Advances in Computing

Advances in Computing deals with the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. It publishes regular papers and special issues on specific topics of interest to international audiences of educational researchers.

Filippo Neri

Editorial Board Member of Advances in Computing

Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Naples Federico, Italy

Research Areas

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Genetic Algorithms, Evolutionary Computation, Financial Time Series Modeling, Trading Systems

Education

2008MasterBusiness Administration, Imperial College London, UK
1992-1997Ph.DComputer Science, University of Milan, Italy
1987-1992LaureaComputer Science, University of Turin, Italy

Experience

2008-presentAssociate Professor of Computer Science at UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES "FEDERICO II"(ITALY)
2006-2007Visiting scientist and Marie Curie fellow at ERICSSON (IRELAND)
2002-2008Senior Researcher in Computer Science at UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT (ITALY)
2000-2002Scientific supervisor and trainee research manager at UNILEVER (UK)

Academic Achievement

1992-97-Ph.D. in Computer Science, graded 'Excellent', from University of Milan, Italy
1987-92-Laurea in Computer Science, 110/110 cum lode, from University of Turin, Italy

Membership

2008 8th WSEAS International Conference on Applied Computer Science 08
2008 IASTED International Conference on Modelling and Simulation
2008 IASTED Technical Committee-4th IASTED Int. Conf. on Advances in Computer Science and Technology 08
2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'08)
2008 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP'08) 2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2009 (CEC 2009)
2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2007 (CEC 2007)
2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'07)
2007 WSEAS American Computing Conference 07
2007 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing
2006 WSEAS Int. Conf. on Evolutionary Computation 06
2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'06)
2006 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2005 (CEC 2006)
2006 IASTED Modelling and Simulation (MS 2006)
2006 IASTED Artificial Intelligence and Applications 2006
2006 IASTED Applied Modelling and Simulation (AMS 2006)
2005-2008 IASTED Technical Committee on Modelling and Simulation
2005 WSEAS Int. Conf. on Evolutionary Computation 05
2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'05)
2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2005 (CEC 2005)
2004 International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce (IAWTIC'2004)
2004 International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling Control and Automation
(CIMCA'2004)
2004 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 04)-Track on Computer Applications in Health Care
2004 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2004)
2003 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2003)
2002 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2002)
2002 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2002)
2001 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2001)
2001 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2001)
2001 Workshop EVOLEARN 2001 associated to EUROGP2001
2000 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2000)
1999 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 1999)
1998 15th International Conference on Machine Learning 98
1998 International Workshop on Multi Strategy Learning 98

Publications: Journals

[1]  Neri F. et al. (1993). "Multi Strategy Learning and Theory Revision", Machine Learning, Kluwer Academic Publishers (Boston, MA), 11, pp. 153–172.
[2]  Neri F. et al. (1995). "Search–Intensive Concept Induction". Evolutionary Computation, MIT Press (Cambridge, MA), 3 (4), pp. 375-419.
[3]  Neri F. et al. (1996). "Exploring the Power of Genetic Search in Learning Symbolic Classifiers". IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Computer Society press, PAMI 18, 1135-1142.
[4]  Neri F. et al. (1996). "Genetic Algorithms in Machine Learning". AI Communications, IOS Press (The Nederlands), pp. 21–26.
[5]  Neri F. et al. (1997). "Integrating Multiple Learning Strategies in First Order Logics". Machine Learning, Kluwer Academic Publishers (Boston, MA), 27, pp. 209–240.
[6]  Neri F. et al. (1998). "Learning in the 'Real World'". Machine Learning, Kluwer Academic Publishers (Boston, MA), 30, pp. 133-164.
[7]  Neri F. (2000). "Multi Level Knowledge in Modeling Qualitative Physics Learning". Machine Learning, Kluwer Academic Publishers (Boston, MA), 38, pp. 181-211.
[8]  Neri F. (2002). "Relational Concept Learning by Cooperative Coevolution". ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics, ACM Press, vol 7, art. 12, pp. 256-278.
[9]  Neri F. (2005). "Empirical investigation of word-of-mouth phenomena in markets: a software agent approach". WSEAS Transaction on Computers,WSEAS Press (Athens, Greece), issue 8, vol. 4, pp. 987-994.
[10]  Neri F. (2005). "Cooperative evolutive concept learning: an empirical study". WSEAS Transaction on Information Science and Applicationss,WSEAS Press (Athens, Greece), issue 5, vol. 2, pp. 559-563.
[11]  Neri F. (2005). "Traffic packet based intrusion detection: decision trees and generic based learning evaluation". WSEAS Transaction on Computers,WSEAS Press (Athens, Greece), issue 9 vol. 4, pp. 1017-1024.
[12]  Neri F. (2008). "Estimating resource requirements for distributed network management applications in mobile networks". International Journal of Communications, Naun Press, issue 1 vol. 1, pp. 22-25.
[13]  Neri F. (2008). "PIRR: a Methodology for Distributed Network Management in Mobile Networks". WSEAS Transaction on Information Science and Applications,WSEAS Press (Athens, Greece), issue 3, vol. 5, pp. 306-311.
[14]  Neri F. (2009). "Software Agents as a Simulation Tool to Study Aggregate Consumers' Behavior in Market Places". Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science, Institute of Advanced Research Press (Irvine, CA, USA), vol. 1, pp. 32-43.
[15]  Neri F. (2010). "Software agents as a versatile simulation tool to model complex systems". WSEAS Transaction on Information Science and Applications,WSEAS Press (Athens, Greece), issue 5, vol. 7, pp. 609-618.

Publications: Conferences/Workshops/Symposiums

[1]  Neri F. (2007). "The PIRR methodology to estimate resource requirements for distributed network management applications for mobile networks". Proc. of 7th WSEAS Conference on Applied Computer Science (ACS'07), , WSEAS Press, pp. 277-282.
[2]  Neri F. (2007). "Using an agent based simulation to evaluate scenarios in customers' buying behaviour". Emergent Intelligence of Networked Agents, Lecture Notes in Studies in Computational Intelligence series, Springer Verlag, vol. 56, pp. 177-188.
[3]  Neri F. (2006). "Agent based simulation to study customers' buying behaviour". Proc. of the WEIN Workshop associated to the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 2006 (AAMAS 2006), (Hakadoke, Japan).
[4]  Neri F. (2006). "Representing and simulating consumers' behavior in an information sensitive market place". Proc. of the WEIN Workshop associated to the the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 2006 (AAMAS 2006), AAAI Press, (Hakodate, Japan), in press.
[5]  Neri F. (2004). "Representing and simulating consumers' behavior in an information sensitive market place". Proc. of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 2004 (AAMAS 2004), AAAI Press, New York (USA), pp. 421-422.
[6]  Neri F. (2004). "GA based concept learning through alternative cooperative strategies". Proc. of the IEEE 4th International Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2004), Budapest (Ungheria), IEEE Press, pp. 391-396.
[7]  Neri F. (2003). "Consumer shopping in an E-commerce enabled digital market. An Agent based simulation". Invited talk in proc. of International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic Business, Education, and Mobile technologies on the Internet (Winter SSGRR 03 conference), L'Aquila (Italia), pp. 121-126.
[8]  Neri F. (2003). "An evolutionary approach to model and detect unauthorized intrusions in computer networks". In proc. of International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation (CIMCA 2003), Wien (Austria), pp. 7. In press.
[9]  Neri F. (2003). "An Intelligent Agent based simulation of customer's behavior on a digital market place". In proc. of International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies, and Internet Commerce-IAWTIC'2003, Wien (Austria), pp.152-158.
[10]  Neri F. et al. (2003). "Including life-time and options in residual income indicators". In proc. of IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering (CIFEr2003), Hong Kong, pp. 432-437.
[11]  Neri F. (2002). "Modeling product awareness rates and market shares". Proc. of International Workshop on Regulated Agent-Based Social Systems: Theories and Applications (RASTA'02) associated to the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2002), Humboldt, pp 149-160.
[12]  Neri F. (2002). "Cooperative Concept learning by means of a distributed GA". Proceedings of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2002 (GECCO 2002), AAAI Press, New York, pp 535.
[13]  Neri F. (2001). "Relating Two Cooperative Learning Strategies to the Features of the Found Concept Descriptions". Proceedings of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2001 (GECCO 2001), AAAI Press, San Francisco, pp 324.
[14]  Neri F. (2001). "Investigating Two Cooperative Strategies for Concept Learning". Proc. of IJCAI'01 Workshop Stochastic Search Algorithm, AAAI Press, Seattle, pp22-28.
[15]  Neri F. (2001). "A Study on the effect of Cooperative Evolution on Concept Learning" EVOLEARN 2001 Workshop of EUROGP2001 Conference, LNCS 2037, Como, pp. 414-420.
[16]  Neri F. (2000). "Modeling TCP/IP network traffic for intrusion detection by genetic evolution". Proceedings of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2000, Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, pp 323-324.
[17]  Neri F. (2000). "Comparing Local Search with respect to Genetic Evolution to Detect Intrusions in Computer Networks". Proceedings of Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2000, IEEE Press, San Diego, in pp. 512-517.
[18]  Neri F. (2000). "Evolutive learning of TCP/IP traffic model". Proceedings of EVOTEL2000-EVONET Workshop. Edimburgh (UK), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series, Springer (Berlin, Germany), LNAI 1803, pp.214-223.
[19]  Neri F. (2000). "Mining TCP/IP traffic for network intrusion detection by using a Distributed Genetic Algorithm". Proceedings of European Conference on Machine Learning 2000. Barcelona (Spain), LNAI 1810, pp.313-322.
[20]  Neri F. (1999). "Computer Aided Tracing of Children's Physics Learning: a Teacher Oriented View". Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 99 (IJCAI'99), AAAI Press, pp. 370-377.
[21]  Neri F. (1998). "The Role of Explanation in Understanding Children Learning Elementary Heat Transfer Phenomena". Proc. of International Workshop on Multi Strategy Learning 98. George Mason University (VA), pp. 116-124.
[22]  Neri F. (1998). "Simulating Children Learning and Explaining Elementary Heat Transfer Phenomena: a Multistrategy System at work". Proc. European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML98), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series, Springer (Berlin, Germany), LNAI 1398, pp.67-76.
[23]  Neri F. et al. (1997). "Machine Learning for Information Extraction". Proc. of School on Information Extraction 1997, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series, Springer (Berlin, Germany), LNAI 1299, pp. 171–191.
[24]  Neri F. et al. (1997). "World Model Construction in Children during Physics Learning". Proc. of International Symposium Methodologies for Intelligent Systems '97 (ISMIS 97), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series, Springer Verlag (Berlin, Germany), LNAI 1325, pp. 127-136.
[25]  Neri F. et al. (1997). "Modelling Physical Knowledge Acquisition in Children with Machine Learning". Proc. of 19th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (COGSCI97), Stanford (CA), Morgan Kaufmann, pp. 566–571.
[26]  Neri F. et al. (1996). "A Fine-Grained Parallel Evolutionary Program for Concept Induction". Proc. of Foundations of Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 96), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series, Springer Verlag (Berlin, Germany), vol. 1079, pp. 169–177.
[27]  Neri F. et al. (1995). "What is "Real World"?". Proc. of ICML'95 Workshop on Applying Machine Learning in Practice , Eds. D. Aha P. J. Riddle, Lake Tahoe (CA, USA), pp. 34-40.
[28]  Neri F. et al. (1995). "Analysis of Genetic Algorithms Evolution under pure Selection". Proc. of International Conference on Genetic Algorithms 1995, L. Eshelman Ed., Pittsburgh (USA), Morgan Kaufmann, pp. 32-41.
[29]  Neri F. et al. (1995). "A Parallel Genetic Algorithm for Concept Learning". Proc. of International Conference on Genetic Algorithms 1995, L. Eshelman Ed., Pittsburgh (USA), Morgan Kaufmann, pp. 436-443.
[30]  Neri F. et al. (1994). "Knowledge Representation in Machine Learning". European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML-94), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Verlag (Berlin, Germany), vol 784, pp. 20–27.
[31]  Neri F. et al. (1993). "Exploiting Sample Selection and Ordering to Speed Up Learning". Proc. AAAI Spring Symposium on "Order Effects in Incremental Learning", (Stanford, CA), pp 54–69.
[32]  Neri F. (2001). "An Agent based approach to Virtual Market Place Simulation". Proc. Congresso dell'Associazione Italiana Intelligenza Artificiale 2001 (AIIA01), pp. 236-243.
[33]  Neri F. (1999). "Tracing of Children's Physics Learning: a Teacher Oriented View". Proc. of Workshop on AI in Education at Congresso dell'Associazione Italiana Intelligenza Artificiale (AI IA99), Universita' di Bologna, pp. 43–49.
[34]  Neri F. (1997). "REGAL3.2: FOL Concept Learning by Cooperative Genetic Algorithms". Proc. of 5 Congresso dell'Associazione Italiana Intelligenza Artificiale (AI IA97), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series LNAI 1321, Springer Verlag (Berlin, Germany), pp. 443–446.
[35]  Neri F. et al. (1997). "Modeling Conceptual Change an Interdisciplinary Approach". Proc. of 5 Congresso dell'Associazione Italiana Intelligenza Artificiale (AI IA97), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series LNAI 1321, Springer Verlag (Berlin, Germany), pp. 1–12.

Publications: Books/Book Chapters

[1]  Neri F. et al. (1999). "Modelling Conceptual Change with a Machine Learning System". In D. Kaiser and S. Vosniadou (Eds.), Modelling changes in understanding: case studies in physical reasoning, Elsevier (Oxford). pp.168-191.
[2]  Neri F. et al. (1995). "Knowledge Representation Changes in Humans and Machines". In P. Reimann and H. Spada (Eds.), Learning in Humans and Machines: Towards an Interdisciplinary Learning Science, Elsevier (Oxford), pp. 109-128.