TPNC 2018: call for participation

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7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF NATURAL COMPUTING


TPNC 2018


Dublin, Ireland


December 12-14, 2018


Co-organized by:


Natural Computing Research & Applications Group

School of Business

University College Dublin


Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice

Brussels / London


http://tpnc2018.irdta.eu/

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PROGRAM


Wednesday, December 12


08:30 - 09:00    Registration


09:00 - 09:10    Opening


09:10 - 10:00    Hani Hagras. Explainable AI and Fuzzy Logic Systems - Invited lecture


10:00 - 10:15    Break


10:15 - 11:30


Roberto Barbuti, Anna Bernasconi, Roberta Gori and Paolo Milazzo. Computing Preimages and Ancestors in Reaction Systems


Mengzhe Chen and Nikolay M. Sirakov. Poisson Equation Solution and its Gradient Vector Field to Geometric Features Detection


Ziya Firat, Eliseo Ferrante, Nicolas Cambier and Elio Tuci. Self-organised Aggregation in Swarms of Robots with Informed Robots


11:30 - 11:45    Break


11:45 - 13:00


Fred Gruau and Luidnel Maignan. Cellular Computation, with Spatial Types on Planar Graph


Yuichi Kato, Tetsuro Saeki and Jiwei Fei. Application of STRIM to Datasets Generated by Partial Correspondence Hypothesis


Yuichi Komano and Takaaki Mizuki. Multi-party Computation Based on Physical Coins


13:00 - 14:15    Lunch


14:15 - 15:30


Shigeru Ninagawa. Patterns and their Interaction in Excitable Media on Face-centered Cubic Lattice


Yuya Sugie, Yuki Yoshida, Normann Mertig, Takashi Takemoto, Hiroshi Teramoto, Atsuyoshi Nakamura, Ichigaku Takigawa, Shin-Ichi Minato, Masanao Yamaoka and Tamiki Komatsuzaki. Graph Minors from Simulated Annealing for Annealing Machines with Sparse Connectivity


Miin-Shen Yang, Shou-Jen Chang-Chien and Yessica Nataliani. Gaussian-kernel c-means Clustering Algorithms


15:30 - 15:45    Break


15:45 - 17:00


Michael Hellwig and Hans-Georg Beyer. A Linear Constrained Optimization Benchmark for Probabilistic Search Algorithms: The Rotated Klee-Minty Problem


Karlo Knezevic, Stjepan Picek, Luca Mariot, Domagoj Jakobovic and Alberto Leporati. The Design of (Almost) Disjunct Matrices by Evolutionary Algorithms


Nam Le, Anthony Brabazon and Michael O'Neill. How the "Baldwin Effect" Can Guide Evolution in Dynamic Environments


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Thursday, December 13


09:00 - 09:50    Juergen Branke. Design of Complex Systems via Simulation-based Optimisation - Invited lecture


09:50 - 10:05    Break


10:05 - 11:20


Katherine Malan. Landscape-aware Constraint Handling Applied to Differential Evolution


Abtin Nourmohammadzadeh and Sven Hartmann. Fuel Efficient Truck Platooning with Time Restrictions and Multiple Speeds Solved by a Particle Swarm Optimisation


Thambo Nyathi and Nelishia Pillay. Automated Design of Genetic Programming Classification Algorithms for Financial Forecasting Using Evolutionary Algorithms


11:20 - 11:35    Break and Group photo


11:35 - 12:50


Geoff Pond and Greg McQuat. Optimizing Fleet Staging of Air Ambulances in the Province of Ontario


Takfarinas Saber, David Fagan, David Lynch, Stepan Kucera, Holger Claussen and Michael O'Neill. A Hierarchical Approach to Grammar-guided Genetic Programming: The Case of Scheduling in Heterogeneous Networks


Maxim Sakharov and Anatoly Karpenko. Multi-memetic Mind Evolutionary Computation Algorithm Based on the Landscape Analysis


12:50 -    14:05    Lunch


14:05 - 15:20


Alexandru Amarioarei, Gefry Barad, Eugen Czeizler, Ana-Maria Dobre, Corina Itcus, Victor Mitrana, Andrei Paun, Mihaela Paun, Frankie Spencer, Romica Trandafir and Iris Tusa. DNA-guided Assembly of Nanocellulose Meshes


Alejandro Díaz-Caro and Marcos Villagra. Classically Time-controlled Quantum Automata


Tadao Maekawa, Manabu Honda, Osamu Ueno and Tsutomu Oohashi. Mortal Organisms Rescue Immortal Organisms from Evolutionary Inertness: Perspective of the Programmed Self-decomposition Model


15:20 - 15:35    Break


15:35 - 16:50


S. Sahand Mohammadi Ziabari and Jan Treur. Integrative Biological, Cognitive and Affective Modeling of a Drug-therapy for a Post-traumatic Stress Disorder


Roland Ritt and Paul O'Leary. Symbolic Analysis of Machine Behaviour and the Emergence of the Machine Language


Knud Thomsen. It Is Time to Dissolve Old Dichotomies in order to Grasp the Whole Picture of Cognition


17:00 - 19:00    Touristic visit


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Friday, December 14


09:00 - 09:50    Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis. The Cellular Automata Computing Paradigm Enriched: From Simple Models to Real World Applications - Invited lecture


09:50 - 10:05    Break


10:05 - 11:20


Caroline Tichelaar and Jan Treur. Network-oriented Modeling of the Interaction of Adaptive Joint Decision Making, Bonding and Mirroring


Jan Treur. Network Reification as a Unified Approach to Represent Network Adaptation Principles within a Network


Jan Treur. Relating an Adaptive Network’s Structure to its Emerging Behaviour for Hebbian Learning


11:20 - 11:35    Break


11:35 - 12:50


Toshinori Deguchi and Naohiro Ishii. On Capacity with Incremental Learning by Simplified Chaotic Neural Network


Ata Kabán and Yamanporn Thummanusarn. Tighter Guarantees for the Compressive Multi-layer Perceptron


Ryotaro Kamimura. Information-theoretic Self-compression of Multi-layered Neural Networks


12:50 -    14:05    Lunch


14:05 - 15:20


Tibor Kmet and Maria Kmetova. Radial Basis Function Networks Simulation of Age-structure Population


Esma Mansouri-Benssassi and Juan Ye. Bio-inspired Spiking Neural Networks for Facial Expression Recognition: Generalisation Investigation


Tamás Nyíri, Attila Ulbert and Attila Kiss. Novel Ensembling Methods for Dermatological Image Classification


15:20 - 15:35    Break


15:35 - 16:25


Feras Odeh and Adel Taweel. SemVec: Semantic Features Word Vectors Based Deep Learning for Improved Text Classification


Jiri Síma. Three Analog Neurons Are Turing Universal


16:25 - 16:35    Closing