Neural Approaches to Dynamics of Signal Exchanges
暫譯: 神經網絡在信號交換動態中的應用

本書介紹了有助於智能對話系統發展的研究，旨在簡化日常生活中各種方面，例如醫療診斷和娛樂。涵蓋主要主題領域：機器學習和人工神經網絡；算法和模型；以及社會和生物識別數據在人機介面應用中的使用，討論了音視訊信號的處理，以檢測用戶感知的狀態，最新的科學發現包括處理語言（詞彙、語法和語用）、聽覺（聲音、語調、聲音表達）和視覺信號（手勢、肢體語言、面部表情），以及檢測溝通障礙的算法、遠程健康狀態監測、情感和情緒分析、社會行為和參與度。此外，本書還探討了神經和機器學習算法在先進電信系統實施中的應用、與特殊需求人士的溝通、通過計算機內容進行情感調節、用於追蹤現實生活變化的先進傳感器和自動系統，以及先進人機介面的發展。本書並不專注於解決特定問題，而是描述了在不同領域和應用中具有正面影響的研究結果。

Anna Esposito received her "Laurea Degree" summa cum laude in Information Technology and Computer Science from Università di Salerno in 1989. She received her PhD Degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Università di Napoli "Federico II" in 1995. She is currently working as an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the Department of Psychology, Università della Campania. She is associated with WSU as Research Affiliate. Previously, she worked as Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics at the Università di Salerno (Italy). She also held a position of Research Professor (2000-2002) at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Wright State University(WSU), Dayton, OH, USA. She has authored 190+ peer reviewed publications in international journals, books, and conference proceedings. She edited/co-edited 28+ books and conference proceedings in collaboration with Italian, EU and overseas colleagues. She has also guest edited several journal special issues.

She has been the proposer and chair of COST 2102. Currently, she is the Italian Management Committee Member of COST Action CA15218 and the Italian Management Committee Substitute Member of COST Action IS1406. Previously also she has been Italian Management Committee member of many COST ACTIONS. Since 2006, she is a Member of the European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems, Interaction and Robotics.

Marcos Faundez-Zanuy received his B.Sc. degree in Telecommunication in 1993 and the Ph.D. degree in 1998 from the Polytechnic University of Catalunya. He is now Full Professor at ESUP Tecnocampus Mataro and heads the Signal Processing Group. He also held the position of Dean of Escola Superior Politecnica Tecnocampus from September, 2009 to April, 2018. His area of research interests are in the fields of biometrics applied to security and health. He was the initiator and Chairman of the European COST action 277 "Nonlinear speech processing"', and the secretary of COST action 2102 "Cross-Modal Analysis of Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication". He has authored more than 50 papers indexed in international journals, more than 100 conference papers, and around 10 books. He is also responsible of 10 national and European research projects.

Francesco Carlo Morabito got the "Laurea" Degree (Summa cum laude) from the University of Napoli (Italy) in 1985. He now serves as Vice-Rector for Internationalisation at University of Reggio Calabria, Italy. Previously, he was Professor of Electrical Engineering at same University. He has also worked at Radar Department, Selenia SpA, Rome, as Researcher. He also taught at the EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, University of Naples, University of Messina, and University of Cosenza. He was a Visiting Researcher at Max-Planck Institute fuer Plasmaphysiks Muenchen, Germany from 1994-2001. He has authored 280+ papers in international journals/conferences and 10 book chapters. He is also editor/co-editor of 6 international books. He is Foreign Member of Royal Academy of Doctors, Barcelona, Spain (from 2004). He received Gold Medal "Henry Coanda", Rumanian Academy for Researches in Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems, Iasi, Rumania in 2003. He was President of the Italian Society of Neural Networks (SIREN) from 2008-2014. He also held positions in INNS: Member of the Board of Governors (2000-2002); Secretary (2003); Member of the Board of Governors (2004-2006; 2007-2009; 2010-2012); Chair of the Nomination Committee (2010, 2011, 2012). He is Associate Editor of Neural Networks (Elsevier); Editorial Board Member of many reputed journals.

Eros G. Pasero is Professor of Electronics at the Politecnico of Turin since 1991. Previously, he was Professor at the University of Roma, Visiting Professor at ICSI, UC Berkeley, CA, Professor of digital electronics and electronic systems at Tongji University, Shanghai, China in 2001 and "Electronic Devices" in 2015 and Professor of digital electronics and electronic systems at TTPU (Turin Tashkent Politechic University), Tashkent, Uzbekistan. His area of research interests are in Artificial Neural Networks and Electronic Sensors.

He is now the President of SIREN, the Italian Society for Neural Networks; he was General Chairman of IJCNN2000 in Como, General Chairman of SIRWEC2006 in Turin and General Chairman of WIRN 2015 in Vietri. He has received several awards and holds 5 international patents. He was supervisor of tens of international PhD's and hundreds of Master students. He has authored more than 100 international publications. He is involved in several funded research projects.

安娜·埃斯波西托（Anna Esposito）於1989年在薩萊諾大學（Università di Salerno）獲得資訊科技與計算機科學的優等學位（Laurea Degree summa cum laude）。她於1995年在那不勒斯大學（Università di Napoli 'Federico II'）獲得應用數學與計算機科學的博士學位（PhD Degree）。目前，她在坎帕尼亞大學（Università della Campania）心理學系擔任計算機科學副教授，並與華盛頓州立大學（WSU）合作擔任研究夥伴。她曾在薩萊諾大學物理系擔任助理教授（Assistant Professor）。此外，她還曾在美國俄亥俄州代頓的華盛頓州立大學計算機科學與工程系擔任研究教授（Research Professor，2000-2002）。她在國際期刊、書籍和會議論文集中發表了超過190篇經過同行評審的出版物，並與意大利、歐盟及海外的同事合作編輯/共同編輯了超過28本書籍和會議論文集。她還擔任過幾個期刊特刊的客座編輯。

她是COST 2102的提案人和主席。目前，她是COST行動CA15218的意大利管理委員會成員，以及COST行動IS1406的意大利管理委員會替代成員。她之前也曾是多個COST行動的意大利管理委員會成員。自2006年以來，她是歐洲人工認知系統、互動和機器人技術推進網絡的成員。

馬科斯·法恩德斯-薩努伊（Marcos Faundez-Zanuy）於1993年獲得電信學士學位（B.Sc. degree），並於1998年獲得加泰羅尼亞理工大學的博士學位（Ph.D. degree）。他目前是ESUP Tecnocampus Mataro的全職教授，並負責信號處理小組。他還曾擔任Tecnocampus高等技術學院的院長，任期從2009年9月到2018年4月。他的研究興趣領域包括應用於安全和健康的生物識別技術。他是歐洲COST行動277「非線性語音處理」的發起人和主席，以及COST行動2102「語言和非語言交流的跨模態分析」的秘書。他在國際期刊上發表了超過50篇論文，發表了超過100篇會議論文，並撰寫了約10本書籍。他還負責10個國家和歐洲的研究項目。

弗朗切斯科·卡羅·莫拉比托（Francesco Carlo Morabito）於1985年在那不勒斯大學（University of Napoli）獲得優等學位（Laurea Degree，Summa cum laude）。他目前擔任意大利雷焦卡拉布里亞大學的國際化副校長。此前，他是同一所大學的電氣工程教授。他還曾在羅馬的Selenia SpA雷達部門擔任研究員。他曾在瑞士洛桑的EPFL、那不勒斯大學、梅西納大學和科森扎大學任教。他於1994年至2001年期間在德國慕尼黑的馬克斯·普朗克等離子體物理研究所擔任訪問研究員。他在國際期刊/會議上發表了超過280篇論文和10章書籍。他還是6本國際書籍的編輯/共同編輯。他是西班牙巴塞隆納皇家醫學院的外籍成員（自2004年起）。他於2003年獲得羅馬尼亞伊亞西的羅馬尼亞神經網絡與模糊系統研究院頒發的「亨利·科安達金獎」（Gold Medal 'Henry Coanda'）。他於2008年至2014年擔任意大利神經網絡學會（SIREN）會長。他還在INNS擔任過多個職位：董事會成員（2000-2002）；秘書（2003）；董事會成員（2004-2006；2007-2009；2010-2012）；提名委員會主席（2010、2011、2012）。他是《神經網絡》（Neural Networks，Elsevier）的副編輯，並擔任多本知名期刊的編輯委員會成員。

埃羅斯·G·帕塞羅（Eros G. Pasero）自1991年以來一直擔任都靈理工大學（Politecnico of Turin）的電子學教授。此前，他曾在羅馬大學任教，並在加州大學伯克利分校的ICSI擔任訪問教授，於2001年在上海的同濟大學教授數位電子學和電子系統，於2015年教授「電子設備」，並在烏茲別克斯坦塔什干的塔什干理工大學（TTPU）教授數位電子學和電子系統。他的研究興趣領域包括人工神經網絡和電子傳感器。

他目前是意大利神經網絡學會（SIREN）的會長；曾擔任IJCNN2000的總主席（General Chairman），在科莫舉行，SIRWEC2006的總主席，在都靈舉行，以及WIRN 2015的總主席，在維特里舉行。他獲得了多個獎項並擁有5項國際專利。他曾指導數十名國際博士生和數百名碩士生。他發表了超過100篇國際出版物，並參與多個資助的研究項目。