WIRN VIETRI `03

XIV ITALIAN WORKSHOP ON NEURAL NETS

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

June 5 - 7, 2003

WIRN VIETRI-2003

Organizing - Scientific Committee
B. Apolloni (Univ. Milano), A. Bertoni (Univ. Milano), N.A. Borghese (Univ. Milano), D.D.Caviglia (Univ. Genova), P. Campadelli (Univ. Milano), A. Chella (Univ. Palermo), A. Colla (ELSAG Genova), A. Esposito (I.I.A.S.S.), M. Frixione (Univ. Salerno), C. Furlanello (ITC-IRST Trento), G.M. Guazzo (I.I.A.S.S.), M. Gori (Univ. Siena), M. Marinaro (Univ. Salerno), F. Masulli (Univ. Pisa), C. Morabito (Univ. Reggio Calabria), P. Morasso (Univ. Genova), G. Orlandi (Univ. Roma), T. Parisini (DEEI Univ. Trieste), E. Pasero (Politecnico Torino), A. Petrosino (CNR Napoli), V. Piuri (Politecnico Milano), R. Serra (CRA Montecatini Ravenna), F. Sorbello (Univ. Palermo), A. Sperduti (Univ. Pisa), R. Tagliaferri (Univ. Salerno)

Sponsors
International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies (IIASS) "E.R. Caianiello"
Dip. di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello", University of Salerno
Dip. di Matematica ed Informatica, University of Salerno
Dip. di Scienze dell'Informazione, University of Milano
Società Italiana Reti Neuroniche (SIREN)
IEEE Neural Network Council
INNS/SIG Italy
Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Napoli
Provincia di Salerno


Pre-WIRN workshop on

 Bioinformatics and Biostatistics

Chairs: Francesco Masulli and Roberto Tagliaferri

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 Frasconi, 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