Title Page -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Models -- The Discriminating Power of Random Features -- The Influence of Noise on the Dynamics of Random Boolean Network -- Toward a Space-Time Mobility Model for Social Communities -- Notes on Cutset Conditioning on Factor Graphs with Cycles -- Neural Networks and Metabolic Networks: Fault Tolerance and Robustness Features -- Chapter 2. Signal Processing -- The COST 2102 Italian Audio and Video Emotional Database -- Face Verification Based on DCT Templates with Pseudo-Random Permutations -- A Real-Time Speech-Interfaced System for Group Conversation Modeling -- A Partitioned Frequency Block Algorithm for Blind Separation in Reverberant Environments -- Transcription of Polyphonic Piano Music by Means of Memory-Based Classification Method -- A 3D Neural Model for Video Analysis -- A Wavelet Based Heuristic to Dimension Neural Networks for Simple Signal Approximation -- Support Vector Machines and MLP for Automatic Classification of Seismic Signals at Stromboli Volcano -- Chapter 3. Economy and Complexity -- Thoughts on the Crisis from a Scientific Perspective -- Aggregation of Opinions in Multi Person Multi Attribute Decision Problems with Judgments Inconsistency -- Portfolio Management with Minimum Guarantees: Some Modeling and Optimization Issues -- The Treatment of Fuzzy and Specific Information Provided by Experts for Decision Making in the Selection of Workers -- An Intelligent Agent to Support City Policies Decisions -- "Pink Seal" a Certification for Firms' Gender Equity -- Intensive Computational Forecasting Approach to the Functional Demographic Lee Carter Model -- Conflicts in the Middle-East. Who Are the Actors? What Are Their Relations? A Fuzzy LOGICal Analysis for IL-LOGICal Conflicts -- Chapter 4. Biological Aspects.

Comparing Early and Late Data Fusion Methods for Gene Function Prediction -- An Experimental Comparison of Random Projection Ensembles with Linear Kernel SVMs and Bagging and BagBoosting Methods for the Classification of Gene Expression Data -- Changes in Quadratic Phase Coupling of EEG Signals During Wake and Sleep in Two Chronic Insomnia Patients, Before and After Cognitive Behavioral Therapy -- SVM Classification of EEG Signals for Brain Computer Interface -- Role of Topology in Complex Neural Networks -- Non-Iterative Imaging Method for Electrical Resistance Tomography -- Role of Temporally Asymmetric Synaptic Plasticity to Memorize Group-Synchronous Patterns of Neural Activity -- Algorithms and Topographic Mapping for Epileptic Seizures Recognition and Prediction -- Computational Intelligence Methods for Discovering Diagnostic Gene Targets about aGVHD -- Dynamic Modeling of Heart Dipole Vector for the ECG and VCG Generation -- Chapter 5. Applications -- The TRIPLE Hybrid Cognitive Architecture: Connectionist Aspects -- Interactive Reader Device for Visually Impaired People -- On the Relevance of Image Acquisition Resolution for Hand Geometry Identification Based on MLP -- Evaluating Soft Computing Techniques for Path Loss Estimation in Urban Environments -- The Department Store Metaphor: Organizing, Presenting and Accessing Cultural Heritage Components in a Complex Framework -- Subject Index -- Author Index.