Program

DAY 1 – June 14 2017
8:30 – Registration

9:15 Welcome from the President
Professor Eros Pasero
9:30 – 10:30 “Maria Marinaro Lecture”, Chair: Anna Esposito
Michela Belconi, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, IT “Two more than one. The effect of cooperation on intra- and inter-brain connectivity”

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:40 Special Session on Dynamics of Signal Exchanges,Organizers: Anna Esposito, Antonietta M. Esposito, Sara Invitto, Nadia Mammone, Gennaro Cordasco, Mauro Maldonato, Francesco Carlo Morabito, Chair: Gennaro Cordasco

  •  11:00 – 11:20 Anna Esposito, Antonietta M. Esposito, Mauro N. Maldonato, Filomena Scibelli and Carl Vogel: Age and culture effects on the ability to decode affective bursts
  • 11:20 – 11:40 Vincenzo Paolo Senese, Francesca Santamaria, Ida Sergi and Gianluca Esposito: Adults’ Implicit Reactions to Typical and Atypical Infant Cues
  • 11:40 – 12:00 Vincenzo Paolo Senese, Federico Cioffi, Raffaella Perrella and Augusto Gnisci: Adults’ Reactions to Infant Cry and Laugh: a Multilevel Study
  • 12:00 – 12:20 Sara Invitto, Antonio Calcagni and Marina De Tommaso: N200 ERP component in olfactory and haptic crossmodal perception
  • 12:20 – 12:40 Gennaro Cordasco, Filomena Scibelli, Marcos Faundez-Zanuy, Laurence Likforman-Sulem and Anna Esposito: Handwriting and Drawing Features for Detecting Negative Moods

12:40 – 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 – 16:10 Special Session on Computational Intelligence and Related Techniques in Industrial and ICT Engineering, Organizers and Chairs: Giovanni Angiulli, Mario Versaci

  • 14:30 – 14:50 Barbara Cannas, Sara Carcangiu, Alessandra Fanni, Ivan Lupelli, Fulvio Militello, Augusto Montisci, Fabio Pisano, Giuliana Sias and Nick Walkden: Convolutional neural networks for the identification of filaments from fast visual imaging cameras in tokamak reactors
  • 14:50 – 15:10 Maria Nadia Postorino and Giuseppe M.L. Sarne’: A Neural Network to Identify Driving Habits and Compute Car-Sharing Users’ Reputation
  • 15:10 – 15:30 Francesco Cauteruccio, Paolo Lo Giudice, Giorgio Terracina and Domenico Ursino: Applying network analysis for extracting knowledge about environment changes from heterogeneous sensor data streams
  • 15:30 – 15:50 Salvatore Calcagno and Fabio La Foresta: Advanced Computational Intelligence Techniques to Detect and Reconstruct Damages in Reinforced Concrete for Industrial Applications
  • 15:50 – 16:10 Domenico De Carlo, Annalisa Sgrò and Salvatore Calcagno: Appraisal of enhanced surrogate models for substrate integrate waveguide devices characterization

16:10 – 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 – 18:50 Special Session on Intelligent Tools for Decision Making in Economics and Finance Organizer and Chair: Marco Corazza

  • 16:30 – 16:50 Marina Resta, Alessia Cafferata, Pier Giuseppe Giribone and Marco Neffelli: Yield curve estimation under extreme conditions: do RBF networks perform better?
  • 16:50 – 17:10 Valeria D’Amato, Emilia Di Lorenzo and Marilena Sibillo: New challenges in pension industry: proposals of personal pension products
  • 17:10 – 17:30 Marco Corazza, Giacomo di Tollo, Giovanni Fasano and Raffaele Pesenti: A PSO-based framework for nonsmooth portfolio selection problems 
  • 17:30 – 17:50 Marco Corazza, Francesca Parpinel and Claudio Pizzi: Can PSO improve TA-based trading systems?
  • 17:50 – 18:10 Emilio Celotto, Andrea Ellero and Paola Ferretti: Degree of asymmetry for confirmations measures and its evaluation
  • 18:10 – 18:30 Marta Cardin, Silvio Giove and Salvatore Greco: A Method Based on OWA Operator for Scientific Research Evaluation
  • 18:30 – 18:50 Luca Anzilli, Silvio Giove: A cluster analysis approach for Rule base reduction

DAY 2 – June 15 2017
8:30 – Registration

9:30 – 10:30 “Eduardo Renato Caianiello Lecture”, Chair: Eros Pasero
Carlotta Domeniconi, George Mason University, Washington DC (USA), “Winnowing the Wheat from the Chaff in Complex and Large Data”

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:40 REGULAR Session, Chair: Francesco Camastra

  • 11:00 – 11:20 Silvia Scarpetta and Antonio de Candia: Storage capacity of spatio-temporal patterns in LIF spiking networks: mixed rate and phase coding
  • 11:20 – 11:40 Rosa Altilio, Giorgio Andreasi and Massimo Panella: A Classification Approach to Modeling Financial Time Series
  • 11:40 – 12:00 Massimiliano Luzi, Maurizio Paschero, Antonello Rizzi and Fabio Massimo Frattale Mascioli: An Improved PSO for Flexible Parameters Identification of Lithium Cells Equivalent Circuit Models
  • 12:00 – 12:20 Domenico De Felice and Francesco Camastra: Kendon Model-based Gesture Recognition using Hidden Markov Model and Learning Vector Quantization
  • 12:20 – 12:40 Alessio Martino, Mauro Giampieri, Massimiliano Luzi and Antonello Rizzi: Data Mining by Evolving Agents for Clusters Discovery and Metric Learning

12:40 – 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 – 17:20 Special Session on Neural networks and pattern recognition in medicine, Organizers and Chairs: Giansalvo Cirrincione, Vitoantonio Bevilacqua

  • 14:00 – 14:20 Pietro Barbiero, Andrea Bertotti, Gabriele Ciravegna, Giansalvo Cirrincione, Eros Pasero and Elio Piccolo: Unsupervised Gene Identification in Colorectal Cancer
  • 14:20 – 14:40 Leonardo Rundo, Carmelo Militello, Andrea Tangherloni, Giorgio Russo, Roberto Lagalla, Giancarlo Mauri, Maria Carla Gilardi and Salvatore Vitabile: Computer-assisted Approaches for Uterine Fibroid Segmentation in MRgFUS Treatments: Quantitative Evaluation and
    Clinical Feasibility Analysis
  • 14:40 – 15:00 Pietro Barbiero, Andrea Bertotti, Gabriele Ciravegna, Giansalvo Cirrincione, Eros Pasero and Elio Piccolo: Supervised Gene Identification in Colorectal Cancer
  • 15:00 – 15:20 Giansalvo Cirrincione, Federica Marcolin, Simona Spada and Enrico Vezzetti: Intelligent quality assessment of geometrical features for 3D face recognition
  • 15:20 – 15:40 Vitoantonio Bevilacqua, Antonio Brunetti, Gianpaolo Francesco Trotta, Domenico De Marco, Marco Giuseppe Quercia, Domenico Buongiorno, Francesco Girardi and Attilio Guarini: A novel deep learning approach in hematology for classification of leucocytes
  • 15:40 – 16:00 Giansalvo Cirrincione, Maurizio Cirrincione, Rahul Kumar, Eros Pasero and Vincenzo Randazzo: Growing Curvilinear Component Analysis (GCCA) for Stator Fault Detection in Induction Machines

16:00 – 16:20 Coffee break

17:20 – 18:30 REGULAR Session, Chair: Stefano Squartini

  • 16:20 – 16:40 Stefano Tomassetti, Leonardo Gabrielli, Emanuele Principi, Daniele Ferretti and Stefano Squartini: Neural Beamforming for Speech Enhancement: Preliminary Results
  • 16:40 – 17:00 Francesco Calimeri, Aldo Marzullo, Claudio Stamile and Giorgio Terracina: Blood Vessel Segmentation using Hypercube NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (HyperNeat)
  • 17:00 – 17:20 Alexander Petukhov and Inna Kozlov: Error Resilient Neural Networks on Low-Dimensional Manifolds
  • 17:30 – 17:50 Stefano Leonori, Maurizio Paschero, Antonello Rizzi and Fabio Massimo Frattale Mascioli: FIS Synthesis by Clustering for Microgrid Energy Management Systems
  • 17:50 – 18:10 Simone Scardapane, Michele Scarpiniti, Danilo Comminiello and Aurelio Uncini: Learning activation functions from data using cubic spline interpolation
  • 18:10 – 18:30 Amedeo Buonanno, Paola Iadicicco, Giovanni Di Gennaro and Francesco A.N. Palmieri: Context Analysis using a Bayesian Normal Graph

18:30 – 19:30 REGULAR SIREN MEETING
20:00 – SOCIAL DINNER “Ristorante Il Pescatore”

DAY 3 – June 16 2017

9:00 – 10: 40 REGULAR Session, Chairs: Michele Scarpiniti

  • 9:00 – 9:20 Danilo Comminiello, Michele Scarpiniti, Simone Scardapane, Raffaele Parisi and Aurelio Uncini: A Low-Complexity Linear-in-the-Parameters Nonlinear Filter for Distorted Speech Signals
  • 9:20 – 9:40 Claudio Gallicchio, Alessio Micheli and Luca Pedrelli: Hierarchical Temporal Representation in Linear Reservoir Computing
  • 9:40 – 10:00 Diego Droghini, Daniele Ferretti, Emanuele Principi, Stefano Squartini and Francesco Piazza: An End-To-End Unsupervised Approach employing Convolutional Neural Network Autoencoders for Human Fall Detection 
  • 10:00 – 10:20 Francesca Ortolani, Danilo Comminiello, Michele Scarpiniti and Aurelio Uncini: On 4-Dimensional Hypercomplex Algebras in Adaptive Signal Processing
  • 10:20 – 10:40 Michele Scarpiniti, Simone Scardapane, Danilo Comminiello, Raffaele Parisi and Aurelio Uncini: Separation of Drum and Bass from Monaural Tracks

10:40 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 13:00 Special Session on Dynamics of Signal Exchanges,Organizers: Anna Esposito, Antonietta M. Esposito, Sara Invitto, Nadia Mammone, Gennaro Cordasco, Mauro Maldonato, Francesco Carlo Morabito, Chair: Marcos Faundez-Zanuy

  • 11:00 – 11:20 Mario Iannicelli, Davide Nardone, Angelo Ciaramella and Antonino Staiano: Content-Based Music Agglomeration by Sparse Modeling and Convolved Independent Component Analysis
  • 11:20 – 11:40 Vincenzo Monda, Raffaele Sperandeo, Nelson Mauro Maldonato, Gennaro Iorio and Giovanni Messina: Oressinergic system: network between sympathetic system and exercise
  • 11:40 – 12:00 Antonietta Messina, Raffaele Sperandeo, Nelson Mauro Maldonato, Pasquale Cozzolino and Marcellino Monda: Orexin System: network multi-tasking
  • 12:00 – 12:20 Carlos Alonso-Martinez and Marcos Faundez-Zanuy: Experimental analysis of in-air trajectories at long distances in online handwriting
  • 12:20 – 12:40 Xavier Font-Aragones: First Multisensory Data Base with Inertial, thermographic and EEG data for cervical articulation
  • 12:40 – 13:00 Raffaele Sperandeo, Silvia Dell’Orco, Enrico Moretto, Vincenzo Monda, Antonietta Messina and Nelson Mauro Maldonato: Personality and executive functions: cognitive and affective processes as two sides of the same coin

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 – 15:20 Special Session on Computational Intelligence in the context of Industry 4.0 Organizers and Chairs: Valentina Colla and Silvia Cateni

  • 14:30 – 14:40 Silvia Cateni, Valentina Colla and Vincenzo Iannino: Improving the stability of variable selection for industrial datasets
  • 14:40 – 15:00 Silvia Cateni, Valentina Colla and Antonella Vignali: Cause and effect analysis in a real industrial context: study of a particular application devoted to quality improvement
  • 15:00 – 15:20 Maurizio Fiasché, Diego Liberati, Luca Brayda and Marco Taisch: Fuzzy Multi-objective Modelling for Dynamic Production Planning and Scheduling in Reconfigurable Robotic Systems: an Industry 4.0 case study

15:20 – 15:40 Coffee break

15:40 – 17:00 Special Session on Dynamics of Signal Exchanges, Organizers: Anna Esposito, Antonietta M. Esposito, Sara Invitto, Nadia Mammone, Gennaro Cordasco, Mauro Maldonato, Francesco Carlo Morabito, Chair: Nadia Mammone

  • 15:40 – 16:00 Nelson Mauro Maldonato, Anna Esposito and Silvia Dell’Orco: Consciousness and the archipelago of functional integration On the relation between the midbrain and the ascending reticular activating system
  • 16:00 – 16:20 Mauro Maldonato, Luigi Maria Sicca, Antonietta M. Esposito and Raffaele Sperandeo: Does neuroeconomics really need the brain
  • 16:20 – 16:40 Nadia Mammone, Cosimo Ieracitano, Jonas Duun-Henriksen, Troels Wesenberg Kjaer and Francesco Carlo Morabito: Coherence-based complex network analysis of absence seizure EEG signals
  • 16:40 – 17:00 Giuseppina Inuso, Fabio La Foresta, Nadia Mammone, Francesco Carlo Morabito and Serena Dattola: Evolution Characterization of Alzheimer’s Disease using eLORETA’s three-dimensional distribution of the current density and Small-World Network

17:00 REGULAR Session, Chair: Eros Pasero

  • 17:00 – 17:20 Stefano Rovetta, Alberto Cabri, Francesco Masulli and Grazyna Suchacka: Bot or Not? A case study on bot recognition from web session logs

17: 20 Conference Closing