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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