This volume reports the proceedings of the 15th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets WIRN04. The workshop, held in Perugia from September 14th to 17th 2004 has been jointly organized by the International Institute for Advanced Scienti?c Studies "Eduardo R. Caianiello" (IIASS) and the Societ' a Italiana Reti Neuroniche (SIREN). This year the Conference has constituted a joint event of three associations: Associazione Italiana per l'Intelligenza Arti?ciale (AIIA), Gruppo Italiano di Ricercatori in Pattern Recognition (GIRPR), Societ' a Italiana Reti Neuroniche (SIREN) within the conference CISI-04 (Conferenza Italiana sui Sistemi Int- ligenti - 2004) combining the three associations' annual meetings. The aim was to examine Intelligent Systems as a joint topic, pointing out synergies and d- ferences between the various approaches. The volume covers this matter from the Neural Networks and related ?elds perspective. It contains invited review papers and selected original contri- tions presented in either oral or poster sessions by both Italian and foreign - searchers. The contributions have been assembled, for reading convenience, into ?ve sections. The ?rst two collect papers from pre-WIRN workshops focused on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, and Computational Intelligence on Hardware, respectively. The remaining sections concern Architectures and Algorithms, Models, and Applications. The Editors would like to thank the invited speakers and all the contributors whosehighlyquali?edpapershelpedthesuccessoftheWorkshop.Finally,special thanks go to the referees for their accurate work.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, CIBB 2013, held in Nice, France in June 2013. The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on bioinformatics, biostatistics, knowledge based medicine, and data integration and analysis in omic-science.

This volume contains the proceedings of the 12th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets WIRN VIETRI-Ol, jointly organized by the International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies "Eduardo R. Caianiello" (IIASS), the Societa Italiana Reti Neuroniche (SIREN), the IEEE NNC Italian RIG and the Italian SIG of the INNS. Following the tradition of previous years, we invited three foreign scientists to the workshop, Dr. G. Indiveri and Professors A. Roy and R. Sun, who respectively presented the lectures "Computation in Neuromorphic Analog VLSI Systems", "On Connectionism and Rule Extraction", "Beyond Simple Rule Extraction: Acquiring Planning Knowledge from Neural Networks" (the last two papers being part of the special session mentioned below). In addition, a review talk was presented, dealing with a very up-to-date topic: "NeuroJuzzy Approximator based on Mamdani's Model". A large part of the book contains original contributions approved by referees as oral or poster presentations, which have been assembled for reading convenience into three sections: Architectures and Algorithms, Image and Signal Processing, and Applications. The last part of the books contains the papers of the special Session "From Synapses to Rules". Our thanks go to Prof. B. Apolloni, who organized this section. Furthermore, two sections are dedicated to the memory of two great scientists who were friends in life, Professors Mark Aizerman and Eduardo R. Caianiello. The editors would like to thank the invited speakers, the review lecturers and all the contributors whose highly qualified papers helped with the success of the workshop.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 8th International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, CIBB 2011, held in Gargnano del Garda, Italy, in June/July 2011. The 19 papers, presented together with 2 keynote speeches, were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on statistical learning, genomics, computational intelligence for health at the edge, proteomics, intelligent clinical decision support systems (i-CDSS), bioinformatics, and data clustering.

From its early beginnings in the fifties and sixties, the field of neural networks has been steadily developing to become one of the most interdisciplinary areas of research within computer science. This volume contains a selection of papers from WIRN Vietri-99, the 11th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets. This annual event, sponsored, amongst others, by the IEEE Neural Networks Council and the INNS/SIG Italy, brings together the best of research from all over the world. The papers cover a range of topics within neural networks, including pattern recognition, signal and image processing, mathematical models, neuro-fuzzy models and economics applications.

This volume contains the Proceedings of the 9th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets WIRN VIETRI-97, organised by the International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies ((Eduardo R. Caianiello" (IIASS), the Societa Italiana Reti Neuroniche (SIREN) and the IEEE NNC Italian RIG. As in the previous editions some invited and reviewed talks on updated subjects are presented in addition to the original contributions selected by the Refereeing Committee. Also included is Professor C.M. Bishop's Invited paper on: * Latent Variables, Topographic Mappings and Data Visualization; and two review talks that deal with updated topics: * Fuzzy Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition; * A Unifying View of Gradient Calculations and Learning for Locally Recurrent Neural Networks; For publication the original contributions have been assembled into 4 sections: Applications, Architectures and Algorithms, Mathematical Models, Pattern Recognition and Robotics. The Editors thank the invited speaker and all the participants for having contributed to the success of the Workshop by submitting high quality manuscripts, and also express gratitude to the Refereeing Committee for the high quality of the selection process. Maria Marinaro Roberto Tagliaferri VI Organizing -Scientific Committee: B. Apolloni (Univ. Milano), A. Bertoni (Univ. Milano), D.O. Caviglia (Univ. Genova), P. Campadelli (Univ. Milano), A. Colla (ELSAG BAILEY -Genova), M. Frixione (1IASS), C. Furlanello (IRST -Trento), A. Esposito (1IASS), G.M. Guazzo (1IASS), M. Gori (Univ. Firenze), F. Lauria (Univ. Napoli), M. Marinaro (Univ. Salerno - IIASS), F.

This volume contains the Proceedings of the 8th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets WIRN VIETRI-96, organized by the International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies "Eduardo R. Caianiello" and by the Societa Italiana Reti Neuroniche (SIREN). We would like to thank Professor L.B. Almeida who agreed to deliver an invited lecture which is included in these Proceedings. The spectrum of contributors and participants covers the activity of Italian research in the field and of some European groups. The highly qualified and motivated attendance is.proof of the interest with which this annual event has met in the Italian scientific community. Maria Marinaro Roberto Tagliaferri Organizing - Scientific Committee: B. Apolloni (Univ. Milano), A. Bertoni (Univ. Milano), D.o. Caviglia (Univ. Genova), P. Campadelli (Univ. Milano), M. Ceccarelli (CNR NapolD, A. Colla (ELSAG - Genova), M. Frixione (/lASS), C. Furlanello (IRST - Trento), G.M. Guazzo ( lASS), M. Gori (Univ. Firenze), F. Lauria (Univ. Napo/D, M. Marinaro (Univ. Salerno - flASS), F. Masulli (Univ. Genova), P. Morasso (Univ. Genova), G. Orlandi (Univ. Roma), E. Pasero (Politecnico Torino), A. Petrosino (CNR Napoli), M. Protasi (Univ. Roma Ilj, S. Rampone (/lASS), R. Serra (Gruppo Ferruzzi Ravenna), F. Sorbello (Univ. Palermo), R. Stefanel.1i (Politecnico Milano), R. Tagliaferri (Univ. Salerno), R. Vaccaro (CNR Napo/D."

From its early beginnings in the fifties and sixties, the field of neural networks has been steadily developing to become one of the most interdisciplinary areas of research within computer science. This volume contains selected papers from WIRN Vietri-98, the 10th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets, 21-23 May 1998, Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy. This annual event, sponsored amongst others by the IEEE Neural Network Council and the INNS/SIG Italy, brings together the best of research from all over the world. The papers cover a range of key topics within neural networks, including pattern recognition, signal processing, hybrid systems, mathematical models, hardware and software design, and fuzzy techniques. It also includes two review talks on a "Morpho-Functional" " Model to Describe Variability Found at" "Hippocampal" " Synapses" and "Neural Networks and Speech" "Processing." By providing the reader with a comprehensive overview of recent research in this area, the volume makes a valuable contribution to the "Perspectives in Neural" "Computing" Series.

This volume reports the proceedings of the 15th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets WIRN04. The workshop, held in Perugia from September 14th to 17th 2004 has been jointly organized by the International Institute for Advanced Scienti?c Studies "Eduardo R. Caianiello" (IIASS) and the Societ' a Italiana Reti Neuroniche (SIREN). This year the Conference has constituted a joint event of three associations: Associazione Italiana per l'Intelligenza Arti?ciale (AIIA), Gruppo Italiano di Ricercatori in Pattern Recognition (GIRPR), Societ' a Italiana Reti Neuroniche (SIREN) within the conference CISI-04 (Conferenza Italiana sui Sistemi Int- ligenti - 2004) combining the three associations' annual meetings. The aim was to examine Intelligent Systems as a joint topic, pointing out synergies and d- ferences between the various approaches. The volume covers this matter from the Neural Networks and related ?elds perspective. It contains invited review papers and selected original contri- tions presented in either oral or poster sessions by both Italian and foreign - searchers. The contributions have been assembled, for reading convenience, into ?ve sections. The ?rst two collect papers from pre-WIRN workshops focused on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, and Computational Intelligence on Hardware, respectively. The remaining sections concern Architectures and Algorithms, Models, and Applications. The Editors would like to thank the invited speakers and all the contributors whosehighlyquali?edpapershelpedthesuccessoftheWorkshop.Finally,special thanks go to the referees for their accurate work.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Fifth International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, CIBB 2008, held in Vietri sul Mare, Italy, in October 2008.

The 23 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 69 submissions. The main goal of the CIBB meetings is to provide a forum open to researchers from different disciplines to present and discuss problems concerning computational techniques in bioinformatics, systems biology and medical informatics with a particular focus on neural networks, machine learning, fuzzy logic, and evolutionary computation methods.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the 16th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets, WIRN 2005, as well as the satellite International Workshop on Natural and Artificial Immune Systems, NAIS 2005, held in Vietri sul Mare, Italy in June 2005. The 41 revised papers presented together with a lecture by the winner of the Premio Caianiello award were carefully reviewed and improved during two rounds of selection and refereeing.

The proceedings of the 14th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets WIRN VIETRI 2003 are collected in this volume. The workshop, held in Vietri sul Mare (SA) June 4-7, 2003 was jointly organized by the International Institute for Advanced Scienti?c Studies "Eduardo R. Caianiello" (IIASS) and the Societ' a Italiana Reti Neuroniche(SIREN). Thevolumecoversup-to-datetopicsonneuralnetsand- lated ?elds. It contains invited review papers and selected original contributions presented in either oral or poster sessions by both Italian and non-Italian - searchers. The contributions have been assembled, for reading convenience, into four sections: Models, Architectures and Algorithms, Image and Signal Proce- ing, and Applications, plus two special sessions. The latter gives a fresh persp- tive in the ?elds of "Bioinformatics and Statistics" and "Formats Knowledge: Words, Images, Narratives", sharing the technical languages of the involved d- ciplines. The editors would like to thank the invited speakers and all the c- tributors whose highly quali?ed papers contributed towards the success of the workshop. Finally, special thanks go to the referees for their accurate work. June 2003 Bruno Apolloni Maria Marinaro Roberto Tagliaferri Organizing Scienti?c 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(ELSAGGenova),A. Esposito(I. I. A. S. S. ),F. M. Fr- tale Mascioli (Univ. Roma), C. Furlanello (ITC-IRST Trento), S. Giove (Univ. Venezia), M. Gori (Univ. Siena), M. Marinaro (Univ. Salerno), F. Masulli (Univ. Pisa), C. Morabito (Univ. Reggio Calabria), P. Morasso (Univ. Genova), G.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 13th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets, WIRN VIETRI 2002, held in Vietri sul Mare, Italy in May/June 2002.The 21 revised full papers presented together with three invited papers were carefully reviewed and revised during two rounds of selection and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on architectures and algorithms, image and signal processing applications, and learning in neural networks.

This book of Advances in Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (proceedings of ICDLAIR 2020) is intended to be used as a reference by students and researchers who collect scientific and technical contributions with respect to models, tools, technologies and applications in the field of modern artificial intelligence and robotics. Deep Learning, AI and robotics represent key ingredients for the 4th Industrial Revolution. Their extensive application is dramatically changing products and services, with a large impact on labour, economy and society at all. The research and reports of new technologies and applications in DL, AI and robotics like biometric recognition systems, medical diagnosis, industries, telecommunications, AI petri nets model-based diagnosis, gaming, stock trading, intelligent aerospace systems, robot control and web intelligence aim to bridge the gap between these non-coherent disciplines of knowledge and fosters unified development in next-generation computational models for machine intelligence.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 14th International Meeting on Computational. Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, CIBB 2017, held in Cagliari, Italy, in September 2017. The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The papers deal with the application of computational intelligence to open problems in bioinformatics, biostatistics, systems and synthetic biology, medical informatics, computational approaches to life sciences in general.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 13th International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, CIBB 2016, held in Stirling, UK, in September 2016. The 19 revised full papers and 6 keynotes abstracts presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. The papers deal with the application of computational intelligence to open problems in bioinformatics, biostatistics, systems and synthetic biology, medicalinformatics, computational approaches to life sciences in general

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 11th International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, CIBB 2014, held in Cambridge, UK, in June 2014. The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The papers focus problems concerning computational techniques in bioinformatics, systems biology, medical informatics and biostatistics.