In this paper, we present a novel method for fast data-driven construction of regression trees from temporal datasets including continuous data streams. The proposed Mean Output Prediction Tree (MOPT) algorithm transforms continuous temporal data into two statistical moments according to a user-specified time resolution and builds a regression tree for estimating the prediction interval of the output (dependent) variable. Results on two benchmark data sets show that the MOPT algorithm produces more accurate and easily interpretable prediction models than other state-of-the-art regression tree methods.

The Drama of Quality is the second collection of Zissimos Lorenzatos's essays to appear in English, following Kay Cicellis's The Lost Center (1980). It is also the sixteenth volume in Denise Harvey's Romiosyni series, a theme-oriented collection concerned "with the history, culture and ethos of post-Byzantine Greece." The topics engaged in these essays are almost always drawn from the literary tradition (though the words "literature" and "tradition," in Lorenzatos's writing, have a deeper than usual resonance and connotation), and range from the Skiathot writer Papadiamandis to the Athenian architect Dimitris Pikionis and the American poet Ezra Pound. The essays also range in date from one of the very first of Lorenzatos's career, on the seaman-poet D.I. Antoniou (1938), to later ones on Sikelianos (1986) and Demetrios Capetanakis (1996), and, in his most recent work, the Greek poet Nikos Karouzos, published during "the halcyon days of 1999." All the essays were written, without exception, in the Athenian suburb of Kifissia.