INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON

COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE METHODS FOR

BIOINFORMATICS AND BIOSTATISTICS

September 14-15, 2004

at "Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica" Universita' di Perugia
 via Vanvitelli 1, Perugia, ITALY

CIBB 2004 runs as a special session of

WIRN 04 - XV ITALIAN WORKSHOP ON NEURAL NETWORKS

http://siren.dsi.unimi.it/conferences/SI/html/index.html



Tuesday, September 14 (Pre-WIRN workshop)

14.30-15.30
Review talk (to be confirmed)

15.30 - 15.50
Wood Matthew, Hirst Jonathan, University of Nottingham,UK
Recent Applications of Neural Networks in Bioinformatics

15.50 - 16.10
Giovanni Aloisio, Massimo Cafaro, Sandro Fiore, Maria Mirto, University of Lecce, Italy
ProGenGrid: A Grid Framework for Bioinformatics

16.10 - 16.30
Coffe break

16.30 - 16.50
Alessio Ceroni, Paolo Frasconi, Alessandro Vullo, University of Firenze, Italy
Protein Structure Assembly from Knowledge of beta-sheet Motifs and Secondary Structure

16.50 - 17.10
Francesca Ruffino,University of Milano, Italy
Gene expression data modeling and validation of gene selection methods

17.10 - 17.30
Flavio Baronti, Alessio Micheli, Alessandro Passaro & Antonina Starita, DI-University of Pisa, Valentina Maggini & Anna Maria Rossi, DSUA-University of Pisa, Italy
A preliminary investigation on connecting genotype to oral cancer development through XCS

17.30 - 17.50
G.B. Ferrara INFM - IST Genova, L. Delfino, IST Genova, F. Masulli, INFM - Univ. of Pisa, S. Rovetta, INFM - DISI Univ. Genova, R. Sensi, INFM Genova, Italy
Analysis of Oligonucleotide Microarray Images using a Fuzzy Sets Approach in HLA Typing

17.50 -18.10
Sergio Pozzi, Italo Zoppis, Giancarlo Mauri, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
Combinatorial and Machine Learning Approaches in Clustering Microarray Data

18.10 -18.30
Antonino Staiano, Roberto Tagliaferri, Giancarlo Raiconi, University of Salerno, Giuseppe Longo, Gennaro Miele, University of Napoli, Diego Di Bernardo, TIGEM, Italy
Mining Yeast Gene Microarray Data with Latent Variable Models


Wednesday, September 15  (WIRN  Special session)

9.00 - 10.00
Invited talk (to be confirmed)

10.00 - 10.20
Alberto Bertoni, Raffaella Folgieri, Giorgio Valentini, University of Milano, Italy
Feature selection combined with random subspace ensemble for gene expression based diagnosis of malignancies.

10.20 - 10.40
Mario Cannataro, University of Catanzaro, Italy
Mass Spectrometry Data Analysis for Early Detection of Inherited Breast Cancer

10.40 - 11.00
Campadelli Paola, Casiraghi Elena, University of Milano, Italy
Pruning the Nodule Candidate Set in Postero Anterior Chest Radiographs