Vera Tomaino

Da Bioingegneria.

Vera Tomaino, Ph.D. Student

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Università Magna Graecia di Catanzaro,bioingegneria.unicz.it

Viale Europa, 88100 Germaneto – Italy
ph: +39 0961-3694108
e-mail

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Indice 1 Education 2 Activities 2.1 2008/2009 3 Research Interests 4 Publications 4.1 A. Journal Papers 4.2 B. Referred book chapters 4.3 C. Conference proceedings 4.4 D. Conference talks/abstracts 5 Professional Activities 6 Miscellaneous 7 Bioinformatics Resources

Education

• Ph.D. Student in Biomedical and Computer Science Engineering, 2nd year (from April 2008, in course);
• M.Sc. in Management Engineering, Cum Laude (University of Calabria, 2007)
• B.Sc. in Management Engineering (University of Calabria, 2004)

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Activities

2008/2009

Visiting Student at the Center of Applied Optimization (CAO), University of Florida.

Research Interests

Data Mining, Biomedicine Applications, Support Vector Machines.

Publications

A. Journal Papers

Published

1. P. M. Pardalos, V. Tomaino, and P. Xanthopoulos.Optimization and data mining in biomedicine. TOP An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research 17(2) pp. 215-236 2009

2. P. M. Pardalos, V. Tomaino, and P. Xanthopoulos.Rejoinder on: Optimization and data mining in biomedicine. TOP An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research. 17(2) pp. 253-255 2009.

3. A. Chinchuluun, P. Xanthopoulos, V. Tomaino, and P. M. Pardalos. Data mining techniques in agricultural and environmental sciences. International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems 1(1) pp. 26-40.

B. Referred book chapters

1. Chang-Chia Liu, Petros Xanthopoulos, Vera Tomaino, Panos M. Pardalos, Basim M. Uthman, "Antiepileptic Therapy Reduces Coupling Strength Among Brain Cortical Regions in Patients with Unverricht-Lundborg Disease: A Pilot Study" , "Computational Neuroscience", 38 pp. 341-357, 2010

2. Jui-Hong Chen, Petros Xanthopoulos, Vera Tomaino, Panos M. Pardalos, "Forecasting non stationary processes" , Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science (to appear 2010).

3. Jicong Zhang, Petros Xanthopoulos, Jui-Hong Chen, Vera Tomaino and Panos M. Pardalos "Minimum-Prediction Error Models and Causal Relations between Multiple Time Series", Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science (to appear 2010).

Submitted

1. Mario Guarracino, Petros Xanthopoulos, Georgios Pyrgiotakis, V. Tomaino, B. Moudgil and P. M. Pardalos “Spectral based feature selection for a multiclass cell death discrimination problem” submitted.

C. Conference proceedings

1. Vera Tomaino, Pietro H. Guzzi, Mario Cannataro, Pierangelo Veltri, “Experimental Comparison of Biclustering Algorithms for PPI Networks”, "ACM-BCB2010 Workshop on Protein Protein Interaction data", 2010.

D. Conference talks/abstracts

Vera Tomaino, Petros Xanthopoulos, Panos M. Pardalos, "Optimization and data mining in biomedicine" presented at INFORMS annual meeting, San Diego 2009.

Professional Activities

• Local Organizer of Conference on Energy, Sustainability and Climate Change [1], February 26 - 28 2010 Gainesville, Florida.
• Local Organizer of International Conference on Systems Analysis Tools for Better Health Care Delivery: A New Engineering/Health Care Partnership [2], March 24 - 26, 2010 Gainesville, Florida.
• Student member of Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) [3].

Miscellaneous

My Erdös number is 3 through Prof. Panos M. Pardalos. http://www.oakland.edu/enp/

Bioinformatics Resources