Antonia Azzini's Publication

Papers in Journals

• A. Azzini, C. da Costa Pereira, M. Dragoni, A. Tettamanzi (2012). A neuro evolutionary corpus-based method for word sense disambiguation. IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 27, p. 26-35, ISSN: 1541-1672, doi: 10.1109/MIS.2011.108.
• A. Azzini, A.G.B. Tettamanzi (2011). Evolutionary ANNs : a state of the art survey. Intelligenza Artificiale, ISSN: 1724-8035.
• A. Azzini and A.G.B. Tettamanzi, "Evolving Neural Networks for Static Single-Position Automated Trading" Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, Volume 2008, Article ID 184286, DOI:10.1155/2008/184286.
• A. Azzini and A.G.B. Tettamanzi “Un algoritmo neuro-genetico per l’operatività giornaliera a posizione singola sui mercati finanziari” Sistemi Intelligenti, Anno XX, vol. 2/8, pag. 235-247, pub. Il Mulino, 2008.
• A. Azzini, S. Marrara, R. Sassi, F. Scotti “A Fuzzy Approach to Multimodal Biometric Continuous Authentication”, Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making, Springer, Vol. 7, pages 243-256, Thomson Reuters publisher, 2008.
• Azzini, M. Lazzaroni, and A.G.B. Tettamanzi. Un approccio neuro-genetico per la progettazione di reti neurali. Intelligenza Artificiale. Periodico trimestrale dell'Associazione Italiana per l'Intelligenza Artificiale. To appear.

N.B. This page is currently just a link for the CRO exercises (see below). I'll put some sensible stuff here later on.

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Chapters in Books and Encyclopedias

• A. Azzini, M. De Felice, A.G.B. Tettamanzi (2012). A comparison between nature-inspired and machine learning approaches to detecting trend reversals in financial time series. In: Natural computing in computational finance. Berlin:Springer, ISBN: 9783642233357.
• A. Azzini, C. da Costa Pereira, A.G.B. Tettamanzi (2010). Modeling turning points in financial markets with soft computing techniques. In: Natural computing in computational finance. pp. 147-168, Berlin:Springer, ISBN: 9783642139499, doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-13950-5_9.
• A. Azzini and A.G.B. Tettamanzi. Chapter: A New Genetic Approach for Neural Network Design, Volume: Engineering Evolutionary Intellingent Systems, Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence , Vol. 82, editors: A. Abraham, C. Grosan and W. Pedricz, Springer Verlag Publisher. Approx. 400 p., Hardcover, ISBN: 978-3-540-75395-7.
• A. Azzini and A.G.B. Tettamanzi. Chapter of Encyclopedia: EANNs: Evolutionary algorithms for Neural Network Design and Optimization, Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, Editors: Juan R. Rabuñal, Julian Dorado & Alejandro Pazos.
• A. Azzini, S. Marrara, G. Gianini “Recent Artificial Immune Systems Approaches to Anomalies Detection” Chapter contribution to the editing book on Foundation in Computational Intelligence, Data mining book. To be published by Series “Studies in Computational Intelligence” published by Springer Verlag, 2008.
• A. Azzini, C. da Costa Pereira, A.G.B. Tettamanzi “Predicting Turning Points in Financial Markets with Fuzzy-Evolutionary and Neuro-Evolutionary Modeling” Natural Computing in Computational Finance, Third Edition, Springer’s Studies In Computational Intelligence series, to appear.

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National and International Conferences

2013

· A. Azzini, C. Braghin, E. Damiani, F. Zavatarelli (2013). Using Semantic Lifting for improving Process Mining: a Data Loss Prevention System case study. In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Data-driven Process Discovery and Analysis (SIMPDA 2013): Riva del Garda (TN), 30 Aug. 2013. Pp. 62-73, CEUR-WS.org, ISSN: 1613-0073

· F. Arigliano, A. Azzini, C. Braghin, A. Caforio, P. Ceravolo, E. Damiani, V. Savarino, C. Vicari, F. Zavatarelli (2013). Knowledge and Business Intelligence Technologies in Cross-Enterprise Environments for Italian Advanced Mechanical Industry. In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Data-driven Process Discovery and Analysis (SIMPDA 2013): Riva del Garda (TN), 30 Aug. 2013. Pp. 104-110, CEUR-WS.org, ISSN: 1613-0073.

· A. Azzini, P. Ceravolo (2013). Consistent process mining over big data triple stores. In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International congress on big data, 28 june – 3 july 2013, Santa Clara, California, Los Alamitos, IEEE computer society Publisher, pp. 54-61 ISBN 9780768550060.

2012

• M. Dragoni, A. Azzini, A.G.B. Tettamanzi (2012). A neuro-evolutionary approach to electrocardiographic signal classification. In: Proceedings of the Italian workshop on artificial life and evolutionary computation, WIVACE 2012, Parma, Campus Universitario, 20-21 febbraio, pp. 1-11, Università degli Studi di Parma, Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali, ISBN: 9788890358128.
• A. Azzini, M. Dragoni, A.G.B. Tettamanzi (2012). A neuro-evolutionary approach to intraday financial modeling. In: Applications of evolutionary computation EvoApplications 2012, EvoStar, Málaga, Spain, april 11-13, pp. 155-164, Berlin:Springer, ISBN: 9783642291777, doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-29178-4_16.
• A. Azzini, M. Dragoni, A.G.B. Tettamanzi (2012). Electrocardiographic signal classification with evolutionary artificial neural networks. In: Applications of evolutionary computation: EvoApplications, EvoStar, Málaga, Spain, april 11-13, pp. 295-304, Berlin:Springer, ISBN: 9783642291777, doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-29178-4_30.
• M. Dragoni, A. Azzini, A.G.B. Tettamanzi (2012). Neuro-evolutionary modeling of the Milan stock exchange for intraday trading. In: Proceedings of WIVACE 2012: italian workshop on artificial life and evolutionary computation: Parma, Campus universitario, 20-21 febbraio, pp. 1-12, Università degli Studi di Parma, Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali, ISBN: 9788890358128.

2011

• A. Azzini, M. Dragoni, A. Tettamanzi (2011). A part-of-speech lexicographic encoding for an evolutionary word sense disambiguation approach. In: Applications of evolutionary computation: EvoApplications 2011: EvoStar, Torino, Italy, april 2011, pp. 244-253, Berlin:Springer, ISBN: 9783642205248, doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-20525-5_25.
• A. Azzini, A.G.B. Tettamanzi, M. Dragoni (2011). SimBa-2 : improving a novel similarity-based crossover for the evolution of artificial neural networks. In: Proceedings of the International conference on intelligent systems design and applications, ISDA, 22–24 november, Córdoba, Spain. pp. 374-379, Piscataway:Institute of electrical and electronics engineers, ISBN: 9781457716751, doi: 10.1109/ISDA.2011.6121684.
• A. Azzini, M. Dragoni, A. Tettamanzi (2011). Using evolutionary neural networks to test the influence of the choice of numeraire on financial time series modeling. In: Applications of evolutionary computation: EvoApplications 2011, Part 2., EVoStar, Torino, Italy, april, pp. 81-90, Berlin:Springer, ISBN: 9783642205194, doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-20520-0_9.

2010

• A. Azzini, M. Dragoni, A.G.B. Tettamanzi (2010). A novel similarity-based crossover for artificial neural network evolution. In: Parallel problem solving from nature, PPSN XI : 11th international conference, Krakow, Poland, september 11-15, Part 1. pp. 344-353, Berlin:Springer, ISBN: 9783642158438, doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-15844-5_35.
• A. Azzini, M. De Felice, A.G.B. Tettamanzi (2010). A study of nature-inspired methods for financial trend reversal detection. In: Applications of evolutionary computation, EvoStar: Istanbul, Turkey, april 7-9, pp. 161-170, Berlin:SPRINGER, ISBN: 3642122418, doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-12242-2_17.

2009

• A. Azzini, C. da Costa Pereira, A.G.B. Tettamanzi, “Predicting Turning Points in Financial Markets with Fuzzy-Evolutionary and Neuro-Evolutionary Modeling”, Proceedings of the European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Finance and Economics, EVOFIN ‘09, Springer-Verlag, Tubingen, Germany, 15-17th April, 2009.
• A. Azzini, M. De Felice, S. Meloni, A.G.B. Tettamanzi, “Soft Computing Techniques for Internet Backbone Traffic Anomaly Detection”, European Workshop on the Application of Nature-inspired Techniques for Telecommunication Networks and other Parallel and Distributed Systems, EVOCOMNET ‘09, Springer-Verlag, Tubingen, Germany, 15-17th April, 2009.
• A. Azzini, E. Damiani, G. Gianini, S. Marrara, “An ontology for Artificial Immune Systems”, DEST 2009, Instanbul, Turkey, 31st may – 3rd june 2009.
• M. anisetti, A. Azzini, V. Bellandi, E. Damiani, G. Gianini, S. Marrara, “An Artificial Immune System approach to Anomaly Detection in Multimedia Ambient Intelligence”,  DEST 2009, Instanbul, Turkey, 31maggio – 3 giugno 2009.
• A. Azzini, S. Marrara, E. Damiani, M. Jensen, “Extending the Similarity-Based XML Multicast Approach with Digital Signatures”, Proceedings of: SWS 09, Chicago, USA, November 2009.
• A. Azzini, M. Dragoni, A.G.B. Tettamanzi, C. da Costa Pereira, “A Lexicographic Encoding for Word Sense Disambiguation with Evolutionary Neural Networks”, Proceedings of: AI*IA, Reggio Emilia, december, 8-12, 2009.
• A. Azzini, A.G.B. Tettamanzi, M. De Felice “Tecniche di Soft Computing per il riconoscimento di anomalie: una prima analisi”, Proceedings of: Wivace 2009, Naples, november, 23-25, 2009.
• A. Azzini, A.G.B. Tettamanzi, M. Dragoni, C. da Costa Pereira “Una codifica lessicografica per il riconoscimento del significato delle parole utilizzando reti neurali ed algoritmi evolutivi”, Proceedings of: Wivace 2009, Naples, november, 23-25, 2009.

2008

• A. Azzini and S. Marrara "Impostor users discovery using a Multimodal Biometric Continuous Authentication Fuzzy system", 12th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems – KES ‘08, Zagabria, Croatia, 3-5 September 2008.
• A. Azzini, A.G.B. Tettamanzi, C. da Costa Pereira, M. Dragoni, “Evolving Neural Networks for Word Sense Disambiguation”, Eighth International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems HIS, Barcelona, Spain,  September 2008.
• A. Azzini S. Cagnoni and L. Vanneschi “FDC-Based Particle Swarm Optimization” Workshop Italiano di Vita Artificiale e Calcolo Evolutivo, WIVACE 2008, Venice, Italy, September 2008.
• A. Azzini, A.G.B. Tettamanzi, C. da Costa Pereira, M. Dragoni, “Evolving Neural Word Sense Disambiguation Classifiers with a Letter-Count Distributed Encoding” Workshop Italiano di Vita Artificiale e Calcolo Evolutivo, WIVACE 2008, Venice, Italy, September 2008.
• A. Azzini and A.G.B. Tettamanzi "Evolutionary Single-Position Automated Trading", Proceedings of the European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Finance and Economics, EVOFIN 08, Springer-Verlag, Naples, Italy, 26-28 march 2008.
• A. Azzini, S. Cagnoni, L. Vanneschi and A.G.B. Tettamanzi, " A critical assessment of some variants of Particle Swarm Optimization" Proceedings of the European Workshop on Bio-inspired algorithms for continuous parameter optimisation, EVONUM 08, Springer-Verlag, Naples, 26-28 march 2008.
• A. Azzini, E. Damiani, G. Gianini, S. Marrara, " Detection of traffic volume anomalies by evolution of negative classifiers in Artificial Immune Systems", Proceddings of the IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies DEST 08, Phitsanulok, Thailand, 26-29 February 2008.
• A. Azzini, E. Damiani, G. Gianini, S. Marrara “Global Consensus Emergence in an Unstructured Semantic Network” Proceedings of CSTST’08, Cergy-Pontoise, Paris, France, October 2008.

2007

• A. Azzini and A.G.B. Tettamanzi “Automated Trading on Financial Instruments with Evolved Neural Networks” Genetic and Evolutionary Computational Conference - GECCO 2007, London - UK, July, 7-11 2007.
• A. Azzini, E. Damiani and S. Marrara, “Ensuring the identity of a user in time: a multi-modal fuzzy approach”, IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications, CIMSA 2007, June 27-29 2007.
• A. Azzini and Stefania Marrara “Toward trust-based multi-modal user authentication on the Web: a fuzzy approach” FUZZ-IEEE 2007 - , IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, London, UK, July, 23-26 2007
• A. Azzini, S. Marrara, S. Sassi and F. Scotti “A Fuzzy Approach to Biometric Authentication” Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems – KES ‘07, Vietri sul Mare, Italy, September 12-14 2007.
• A. Azzini and S. Marrara “Dermatology Disease Classification via Novel Evolutionary Artificial Neural Network” in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Evolutionary Techniques in Data-processing – ETID’07, Regensburg, Germany, September, 3-7 2007.
• A. Azzini and A.G.B. Tettamanzi “Neuro-Genetic Single-Position Day Trading” in Proceedings del Workshop Italiano di Vita Artificiale e Computazione Evolutiva, WIVACE 07, 5 - 7 Settembre 2007 - Baia Samuele, Sampieri (Ragusa), Sicilia.

2006

• Azzini, L. Cristaldi, M. Lazzaroni, A.Monti, F. Ponci, and A.G.B. Tettamanzi. Incipient fault diagnosis in electrical drives by tuned neural networks. In Proceeding of the IEEE Instrumentation andMeasurement Technology Conference, IMTC’06, April 2006.
• A. Azzini and A.G.B. Tettamanzi. A neural evolutionary classification method for brain-wave analysis. In Proceedings of the European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis and Signal Processing, EVOIASP 2006, April 2006.
• A. Azzini. An evolutionary approach for neural model optimization. In M. Giacobini and Yano van Hemert editors, EVOPHD 2006 Workshop, April 2006.
• A. Azzini and A.G.B. Tettamanzi. A neural evolutionary approach to financial modeling. In Maarten Keijzer et al., editor, Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2006. ACM Press, New York, NY, July 8-12 2006.
• A. Azzini and A.G.B. Tettamanzi. Financial forecasting with a neuro-genetic approach. Proceedings of GSICE 2006 Seconda Giornata di Studio Italiana sul Calcolo Evolutivo. Siena, September 15 2006.
• A. Azzini and S. Marrara, “A Fuzzy Trust Model Proposal to Ensure the Identità of a User in Time”, 9th Fuzzy Days 2006 – 18-20 Settembre 2006, Dortmund, Germany.
• Azzini and P. Ceravolo, “Combining similarity-based and neural network document classification methods for improving accuracy and efficiency”,  Proceedings of KES 2006, 10th International Conference on Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, Bournemouth, UK, October, 9-11, 2006.

2005

• Azzini, M. Lazzaroni, and A.G.B. Tettamanzi. A neuro-genetic approach to neural network design. In F. Sartori, S. Manzoni, and M. Palmonari, editors, AI*IA 2005 Workshop on Evolutionary Computation. AI*IA, Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, September 20 2005.
• A. Azzini, P. Ceravolo, E. Damiani, C. Fugazza, S. Reale, M. Torregiani “Generate Context Metadata based on Biometric System”, Kes 2005 – 9th International Conference on “Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems”,  September,  2005, Melbourne, Australia.

2003

• A. Azzini, M. Bettoni, V. Liberali, R. Rossi, A.G.B. Tettamanzi, “Evolutionary design and FPGA Implementation of digital filters”, pubblicato da Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), P.O. Box 10, 1000 20th Street, Bellingham, Washington, USA, 2003.

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Ph.D. Thesis:

A. Azzini "A New Genetic Approach for Neural Network Design and Optimization", Ph.D. Thesis, march 2007.