TPNC 2019: call for participation*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* **************************************************************************** 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/ **************************************************************************** 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 --- 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 --- 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