Publications


Journal Papers


D.Bacciu, T.A. Etchells, P.J.G. Lisboa and J. Whittaker, "Efficient identification of independence networks using mutual information", Computational Statistics, In Press, 2012

I.H. Jarman, T.A. Etchells, D. Bacciu, J.M. Garibaldi, I.O. Ellis and P.J.G. Lisboa, "Clustering of Protein Expression Data: a Benchmark of Statistical and Neural Approaches", Soft Computing, vol. 15, no. 8: 1459-1469, Springer, 2011

D.Bacciu and A. Starita "Expansive Competitive Learning for Kernel Vector Quantization", Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 30, pp. 641-651, 2009

D.Bacciu and A. Starita "Competitive Repetition Suppression (CoRe) Clustering: a Biologically Inspired Learning Model with Application to Robust Clustering", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 19, no. 11, pp. 1922 - 1941, Nov. 2008 
 

Book Chapters

 
D.Bacciu, E. Biganzoli, P.J.G. Lisboa and A. Starita "Unsupervised Breast Cancer Class Discovery: a Comparative Study on Model-based and Neural Clustering", Computational Intelligence in human cancer research, KES Rapid Research Results Series,  pp. 13-26, 2008
  
D. Bacciu, A. Bellandi, B. Furletti, V. Grossi, A. Romei  "Discovering Strategic Behaviors in Multi-Agent Scenarios by Ontology-Driven Mining", To Appear in Advances in Robotics, Automation and Control, pp. 171 - 198, 2008
 

Publications in Refereed Conference Proceedings


D. Bacciu, S. Chessa, C. Gallicchio, A. Lenzi, A. Micheli and S. Pelagatti, "A General Purpose Distributed Learning Model for Robotic Ecologies", To appear in the Proceedings of the 10th International IFAC Symposium on Robot Control (SYROCO'12), Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 5-7, 2012

D. Bacciu, A. Micheli and A. Sperduti, "Input-Output Hidden Markov Models for trees", Proceedings of the 20th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks,  Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN'12), Editor M. Verleysen, pp. 25-30, Bruges, Belgium, 25-27 April 2012

D. Bacciu, M. Broxvall, S. Coleman, M. Dragone, C. Gallicchio, C. Gennaro, R. Guzman, R. Lopez, H. Lozano-Peiteado, A. Ray, A. Renteria, A. Saffiotti, C. Vairo, "Self-Sustaining Learning for Robotic Ecologies", Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Sensor Networks (SENSORNETS'12), February 24-26, 2012

D. Bacciu, C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, P. Barsocchi and S. Chessa, "Predicting user movements in heterogeneous indoor environments by reservoir computing", Proceedings of the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'11), Space, Time and Ambient Intelligence Workshop (STAMI'11),  pp. 1-6, 16 -22 July 2011

D. Bacciu, A. Micheli and A. Sperduti, "Adaptive Tree Kernel by Multinomial Generative Topographic Mapping", Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'11),  pp. 1651 - 1658, July 31 - August 5 2011, IEEE

D. Bacciu, A. Micheli and A. Sperduti, "Bottom-up Generative Modeling of Tree-Structured Data", Neural Information Processing. Theory and Algorithms (ICONIP'10), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 6443, pp. 660-668, 2010, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg (An extended version of this paper has been published as a techical report here)

D. Bacciu, A. Micheli and A. Sperduti, "Compositional Generative Mapping of Structured Data ", Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'10 - WCCI'10), pp. 1-8, 18-23 July 2010, IEEE

D. Bacciu, M. Buscemi and L. Mkrtchyan, "Adaptive Fuzzy-valued Service Selection", Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'10),  pp. 2467--2471, 2010, ACM New York, NY, USA  (An extended version of this paper has been published as a techical report here)

A.S. Fernandes, D. Bacciu, I.H. Jarman, T.A. Etchells, J.M. Fonseca and P.J.G. Lisboa "Different methodologies for patient stratification using survival data", Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, Lecture Notes in Computer Science,  Vol. 6160, pp. 276-290, 2010

A.S. Fernandes,  D. Bacciu, I.H. Jarman, T.A. Etchells, J.M. Fonseca and P.J.G. Lisboa, "p-Health in Breast Oncology: a Framework for Predictive and Participatory e-Systems", To Appear in the Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on "Developments in eSystems Engineering" (DeSE '09), IEEE 
 
D. Bacciu, I. H. Jarman, T. A. Etchells and P. J. G. Lisboa "Patient Stratification with Competing Risks by Multivariate Fisher Distance", Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'09), pp. 213 - 220, 14-19 June 2009, IEEE

D. Bacciu, A. Botta and L. Badia "Fuzzy Admission Control with Similarity Evaluation for VoWLAN with QoS Support", Proceedings of the 5th Annual Conference on Wireless On demand Network Systems and Services (WONS'08), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, 2008, Vol. 1, 57 - 64, IEEE
 
D. Bacciu, E. Biganzoli, P.J.G. Lisboa and A. Starita "Are Model-based Clustering and Neural Clustering Consistent? A Case Study from Bioinformatics", Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES'08), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2008, Vol. 5178, 181-188, Springer
 
D. Bacciu and A. Starita  "Convergence Behavior of Competitive-Repetition Suppression Clustering", Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'07), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2008, Vol. 4984, 497-506, Springer 
 
D. Bacciu, L. Badia and A. Botta "Fuzzy Agreement for Network Service Contracts", Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Economics & Finance (CIEF'07), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, 2007

D. Bacciu, A. Micheli and A. Starita "Simultaneous Clustering and Feature Ranking by Competitive Repetition Suppression Learning with Application to Gene Data", Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Medicine and Healthcare (CIMED'07), Plymouth, UK, 2007
 
D. Bacciu and A. Starita  "A Robust Bio-Inspired Clustering Algorithm for the Automatic Determination of Unknown Cluster Number"  Proceedings of the 2007 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'07),  pp. 1314 – 1319, Orlando, Florida, 12-17 Aug. 2007, IEEE
 
D. Bacciu, A. Botta and D. Stefanescu,  "A framework for semantic querying of distributed data-graphs via information granules", Proceedings of the 10th IASTED International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control (ISC'07), Cambridge, US, 2007
 
D. Bacciu,  A. Botta and H. Melgratti  "A fuzzy approach for negotiating quality of services", Proceedings og the 2006 Trustworthy Global Computing Conference, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2007, Vol. 4661, 200-217, Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg

D. Bacciu and A. Starita  "Competitive Repetition-suppression (CoRe) Learning" Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2006, Vol. 4131, 130-139, Springer,  Berlin / Heidelberg
 
J.Cinkelj, M.Mihelj, D.Bacciu, M.Jurak, E.Guglielmelli, A.Toth, S. Mazzoleni, J.DeLafonteyne, J.Verschelde, M.Munih, "Assessment of stroke patients by whole-body isometric force-torque measurements II: software design of the ALLADIN Diagnostic Device", EMBEC 2005

D. Bacciu, L.Zollo, E.Guglielmelli, F.Leoni, A.Starita, "An RLWPR Network for Learning the Internal Model of an Anthropomorphic Robot Arm", Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2004), Vol. 1,  28 Sept.-2 Oct. 2004,  pp: 260 - 265.

Publications in Refereed International Workshops


D. Bacciu, S. Chessa, C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli  and P. Barsocchi, "An Experimental Evaluation of Reservoir Computation for Ambient Assisted Living", To Appear in the Proceedings of the 22nd Italian Workshop on Neural Networks (WIRN'12), Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy, May 17-19, 2012

P.J.G. Lisboa,  I.H. Jarman, T.A. Etchells, D. Bacciu and J.M. Garibaldi  "Model-based and model-free clustering: a case study of protein expression data for breast cancer", Proceedings of the 2009 UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence, University of Nottingham, 7th-9th September 2009
 
D. Bacciu, A. Botta and D. Stefanescu, "Augmenting the Distributed Evaluation of Path Queries via Information Granules", Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs (MLG'07), Florence, Italy, 2007

Other Publications 


D. Bacciu, A. Micheli and A. Sperduti,  "A Bottom-up Hidden Tree Markov Model", Universita' di Pisa, Technical Report TR-10-08, April, 2010

D.Bacciu, M.G. Buscemi, L. Mkrtchyan,  "Adaptive Service Selection - A Fuzzy-valued Matchmaking Approach", Universita' di Pisa, Technical Report TR-09-21, October, 2009

D. Bacciu "A Perceptual Learning Model to Discover the Hierarchical Latent Structure of Image Collections", Ph.D. Thesis in Computer Science and Engineering, IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies, 2008 (Winner of the 2009 E. R. Caianiello PhD Award)

D.Bacciu and A. Botta, "Agenti Software Intelligenti per la Generazione Automatica di Contratti", poster presented at  Research to Business (R2B'07), 03-04 May 2007, Bologna (in italian)

D. Bacciu, A. Micheli and A. Starita "Feature-wise Competitive Repetition Suppression Learning for Gene Data Clustering and Feature Ranking", Universita' di Pisa, Technical Report TR-07-04, February, 2007
 
D. Bacciu "Neural Architectures for Learning the Internal Model of an Anthropomorphic Robot Arm", M.Sc. Thesis in Computer Science, University of  Pisa, 2003 (In Italian)