Neural Nets and Surroundings: 22nd Italian Workshop on Neural Nets, WIRN 2012, May 17-19, Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy

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by  Francesco A. N. Palmieri, Alberto Cavallo (auth.), Bruno Apolloni, Simone Bassis, Anna Esposito, Francesco Carlo Morabito (eds.)

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Neural Nets and Surroundings
22nd Italian Workshop on Neural Nets,
WIRN 2012, May 17–19, Vietri sul Mare,
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DepartmentofComputerScience DepartmentofPsychology
UniversityofMilano SecondUniversityofNaples
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Dr.SimoneBassis and
DepartmentofComputerScience InstituteforAdvancedScientific
UniversityofMilano Studies(IIASS)
Milano VietrisulMareSalerno
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DepartmentofMechanicsandMaterials
MediterraneaUniversityofReggioCalabria
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Preface
Thisvolumecollectsaselectionofcontributionswhichhasbeenpresentedatthe22nd
Italian Workshop on Neural Networks, the yearly meeting of the Italian Society for
NeuralNetworks(SIREN).TheconferencewasheldinItaly,VietrisulMare(Salerno),
duringMay17–19,2012.TheannualmeetingofSIRENissponsoredbyInternational
NeuralNetworkSociety(INNS),EuropeanNeuralNetworkSociety(ENNS)andIEEE
ComputationalIntelligenceSociety(CIS).
Theworkshop,andthusthisbook,isorganizedinthreemaincomponents,twospe-
cial sessions and a group of regular sessions featuring different aspects and point of
viewsofartificialneuralnetworksandnaturalintelligence,alsoincludingapplications
ofpresentcompellinginterest.
Morethan60paperswerepresentedattheWorkshop,andmostofthemarereported
here. The review process has been carried out in two steps, one before and one after
the workshop in order to meet Publisher’s requirements. The selection of the papers
was made through peer-review process, where each submission was evaluated by at
leasttworeviewers.Thesubmittedpaperswereauthoredbypeerscholarsfromdiffer-
ent countries (the Italian componentwas anyway preponderant).The acceptance rate
is thus high also because most of the attendees are involved in SIREN research and
organizationactivitiesformorethan20years.Inadditiontoregularpapers,thetechni-
calprogramfeaturedkeynoteplenarylecturesby someworldwiderenownedscientist
(SooYoungLee,SouthKorea;GaneshK.Venayagamoorthy,USA;JacekZurada,USA;
GüntherPalm,Germany;AlessandroVinciarelli,UK;DaniloMandic,UK).Oneofthe
twospecialsessionswassupportedbytheEU-sponsoredCOSTAction2102thatclosed
hisworkonFebruary2011eventhoughtheMembersoftheActionarestillnetworking
andcollaboratinginscientificactivities.
ThefirstSpecialSessionexploredthenewfrontiersandchallengesinSmartGridre-
searchandproposedaproficientdiscussiontableforscientistsjoiningtheWIRNcon-
ference, whose expertise typically cover the research fields addressed in Smart Grid
technology,aselectricalandelectronicengineering,computationalintelligence,digital
signalprocessingandtelecommunications.TheSessionincludedtwoinvitedcontribu-
tionsandsevenregularones.TheSessionwasparticularlyrelevantbecauseitintroduced
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some aspects of neuralnetwork applicationsnot commonlyknown at the community
inafieldofgrowinginterest.
The second Special Session was titled ComputationalIntelligence in Emotionalor
Affective Systems and was given in honourof John Taylor, the Editor-in-chiefof the
journalNeuralNetworksrecentlydied.TheSessionfeaturedtwokeynotelecturesand
10 regular contributions. Computational Intelligence (CI) methods have shown great
capabilitiesinmodelling,prediction,andrecognitiontasksandamaturedegreeofun-
derstandinghasbeenachievedinmanyapplicationareas,inparticularincomplexmul-
timodalsystemssupportinghuman-machineorhuman-humaninteraction.Atthesame
time,theemotionalissuehasrecentlygainedincreasingattentioninsuchcomplexsys-
temsduetoitsrelevanceinmostcommonhumantasks(likecognitiveprocesses,per-
ception,learning,communicationandeven“rational”decision-making)andthereforeis
highlyrelevantforthegoalofhuman-likeinteractionwithmachines.Therealchallenge
istakingadvantageoftheemotionalcharacterizationofhumanstomakethecomputer
interfacingwiththemmorenaturalandthereforeuseful.Thescopeofthesessionwas
toassesstowhatextentandhowsophisticatedcomputationalintelligencetoolsdevel-
opedso far mightsupportthe multidisciplinaryresearchonthe characterizationofan
appropriatesystemreactiontohumanemotionsandexpressionininteractivescenarios.
Wewouldliketothankallofthespecialsessionsorganizers,namely:StefanoSquar-
tini, Rosario Carbone, Michele Scarpiniti, Francesco Piazza, Aurelio Uncini, Anna
Esposito,GüntherPalm.
The organization of an International Conference gathers for the efforts of several
peopleinvolved.Wewouldliketoexpressourgratitudetoeveryonethathascooperate
totheorganization,byofferingtheircommitment,energyandsparetimetomakethis
eventasuccessfulone.
May2012 BrunoApolloni
SimoneBassis
AnnaEsposito
FrancescoCarloMorabito
Organization
WIRN 2012 is organized by the Italian Society of Neural Networks (SIREN) in co-
operation with the International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies (IIASS) of
VietriS/M(Italy).
Executive Committee
BrunoApolloni UniversityofMilano,Italy
SimoneBassis UniversityofMilano,Italy
AnnaEsposito UniversityFedericoIIofNapoli,Italy
FrancescoMasulli UniversityofGenova,Italy
FrancescoCarloMorabito UniversityMediterraneaofReggioCalabria,
Italy
FrancescoPalmieri SecondUniversityofNapoli,Italy
ErosPasero PolytechnicofTorino,Italy
StefanoSquartini PolytechnicUniversityofMarche,Italy
RobertoTagliaferri UniversityofSalerno,Italy
AurelioUncini University“LaSapienza”ofRoma,Italy
SalvatoreVitabile UniversityofPalermo,Italy
Program Committee
ConferenceChair
FrancescoCarloMorabito UniversityMediterraneaofReggioCalabria,
Italy
ConferenceCo-Chair
SimoneBassis UniversityofMilan,Italy
ProgramChair
BrunoApolloni UniversityofMilan,Italy
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OrganizingChair
AnnaEsposito SecondUniversityofNapoli,Italy
SpecialTracks
AnnaEsposito SecondUniversityofNapoli,Italy
StefanoSquartini PolytechnicUniversityofMarche,Italy
Referees
G.Albano S.Funari M.Re
B.Apolloni C.Furlanello A.Rizzi
S.Bassis G.L.Galliani P.M.Ros
A.Borghese S.Giove S.Rovetta
F.Camastra G.Ippoliti A.Rozza
W.Capraro F.LaForesta M.Russolillo
R.Carbone G.Lombardi S.Scarpetta
M.Cardin M.Lucchese M.Scarpiniti
A.Ciaramella D.Malchiodi R.Serra
C.Claudio U.Maniscalco G.Spagnuolo
D.Comminiello C.Marco S.Squartini
V.d’Amato F.Masulli A.Staiano
R.deRosa L.Menconi A.Uncini
F.Epifania A.Micheli G.Valentini
A.M.Esposito F.C.Morabito L.Valerio
A.Esposito G.Palm M.Villani
M.Faundez-Zanuy F.Palmieri S.Vitabile
A.Filisetti E.Pasero Q.Wei
M.Frasca F.Piazza A.Zippo
Sponsoring Institutions
InternationalInstituteforAdvancedScientificStudies(IIASS)ofVietriS/M(Italy)
DepartmentofPsychology,SecondUniversityofNapoli(Italy)
ProvinciadiSalerno(Italy)
ComunediVietrisulMare,Salerno(Italy)
Contents
PartI:Algorithms
ProbabilityLearningandSoftQuantizationinBayesianFactorGraphs.... 3
FrancescoA.N.Palmieri,AlbertoCavallo
Rival-PenalizedCompetitiveClustering:AStudyandComparison........ 11
AlbertoBorghese,WiliamCapraro
An Interpretation of the Boundary Movement Method
forImbalancedDatasetClassificationBasedonDataQuality............. 21
DarioMalchiodi
GeneticAlgorithmModelingwithGPUParallelComputingTechnology ... 29
StefanoCavuoti,Mauro Garofalo,Massimo Brescia, AntonioPescape’,
GiuseppeLongo,GiorgioVentre
AnExperimentalEvaluationofReservoirComputationforAmbient
AssistedLiving ................................................... 41
Davide Bacciu, Stefano Chessa, Claudio Gallicchio, Alessio Micheli,
PaoloBarsocchi
Balancing Recall and Precision in Stock Market PredictorsUsing
SupportVectorMachines........................................... 51
MarcoLippi,LorenzoMenconi,MarcoGori
Measures of Brain Connectivity through Permutation Entropy
inEpilepticDisorders.............................................. 59
DomenicoLabate,GiuseppinaInuso,GianluigiOcchiuto,FabioLaForesta,
FrancescoC.Morabito
ANewSystemforAutomaticRecognitionofItalianSignLanguage ....... 69
MarcoFagiani,EmanuelePrincipi,StefanoSquartini,FrancescoPiazza
X Contents
FallDetectionUsinganEnsembleofLearningMachines................. 81
SimonBulotta,HassanMahmoud,FrancescoMasulli,ErnestoPalummeri,
StefanoRovetta
PartII:Signal Processing
PM10 ForecastingUsing KernelAdaptive Filtering:An ItalianCase
Study ........................................................... 93
Simone Scardapane, Danilo Comminiello, Michele Scarpiniti,
RaffaeleParisi,AurelioUncini
ACollaborativeFilterApproachtoAdaptiveNoiseCancellation.......... 101
MicheleScarpiniti,DaniloComminiello,RaffaeleParisi,AurelioUncini
Waveform Variation of the Explosion-Quakes as a Function
oftheEruptiveActivityatStromboliVolcano .......................... 111
AntoniettaM.Esposito,LucaD’Auria,FloraGiudicepietro,MarcelloMartini
Artificial Neural Network (ANN) Morphological Classification of
MagneticResonanceImaginginMultipleSclerosis ..................... 121
AlessiaBramanti,LillaBonanno,PlacidoBramanti,PietroLanzafame
NeuralMovingObjectDetectionbyPan-Tilt-ZoomCameras............. 129
AlessioFerone,LuciaMaddalena,AlfredoPetrosino
ControlofCoffeeGrindingwithGeneralRegressionNeuralNetworks..... 139
LucaMesin,DiegoAlberto,ErosPasero
DefectsDetectioninPistachioNutsUsingArtificialNeuralNetworks ...... 147
PaoloMottoRos,ErosPasero
PartIII:Applications
LVQ-BasedHandGestureRecognitionUsingaDataGlove .............. 159
FrancescoCamastra,DomenicoDeFelice
InvestigationofSingleNucleotidePolymorphismsAssociatedtoFamilial
CombinedHyperlipidemiawithRandomForests....................... 169
Antonino Staiano, Maria Donata Di Taranto, Elena Bloise,
Maria Nicoletta D’Agostino, Antonietta D’Angelo, Gennaro Marotta,
Marco Gentile, Fabrizio Jossa, Arcangelo Iannuzzi, Paolo Rubba,
GiulianaFortunato
ANeuralProcedureforGeneFunctionPrediction...................... 179
MarcoFrasca,AlbertoBertoni,AndreaSion
HandwrittenDigitsRecognitionbyBio-inspiredHierarchicalNetworks.... 189
AntonioG.Zippo,GiulianaGelsomino,SaraNencini,GabrieleE.M.Biella
Contents XI
ForecastingNetMigrationbyFunctionalDemographicModel............ 201
ValeriaD’Amato,GabriellaPiscopo,MariaRussolillo
SimulationFrameworkinFertilityProjections......................... 209
ValeriaD’Amato,GabriellaPiscopo,MariaRussolillo
BuildingaGlobalPerformanceIndicatortoEvaluateAcademicActivity
UsingFuzzyMeasures ............................................. 217
MartaCardin,MarcoCorazza,StefaniaFunari,SilvioGiove
TestingtheWeakFormMarketEfficiency:EmpiricalEvidencefromthe
ItalianStockExchange............................................. 227
GiuseppinaAlbano,MicheleLaRocca,CiraPerna
PartIV:SpecialSessionon“SmartGrids:NewFrontiers and
Challenges”
RealTime Techniques andArchitecturesforMaximizingthe Power
ProducedbyaPhotovoltaicArray ................................... 239
GiovanniPetrone,FranciscoJoseSànchezPacheco,GiovanniSpagnuolo
SustainableEnergyMicrosystemsforaSmartGrid..................... 259
MariaCarmenFalvo,LuigiMartirano,DaniloSbordone
SVMMethodsforOptimalManagementofaVirtualPowerPlant......... 271
EmanueleCrisostomi,MauroTucci,MarcoRaugi
Active Power Losses Constrained Optimizationin Smart Grids by
GeneticAlgorithms................................................ 279
Gian Luca Storti, Francesca Possemato, Maurizio Paschero,
SilvioAlessandroni,AntonelloRizzi,FabioMassimoFrattaleMascioli
SolarIrradiationForecastingforPVSystemsbyFullyTunedMinimal
RBFNeuralNetworks ............................................. 289
Lucio Ciabattoni, Gianluca Ippoliti, Sauro Longhi, Matteo Pirro,
MatteoCavalletti
Ontology-Based Device Configuration and Management
forSmartHomes.................................................. 301
MicheleNucci,MarcoGrassi,FrancescoPiazza
A Comparison between Different Optimization Techniques
forEnergySchedulinginSmartHomeEnvironment .................... 311
FrancescoDe Angelis,MatteoBoaro,DaniloFuselli,StefanoSquartini,
FrancescoPiazza