Publications

List of Publications

Journal Papers

  • C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, “Deep Reservoir Neural Networks for Trees”, Information Sciences (2019), Elsevier, vol. 480, pp. 174-193.

  • C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, L. Pedrelli, "Design of Deep Echo State Networks", Neural Networks (2018), Elsevier, vol. 108, pp. 33-47, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2018.08.002, ISSN: 0893-6080.

  • C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, L. Silvestri, "Local Lyapunov Exponents of Deep Echo State Networks", Neurocomputing (2018), Elsevier, vol. 298, pp. 34-45, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2017.11.073, ISSN: 0925-2312.

  • D. Bacciu, S. Chessa, C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, L. Pedrelli, E. Ferro, L. Fortunati, D. La Rosa, F. Palumbo, F. Vozzi, O. Parodi, "A Learning System for Automatic Berg Balance Scale Score Estimation", Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (2017), Elsevier, vol. 66, pp. 60-74, DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2017.08.018, ISSN: 0952-1976. [LINK].

  • F. Palumbo, D. La Rosa, E. Ferro, D. Bacciu, C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, S. Chessa, F. Vozzi, O. Parodi, "Reliability and human factors in Ambient Assisted Living environments", Journal of Reliable Intelligent Environments (2017), Springer, vol. 3(3), pp. 139-157, DOI: 10.1007/s40860-017-0042-1, ISSN: 2199-4676.

  • C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, "Echo State Property of Deep Reservoir Computing Networks", Cognitive Computation (2017), Springer, vol. 9(3), pp. 337-350, DOI: 10.1007/s12559-017-9461-9, ISSN: 1866-9964 [PDF_preprint] [Read_Online]

  • C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, L. Pedrelli, "Deep Reservoir Computing: A Critical Experimental Analysis", Neurocomputing (2017), Elsevier, vol. 268, pp. 87-99, DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2016.12.089 [LINK][PDF_preprint]

  • F. Palumbo, C. Gallicchio, R. Pucci, A. Micheli, "Human Activity Recognition using Multisensor Data Fusion based on Reservoir Computing", Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, IOS Press, vol. 8, pp. 87-107, DOI:10.3233/AIS-160372, ISSN: 1876-1364, 2016. [LINK]

  • E. Crisostomi, C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, M. Raugi, M. Tucci, "Prediction of the Italian Electricity Price for Smart Grid Applications", Neurocomputing (2015), Elsevier, vol. 170, pp. 286-295, DOI:10.1016/j.neucom.2015.02.089, ISSN: 0925-2312. [LINK]

  • M. Dragone, G. Amato, D. Bacciu, S. Chessa, S. Coleman, M. Di Rocco, C. Gallicchio, C. Gennaro, H. Lozano, L. Maguire, M. McGinnity, A. Micheli, G. M.P. O’Hare, A. Renteria, A. Saffiotti, C. Vairo, P. Vance, "A Cognitive Robotic Ecology Approach to Self-Configuring and Evolving AAL Systems", Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (2015), Elsevier, vol. 45, pp. 269-280, DOI:10.1016/j.engappai.2015.07.004, ISSN: 0952-1976. [PDF_preprint]

  • G. Amato, D. Bacciu, M. Broxvall, S. Chessa, S. Coleman, M. Di Rocco, M. Dragone, C. Gallicchio, C. Gennaro, H. Lozano, T.M. McGinnity, A. Micheli, A.K. Ray, A. Renteria, A. Saffiotti, D. Swords, C. Vairo, P. Vance, "Robotic Ubiquitous Cognitive Ecology for Smart Homes", Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems (2015), Springer, vol. 80(S1), pp. 57-81, DOI:10.1007/s10846-015-0178-2, ISSN: 0921-0296.

  • D. Bacciu, P. Barsocchi, S. Chessa, C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, "An experimental characterization of reservoir computing in ambient assisted living applications", Neural Computing and Applications (2014), Springer-Verlag, vol. 24 (6), pp. 1451-1464, DOI: 10.1007/s00521-013-1364-4, ISSN: 0941-0643. [PDF_postprint]

  • P. Barsocchi, S. Chessa, A. Micheli, C. Gallicchio, "Forecast-Driven Enhancement of Received Signal Strength (RSS)-Based Localization Systems", ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (2013), vol. 2(4), pp. 978-995, DOI:10.3390/ijgi2040978, ISSN: 2220-9964.

  • C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, "Tree Echo State Networks", Neurocomputing (2013), vol. 101, pp. 319-337, Elsevier, DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2012.08.017, ISSN: 0925-2312. [PDF_preprint]

  • C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, "Architectural and Markovian factors of echo state networks", Neural Networks (2011), Elsevier, vol. 24(5), pp. 440-456, DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2011.02.002, ISSN: 0893-6080. [PDF_preprint]

Book Chapters

  • O. Vermesan, A. Bröring, E. Tragos, M. Serrano, D. Bacciu, S. Chessa, C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, M. Dragone, A. Saffiotti, P. Simoens, F. Cavallo, R. Bahr, "Internet of robotic things: converging sensing/actuating, hypoconnectivity, artificial intelligence and IoT Platforms", Cognitive hyperconnected digital transformation: internet of things intelligence evolution (2017), pp. 1-35, DOI: 10.13052/rp-9788793609105, ISBN: 9788793609105 [PDF]

Proceedings

  • B. Paaßen, C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, A. Sperduti, "Embeddings and Representation Learning for Structured Data" (2019), Proceedings of the 27th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN), Bruges, Belgium, 24-26 April 2019.

  • C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, L. Pedrelli, "Comparison between DeepESNs and gated RNNs on multivariate time-series prediction" (2019), Proceedings of the 27th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN), Bruges, Belgium, 24-26 April 2019.

  • C. Gallicchio, "Chasing the Echo State Property" (2019), Proceedings of the 27th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN), Bruges, Belgium, 24-26 April 2019.

  • C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, L. Pedrelli, "Fast Spectral Radius Initialization for Recurrent Neural Networks" (2019), Accepted for the 2019 INNS Big Data and Deep Learning conference (INNSBDDL), Sestri Levante, Genoa, Italy, 16-18 April 2019.

  • D. Di Sarli, C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, "Itamoji 2018: Emoji prediction via tree echo state networks" (2018), Proceedings of 6th Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian. Final Workshop (EVALITA 2018), Turin, Italy. CEUR.org.

  • B. Paaßen, C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, B. Hammer, "Tree Edit Distance Learning via Adaptive Symbol Embeddings", (2018) 35th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Accepted.

  • C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, "Why Layering in RNN? A DeepESN Survey", Proceedings of the IJCNN 2018, Accepted.

  • C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, "Deep Tree Echo State Networks", Proceedings of the IJCNN 2018, Accepted.

  • C. Gallicchio, "Short-term Memory of Deep RNN" (2018), Proceedings of the 26th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN), Bruges, Belgium, 25-27 April 2018, i6doc.com, pp. 633-638, ISBN: 978-2875870476.

  • C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, P. Tino, "Randomized Recurrent Neural Networks" (2018), Proceedings of the 26th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN), Bruges, Belgium, 25-27 April 2018, i6doc.com, pp. 415-424, ISBN: 978-2875870476.

  • C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, L. Pedrelli, "Deep Echo State Networks for Diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease" (2018), Proceedings of the 26th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN), Bruges, Belgium, 25-27 April 2018, i6doc.com, pp. 397-402, ISBN: 978-2875870476.

  • C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, "Experimental Analysis of Deep Echo State Networks for Ambient Assisted Living" (2017), accepted for the Workshop Artificial Intelligence for Ambient Assisted Living (AI*AAL 2017), co-located with the 16th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2017), Bari, Italy, November 2017.

  • C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, L. Pedrelli, "Hierarchical Temporal Representation in Linear Reservoir Computing" (2017), accepted for presentation at 27th Italian Workshop on Neural Networks (WIRN), 14-16 June 2017, Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy. [arXiv preprint]

  • D. Bacciu, S. Chessa, C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, "On the Need of Machine Learning as a Service for the Internet of Things" (2017), Accepted for the International Conference on Internet of Things and Machine Learning (IML 2017), Liverpool John Moores University, 17 – 18 October 2017.

  • C. Gallicchio, J. D. Martin-Guerrero, A. Micheli, E. Soria-Olivas, "Randomized Machine Learning Approaches: Recent Developments and Challenges" (2017), Proceedings of the 25th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN), Bruges, Belgium, 26-28 April 2017, i6doc.com, pp. 77-86, ISBN: 978-287587038-4.

  • C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, L. Silvestri, "Local Lyapunov Exponents of Deep RNN" (2017), Proceedings of the 25th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN), Bruges, Belgium, 26-28 April 2017, i6doc.com, pp. 559-564, ISBN: 978-287587038-4.

  • C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, "A Reservoir Computing Approach for Human Gesture Recognition from Kinect Data" (2017), Proceedings of the Workshop Artificial Intelligence for Ambient Assisted Living (AI*AAL 2016), co-located with the 15th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2016), Genoa, Italy, November 28, 2016, S. Bandini, G. Cortellessa, F. Palumbo Editors, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 1803, pp. 33-42. [PDF]

  • D. Bacciu, S. Chessa, E. Ferro, L. Fortunati, C. Gallicchio, D. La Rosa, M. Llorente, A. Micheli, F. Palumbo, O. Parodi, A. Valenti, F. Vozzi, "Detecting Socialization Events in Ageing People: The Experience of the DOREMI Project" (2016), Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE), London, United Kingdom, 14-16 September 2016, IEEE, pages 132-135, ISBN: 978-1-5090-4056-8.

  • C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, L. Pedrelli, L. Fortunati, F. Vozzi, and O. Parodi. "A reservoir computing approach for balance assessment" (2016), In A. Douzal-Chouakria, J.A. Vilar, and P.-F. Marteau, editors, Advanced Analysis and Learning on Temporal Data: First ECML PKDD Workshop, AALTD 2015, Porto, Portugal, September 11, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, volume 9785 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 65–77. Springer International Publishing, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-44412-3_5, ISBN: 978-3-319-44412-3.

  • G. Amato, D. Bacciu, S. Chessa, M. Dragone, C. Gallicchio, C. Gennaro, H. Lozano, A. Micheli, G. M. P. O’Hare, A. Renteria, C. Vairo, "A Benchmark Dataset for Human Activity Recognition and Ambient Assisted Living" (2016), Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence (ISAmI), Ambient Intelligence - Software and Applications, Sevilla, Spain, 1-3 June 2016, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series,H. Lindgren, J.F. De Paz, P. Novais, A. Fernández-Caballero, H. Yoe, A. Jiménez Ramírez, G. Villarrubia Editors, Springer, vol. 476, pp. 1-9, DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-40114-0_1, ISBN: 978-3-319-40113-3.

  • C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, "Deep Reservoir Computing: A Critical Analysis" (2016), Proceedings of the 24th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN), Bruges, Belgium, 27-29 April 2016, i6doc.com, pp. 497-502, ISBN: 978-287587026-1. [LINK]

  • M. Dragone, C. Gallicchio, R. Guzman, A. Micheli, "RSS-based Robot Localization in Critical Environments using Reservoir Computing" (2016), Proceedings of the 24th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN), Bruges, Belgium, 27-29 April 2016, i6doc.com, pp. 71-76, ISBN: 978-287587026-1.

  • D. Bacciu, C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, "A Reservoir Activation Kernel for Trees" (2016), Proceedings of the 24th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN), Bruges, Belgium, 27-29 April 2016, i6doc.com, pp. 29-34, ISBN: 978-287587026-1. [LINK]

  • M. Danelutto, C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, M. Torquati, D. Virgilio, "Structured parallel implementation of Tree Echo State Network model selection" (2016), Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Computing (ParCo), Edinburgh, Scotland, 1-4 September 2015, Parallel Computing: On the Road to Exascale, Advances in Parallel Computing Series, G.R. Joubert, H. Leather, M. Parsons, F. Peters, M. Sawyer Editors, IOS Press, Volume 27, pp. 145-154, DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-621-7-145, ISBN: 978- 1-61499-620-0.

  • D. Bacciu, S. Chessa, C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, E. Ferro, L. Fortunati, F. Palumbo, O. Parodi, F. Vozzi, S. Hanke, J. Kropf, K. Kreiner, "Smart environments and context-awareness for lifestyle management in a healthy active ageing framework" (2015), Progress in Artificial Intelligence: Proceedings of the 17th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA), Coimbra, Portugal, 8-11 September 2015, Smart Environments and Context-Awareness for Lifestyle Management in a Healthy Active Ageing Framework, F. Pereira, P. Machado, E. Costa, A. Cardoso Editors, Springer, pp. 54-66, DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-23485-4_6, ISBN: 978-3-319-23485-4.

  • C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, L. Pedrelli, F. Vozzi, O. Parodi, "Preliminary Experimental Analysis of Reservoir Computing Approach for Balance Assessment" (2015), Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Advanced Analytics and Learning on Temporal Data (AALTD), co-located with The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD), Porto, Portugal, 11 September 2015, A. Douzal-Chouakria, J.A. Vilar Fernandez, P.-F. Marteau, A.E. Maharaj, A.M. Alonso Fernandez, E. Otranto, M.-I. Nicolae Editors, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, pp. 57-62.

  • D. Bacciu, C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, M. Di Rocco, A. Saffiotti, "Learning context-aware mobile robot navigation in home environments" (2014), Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA), Chania, Greece, 7-9 July 2014, IEEE, pp. 57-62.

  • C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, "A Preliminary Application of Echo State Networks to Emotion Recognition" (2014), Proceedings of the First Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics CLiC-it 2014 and of the Fourth International Workshop EVALITA 2014, Pisa, Italy, 9-11 December 2014, Pisa University Press, pp. 116-119, DOI: 10.12871/clicit2014221, ISBN: 978-886741-472-7.

  • S. Chessa, C. Gallicchio, R. Guzman, A. Micheli, "Robot Localization by Echo State Networks Using RSS" (2014), Proceedings of the 23rd Italian Workshop of the Italian Neural Networks Society (SIREN), Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy, 23-25 May 2013, Recent Advances of Neural Network Models and Applications, S. Bassis, A. Esposito, C.M. Morabito Editors, Springer Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, Springer, vol. 26, pag. 147-154, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-04129-2_15, ISBN: 978-3-319-04128-5.

  • D. Bacciu, S. Chessa, C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, P. Barsocchi, "An Experimental Evaluation of Reservoir Computation for Ambient Assisted Living" (2013), Proceedings of the 22rd Italian Workshop of the Italian Neural Networks Society (SIREN), Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy, 17-19 May 2012, Neural Nets and Surroundings, B. Apolloni, S. Bassis, A. Esposito, C.M. Morabito Editors, Springer Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, Springer, vol. 19, pp. 41-50, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-35467-0_5, ISBN:978-3-642-35466-3.

  • D. Bacciu, C. Gallicchio, A. Lenzi, S. Chessa, A. Micheli, S. Pelagatti, C. Vairo, "Distributed Neural Computation over WSN in Ambient Intelligence" (2013), Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence (ISAmI), Salamanca, Spain, 22-24 May 2013, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series, A. van Berlo, K. Hallenborg, C.J.M. Rodríguez, I.D. Tapia, P. Novais Editors, Springer, vol. 219, pp. 147-154, DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-00566-9_19, ISBN: 978-3-319-00565-2.

  • F. Palumbo, P. Barsocchi, C. Gallicchio, S. Chessa, A. Micheli, "Multisensor data fusion for activity recognition based on reservoir computing" (2013), Evaluating AAL Systems Through Competitive Benchmarking, Communications in Computer and Information Science series, J. Botia, J. Alvarez-Garcia, K. Fujinami, P. Barsocchi, T. Riedel Editors, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, vol. 386, pp. 24-35, ISBN: 978-3-642-41042-0. (Second Prize winner at the EvAAL 2013 Competition)

  • D. Bacciu, M. Broxvall, S. Coleman, M. Dragone, C. Gallicchio, C. Gennaro, R. Guzman, R. Lopez, H. Lozano-Peiteado, A. Ray, A. Renteria, A. Saffiotti, C. Vairo, "Self-Sustaining Learning for Robotic Ecologies" (2012), Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Sensor Networks (SENSORNETS), Rome, Italy, 24-26 February 2016, pp. 99-103, ISBN: 978-989-8565-01-3.

  • C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, P. Barsocchi, S. Chessa, "User Movements Forecasting by Reservoir Computing Using Signal Streams Produced by Mote-Class Sensors" (2012), Proceedings of the 3rd International ICST Conference on Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems (MOBILIGHT), Bilbao, Spain, 9-10 May 2011, Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering Series, J Del Ser, E.A. Jorswieck, J. Miguez, M. Matinmikko, D.P. Palomar, S. Salcedo- Sanz, S. Gil-Lopez Editors, Springer, vol. 81(3), pp. 151-168, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29479-2_12, ISBN: 978-3-642-29478-5.

  • D. Bacciu, S. Chessa, C. Gallicchio, A. Lenzi, A. Micheli, S. Pelagatti, "A General Purpose Distributed Learning Model for Robotic Ecologies" (2012), Proceedings of the 10th International IFAC Symposium on Robot Control (SYROCO), Dubrovnik, Croatia, 5-7 September 2012, Elsevier, vol. 45(22), pp. 435-440, DOI: 10.3182/20120905-3-HR-2030.00178, ISSN: 1474-6670.

  • C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, "Supervised State Mapping of Clustered GraphESN States" (2012), Proceedings of the 21st Italian Workshop on Neural Networks, Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy, 3-5 June 3-5 2011, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications Series, B. Apolloni, S. Bassis, A. Esposito, C.M. Morabito Editors, vol. 234, pp. 28-35, DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-972-1-28, ISBN: 978-1-60750-971-4.

  • C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, G. Visco, "Constructive Reservoir Computation with Output Feedbacks for Structured Domains" (2012), Proceedings of the 20th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN), Bruges, Belgium, 25-27 April 2012, i6doc.com, pp. 31-36, ISBN: 978-2-87419-049-0.

  • D. Bacciu, C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, S. Chessa, P. Barsocchi, "Predicting user movements in heterogeneous indoor environments by reservoir computing" (2011), Proceedings of the Workshop on Space, Time and Ambient Intelligence (STAMI), International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Barcelona, Spain, 16 July 2011, M. Bhatt, H. W. Guesgen, J.C. Augusto Editors, pp. 1-6.

  • C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, "Exploiting vertices states in GraphESN by weighted nearest neighbor" (2011), Proceedings of the 19th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN), Bruges, Belgium, 27-29 April 2011, i6doc.com, pp. 375-380, ISBN: 978-2-87419-044-5.

  • C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, "Graph Echo State Networks" (2010), Proceedings of the 2010 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Barcelona, Spain, 18-23 July 2010, IEEE, pp. 1-8, DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN.2010.5596796, ISBN: 978-1-4244-6916-1.

  • C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, "A Markovian Characterization of Redundancy in Echo State Networks by PCA" (2010), Proceedings of the 18th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN), Bruges, Belgium, 28-30 April 2010, d-side, pp. 321-326, ISBN: 2-930307-10-2. [LINK]

  • C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, "TreeESN: a Preliminary Experimental Analysis" (2010), Proceedings of the 18th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN), Bruges, Belgium, 28-30 April 2010, d-side, pp. 333-338, ISBN: 2-930307-10-2.

PhD Thesis

C. Gallicchio, Reservoir Computing for Learning in Structured Domains, PhD Thesis, University of Pisa, 2011.

Available here.

Technical Reports

  • C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, "Deep Echo State Network (DeepESN): A Brief Survey ", arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.04323, 2017).

  • C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, P. Barsocchi, S. Chessa, "Reservoir Computing Forecasting of User Movements from RSS Mote-Class Sensors Measurements", Technical Report TR-11-03, University of Pisa, 2011.

  • C. Gallicchio, A. Micheli, "On the Predictive Effects of Markovian and Architectural Factors of Echo State Networks", Technical Report TR-09-22, University of Pisa, 2009.