Progresses in Artificial Intelligence and Neural Systems
暫譯: 人工智慧與神經系統的進展

本書提供了有關人工智慧和神經網絡當前進展的概述。人工智慧（AI）方法在建模、預測和識別任務中展現了出色的能力，支持人機互動。同時，由於情感在實現類人機器互動中的重要性，情感問題受到越來越多的關注。真正的挑戰在於利用人類互動的情感特徵，使計算機在與人類互動時具備情感和社會上的可信度。

本書評估了當前複雜的計算智能工具在多學科研究中如何以及在多大程度上支持對人類情感和表達在互動場景中適當系統反應的特徵化。從跨學科的角度討論最新的研究趨勢、創新方法和未來挑戰，對於學術界和業界的研究人員和實踐者來說，這是一本寶貴的資源。

Anna Esposito received her Laurea degree summa cum laude in Information Technology and Computer Science from Salerno University (1989), and her Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Napoli University Federico II (1995) with a thesis developed at MIT, Boston, USA. She was a postdoc at IIASS, Lecturer at Salerno University Department of Physics (1996-2000), and Research Professor (2000-2002) at WSU Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ohio, USA. She is currently an Associate Professor at Campania University L. Vanvitelli. She has published over 240 peer-reviewed papers in journals, books, and conference proceedings.
Marcos Faundez-Zanuy received his B.Sc. degree (1993) and Ph.D. (1998) from the Polytechnic University of Catalunya. He is a Full Professor at ESUP Tecnocampus Mataro, where he also heads the Signal Processing Group. His research focuses on biometrics applied to security and health. He was the initiator and Chairman of the EU COST action 277 "Nonlinear speech processing" and secretary of COST action 2102 "Cross-Modal Analysis of Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication". He is the author of over 50 papers indexed in ISI Journal citation report, over 100 conference papers and several books, and is the PI of 10 national and EU funded projects.
Francesco Carlo Morabito joined the University of Reggio Calabria, Italy, in 1989, and has been a Full Professor of Electrical Engineering there since 2001. He served as President of the Electronic Engineering Course, a member of the University's Inner Evaluation Committee, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Deputy Rector, and is currently Vice-Rector for Internationalization. He is a member of the Italian Society of Electrical Engineering's Steering Committee.
Eros Pasero has been a Professor of Electronics at Politecnico of Turin since 1991. He was a visiting Professor at ICSI Berkeley (1991), Tongji University Shanghai (2011, 2015), and Tashkent Politechic University, Uzbekistan. His interests include artificial neural networks and electronic sensors. He heads the Neuronica Lab, which develops wired and wireless sensors for biomedical, environmental and automotive applications, and neural networks for sensor signals processing. Prof. Pasero is President of the Italian Society for Neural Networks (SIREN) and was General Chair of IJCNN2000, SIRWEC2006, and WIRN 2015. He has received several awards and holds 5 international patents, and is the author of over 100 international publications.

安娜·埃斯波西托於1989年在薩萊諾大學獲得資訊科技與計算機科學的優等學位（Laurea degree summa cum laude），並於1995年在那不勒斯費德里科二世大學獲得應用數學與計算機科學的博士學位（Ph.D.），其論文在美國麻省理工學院（MIT）完成。她曾在IIASS擔任博士後研究員，並於1996年至2000年在薩萊諾大學物理系擔任講師，2000年至2002年在美國俄亥俄州的華盛頓州立大學計算機科學與工程系擔任研究教授。她目前是坎帕尼亞大學L. Vanvitelli的副教授。她已在期刊、書籍和會議論文集中發表超過240篇經過同行評審的論文。
馬爾科斯·方德斯-薩努於1993年獲得加泰羅尼亞理工大學的學士學位（B.Sc.）和1998年的博士學位（Ph.D.）。他是ESUP Tecnocampus Mataro的正教授，並負責信號處理小組。他的研究重點是應用於安全和健康的生物識別技術。他是歐盟COST行動277「非線性語音處理」的發起人和主席，以及COST行動2102「語言與非語言交流的跨模態分析」的秘書。他是超過50篇被ISI期刊引用報告索引的論文的作者，發表了超過100篇會議論文和幾本書籍，並且是10個國家和歐盟資助項目的首席研究員（PI）。
弗朗切斯科·卡洛·莫拉比托於1989年加入意大利雷焦卡拉布里亞大學，自2001年以來一直擔任該校電氣工程的正教授。他曾擔任電子工程課程的主任、大學內部評估委員會成員、工程學院院長和副校長，目前擔任國際化副校長。他是意大利電氣工程學會的指導委員會成員。
埃羅斯·帕塞羅自1991年以來一直擔任都靈理工學院的電子學教授。他曾在1991年擔任加州大學伯克利分校的訪問教授，並於2011年和2015年在上海同濟大學及烏茲別克斯坦塔什干理工大學擔任訪問教授。他的研究興趣包括人工神經網絡和電子傳感器。他負責Neuronica實驗室，該實驗室開發用於生物醫學、環境和汽車應用的有線和無線傳感器，以及用於傳感器信號處理的神經網絡。帕塞羅教授是意大利神經網絡學會（SIREN）的主席，曾擔任IJCNN2000、SIRWEC2006和WIRN 2015的總主席。他獲得過多個獎項，擁有5項國際專利，並發表了超過100篇國際出版物。