WIRN 2003

Roberto Tagliaferri robtag at unisa.it
Thu May 22 11:46:50 EDT 2003 

Dear collegue,
please you find attached the preliminary program of WIRN 2003,

XIV ITALIAN WORKSHOP ON NEURAL NETS

IIASS "Eduardo R. Caianiello", Vietri sul Mare (SA) ITALY

June 5 - 7, 2003

  * Pre-WIRN workshop on Bioinformatics and Biostatistics
	 * Wednesday, June 4
     * WIRN regular sessions
           * Thursday, June 5
                 * Models (9.30-11.30)
                 * Architectures & Algorithms (11.50-12.50)
                 * Poster session (16.00-17.30)
           * Friday, June 6
                 * Applications (9.30-11.30)
                 * Applications (11.50-12.30)
                 * Architectures & Algorithms (15.00-16.00)
                 * Caianiello Prize (16.00-17.00)
                 * SIREN Society meeting (17.00)
           * Saturday, June 7
                 * Special session - Formats of knowledge: words, 
images, narratives (9.30-11.20)
                 * Special session - Formats of knowledge: words, 
images, narratives (11.20-11.40)
                 * Panel session
     * Post-WIRN Workshop on Formats of knowledge (Saturday, June 7, 
14.30-18.30)

Further information can be found on the web site of SIREN in the pages 
of the workshop:

http://grid004.usr.dsi.unimi.it/indice2.html

Best regards
Bruno Apolloni & Roberto Tagliaferri

Detailed program

Pre-WIRN workshop on Bioinformatics and Biostatistics
Wednesday, June 4
9.30 - 10.30
Piero Fariselli, Pier Luigi Martelli and Rita Casadio, University of Bologna
Machine Learning-Approaches and Structural Genomics
10.30 - 11.30
Alessio Ceroni, Paolo Fiasconi, Andrea Passerini, Università di Firenze
Algorithms for Protein Structure Prediction
Kernel Machines and Recursive Neural Networks
Coffe break
11.30 - 11.50
11.50 - 12.50
Giovanni Cuda, Barbara Quaresima, Francesco Baudi, Rita Casadonte, Maria 
Concetta Faniello, Pierosandro Tagliaferri, Francesco Costanzo and 
Salvatore Venuta, University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro
Proteomic profiling of inherited breast cancer: identification of 
molecular targets for early detection, prognosis and treatment.
15.00 - 15.20
Antonio Eleuteri, DMA Università di Napoli "Federico II" and INFN Sez. 
Napoli
Roberto Tagliaferri, DMI Università  di Salerno and INFM Unità  di Salerno
Leopoldo Milano, Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Università  di Napoli 
"Federico II" and INFN Sez. Napoli
I-divergence projections for MLP networks
15.20 - 15.40
Francesco Masulli, Computer Science Department, Univerity of Pisa (ITALY)
Stefano Rovetta, Computer and Information Science Department, Univerity 
of Genova (ITALY)
Gene selection using Random Voronoi Ensembles
15.40 - 16.00
Giorgio Valentini, DSI, Dipartimento di Scienze dell' Informazione, 
Univ. degli Studi di Milano
An application of Low Bias Bagged SVMs to the classification of 
heterogeneous malignant tissues
16.00 - 16.20
Giulio Antoniol, RCOST-University of Sannio
Michele Ceccarelli, University of Sannio
Wanda Longo, Marina Ciullo, Enza Colonna, IGB-CNR
Teresa Nutile, IGN-CNR
Browsing Large Pedigrees to Study of the Isolated Populations in 
the"Parco Nazionale del Cilento e Vallo di Diano
16.20 - 16.40
Alessio Micheli, Università di Pisa
Filippo Portera, Alessandro Sperduti, Università di Padova
QSAR/QSPR Studies by Kernel Machines, Recursive Neural Networks and 
Their Integration
16.40 - 17.00
Chakra Chennubhotla, Computer Science Dept. University of Toronto
Alberto Paccanaro, Bioinformatics Unit, Queen Mary University of London
Markov Analysis of Protein Sequence Similarities
17.00 - 17.20
Coffee break
17.20 - 17.40
Francesco Marangoni, Master in Bioinformatics, University of Turin, Italy
Matteo Barberis, Master in Bioinformatics, University of Turin, Italy
Marco Botta, Department of Informatics, University of Turin, Italy
Large scale prediction of protein interactions by an SVM-based machine 
learning approach
17.40 - 18.00
Luigi Agnati, Departm. of BioMedical Science and CIGS, Univ. of Modena, 
Italy
Ferré S, Preclinical Pharmacology Section NIDA NIH, Baltimore MD, USA
Canela EI., Departm. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Barcelona, Spain
Watson S., Mental Health Research Institute and Departm. of Psychiatry, 
University of Michigan, USA
Morpurgo Anna, Departm. Computer Science, Milano, Italy
Fuxe K., Departm. of NeuroScience, KI, Stockholm, Sweden
Computer-assisted image analysis of biological preparations carried out 
at different levels of resolution opened up a new understanding of brain 
function
18.00 - 18.20
Bruno Apolloni, Simone Bassis, Andrea Brega, Sabrina Gaito, Dario 
Malchiodi, Anna Maria Zanaboni, Università  degli Studi di Milano, 
Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione
Monitoring of car driving awareness from biosignals
WIRN regular sessions
Thursday, June 5
Models (9.30-11.30)
9.30 - 10.30
Leon O. Chua, NOEL (Non Linear Electronics Laboratory) Univ. of 
California, Berkeley
 From Brainlike Computing to Artificial Life
Invited talk
10.30 - 10.50
Roberto Serra, CRA Montecatini
Marco Villani, CRA Montecatini
On the dynamics of scale-free boolean networks
10.50 - 11.10
Silvio P. Sabatini, DIBE - University of Genoa
Fabio Solari, DIBE - University of Genoa
Giacomo M. Bisio, DIBE - University of Genoa
Lattice Models for Context-driven Regularization in Motion Perception
11.10 - 11.30
Bruno Apolloni, Dip. di Scienze dell'Informazione, Università degli 
Studi di Milano
Simone Bassis, Dip. di Scienze dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi 
di Milano
Sabrina Gaito, Dip. di Scienze dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi 
di Milano
Dario Malchiodi, Dip. di Scienze dell'Informazione, Università degli 
Studi di Milano
Cooperative games in a stochastic environment
11.30 - 11.50
Coffe break
Architectures & Algorihtms (11.50-12.50)
11.50 - 12.10
Cristiano Cervellera, Istituto di Studi sui Sistemi Intelligenti per 
l'Automazione - CNR
Marco Muselli, Istituto di Elettronica e di Ingegneria dell'Informazione 
e delle Telecomunicazioni - CNR
A Deterministic Learning Approach Based on Discrepancy
12.10 - 12.30
Massimo Panella, INFO-COM Dpt., University of Rome "La Sapienza"
Fabio Massimo Frattale Mascioli, INFO-COM Dpt., University of Rome "La 
Sapienza"
Antonello Rizzi, INFO-COM Dpt., University of Rome "La Sapienza"
Giuseppe Martinelli, INFO-COM Dpt., University of Rome "La Sapienza"
ANFIS Synthesis by Hyperplane Clustering for Time Series Prediction
12.30 - 12.50
Mario Costa, Politecnico di Torino - Dept. of Electronics
Edmondo Minisci, Politecnico di Torino - Dept. of Aerospace Engineering
Eros Pasero, Politecnico di Torino - Dept. of Electronics
An Hybrid Neural/Genetic Approach to Continuous Multi-Objective 
Optimization Problems
Lunch
12.50 - 15.00
Poster session (16.00 - 17.30)
15.00 - 16.00
Poster high light spotting
16.00 - 16.10
Coffee break
16.00 - 17.30
Poster session
Friday, June 6
Applications (9.30 - 11.30)
9.30 - 10.30
Eraldo Paulesu, Università  di Milano Bicocca, Dipartimento di Psicologia
Experimental designs in cognitive neuroscience using functional imaging.
Invited talk
10.30 - 10.50
N. Alberto Borghese, DSI - University of Milano
Andrea Calvi, Department of Bioengineering - Politecnico of Milano
Learning to maintain upright posture: what can be learnt using adaptive 
neural networks models?
10.50 - 11.10
Silvio Giove, University of Venice
Claudia Basta, Regional and hurban planning department; City of Venice
Environmental risk and territorial compatibility; a soft computing approach
11.10 - 11.30
Lara Giordano, DMI, Università  di Salerno
Claude Albore Livadie, Istituto Universitario Suor Orsola Benincasa
Giovanni Paternoster, Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche , Università  di 
Napoli "Federico II"
Raffaele Rinzivillo, Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche , Università  di 
Napoli "Federico II"
Roberto Tagliaferri, DMI, Università  di Salerno
Soft Computing Techniques for Classification of Bronze Age Axes
11.30 - 11.50
Coffee break
Applications (11.50 - 12.30)
11.50 - 12.10
Bruno Azzerboni, Università  di Messina
Mario Carpentieri, Università  di Messina
Maurizio Ipsale, Università  di Messina
Fabio La Foresta, Università  di Messina
Francesco Carlo Morabito, Università  Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria
Intracranial Pressure Signal Processing by Adaptative Fuzzy Network
12.10 - 12.30
Giovanni Pilato, Salvatore Vitabile, Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad alte 
prestazioni (CNR) - Sezione di Palermo
Giorgio Vassallo, CRES - Centro per la Ricerca Elettronica in Sicilia, 
Monreale (PA)
Vincenzo Conti, Filippo Sorbello, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica 
- Università  di Palermo
A Concurrent Neural Classifier for Html Documents Retrieval
Architectures & Algorithms (15.00-15.40)
15.00 - 15.20
Francesca Vitagliano, Raffaele Parisi, Aurelio Uncini, Dip. INFOCOM - 
Università  di Roma "La Sapienza"
Generalized Splitting 2D Flexible Complex Domain Activation Functions
15.20 - 15.40
Francesco Masulli, Dip. Informatica - Università  di Pisa; INFM
Stefano Rovetta, Dip. Informatica e Scienze dell'Informazione - 
Università  di Genova; INFM
An Algorithm to Model Paradigm Shifting in Fuzzy Clustering ORAL
Caianiello Prize (16.00 - 17.00)
17.00 SIREN Society meeting (17.00)
Social dinner (20.00)
Saturday, June 7
Special session
Formats of knowledge: words, images, narratives (9.30-11.00)
9.30 - 9.50
M.Rita Ciceri, Facoltà  di Psicologia, Università  Cattolica Milano
Formats and languages of knowledge: models of links for learning processes
9.50 - 10.20
Anne McKeough, Division of Applied Psychology and chair of the Human 
Learning and Development program, University of Calgary.
Narrative as a format of thinking: hierarchical models in story 
comprehension
10.20 - 10.40
Alessandro Antonietti, Claudio Maretti, Facoltà  di Scienze della 
Formazione, U.C Milano
Analogical models
10.40 - 11.00
Paola Colombo, Centro di Psicologia della Comunicazione, Università 
Cattolica di Milano
Pictures and words: analogies and specificity in knowledge organization
11.00 - 11.20
Coffe break
Special session
Formats of knowledge: words, images, narratives (11.20-11.40)
11.20 - 11.40
Ilaria Grazzani, Scienze della Formazione, Università  Statale di Milano
Emotional and metaemotional competence
Panel session (11.40 - 12.40)
Chair B. Apolloni
M. Rita Ciceri, Anne McKeough, Paola Colombo, Ilaria Grazzani, L. O. 
Chua, E. Paulesu, L. Agnati, E. Pasero, C. Cervellara,
Cognitive systems: from models to their implementation
End of the regular sessions 12.00
Post-WIRN
Workshop on Formats of knowledge (14.30 - 18.30)
14.30 - 14.50
Introduction by G. Milani, MIUR
14.50 - 15.10
Coffee break
14.50 - 18.30
Creation of small groups practising with special school softwares in 
different domains [edited by Rita Ciceri] involving declaring thought, 
narrative thought and so on.
Papers in the poster section (Thursday, June 5, 15.00)
N. Alberto Borghese, DSI - University of Milano
Stefano Ferrari, Vincenzo Piuri, DTI - Polo di Crema - Università di Milano
Real-time Surface Reconstruction through HRBF Networks
Antonio Chella, DINFO - Università  di Palermo
Umberto Maniscalco, ICAR - CNR Sezione di Palermo
Roberto Pirrone, DINFO - Università  di Palermo
A Neural Architecture for 3D Segmentation
Andreas Hadjiprocopis, Institute of Neurology, UCL
Paul Tofts, Institute of Neurology, UCL
Towards an Automatic Lesion Segmentation Method for Dual Echo Magnetic 
Resonance Images using an Ensemble of Neural Networks
Stefano D'Urso, Dip. INFOCOM - Università  di Roma "La Sapienza"
Automatic Polyphonic Piano Music Transcription by a Multi-Classification 
Discriminative-Learning
Roberto Tagliaferri, DMI, Università  di Salerno
Giuseppe Longo, Dip. Scienze Fisiche, Università  di Napoli "Federico II"
Stefano Andreon, Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera
Salvatore Capozziello, Dip. Fisica "E:R: Caianiello", Università  di Salerno
Ciro Donalek, Dip. Scienze Fisiche, Università  di Napoli "Federico II"
Gerardo Giordano, IIASS
Neural networks for photometric redshifts evaluation
Antonino Greco, DIMET
Francesco Carlo Morabito, DIMET
Mario Versaci, DIME
Neural Network Approach for Estimation and Prediction of Time to 
Disruption in Tokamak Reactors
Cinzia Avossa, Dept. of Physics University of Salerno
Flora Giudicepietro, Osservatorio Vesuviano, INGV, Napoli
Maria Marinaro, Silvia Scarpetta, Dept. of Physics University of Salerno
Supervised and Unsupervised Analysis applied to Strombolian Explosion 
Quakes
Giancarlo Mauri, Università di Milano-Bicocca. Italo Zoppis, Università 
  di Milano-Bicocca. Dipartimento di Informatica Sistemistica e 
Comunicazioni
A probabilistic neural networks system to recognize 3d face of people
Bianchini Monica, Gori Marco, Sarti Lorenzo, Dipartimento di Ingegneria 
dell'Informazione, Università  di Siena
Face Localization with Recursive Neural Networks
Alessandra Budillon, Francesco Palmieri, Dipartimento di Ingegneria 
dell'Informazione , Seconda Università di Napoli
Multi-Class Image Coding via EM-KLT algorithm
Pierluigi Salvo Rossi, Gianmarco Romano, Francesco Palmieri, 
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Seconda Università  di Napoli
Giulio Iannello, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università 
  di Napoli "Federico II"
Bayesian Modelling for Packet Channels
Elena Casiraghi, Raffaella Lanzarotti, Giuseppe Lipori, Università 
degli studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione
A face detection system based on color and support vector machine
Claudio Sistopaoli, Raffaele Parisi, INFOCOM Dept. - University of Rome 
"La Sapienza"
Dereverberation of acoustic signals by Independent Component Analysis

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