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8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF NATURAL COMPUTING<br><br>
TPNC 2019<br><br>
Kingston, Canada<br><br>
December 9-11, 2019<br><br>
Co-organized by:<br><br>
Royal Military College of Canada<br><br>
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice<br>
Brussels / London<br><br>
https://tpnc2019.irdta.eu/<br>
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PROGRAM<br><br>
Monday, December 9<br><br>
09:00 - 09:30 Registration<br><br>
09:30 - 09:40 Opening<br><br>
09:40 - 10:30 Elisabeth André. Human-inspired Socially-aware Interfaces - Invited lecture<br><br>
10:30 - 11:00 Break<br><br>
11:00 - 12:15<br><br>
Ozan Kahramanogullari, Lorenzo Bramanti, and Maria Carla Benedetti. Stochastic Mechanisms of Growth and Branching in Mediterranean Coral Colonies<br><br>
Kalpana Mahalingam and Hirapra Ravi. Operation Insertion on the Conjugacy and Commutativity of Words<br><br>
Guillaume Pérution-Kihli, Sarah Guiziou, Federico Ulliana, Michel Leclère, and Jérôme Bonnet. Boolean Recombinase-based Devices<br><br>
12:15 - 13:45 Lunch<br><br>
13:45 - 15:00<br><br>
Ken Takashima, Daiki Miyahara, Takaaki Mizuki, and Hideaki Sone. Card-based Protocol against Actively Revealing Card Attack<br><br>
Filip Badan and Lukas Sekanina. Optimizing Convolutional Neural Networks for Embedded Systems by means of Neuroevolution<br><br>
Julie Greensmith. Migration Threshold Tuning in the Deterministic Dendritic Cell Algorithm<br><br>
15:00 - 15:30 Break<br><br>
15:30 - 16:30 Poster session I<br><br>
16:30 - 18:30 Touristic visit<br><br>
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Tuesday, December 10<br><br>
09:30 - 10:20 John McCaskill. Analyzing Emergent Dynamics of Evolving Computation in 2D Cellular Automata - Invited lecture<br><br>
10:20 - 10:50 Break<br><br>
10:50 - 12:05<br><br>
Yuri Lavinas, Claus Aranha, and Marcelo Ladeira. Improving Resource Allocation in MOEA/D with Decision-space Diversity Metrics<br><br>
Alexander Yastrebov, Lukasz Kubus, and Katarzyna Poczeta. An Analysis of Evolutionary Algorithms for Multiobjective Optimization of Structure and Learning of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps Based on Multidimensional Medical Data<br><br>
Michèle Fee, Bart van Oers, Richard Logtmeijer, Jean-Denis Caron, and Van Fong. Genetic Algorithm for Optimization of the Replacement Schedules for Major Surface Combatants<br><br>
12:05 - 13:35 Group photo and Lunch<br><br>
13:35 - 14:50<br><br>
Dalia S. Ibrahim and Andrew Vardy. Adaptive Task Allocation for Planar Construction Using Response Threshold Model<br><br>
Jason T. Lam, François Rivest, and Jean Berger. Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-satellite Collection Scheduling<br><br>
Usama Mir, Zainullah Khan, Umer Iftikhar Mir, Farhat Naseer, and Waleed Shah. Evolution of Locomotion Gaits for Quadrupedal Robots and Reality Gap Characterization<br><br>
14:50 - 15:20 Break<br><br>
15:20 - 16:20 Poster session II<br><br>
16:30 - 17:30 Reception<br><br>
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Wednesday, December 11<br><br>
09:30 - 10:20 Gabriela Ochoa. Optimisation Trajectories Illuminated - Invited lecture<br><br>
10:20 - 10:50 Break<br><br>
10:50 - 12:05<br><br>
Pablo Arrighi, Giuseppe Di Molfetta, and Nathanaël Eon. Non-abelian Gauge-invariant Cellular Automata<br><br>
Ajinkya Borle and Josh McCarter. On Post-processing the Results of Quantum Optimizers<br><br>
Kamil Khadiev and Artem Ilikaev. Quantum Algorithms for the Most Frequently String Search, Intersection of Two String Sequences and Sorting of Strings Problems<br><br>
12:05 - 12:15 Closing<br><br>
12:15 Lunch<br>
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