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5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF NATURAL COMPUTING<br><br>
TPNC 2016<br><br>
Sendai, Japan<br><br>
December 12-13, 2016<br><br>
Organized by:<br><br>
Cyberscience Center<br>
Tohoku University<br><br>
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)<br>
Rovira i Virgili University<br><br>
http://grammars.grlmc.com/TPNC2016/<br><br>
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PROGRAM<br><br><br>
Monday, December 12<br><br><br>
09:00 - 09:30 Registration<br><br>
09:30 - 09:40 Opening<br><br>
09:40 - 10:30 Luis Martínez López: Managing Natural Noise in Recommender Systems - Invited lecture<br><br>
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break<br><br>
11:00 - 12:15<br><br>
Anissa Lamani and Masafumi Yamashita: Realization of Periodic Functions by Self-stabilizing Population Protocols with Synchronous Handshakes<br><br>
Ahnaf Munir, Sakhawat Hossen and Salimur Choudhury: Localized Load Balancing in RFID Systems<br><br>
Abtin Nourmohammadzadeh and Sven Hartmann: The Fuel-efficient Platooning of Heavy Duty Vehicles by Mathematical Programming and Genetic Algorithm<br><br>
12:15 - 13:45 Lunch<br><br>
13:45 - 15:00<br><br>
Itaru Ueda, Akihiro Nishimura, Yu-Ichi Hayashi, Takaaki Mizuki and Hideaki Sone: How to Implement a Random Bisection Cut<br><br>
Kui Chen and Hitoshi Kanoh: A Discrete Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm Based on Similarity for Graph Coloring Problems<br><br>
Marcin Czajkowski and Marek Kretowski: A Multi-objective Evolutionary Approach to Pareto Optimal Model Trees. A Preliminary study<br><br>
15:00 - 17:00 Visit to the Sendai Castle Ruins<br><br><br>
Tuesday, December 13<br><br><br>
09:00 - 09:50 Qingfu Zhang: Multiobjective Evolutionary Computation, Decomposition and Regularity - Invited lecture<br><br>
09:50 - 10:20 Coffee break<br><br>
10:20 - 11:35<br><br>
Vassilis Papapanagiotou, Roberto Montemanni and Luca Maria Gambardella: A Sampling-based Metaheuristic for the Orienteering Problem with Stochastic Travel Times<br><br>
Kazi Shah Nawaz Ripon, Hakon Dissen and Jostein Solaas: Real Time Traffic Intersection Management Using Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithm<br><br>
Jayanta Kumar Das, Pabitra Pal Choudhury and Ayesha Arora: Natural and Efficient Sub-traction Operation in Carry Value Transformation (CVT)-Exclusive OR (XOR) Paradigm<br><br>
11:35 - 11:50 Break and Group photo<br><br>
11:50 - 12:50 Poster presentations<br><br>
Christian Blum and Borja Calvo: MDS-BEEP: A Biologically Inspired Distributed Algorithm for Minimal Dominating Set Computation<br><br>
Keitel Cervantes-Salguero, Ibuki Kawamata, Shin-Ichiro Nomura and Satoshi Murata: Design and Construction of Reusable DNA Logic Gates Based on Electric Field Actuation<br><br>
Roman Neruda and Klara Peskova: Hyper-parameter Search Methods for Better Model Recommendation<br><br>
Chinasa Sueyoshi and Takashi Naka: Exhaustive Analysis for the Effects of Network Structures and Reaction Saturation Levels on the Multi-stability in Cellular Signaling Systems<br><br>
Antonio J. Tallón-Ballesteros and Luís Correia: Two-level Feature Selection in Data Mining<br><br>
Antonio J. Tallón-Ballesteros, Cristina Urbano-Sánchez, María Rodríguez-Romero and Luís Correia: Is the Information Extracted Enough to Apply Machine Learning Algorithms?<br><br>
12:50 - 14:20 Lunch<br><br>
14:20 - 15:35<br><br>
Balázs Indig, Noémi Vadász and Ágnes Kalivoda: Decreasing Entropy: How Wide to Open the Window?<br><br>
Ozan Kahramanogullari: Simulating Stochastic Dynamic Interactions with Spatial Information and Flux<br><br>
Wataru Yahiro and Masami Hagiya: Implementation of Turing Machine Using DNA Strand Displacement<br><br>
15:35 - 15:50 Break<br><br>
15:50 - 17:30<br><br>
Lorenzo Bottarelli, Manuele Bicego, Matteo Denitto, Alessandra Di Pierro and Alessandro Farinelli: A Quantum Annealing Approach to Biclustering<br><br>
Josef Moudrík and Roman Neruda: Determining Player Skill in the Game of Go with Deep Neural Networks<br><br>
Zbigniew Suraj and Piotr Grochowalski: Flexible Generalized Fuzzy Petri Nets for Rule-based Systems<br><br>
Pak-Kan Wong, Man Leung Wong and Kwong-Sak Leung: Learning Grammar Rules in Probabilistic Grammar-based Genetic Programming<br><br>
17:30 - 17:40 Closing</body></html>