Research and Info. Science, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp.269-286.

36. Keravnou E.T. (1985), "Information Retrieval with External Feedback: Implementation Considerations", Int. J. Sys. Research and Info. Science, Vol.1, No. 2, pp.117-132.

37. Keravnou E.T. (1985), "The Interactive Construction of Information Requirements", Int. J. Sys. Research and Info. Science, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp.1-9.

 
 
 
Guest Editing of Special Issues of Journals
 


38. S. Miksch, J. Hunter and E. Keravnou (eds.) (2007), Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe: AIME’05, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Vol. 39(2).

39. M. Dojat and E. Keravnou (eds.) (2005), Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe: AIME’03, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Vol. 34 No 1.

40. Keravnou E.T, and Lavrac (eds.) (2001), AIM portraits: tracing the evolution of artificial intelligence in medicine and predicting its future in the new millennium, Special Issue of ArtificialIntelligence in Medicine, Vol.23(1).

41. Keravnou E.T., Garbay C. and Baud R. (eds.) (1998), Special Issue of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine from expanded versions of the best AIME '97 papers, Vol.14(1,2).

42. Zupan B., Lavrac N. and Keravnou E.T. (eds.) (1998), Data Mining in Medicine, Special Issue of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Vol.16(1).

43. Keravnou E.T. (ed.) (1996), Temporal Reasoning in Medicine, Special Issue of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Vol. 8, No.3, June 1996.

44. Keravnou E.T. (ed.) (1991), Medical Temporal Reasoning, Special Issue of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Vol. 3, No. 6.

45. Keravnou E.T. (ed.) (1990), Deep Models for Medical Expert Systems, Special Issue of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Vol. 2, No. 3.

46. Keravnou E.T. (ed.) (1990), Deep Models for Medical Expert Systems, Special Issue of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Vol. 2, No. 2.

 
 
 
Book Chapters
 


47. Keravnou E. and Zhou L. (2009), “Computer Modeling of Disease Chronicity”, to appear in Dorr D and Martinoff R. (eds) Chronic Disease Informatics, Springer Verlag (invited).

48. Keravnou-Papailiou Ε. (2008), “Flexible learning paths: an attainable goal or a utopia?”, Mutual learning: The Scientific Teacher Forum (Αλληλοδιδακτικόν: Το Επιστημονικό Βήμα του Δασκάλου), published by the Cyprus Teacher Association (POED), pp.30-37 (Invited article).

49. Keravnou E.T. and Shahar Y. (2005): "Temporal Reasoning in Medicine”, Fisher M., et al (eds.), Handbook of Temporal Reasoning in Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier Science B.V., pp. 587-653 (invited).

50. Kazeli H., Christofides T. and Keravnou E. (2003), "Water Management in Cyprus through a Decision Support System", Koundouri P., Pashardes P., Swanson T.M., and Xepapadeas A. (eds.) Economics of Water Management in Developing Countries: Problems, Principles and Policies, Edward-Elgar Publishers (ISBN:184376122X), pp.215-236.

51. Lavrac N., Keravnou E., and Zupan B. (2000), "Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine" (invited)
- in Kent A., Williams J.G., and Hall C.M. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology, Vol.42, pp.113-157, Marcel Dekker, Inc.) [pdf]
- also in Kent A. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Vol.68, pp.209-254, Marcel Dekker, Inc.

52. Keravnou E.T. (1997), "Temporal Abstraction of Medical Data: Deriving Periodicity", in Lavrac N., Keravnou E.T., and Zupan B. (eds.), Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp.61-79.

53. Lavrac N., Keravnou E.T. and Zupan B. (1997), "Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology: An Overview", in Lavrac N., Keravnou E.T., and Zupan B. (eds.), Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp.1-13.

54. Keravnou E.T. (1985), "Computer Representation of Fuzzy Data Structures", in Knowledge Representation in Medicine and Clinical Behavioural Science, Eds. Kohout and Bandler, pp.129-138, Abacus Press 1985.

55. Kohout L.J., Keravnou E.T. and Bandler W. (1984), "Automatic Documentary Information Retrieval by means of Fuzzy Relational Products", in Zimmermann, Zadeh and Gaines (eds.) Fuzzy Sets and Decision Analysis, TIMS Studies in the Management Sciences, Vol. 20, pp. 383-404, 1984 (Elsevier Science Publishers).

 
 
 
Papers in Refereed Conference/Workshop Proceedings
 


56. Keravnou-Papailiou E. (2010), “Embedding Quality Culture in Higher Education Provision: the Cyprus case”, invited presentation at the 7th International Congress on Quality Management in Education Systems and Training: the management of education and training by the indicators (CIMQUSEF’2010), Morocco, April 2010.

57. Keravnou-Papailiou E. (2008): Flexibility through Learning Outcomes: Implications for Quality, Proc. Third European Quality Assurance Forum 2008 (EQAF 2008), Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary, 20-22 November 2008 (http://www.eua.be/events/quality-assurance-forum-2008/themes/).

58. Keravnou-Papailiou, E. (2006): The Development of an Internal Quality Assurance Policy for Research at the University of Cyprus. In: Proc. 1st European Forum for Quality Assurance, Technical University of Munich (http://www.eua.be/fileadmin/user_upload/files/QAForum_2006/GS_I_7_Keravnou.pdf).

59. Keravnou-Papailiou, E. (2005): “Recognition and Quality Assurance in the Bologna Process”, Keynote Presentation, Proc. ERACON 2005, June 2005.

60. Kazeli H., Christofides T. and Keravnou E. (2002): "An Intelligent Hybrid Decision Support System for the Management of Water Resources", Proc of the 15th International Florida AI Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2002), edited by S. Haller and G. Simmons, 14-18 May 2002, pp.272-276, AAAI Press.

61. Kazeli H., Christofides T. and Keravnou E. (2000), "A Hybrid DecisionSupport System for Water Management", Actes du 2em Symposium International de l' Eau - l' Eau, l' Homme et le Futur, 29-31 May 2000, Cannes France.

62. Kazeli H., Christofides T. and Keravnou E. (2000), "Water Management in Cyprus through a Decision Support System", Proc. Symposium on Water Management -Efficiency, Equity and Policy, P.Kountouri, P.Pashardes, T.Swanson, and A.Xepapadeas (eds.), 22-24 September, Nicosia, Cyprus, Edward Elgar Publishers.

63. Keravnou E.T. and Washbrook J. (1999), "Temporal Abductive Diagnosis", Proc. 9th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA '99), Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol.1695, pp.312-326.

64. Keravnou E.T. (1998), "A Time Ontology for Medical Knowledge-Based Systems", Proc. Fourteenth European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR '98), University of Vienna, April 1998, pp.831-835.

65. Lavrac N., Keravnou E.T. and Zupan B. (1997), "Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine", Proceedings of IJCAI-97 Workshop on Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology (IDAMAP-97), Nagoya, Japan, 23-29 August 1997, pp.33-39.

66. Christodoulou E. and Keravnou E.T. (1997), "Meta-level Learning in a Hybrid Knowledge-Based Architecture", Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe (AIME '97), 23-26 March, Grenoble, France, Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol.1211, pp.467-478.

67. Keravnou E.T. (1996), "A Temporal Kernel for Medical Knowledge-Based Problem Solvers", Proceedings of the Third Hellenic-European Conference on Mathematics and Informatics (HERMIS '96), Sept 26-28, Athens, pp.393-404 (invited presentation)

68. Keravnou E.T. (1996), "Temporal Abstraction of Medical Data: Deriving Periodicity", Proceedings of ECAI-96 Workshop on Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology (IDAMAP-96), Budapest, Hungary, 12-13 August 1996, pp.43-49.

69. Keravnou E.T. (1996), "Engineering Time in Medical Knowledge-Based Systems through Time-Axes and Time-Objects", Proceedings Third International Workshop on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME-96), IEEE Computer Society Press, pp.160-167, Key West (Florida), 19-20 May, 1995.

70. Keravnou E.T. (1995), "Introducing Computer Science Undergraduates to Principles of Programming Through a Functional Language", Proceedings Symposium on Functional Languages in Education (FPLE '95), Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol.1022, pp.15-34, Netherlands, 4-6 December, 1995.

71. Keravnou E.T. (1995), "Evaluation of Temporal Diagnostic Solutions", Proceedings 5th Panhellenic Conference on Information Technology, Vol.I, pp.461-470, Athens, 7-9 December, 1995.

72. Keravnou E.T. (1995), "Modelling Medical Concepts as Time-Objects", in Barahona P., Stefanelli M. and Wyatt J. (eds.), AIME 95: Fifth Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe, Pavia, Italy, June 25-28 1995, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 935, Springer, pp.67-78.

73. Keravnou E.T., Washbrook J. and Dams F. (1991), "Explicit Data-Modelling for Second Generation Diagnostic Expert Systems", Proc. 11th Int. Workshop on Expert Systems and their Applications, Vol.2 (Conference on Second-Generation Expert Systems), pp.185-198, Avignon 1991.

74. Dawood R.M., Hall C.M., Shaw D., Keravnou E.T., Washbrook J. and Dams F. (1990), "Model-based Expert System for Diagnosis in Paediatric Skeletal Radiology", Radiology Vol.177 (P), p.208 (presented at the 76th Scientific Assembly Red. Soc. North America 1990).

75. Dervakos G.A., Woodley J.M., Keravnou E.T., Washbrook J. and Lilly M.D. (1989), "Development of a KBS for biotransformation process design, Proc. I.CHEME.E. Symposium Series No.114, pp.283-291, Sept 1989.

76. Keravnou E.T., Washbrook J., Dawood R.M., Hall C.M. and Shaw D. (1989), "A Model-Based Diagnostic Expert System for Skeletal Dysplasias", in Hunter J., Cookson J. and Wyatt J. (eds.), AIME 89: Second European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, London, Aug. 29-31 1989, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, Vol. 38, Springer-Verlag, pp.47-56.

77. Keravnou E.T. and Johnson L. (1987), "Neocrib: An Expert Fault Finding System that Articulates the Competence of Field Engineers", Proc. 3rd Int. Conf. on Fault-Tolerant Computer Systems, Bremerhaven, 1987.

78. Johnson L. and Keravnou E.T. (1986), "Competent Expert Systems: A Framework for more Adequate Explanations", Second Alvey Workshop on Explanations, Surrey University, March 1986.

79. Johnson L. and Keravnou E.T. (1986), "Analyzing, Representing and Interpreting Expert Strategic Knowledge", Cybernetics and Systems 86, pp.743-750 (best paper award of the meeting)

80. Keravnou E.T. and Johnson L. (1986), "A new Architecture for Expert Systems", Proc. ECAI-86, Vol. II, pp.135-142, Brighton, 1986

81. Keravnou E.T. and Johnson L. (1984), "Design of Expert Systems from the Perspective of Conversation Theory Methodology", Progress in Cybernetics and Systems Research, 1984, pp. 651-654.

82. Kohout L.J., Keravnou E.T. and Bandler W. (1983), "Information Retrieval System using Fuzzy Relational Products for Thesaurus Construction", Proc. IFAC Symposium "Fuzzy Information, Knowledge Representation and Decision Analysis", Sanchez and Gupta(eds.), 1983.

83. Johnson L. and Keravnou E.T. (1983), "Knowledge Representation and the Nature of Expert Consultant Systems", SPL-Insight Bulletin, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1983

84. Keravnou E.T. and Kohout L.J. (1982), "System for Experimental Deviance of Fuzzy Connectives in Information Retrieval Applications", Proc. of Second World Conference on Mathematics at the Service of Man, Las Palmas, Canary Islands

 
 
 
Editing of Conference/Workshop Proceedings
 

85. S. Miksch, J. Hunter, E. Keravnou (eds.) (2005): AI in Medicine, 10th Conference on AI in Medicine AIME 2005, Aberdeen, UK, July 2005, Proc, LNAI 3581, Springer.

86. Dojat M., Keravnou E.T., and Barahona P. (eds.) (2003): Proceedings of AIME-03, 9th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe, Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2780 (388 pages).

87. Lavrac N., Keravnou E.T. and Zupan B. (eds.) (1997), Proceedings of IJCAI-96 Workshop on Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology (IDAMAP-97), Nagoya, Japan, 23-29 August, 1997.

88. Keravnou E.T., Garbay C., Baud R. and Wyatt J. (eds) (1997), Proceedings of Sixth Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe (AIME 97), Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series, Vol. 1211, Grenoble, France, 23-26 March, 1997.

89. Lavrac N., Keravnou E.T. and Zupan B. (eds.) (1996), Proceedings of ECAI-96 Workshop on Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology (IDAMAP-96), Budapest, Hungary, 12-13 August, 1996.

90. Spyrou S., Christofides C., Pattichis C.S., Keravnou E.T., Schizas C.N., and Christodoulides G. (eds) (1994), Proceedings of the International Conference on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Cyprus, 5-7 May 1994.
 
 
 
Project Deliverables
 


91. Keravnou E.T. (1995), "Temporal Reasoning in Medicine", in van Heijst G., Ramoni M., Schreiber G. and Stefanelli (eds.) GAMES-II Final Report, chapter 10 (pp.207-215)

92. Keravnou E.T. (1994), "Temporal Reasoning Tool", AIM Project A2034 GAMES II Deliverable 34.

93. Keravnou E.T. (1993), "Representation of Temporal Uncertainty", AIM Project A2034 GAMES II Deliverable 19

94. Keravnou E.T. (1993), "Methods for Temporal Relations and Trends", AIM Project A2034 GAMES II Deliverable 13

95. Keravnou E.T. (1992), "Representation of Temporal Primitives", AIM Project A2034 GAMES II Deliverable 7

96. Rosser B., Washbrook J., Campbell J., Keravnou E.T. and Long D. (1989), "A Framework for Time Dependent Reasoning Systems", Product P111-1, Esprit Project P2409 (EQUATOR).

 
 
 
Book Reviews
 


97. Abductive Inference Models for Diagnostic Problem-Solving, by Peng Y. and Reggia J.A., Springer-Verlag, 1990; reviewed for the Knowledge Engineering Review.

98. KARDIO: A study in deep and qualitative knowledge for expert systems, by Bratko I., Mozetic I. and Lavrac N., The MIT Press, 1989; reviewed for the Knowledge Engineering Review.

99. Diagnostic Problem Solving: combining heuristic, approximate and causal reasoning, by Torasso P and Console L., North Academic Press, 1989; reviewed for the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine.

100. An Introduction to Scheme, by Smith J.D., Prentice Hall, 1988; reviewed for the AI Review

101. Operating Systems: Advanced Concepts, by Maekawa M., Oldehoeft A.E. and Oldehoeft R.R., Prentice Hall, 1987; reviewed for the Computer Bulletin.

102. Intelligent Knowledge-Based Systems: an introduction, by T. O´Shea, J. Self and G. Thomas (eds), Harper & Row, 1987; reviewed for the Computer Bulletin.