HAICTA 2015
7th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture, Food and Environment

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Doctoral Consortium

• Design and Development of a Dynamic Portal - Travel Guide for the City of Florina Concerning Smart Portable Devices 1-10
  Dimitris Solakis, Panagiotis Lefakis
• E-Waste Management & Clean Technologies 11-19
  Leon Thaqi
• A Review of ABC Methodology for Agricultural Sector 20-25
  Georgia Koutouzidou, Athanasios Vazakidis, Alexandros Theodoridis, Christos Batzios
• Wood Trade in Greece: The Impact Of Economic Crisis And The Use Of New Technologies 26-37
  Ioakeim Tzoulis, Zacharoula Andreopoulou, Marios Trigkas, George Tsekouropoulos, Elias Voulgaridis
• Acceptance of Energy Crops by Farmers in Larissa’s Regional Unit, Greece: A First Approach 38-43
  Stefanos Leontopoulos, Garyfallos Arabatzis, Stamatis Ntanos, Stavros Ch. Tsiantikoudis
• Integration of GIS & GPS Systems on Vehicle Monitoring 44-52
  Afërdita Qekaj-Thaqi

Research & Development Session

• Effect of Auxins on Mechanical Injury Induced Oxidative Stress in Prunus sp. Rootstocks 53-59
  Milan Popović, Đorđe Malenčić, Dejan Prvulović, Biljana Kiprovski, Aleksandra Popović, Dušica Dorić
• Biomass On-line Management System: BI.O.MA.S. 60-63
  Christos Stefanis, Eleni Kamateri, Maria Partalidou, Stelios Gargas, Kostas Nasias
• Applying Earth Observation Data for Detection and Estimation of Woody Biomass Volumes of Agricultural Areas Accessible for Energy Production 64-67
  Györk Fülöp, Edit Sárközi, Ildikó Szikszainé Szigeti
• Direct Regeneration of Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) from Adventitious Buds 68
  Salem S. Alghamdi, Megahed H. Ammar
• A Stochastic Simulation Model for the Efficacy of Vaccination Against Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in Dairy Sheep and Goats 69-73
  Polychronis Kostoulas, Elissavet Angelidou, Leonidas Leontides
• An Image Processing Based Approach for Detection of Nitrogen Status in Winter Wheat Under Mild Drought Stress 74-79
  Hamed Tavakoli, Seyed Saeid Mohtasebi, Robin Gebbers
• A Novel Fully Automated Soil Erosion Monitoring System 80-84
  Ioannis Kosmadakis, Panagiotis Tsardaklis, Konstantinos Ioannou, George N. Zaimes
• Development of Software for the Farms Accounting 85-91
  Dimosthenis Mpoutakidis, Alexandra Pavloudi, Stamatis Aggelopoulos, Maria Rapti

Session 1: ICT for AgroEnvironment & Development

• Recent ICT Advances Applied to Smart e-Government Systems in Life Sciences 92-106
  Alexander B. Sideridis, Loucas Protopappas
• Informing Residents to Natural Disasters: the Case Study Results from Northern Evros, Greece 107-116
  Paraskevi Karanikola, Stilianos Tampakis, Vasileios Drosos, Nikolaos Varlamis
• E-Government for National Forest Parks in Greece 117-123
  Christiana Koliouska, Zacharoula Andreopoulou, Fedra Kiomourtzi, Basil Manos
• Integration of Production Control and Enterprise Management Systems in Horticulture 124-135
  Cor Verdouw, Robbert Robbemond, Jan Willem Kruize
• Use of Branch and Bound Algorithms for Greenhouse Climate Control 136-145
  George Dimokas, Constantinos Kittas

Session 2: Engineering & Water Management through ICT

• Checking a Culvert Suitability for Flood Wave Routing Within the Framework of the EU Flood Directive 146-153
  Dimitrios Myronidis, Dimitrios Fotakis, Konstantina Sgouropoulou, Marios Sapountzis, Dimitrios Stathis
• Using ArcSWAT to Predict Discharge in Ungauge Torrents of Thasos Island 154-162
  Paschalis Koutalakis, George N. Zaimes, Dimitrios Emmanouloudis, Konstantinos Ioannou, Valasia Iakovoglou
• Route Planning For Capacitated Agricultural Machines Based On Ant Colony Algorithms 163-173
  Kun Zhou, Dionysis Bochtis
• Main Features and Application of a Web-based Irrigation Management Tool for the Plain of Arta 174-185
  Nikolaos Malamos, Ioannis L. Tsirogiannis, Antonis Christofides, Stavros Anastasiadis, Silvia Vanino
• Importance of Water in Morphology 186-201
  Yasemin Leventeli

Session 3: Agricultural Mobile Apps

• Vacuum Regulation with a VFD Controller: Preliminary Tests and Modeling of the Vacuum System 202-213
  Radu Roşca, Petru Cârlescu, Ioan Ţenu, Radu Ciorap
• An Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) Database for Agricultural Policy Data: a Greek Case Study 214-225
  Michael Maliappis, Dimitris Kremmydas
• KisanVikas - Android Based ICT Solution in Indian Agriculture to Assist Farmers 226-237
  Arpit Narechania
• Plant Disease Diagnosis Based on Image Processing, Appropriate for Mobile Phone Implementation 238-246
  Nikos Petrellis
• ICT Enable of Agricultural Innovation Systems: Implications Environment, Population and Food Production 247-254
  Heather Jaffan

Session 4: Urban Green & Agroforestry

• Measurements and Simulation of Microclimatic Effects of a Horizontal Hydroponic Pergola 255-262
  Constantinos Kittas, Dimitrios Antoniadis, Nikolaos Katsoulas, Ioannis L. Tsirogiannis, Gregorios Varras, Thomas Bartzanas
• A Web-based DSS for Sustainability in Urban Green Zones 263-269
  Grigorios Varras, Zacharoula Andreopoulou, Christiana Koliouska, Evangelos Tasoulas, Christos Myriounis
• Building a European Agro-Forestry Training and Learning System Model in the AgroFE Leonardo Project - Hungarian Specialities 270-283
  László Várallyai, Miklós Herdon, Charles Burriel, János Tamás, János Pancsira
• Evaluation of an Irrigation Water Treatment Technology (MAXGROW) on its Effects to Vegetable Species Yield 284-290
  Athanasios Gertsis, Konstantinos Zoukidis, Christos Vasilikiotis
• Green Entrepreneurship and Green Products: Consumers’ Views and Attitudes in Regional Unit of Evros 291-297
  Garyfallos Arabatzis, Spyros Galatsidas, Christina Intze, Miltiadis Chalikias, Stavros Tsiantikoudis, Spyros Mamalis

Posters

• E-learning Course in Organic Food Retailing in Bulgaria 298-303
  Mariana Ivanova
• Specialization And Concentration Of Agricultural Production In The Region Of Central Macedonia (Greece) 304-319
  Athanasios Ragkos, Vagis Samathrakis, Alexandros Theodoridis, Ourania Notta, Christos Batzios, Elias Tsourapas
• Optimizing Soil Moisture Uniformity and Irrigation Management 320-325
  Ioannis Gravalos, Dimitrios Kateris, Anastasios Georgiadis, Theodoros Gialamas, Avgoustinos Avgoustis
• A Comparative Study of Methods for the Estimation of the Leaf Area in Forage Species 326-332
  Maria Karatassiou, Athanasios Ragkos, Phoebus Markidis, Theodosis Stavrou
• The Use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Environmental Education and Awareness: The Case of Hiking Trails in the Island of Karpathos-Saria Cluster 333-340
  Antonios Fanariotis, Theodoros Papathanasiou
• Land Use/Cover Changes in North Eastern Greece from 1980 to 2000 341-346
  Maria Karatassiou, Paraskevi Sklavou, Zoi Parissi, Georgia Galidaki, Anna Sidiropoulou
• Countries Clustering with Respect to Carbon Dioxide Emissions by Using the IEA Database 347-351
  Miltiadis Chalikias, Stamatis Ntanos
• Management Zones Delineation in Olive Grove Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) 352-357
  Athanasios Gertsis, Christos Vasilikiotis, Konstantinos Zoukidis
• Thermal Insulating Characteristics of Cork Agglomerate Panels in Sustainable Food Buildings 358-366
  Francesco Barreca, Carmelo Riccardo Fichera
• Performance Evaluation of Agricultural Drainage Water Statistically – A Case Study 367-370
  Mahmoud Nasr and Hoda Farouk Zahran
• Body Amino Acid Composition of Axillary seabream (Pagellus acarne R., 1827) Catched from Dardanelles (Canakkale, Turkey) 371-375
  Alkan Öztekin, Bayram Kızılkaya, Alparslan Aslan, Kahraman Selvi, Sevdan Yılmaz, Olcay Hisar, Sebahattin Ergün
• Precision Agriculture – Comparison and Evaluation of Innovative Very High Resolution (UAV) and LandSat Data 376-386
  Antonis Kavvadias, Emmanouil Psomiadis, Maroulio Chanioti, Eleni Gala, Spyros Michas

Session 5: Wood Technology

• Inferences on Wood Density Variability in European Ash Growing in Two Different Floodplain Forest Sites 387-392
  Kyriaki Giagli, Jan Baar, Vladimír Gryc, Hanuš Vavrčík
• Techno-economic Analysis of Furniture Innovation: Developing a Green and Smart Furniture for Mass Production 393-400
  Ioannis Papadopoulos, Marios Trigkas, Glykeria Karagouni, Emmanouil Dedoulis, Aikaterini Papadopoulou, George Blanas
• Attitude of Evros’ s Farmers for the Genetically Modified Trees 401-415
  Stavros Valsamidis, Ioannis Petasakis, Elpida Tenidou, Lambros Tsourgiannis
• Environmental Viewpoint of Fuelwood Management 416-425
  Grigorios L. Kyriakopoulos, Miltiadis S. Chalikias, Olga Kalaitzidou, Michalis Skordoulis, Dimitris Drosos
• The Front End Design of a Health Monitoring System 426-436
  Nikos Petrellis, Michael Birbas, Fotios Gioulekas
• Diversification Factors of Cultivators/Investors of Robinia pseudoacacia (Black locust) 437-443
  Stavros Ch. Tsiantikoudis, Spyros Goumas

Session 6: Regional Sustainability & Agrotourism

• Sustainability Empowerment and Lifestyles: ICTs for New Food Behavioral Models 444-451
  Gian Paolo Cesaretti, Maria Carmen de Angelis, Rosa Misso, Safwat H Shakir Hanna
• Bird Watching and Ecotourism: An Innovative Monitoring System to Project the Species of Lesvos Island to Potential Ecotourists 452-460
  Chryssoula Chatzigeorgiou, Ioanna Simelli, Apostolos Tsagaris
• Assessing the Environmental Impact of Mountain Tourism. The Case of Elatochori Ski Centre, Greece 461-470
  Stefanos Tsiaras
• Greek Public Tertiary Education Departments of Agriculture 471-479
  Giannoula Florou, Sofia Anastasiadou, Anastasios Karasavvoglou, Stavros Valsamidis, Athanasios Mandilas
• Spatial and Temporal Data Analysis of Cephalopods Catches in Greece 480-488
  Georgios K. Tegos
• Innovation and Multi Functionality of Female Agriculture in the Short Food Supply Chain. Four Campania Region Case Studies 489-499
  Marika Zirham, Roberto Palomba

Session 7: Marketing & Entrepreneurship

• The Corporate Social Responsibility in the Greek Agri-food Sector 500-508
  Anastasios Liapakis, Constantina Costopoulou, Alexander Sideridis
• Social Commerce and Marketing Strategy for “Made in Italy” Food Products 509-519
  Alessandro Scuderi, Luisa Sturiale
• Consumers’ Purchasing Behaviour Patterns Regarding Organic Wine in a Southern E.U. Country 520-539
  Lambros Tsourgiannis, Efstratios Loizou, Anastasios Karasavvoglou, Christos Antonios Tsourgiannis, Giannoula Florou
• The Use of Modern Tools of Business Management and Marketing In the Food and Beverage Field as a Prerequisite for Sustainable Development and Respect for the Environment 540-550
  Georgios Tsekouropoulos, Nikolaos Katsonis, Vasiliki Tsekouropoulou, Dimitrios Theoharis
• Compliance of Food and Beverage Companies as to the Requirements of Internal Audit 551-562
  Georgia Boskou, Efstathios Kirkos, Charalambos Spathis
• Marketing Strategies of Large Agricultural Holdings and Social Commerce: the Case of Terra Orti PO 563-572
  Irene Paola Borrelli
• The Influence of Advertisement in Fresh Milk Consumers’ Behavior 573-582
  Ioannis Papaioannou, Irene Tzimitra - Kalogianni, Eleni Tegkelidou

Session 8: Sensor Technology Apps

• A Low Cost Internet of Things Solution for Traceability and Monitoring Food Safety During Transportation 583-593
  Mirjana Maksimović, Vladimir Vujović, Enisa Omanović-Mikličanin
• Markup Languages Support for Content Management of Agricultural Portals 594-602
  Jan Masner, Jiří Vaněk, Jan Jarolímek, Vladimír Očenášek
• Tomato Fruit (Lycopersicum esculentum Mill) Maturity Study Based on Sensorial Analysis and Instrumented Color Determination 603-613
  Celina de Almeida, Inacio Maria Dal Fabbro
• Metal Accumulation and Biomarker Responses of Odanata Larvae, Ischnura elegans (Vander Linden, 1820) Exposed in a Lead-Zinc Mining Area in Turkey 614-623
  Kahraman Selvi, Hasan Kaya, Mehmet Akbulut, Alkan Öztekin, Fikret Çakır
• An Innovative Sensor in the Agro-food Supply Chain: a RFID Technology Model 624-635
  Francesco Contò, Nicola Faccilongo, Raffaele Dicecca, Claudio Zaza, Piermichele La Sala
• A Satellite-based Automated System to Detect and Forecast Cloud Storms Focused on the Protection of the Greek Agricultural Sector 636-643
  Stavros Kolios
• Multi-species Cover Crop Biomass Evaluation Using a Hand-held Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) Sensor and Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) Sensor 644-650
  Christos Vasilikiotis, Athanasios Gertsis, Konstantinos Zoukidis, Ali Nasrallah

Session 9: Data Analysis on Animal/Fishery Products Processes (part 1)

• A Sensor Based Management and Monitoring System for the Identification of Lambs Focusing on Milk Productivity Upturns 651-660
  Dimitrios Godas, Sotirios Kontogiannis, Markos Tsipouras, Stavros Valsamidis, Themistoklis Lazaridis
• The Evaluation of Meat Consumption Based on Different Models of the Matrix of Growth 661-671
  Nada Lakić, Mirjana Krivokapić, Ana Anokić
• Spatial Distribution Modelling of Juvenile Common Pandora (Pagellus erythrinus Linnaeus, 1758) in Relation to Habitat in the Shallow Waters of Gökçeada Using GIS 672-680
  Semih Kale, Aytac Altin, Hakan Ayyildiz, Ozcan Ozen
• Investigation of Dairy Cattle Traits by Using Artificial Neural Networks and Cluster Analysis 681-690
  Hülya Atıl, Asli Akilli
• Conditions of Hooks After Fishing Operation Used on Bottom Longlines in Çanakkale Region (Northern Aegean Sea) 691-694
  Alkan Öztekin, Uğur Özekinci
• Impacts of High Concentration of CO2 on the Serum Biochemistry and Carbonic Anhydrase Enzyme Activity of Rainbow Trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss 695-698
  Sevdan Yılmaz, Hasan Kaya, Mert Gürkan, Olcay Hisar, Kahraman Selvi, Selçuk Türel, Bilal Aydın, Samet Çetin

Session 10: IT Applications of Health & Farm Management

• Environmental Impact in Process Tomato Integrated Production 699-704
  Efthymios Rodias, Eleftherios Evangelou, Vagis Samathrakis, Ourania Notta, Dimitrios Aidonis, Dionysis Bochtis
• Farm Management Information Systems 705-712
  Nebojsa Novkovic, Christoph Huseman, Tihomir Zoranovic, Beba Mutavdzic
• Classification of Winter Rapeseed Cultivars and their Yield Characters with the Common Vector Approach 713-719
  Nurdilek Gülmezoğlu, Zehra Aytaç, M. Bilginer Gülmezoğlu
• The Role of Olive Trees Distribution and Fruit Bearing in Olive Fruit Fly Infestation 720-729
  Romanos Kalamatianos, Markos Avlonitis
• The Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) in Agriculture 730-736
  Ioanna Simelli, Apostolos Tsagaris
• MUlticriteria Satisfaction Analysis Application in the Health Care Sector 737-754
  Dimitrios Drosos, Νikolaos Tsotsolas, Athanasia Zagga, Miltiadis Chalikias, Michalis Skordoulis

Session 11: Agro-Engineering & Human Resources

• The Views of Residents for the Actions Taken Before, During and After a Forest Fire: The Case Study of Larnaca Prefecture in Cyprus Island 755-764
  Paraskevi Karanikola, Stilianos Tampakis, Anastasia Paschalidou, Anastasia Matoli
• Data Fusion of Proximal Soil Sensing and Remote Crop Sensing for the Delineation of Management Zones in Arable Crop Precision Farming 765-776
  Xanthoula Eirini Pantazi, Dimitrios Moshou, Abdul Mounem Mouazen, Thomas Alexandridis, Boyan Kuang
• Farmers’ Involvement in Online Public Consultations and the Corresponding Configuration of the Democratic Divide 777-789
  Maria G. Botsiou, Vassilios Dagdilelis, Stavriani Koutsou, Vasiliki Karavakou, Vagis Samathrakis
• Efficiency Assessments for a Biomass Harvesting and Handling System 790-797
  Anna Orfanou, Dimitrios Pavlou, Dionysis Bochtis
• Assessing the Success of an Information System: the Case of Audits for O.P.E.K.E.P.E. 798-813
  Nikolaos A. Galanis, Prodromos D. Chatzoglou
• Soil Parameters Assessment by Remote Sensing 814-820
  Theofanis A. Gemtos, Christos Cavalaris, Christos Caramoutis, Dimitris Anagnostopoulos, Stavros Giouvanidis, Spyros Fountas

Session 12: Data Analysis on Animal/Fishery Products Processes (part 2)

• Exploring Traditional Routes of Seasonal Transhumance Movements with the Help of GIS. The Case Study of a Mountainous Village in Southwest Macedonia, Greece 821-831
  Konstantina Ntassiou, Ioannis (John) D. Doukas, Maria Karatassiou
• Isolation of Toxic Marine Cyanobacteria and Detection of Microcystins in Thermaikos Gulf in Central Macedonia in Greece 832-841
  Maria Kalaitzidou, George Filliousis, Evanthia Petridou, Vangelis Economou, Alexandros Theodoridis, Panagiotis Aggelidis
• Technical Efficiency of Shrimp and Prawn Farming: Evidence from Coastal Region of Bangladesh 842-857
  Mst. Esmat Ara Begum, Mohammad Ismail Hossain, Maria Tsiouni, Evangelos Papanagiotou
• Influence of Sublethal Lead Concentrations on Glucose, Serum Enzymes and Ion Levels in Tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) 858-866
  Hasan Kaya, Mehmet Akbulut, Sevdan Yılmaz
• Crayfish Cultivation in Turkey: Past, Present and Future 867-870
  Selçuk Türel, Semih Kale, Selçuk Berber
• Antecedents and Consequences of Consumer’s Dissatisfaction of Agro-food Products and Their Complaining through Electronic Means 871-878
  Costas Assimakopoulos

Session 13: Spatial Modeling

• Land as Information. A Multidimensional Valuation Approach for Slow Mobility Planning 879-891
  Salvatore Giuffrida, Filippo Gagliano, Maria Rosa Trovato
• Fine Scale Climate Change Analysis: from Global Models to Local Impact Studies in Serbia 892-901
  Ana Vukovic, Mirjam Vujadinovic, Vladimir Djurdjevic, Bojan Cvetkovic, Zorica Rankovic-Vasic, Zoran Przic, Mirjana Ruml, Aleksandra Krzic
• Open Data in Regions from the Users’ Perspective: an Analytical Study 902-911
  Miloš Ulman, Edita Šilerová, Jan Masner, Michal Stočes, Pavel Šimek, Petr Benda
• Agriculture and Sustainability: a GIS Based Model to Appraise Incentive Policy 912-921
  Salvatore Giuffrida, Filippo Gagliano, Grazia Napoli
• Vector Space Modeling for Aggregate and Industry Sectors in Kuwait 922-937
  Kevin Lawler
• Some Aspects of ICT Measurement: Comparative Analysis of E-Indexes 938-945
  Kateryna Kononova

Session 14: Smart Regional Development

• ICTs and Smart Territories. The Knowledge and Use of the UNESCO Heritage by Using the QR Codes System 946-956
  Luisa Sturiale, Maria Rosa Trovato
• Investigation and Evaluation of the Applicable European Environmental Policy in Rural Area from the Urban Population (Greece) 957-966
  Evgenia Kokkinou, Georgios Vlontzos
• Consumers’ Attitudes Towards the Development of Transgenic Forest Trees and their Products in Greece 967-975
  Lambros Tsourgiannis, Vassiliki Kazana, Valasia Iakovoglou
• Evaluation of Regional Web Portals 976-982
  Vladimír Očenášek, Miloš Ulman, Jiří Vaněk, Edita Šilerová
• Enhancement of Territorial Products and e-Commerce 983-990
  Immacolata Viola
• ICT as a Catalyst for Innovation Diffusion 991-996
  John Dalrymple, Barry O’Mahony, Elizabeth Levin, Steven Greenland