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7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF NATURAL COMPUTING<br><br>
TPNC 2018<br><br>
Dublin, Ireland<br><br>
December 12-14, 2018<br><br>
Co-organized by:<br><br>
Natural Computing Research & Applications Group<br>
School of Business<br>
University College Dublin<br><br>
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice<br>
Brussels / London<br><br>
http://tpnc2018.irdta.eu/<br>
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PROGRAM<br><br>
Wednesday, December 12<br><br>
08:30 - 09:00 Registration<br><br>
09:00 - 09:10 Opening<br><br>
09:10 - 10:00 Hani Hagras. Explainable AI and Fuzzy Logic Systems - Invited lecture<br><br>
10:00 - 10:15 Break<br><br>
10:15 - 11:30<br><br>
Roberto Barbuti, Anna Bernasconi, Roberta Gori and Paolo Milazzo. Computing Preimages and Ancestors in Reaction Systems<br><br>
Mengzhe Chen and Nikolay M. Sirakov. Poisson Equation Solution and its Gradient Vector Field to Geometric Features Detection<br><br>
Ziya Firat, Eliseo Ferrante, Nicolas Cambier and Elio Tuci. Self-organised Aggregation in Swarms of Robots with Informed Robots<br><br>
11:30 - 11:45 Break<br><br>
11:45 - 13:00<br><br>
Fred Gruau and Luidnel Maignan. Cellular Computation, with Spatial Types on Planar Graph<br><br>
Yuichi Kato, Tetsuro Saeki and Jiwei Fei. Application of STRIM to Datasets Generated by Partial Correspondence Hypothesis<br><br>
Yuichi Komano and Takaaki Mizuki. Multi-party Computation Based on Physical Coins<br><br>
13:00 - 14:15 Lunch<br><br>
14:15 - 15:30<br><br>
Shigeru Ninagawa. Patterns and their Interaction in Excitable Media on Face-centered Cubic Lattice<br><br>
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<br><br>
Miin-Shen Yang, Shou-Jen Chang-Chien and Yessica Nataliani. Gaussian-kernel c-means Clustering Algorithms<br><br>
15:30 - 15:45 Break<br><br>
15:45 - 17:00<br><br>
Michael Hellwig and Hans-Georg Beyer. A Linear Constrained Optimization Benchmark for Probabilistic Search Algorithms: The Rotated Klee-Minty Problem<br><br>
Karlo Knezevic, Stjepan Picek, Luca Mariot, Domagoj Jakobovic and Alberto Leporati. The Design of (Almost) Disjunct Matrices by Evolutionary Algorithms<br><br>
Nam Le, Anthony Brabazon and Michael O'Neill. How the "Baldwin Effect" Can Guide Evolution in Dynamic Environments<br><br>
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Thursday, December 13<br><br>
09:00 - 09:50 Juergen Branke. Design of Complex Systems via Simulation-based Optimisation - Invited lecture<br><br>
09:50 - 10:05 Break<br><br>
10:05 - 11:20<br><br>
Katherine Malan. Landscape-aware Constraint Handling Applied to Differential Evolution<br><br>
Abtin Nourmohammadzadeh and Sven Hartmann. Fuel Efficient Truck Platooning with Time Restrictions and Multiple Speeds Solved by a Particle Swarm Optimisation<br><br>
Thambo Nyathi and Nelishia Pillay. Automated Design of Genetic Programming Classification Algorithms for Financial Forecasting Using Evolutionary Algorithms<br><br>
11:20 - 11:35 Break and Group photo<br><br>
11:35 - 12:50<br><br>
Geoff Pond and Greg McQuat. Optimizing Fleet Staging of Air Ambulances in the Province of Ontario<br><br>
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<br><br>
Maxim Sakharov and Anatoly Karpenko. Multi-memetic Mind Evolutionary Computation Algorithm Based on the Landscape Analysis<br><br>
12:50 - 14:05 Lunch<br><br>
14:05 - 15:20<br><br>
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<br><br>
Alejandro Díaz-Caro and Marcos Villagra. Classically Time-controlled Quantum Automata<br><br>
Tadao Maekawa, Manabu Honda, Osamu Ueno and Tsutomu Oohashi. Mortal Organisms Rescue Immortal Organisms from Evolutionary Inertness: Perspective of the Programmed Self-decomposition Model<br><br>
15:20 - 15:35 Break<br><br>
15:35 - 16:50<br><br>
S. Sahand Mohammadi Ziabari and Jan Treur. Integrative Biological, Cognitive and Affective Modeling of a Drug-therapy for a Post-traumatic Stress Disorder<br><br>
Roland Ritt and Paul O'Leary. Symbolic Analysis of Machine Behaviour and the Emergence of the Machine Language<br><br>
Knud Thomsen. It Is Time to Dissolve Old Dichotomies in order to Grasp the Whole Picture of Cognition<br><br>
17:00 - 19:00 Touristic visit<br><br>
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Friday, December 14<br><br>
09:00 - 09:50 Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis. The Cellular Automata Computing Paradigm Enriched: From Simple Models to Real World Applications - Invited lecture<br><br>
09:50 - 10:05 Break<br><br>
10:05 - 11:20<br><br>
Caroline Tichelaar and Jan Treur. Network-oriented Modeling of the Interaction of Adaptive Joint Decision Making, Bonding and Mirroring<br><br>
Jan Treur. Network Reification as a Unified Approach to Represent Network Adaptation Principles within a Network<br><br>
Jan Treur. Relating an Adaptive Network’s Structure to its Emerging Behaviour for Hebbian Learning<br><br>
11:20 - 11:35 Break<br><br>
11:35 - 12:50<br><br>
Toshinori Deguchi and Naohiro Ishii. On Capacity with Incremental Learning by Simplified Chaotic Neural Network<br><br>
Ata Kabán and Yamanporn Thummanusarn. Tighter Guarantees for the Compressive Multi-layer Perceptron<br><br>
Ryotaro Kamimura. Information-theoretic Self-compression of Multi-layered Neural Networks<br><br>
12:50 - 14:05 Lunch<br><br>
14:05 - 15:20<br><br>
Tibor Kmet and Maria Kmetova. Radial Basis Function Networks Simulation of Age-structure Population<br><br>
Esma Mansouri-Benssassi and Juan Ye. Bio-inspired Spiking Neural Networks for Facial Expression Recognition: Generalisation Investigation<br><br>
Tamás Nyíri, Attila Ulbert and Attila Kiss. Novel Ensembling Methods for Dermatological Image Classification<br><br>
15:20 - 15:35 Break<br><br>
15:35 - 16:25<br><br>
Feras Odeh and Adel Taweel. SemVec: Semantic Features Word Vectors Based Deep Learning for Improved Text Classification<br><br>
Jiri Síma. Three Analog Neurons Are Turing Universal<br><br>
16:25 - 16:35 Closing</body></html>