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8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF NATURAL COMPUTING

TPNC 2019

Kingston, Canada

December 9-11, 2019

Co-organized by:

Royal Military College of Canada

Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice
Brussels / London

https://tpnc2019.irdta.eu/
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PROGRAM

Monday, December 9

09:00 - 09:30    Registration

09:30 - 09:40    Opening

09:40 - 10:30    Elisabeth André. Human-inspired Socially-aware Interfaces - Invited lecture

10:30 - 11:00    Break

11:00 - 12:15

Ozan Kahramanogullari, Lorenzo Bramanti, and Maria Carla Benedetti. Stochastic Mechanisms of Growth and Branching in Mediterranean Coral Colonies

Kalpana Mahalingam and Hirapra Ravi. Operation Insertion on the Conjugacy and Commutativity of Words

Guillaume Pérution-Kihli, Sarah Guiziou, Federico Ulliana, Michel Leclère, and Jérôme Bonnet. Boolean Recombinase-based Devices

12:15 - 13:45    Lunch

13:45 - 15:00

Ken Takashima, Daiki Miyahara, Takaaki Mizuki, and Hideaki Sone. Card-based Protocol against Actively Revealing Card Attack

Filip Badan and Lukas Sekanina. Optimizing Convolutional Neural Networks for Embedded Systems by means of Neuroevolution

Julie Greensmith. Migration Threshold Tuning in the Deterministic Dendritic Cell Algorithm

15:00 - 15:30    Break

15:30 - 16:30    Poster session I

16:30 - 18:30    Touristic visit

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Tuesday, December 10

09:30 - 10:20    John McCaskill. Analyzing Emergent Dynamics of Evolving Computation in 2D Cellular Automata - Invited lecture

10:20 - 10:50    Break

10:50 - 12:05

Yuri Lavinas, Claus Aranha, and Marcelo Ladeira. Improving Resource Allocation in MOEA/D with Decision-space Diversity Metrics

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

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

12:05 - 13:35    Group photo and Lunch

13:35 - 14:50

Dalia S. Ibrahim and Andrew Vardy. Adaptive Task Allocation for Planar Construction Using Response Threshold Model

Jason T. Lam, François Rivest, and Jean Berger. Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-satellite Collection Scheduling

Usama Mir, Zainullah Khan, Umer Iftikhar Mir, Farhat Naseer, and Waleed Shah. Evolution of Locomotion Gaits for Quadrupedal Robots and Reality Gap Characterization

14:50 - 15:20    Break

15:20 - 16:20    Poster session II

16:30 - 17:30    Reception

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Wednesday, December 11

09:30 - 10:20    Gabriela Ochoa. Optimisation Trajectories Illuminated - Invited lecture

10:20 - 10:50    Break

10:50 - 12:05

Pablo Arrighi, Giuseppe Di Molfetta, and Nathanaël Eon. Non-abelian Gauge-invariant Cellular Automata

Ajinkya Borle and Josh McCarter. On Post-processing the Results of Quantum Optimizers

Kamil Khadiev and Artem Ilikaev. Quantum Algorithms for the Most Frequently String Search, Intersection of Two String Sequences and Sorting of Strings Problems

12:05 - 12:15    Closing

12:15    Lunch