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6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF NATURAL COMPUTING<br><br>
TPNC 2017<br><br>
Prague, Czech Republic<br><br>
December 18-20, 2017<br><br>
Organized by:<br><br>
Institute of Computer Science<br>
Czech Academy of Sciences<br><br>
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics<br>
Charles University<br><br>
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)<br>
Rovira i Virgili University<br><br>
http://grammars.grlmc.com/TPNC2017/<br>
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PROGRAM<br><br>
Monday, December 18<br><br>
09:00 - 09:30 Registration<br><br>
09:30 - 09:40 Opening<br><br>
09:40 - 10:30 Enrique Alba. Natural Computing for Smart Cities - Invited lecture<br><br>
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break<br><br>
11:00 - 12:15<br><br>
Hanadi Alkhudhayr and Jason Steggles. A Formal Framework for Composing Qualitative Models of Biological Systems<br><br>
Witold Bolt, Aleksander Bolt, Barbara Wolnik, Jan M. Baetens and Bernard De Baets. A Statistical Approach to the Identification of Diploid Cellular Automata<br><br>
Julia Pulwicki and Christophe Godin. Modeling Curvature Effects Using L-Systems: From Discrete and Deterministic to Continuous and Stochastic<br><br>
12:15 - 13:45 Lunch<br><br>
13:45 - 15:00<br><br>
David Fagan and Michael O'Neill. Exploring Target Change Related Fitness Reduction in the Moving Point Dynamic Environment<br><br>
Agostino Forestiero. A Smart Discovery Service in Internet of Things Using Swarm Intelligence<br><br>
Krzysztof Jurczuk, Marcin Czajkowski and Marek Kretowski. GPU-accelerated Evolutionary Induction of Regression Trees<br><br>
15:00 - 15:15 Break<br><br>
15:15 - 16:30<br><br>
Tibor Kmet and Maria Kmetova. Bezier Curve Parameterization Methods for Solving Optimal Control Problems of SIR Model<br><br>
Petr Hajek and Ondrej Prochazka. Learning Interval-valued Fuzzy Cognitive Maps with PSO Algorithm for Abnormal Stock Return Prediction<br><br>
Alicja Mieszkowicz-Rolka and Leszek Rolka. Fuzzy Linguistic Labels in Multi-expert Decision Making<br><br>
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Tuesday, December 19<br><br>
09:00 - 09:50 Carlos A. Coello Coello. Recent Results and Open Problems in Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization - Invited lecture<br><br>
09:50 - 10:20 Coffee break<br><br>
10:20 - 11:35<br><br>
Katarzyna Poczeta, Lukasz Kubus and Alexander Yastrebov. An Evolutionary Algorithm Based on Graph Theory Metrics for Fuzzy Cognitive Maps Learning<br><br>
Zbigniew Suraj and Piotr Grochowalski. Fuzzy Petri Nets with Linear Orders for Intervals<br><br>
Henning Bordihn, Victor Mitrana, Andrei Paun and Mihaela Paun. Networks of Polarized Splicing Processors<br><br>
11:35 - 11:50 Break and Group photo<br><br>
11:50 - 13:05<br><br>
Samuel J. Ellis, Titus H. Klinge and James I. Lathrop. Robust Combinatorial Circuits in Chemical Reaction Networks<br><br>
Manasi S. Kulkarni, Kalpana Mahalingam and Ananda Chandra Nayak. Watson-Crick Partial Words<br><br>
Michela Quadrini, Rosario Culmone and Emanuela Merelli. Topological Classification of RNA Structures via Intersection Graph<br><br>
13:05 - 14:35 Lunch<br><br>
14:35 - 15:25<br><br>
Roberto De Prisco, Delfina Malandrino, Gianluca Zaccagnino, Rocco Zaccagnino and Rosalba Zizza. Splicing-inspired Recognition and Composition of Musical Collectives Styles<br><br>
Prasenjit Dey, Abhijit Ghosh and Tandra Pal. Regularized Stacked Auto-encoder Based Pre-training for Generalization of Multi-layer Perceptron<br><br>
15:25 - 16:25 Poster presentations<br><br>
Athanassios Alexiou, Stephan Preiwisch, Joachim Schenk and Gerhard Rigoll. Gas-tracking Proof of Concept through Synthetic Gas-signal Generation and Successive Signal Separation<br><br>
Kaoru Fujioka. Swarm Automata: Swarm-based Computing Model<br><br>
Maja Gwozdz. Neural Networks in the Disambiguation of Polysemous Strings<br><br>
Alicja Mieszkowicz-Rolka and Leszek Rolka. Labeled Fuzzy Rough Sets in Analysis of Pilot's Control Actions<br><br>
Maria C. Negru. Solving the Queens Problem Using Networks of Polarized Splicing Processors<br><br>
Michela Quadrini. RNA Comparison via a Continuous Distance Measure<br><br>
16:30 - 18:30 Touristic visit<br><br>
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Wednesday, December 20<br><br>
09:00 - 09:50 Thomas Stützle. Automatic Generation of Swarm Intelligence Algorithms - Invited lecture<br><br>
09:50 - 10:20 Coffee break<br><br>
10:20 - 11:35<br><br>
Lukas Pastorek and Michael O'Neill. Historical Markings in Neuroevolution of Augmenting Topologies Revisited<br><br>
Pak-Kan Wong, Man-Leung Wong and Kwong-Sak Leung. Long-short Term Memory Network for RNA Structure Profiling Super-resolution<br><br>
Alessandra Di Pierro, Riccardo Mengoni, Rajagopal Nagarajan and David Windridge. Hamming Distance Kernelisation via Topological Quantum Computation<br><br>
11:35 - 11:50 Break<br><br>
11:50 - 13:05<br><br>
Alejandro Díaz-Caro and Gilles Dowek. Typing Quantum Superpositions and Measurement<br><br>
Raymond Laflamme, Tal Mor, Nayeli A. Rodríguez-Briones and Yossi Weinstein. Heat-bath Algorithmic Cooling with Correlated-qubits Relaxation<br><br>
Shenggen Zheng, Daowen Qiu and Jozef Gruska. Time-space Complexity Advantages for Quantum Computing<br><br>
13:05 - 13:15 Closing<br><br>
13:15 - Lunch</body></html>