Eduardo R. Caianiello Lecture.- Nonparametric Hidden Markov Models: Principles and Applications to Speech Recognition.- Models.- Cooperative Games in a Stochastic Environment.- Lattice Models for Context-Driven Regularization in Motion Perception.- On the Dynamics of Scale-Free Boolean Networks.- Architectures and Algorithms.- A Deterministic Learning Approach Based on Discrepancy.- An Hybrid Neural/Genetic Approach to Continuous Multi-objective Optimization Problems.- An Algorithm to Model Paradigm Shifting in Fuzzy Clustering.- ANFIS Synthesis by Hyperplane Clustering for Time Series Prediction.- Generalized Splitting 2D Flexible Activation Function.- Image and Signal Processing.- Face Localization with Recursive Neural Networks.- Multi-class Image Coding via EM-KLT Algorithm.- A Face Detection System Based on Color and Support Vector Machines.- A Neural Architecture for 3D Segmentation.- Automatic Polyphonic Piano Music Transcription by a Multi-classification Discriminative-Learning.- An Adaptive Learning Algorithm for ECG Noise and Baseline Drift Removal.- Towards an Automatic Lesion Segmentation Method for Dual Echo Magnetic Resonance Images Using an Ensemble of Neural Networks.- A Probabilistic Neural Networks System to Recognize 3D Face of People.- Dereverberation of Acoustic Signals by Independent Component Analysis.- Applications.- Supervised and Unsupervised Analysis Applied to Strombolian E.Q..- Intracranial Pressure Signal Processing by Adaptive Fuzzy Network.- Soft Computing Techniques for Classification of Bronze Age Axes.- Environmental Risk and Territorial Compatibility: A Soft Computing Approach.- Neural Network Approach for Estimation and Prediction of Time to Disruption in Tokamak Reactors.- A Concurrent Neural Classifier for HTML Documents Retrieval.- Bayesian Modelling for Packet Channels.- Neural Networks for Photometric Redshifts Evaluation.- Special Session on “Bioinformatics and Statistics” Chaired by Francesco Masulli.- Prediction of Signal Peptide in Proteins with Neural Networks.- Proteomic Profiling of Inherited Breast Cancer: Identification of Molecular Targets for Early Detection, Prognosis and Treatment, and Related Bioinformatics Tools.- Browsing Large Pedigrees to Study of the Isolated Populations in the “Parco Nazionale del Cilento e Vallo di Diano”.- Monitoring of Car Driving Awareness from Biosignals.- Markov Analysis of Protein Sequence Similarities.- Divergence Projections for Variable Selection in Multi–layer Perceptron Networks.- Large Scale Prediction of Protein Interactions by a SVM-Based Method.- Gene Selection Using Random Voronoi Ensembles.- QSAR/QSPR Studies by Kernel Machines, Recursive Neural Networks and Their Integration.- An Application of Low Bias Bagged SVMs to the Classification of Heterogeneous Malignant Tissues.- Special Session on “Formats of Knowledge: words, images, narratives” Chaired by Maria Rita Ciceri.- Narrative Thought in Childhood and Adolescence Hierarchical Models of Story Composition and Interpretation.- Degrees of Similarity in Knowledge Transfer.- Formats and Languages of Knowledge: Models of Links for Learning Processes.- Pictures and Words: Analogies and Specificity in Knowledge Organization.- Emotional and Metaemotional Competence: A Developmental View.