WIRN Vietri 97 Preliminary Program

[Tagliaferri Roberto]

WIRN VIETRI `97
IX ITALIAN WORKSHOP ON NEURAL NETS
IIASS "Eduardo R. Caianiello", Vietri sul Mare (SA) ITALY

22 - 24 May 1997

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM


Thursday 22 May

9:30 - Artificial Neural Networks in Pharmacology and Therapeutics
M. Eandi & M. Costa (Review Talk)

Applications 

10:30 - Are Hybrid Fuzzy-Neural Systems Actually Useful in plasma
Engineering?
F.C. Morabito & M. Campolo

10:50 - The GTM as Predictor of Risk in Pregnancy
B.  Rosario, D.R. Lovell, M. Naranjan, R.W. Prager & K.J.
Dalton

11:10 - An Application of the Bootstrap 632+ Rule to Ecological
data
C. Furlanello, S. Merler, C. Chemini & A. Rizzoli

11:30 - Coffee Break

Mathematical models

12:00 - What size Needs Testing?
B.  Apolloni

12:20 - Sequences of Discrete Hopfield Networks for the Maximum
Clique Problem
G.  Grossi

12:40 - Entropy Based Comparison of Neural Networks for
Classification
S.  Draghici & V. Beiu

13:00 - Energy Functional and Fixed Points of a Neural Network
L.B. Litinsky

13:20 - Lunch

15:00 - High light spotting of the posters

16:30 - Poster Session

18:00 - Tavola rotonda
"I fondamenti delle reti neurali dopo 10 anni dal loro revival"

Friday 23 May

9:30 - Title to be announced
C.M. Bishop (Invited Talk)

Pattern Recognition & Signal Processing

10:30 - Speeding up Neural Network Execution: an Application to
Speech Recognition
D.  Albesano, F. Mana & R. Gemello

10:50 - Word Recognition by MLP-Based Character Spotting and
Dynamic Programming
F.  Camastra, E. Cepollina & A.M. Colla

11:10 - Periodicity Analysis of Unevenly Spaced Data by means of
Neural Networks
M.  Rasile, L. Milano, R. Tagliaferri & G. Longo

11:30 - Coffee Break


12:00 - Image Reconstruction Using a Hierarchical RBF Network
Architecture
N.A. Borghese, G. Ferrigno & S. Ferrari

12:20 - Fuzzy Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition
A. Blonda & A. Petrosino (Review Talk)

13:20 - Lunch

16:00 - Eduardo R. Caianiello Lecture:
- (The winner of the 1997 E.R. Caianiello Fellowship Award)

17:00 - Annual S.I.R.E.N. Meeting 

20:00 - Conference Dinner


Saturday 24 May

9:30 - Extracting Useful Information from Recurrent Neural Networks:
Applications to Financial Time Series.
C. Lee Giles & S. Lawrence (Invited Talk)

Architectures and Algorithms

10:30 - Computational Maps for Articulatory Speech Synthesis
V.  Sanguineti & P. Morasso

10:50 - EM Algorithm: A Neural Network View
A.  Budillon & F. Palmieri

11:10 - Discriminative Least Squares Learning for Fast Adaptive
Neural Equalization
R.  Parisi, E.D. Di Claudio & G. Orlandi

11:30 - Coffee Break

12:00 - Training Analog VLSI Multi Layer Perceptron Networks with
Continuous Time Back Propagation
G.M. Bo, D.D. Caviglia, H. Chible' & M. Valle

12:20 - A Unifying View of Gradient Calculation and Learning for
Locally Recurrent Neural Networks
P.  Campolucci, A. Uncini & F. Piazza (Review Talk)



POSTER SESSION

 - Hidden Recursive Models
P.  Frasconi, M. Gori & A. Sperduti

 - Attractor Neural Networks as Models of Semantic Memory
E.  Pessa & M. Pietronilla Penna

 - Plastic Tabu Search for Training Multilayer Perceptrons
M.  Battisti & P. Burrascano

 - Cluster Connections: a Visualization Technique to Reveal
Cluster Boundaries in Self-Organizing Maps
D.  Merkl & A. Rauber

 - Geometrical Constructive Algorithms of Binary Neural
Networks
G.  Martinelli, F.M. Frattale Mascioli & V. Catini

 - Classifying Magnetic Resonance Spectra of Brain Neoplasms
Using Fuzzy and Robust Gold Standard Adjustments
N.  Pizzi

 - Application of Fuzzy Neural Networks on Financial Problems
M.  Rast

 - On the Cognitive Behaviour of a Multi-Layer Perceptron in
Forecasting Meteorological Visibility
A.  Pasini, V. Pelino & S. Potesta'

 - Una Soluzione Neurale per la Navigazione di un Robot Mobile
in Ambienti Non Strutturati e Non Noti Utilizzando Landmarks
Visivi
S.  Vitabile, F. Bianco, G. Vassallo & F. Sorbello

 - Video Data Compression Using Multilayer Perceptrons
S.  Carrato

 - On the Adaptable Boolean Neural Net Paradigm
F.E. Lauria, R. Prevete, M. Milo & S. Visco

- Interval Arithmetic Perceptron with Pruning Capability
G.P. Drago & S. Ridella

- MAIA Neural Network. An Application to the Railway
Antiskating System
G.  Pappalardo, M.N. Postorino, D. Rosaci & G.M.L. Sarne'

- A Hebbian Model for Space Representation
F.  Frisone & P. Morasso

- HW/SW Co-Design of a Complete Pre-Processing/Recognition
System Based on Sgs-Thomson OCR Analog Chip
M.  Costa, D. Palmisano, E. Pasero & R. Tosco

- Rates of Approximation of Multivariable Functions by
One-Hidden-Layer Neural Networks
V.  Kurkova

- Icarus Platform
G.  Russo

- A Distribution-Free VC-Dimension-Based Performance Bound
D.  Mattera & F. Palmieri


The registration is of 300.000 Italian Lire (275.000 Italian Lire for 
SIREN members) and can be made on site.
More information can be found in the www pages at the address below:
http:://www-dsi.ing.unifi.it/neural

The workshop is the annual meeting of 

SIREN (Societa' Italiana Reti Neuroniche)

Organized and Supported by

IIASS (Istituto Internazionale Alti Studi Scientifici) "E.R. Caianiello"
Istituto Italiano Studi Filosofici
IEEE NNC Italian RIG
Universita' degli Studi di Salerno

and sponsored by :

ELSAG BAILEY, Genova
Dipartimento di Informatica ed Applicazioni "R.M. Capocelli", Univ. Salerno
Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Univ. Milano
Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche "E.R. Caianiello", Univ. Salerno
IRSIP-CNR, Napoli