Recent Advances of Neural Network Models and Applications

Part I. Algorithms

1. Identifying Emergent Dynamical Structures in Network Models
Marco Villani, Stefano Benedettini, Andrea Roli, David Lane, Irene Poli, Roberto Serra

2. Experimental Guidelines for Semantic-Based Regularization
Claudio Saccà, Michelangelo Diligenti, Marco Gori

3. A Preliminary Study on Transductive Extreme Learning Machines
Simone Scardapane, Danilo Comminiello, Michele Scarpiniti, Aurelio Uncini

4. Avoiding the Cluster Hypothesis in SV Classification of Partially Labeled Data
Dario Malchiodi, Tommaso Legnani

5. Learning Capabilities of ELM-Trained Time-Varying Neural Networks
Stefano Squartini, Yibin Ye, Francesco Piazza

6. A Quality-Driven Ensemble Approach toAutomaticModelSelection in Clustering
Raffaella Rosasco, Hassan Mahmoud, Stefano Rovetta, Francesco Masulli

7. An Adaptive Reference Point Approach to Efficiently Search Large Chemical Databases
Francesco Napolitano, Roberto Tagliaferri, Pierre Baldi

8. A Methodological Proposal for an Evolutionary Approach to Parameter Inference in MURAME-Based Problems
Marco Corazza, Stefania Funari, Riccardo Gusso

9. Genetic Art in Perspective
Rachele Bellini, N. Alberto Borghese

Part II. Signal Processing

10. Proportionate Algorithms for Blind Source Separation
Michele Scarpiniti, Danilo Comminiello, Simone Scardapane, Raffaele Parisi, Aurelio Uncini

11. Pupillometric Study of the Dysregulation of the Autonomous Nervous System by SVM Networks
Luca Mesin, Ruggero Cattaneo, Annalisa Monaco, Eros Pasero

12. A Memristor Circuit Using Basic Elements with Memory Capability
Amedeo Troiano, Fernando Corinto, Eros Pasero

13. Effects of Pruning on Phase-Coding and Storage Capacity of a Spiking Network
Silvia Scarpetta, Antonio Candia

14. Predictive Analysis of the Seismicity Level at Campi Flegrei Volcano Using a Data-Driven Approach
Antonietta M. Esposito, Luca D’Auria, Andrea Angelillo, Flora Giudicepietro, Marcello Martini

15. Robot Localization by Echo State Networks Using RSS
Stefano Chessa, Claudio Gallicchio, Roberto Guzman, Alessio Micheli

16. An Object Based Analysis Applied to Very High Resolution Remote Sensing Data for the Change Detection of Soil Sealing at Urban Scale
Luca Pugliese, Silvia Scarpetta

17. EEG Complexity Modifications and Altered Compressibility in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease
Domenico Labate, Fabio Foresta, Isabella Palamara, Giuseppe Morabito, Alessia Bramanti, Zhilin Zhang, Francesco C. Morabito

18. Smart Home Task and Energy Resource Scheduling Based on Nonlinear Programming
Severini Marco, Stefano Squartini, Gian Piero Surace, Francesco Piazza

Part III. Applications

19. Data Fusion Using a Factor Graph for Ship Tracking in Harbour Scenarios
Francesco Castaldo, Francesco A. N. Palmieri

20. Reinforcement Learning for Automated Financial Trading: Basics and Applications
Francesco Bertoluzzo, Marco Corazza

21. A Collaborative Filtering Recommender Exploiting a SOM Network
Giuseppe M. L. Sarnè

22. SVM Tree for Personalized Transductive Learning in Bioinformatics Classification Problems
Maurizio Fiasché

23. Multi-Country Mortality Analysis Using Self Organizing Maps
Gabriella Piscopo, Marina Resta

24. A Fuzzy Decision Support System for the Environmental Risk Assessment of Genetically Modified Organisms
Francesco Camastra, Angelo Ciaramella, Valeria Giovannelli, Matteo Lener, Valentina Rastelli, Antonino Staiano, Giovanni Staiano, Alfredo Starace

25. Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference Systems vs. Stochastic Models for Mortality Data
Valeria D’Amato, Gabriella Piscopo, Maria Russolillo

Part IV. Special Session on “Social and Emotional Networks for Interactional Exchanges”

26. Recent Approaches in Handwriting Recognition with Markovian Modelling and Recurrent Neural Networks
Laurence Likforman-Sulem

27. Do Relationships Exist between Brain-Hand Language and Daily Function Characteristics of Children with a Hidden Disability?
Sara Rosenblum, Miri Livneh-Zirinski

28. Corpus Linguistics and the Appraisal Framework for Retrieving Emotion and Stance – The Case of Samsung’s and Apple’s Facebook Pages
Amelia Regina Burns, Olimpia Matarazzo, Lucia Abbamonte

29. Which Avatars Comfort Children?
Judit Bényei, Anikó Illés, Gabriella Pataky, Zsófia Ruttkay, Andrea Schmidt

30. The Effects of Hand Gestures on Psychosocial Perception: A Preliminary Study
Augusto Gnisci, Antonio Pace

31. The Influence of Positive and Negative Emotions on Physiological Responses and Memory Task Scores
Maria Teresa Riviello, Vincenzo Capuano, Gianluigi Ombrato, Ivana Baldassarre, Gennaro Cordasco, Anna Esposito

32. Mood Effects on the Decoding of Emotional Voices
Alda Troncone, Davide Palumbo, Anna Esposito

33. The Ascending Reticular Activating System
Mauro Maldonato

34. Conversational Entrainment in the Use of Discourse Markers
Štefan Beňuš

35. Language and Gender Effect in Decoding Emotional Information: A Study on Lithuanian Subjects
Maria Teresa Riviello, Rytis Maskeliunas, Jadvyga Kruminiene, Anna Esposito

36. Preliminary Experiments on Automatic Gender Recognition Based on Online Capital Letters
Marcos Faundez-Zanuy, Enric Sesa-Nogueras

37. End-User Design of Emotion-Adaptive Dialogue Strategies for Therapeutic Purposes
Milan Gnjatović, Vlado Delić

38. Modulation of Cognitive Goals and Sensorimotor Actions in Face-to-Face Communication by Emotional States: The Action-Based Approach
Bernd J. Kröger

39. Investigating the Form-Function-Relation of the Discourse Particle “hm” in a Naturalistic Human-Computer Interaction
Ingo Siegert, Dmytro Prylipko, Kim Hartmann, Ronald Böck, Andreas Wendemuth

40. Intended and Unintended Offence
Carl Vogel

41. Conceptual Spaces for Emotion Identification and Alignment
Maurice Grinberg, Evgeniya Hristova, Monika Moudova, James Boster

42. Emotions and Moral Judgment: A Multimodal Analysis
Evgeniya Hristova, Veselina Kadreva, Maurice Grinberg

43. Contextual Information and Reappraisal of Negative Emotional Events
Ivana Baldassarre, Lucia Abbamonte, Marina Cosenza, Giovanna Nigro, Olimpia Matarazzo

44. Deciding with (or without) the Future in Mind: Individual Differences in Decision-Making
Marina Cosenza, Olimpia Matarazzo, Ivana Baldassarre, Giovanna Nigro

Nyckelord: Engineering, Computational Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)