[DMANET] TPNC 2012: call for participation

1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE
THEORY AND PRACTICE OF NATURAL COMPUTING

TPNC 2012

Tarragona, Spain

October 2-4, 2012

http://grammars.grlmc.com/tpnc2012/

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PROGRAMME

Tuesday, October 2

8:30 - 9:00 Registration

9:00 - 9:15 Opening

9:15 - 10:15 Ponnuthurai N. Suganthan: Differential Evolution: Recent Advances - Invited Talk

10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 - 11:45

Michelangelo Cianciulli, Rocco Zaccagnino, Rosalba Zizza: An Easy Automata Based Algorithm for Testing Coding Properties of Infinite Sets of (DNA) Words

Daniela Genova, Kalpana Mahalingam: Generating DNA Code Words Using Forbidding and Enforcing Systems

11:45 - 12:00 Break

12:00 - 13:00 Max H. Garzon: Theory and Applications of DNA Codeword Design - Invited Talk

13:00 - 14:45 Lunch

14:45 - 15:45

Poster session

Fatiha Djahafi: Matching XML Documents by the Similarity Measure Based WordNet

Shin Watanabe, Atsuko Takamatsu, Yasuhiro Hayashi: Design of Electric Power Distribution Networks Using a Biologically Inspired Algorithm

Vladimir Shpilrain, Dima Grigoriev: Nature-Based Cryptography

Alexander Spirov, David Holloway: Using Evolutionary Computations to Understand the Evolutionary Design of Gene Regulatory Networks

Ilja Kucevalovs, Ojars Krasts, Rusins Freivalds, Thomas Zeugmann: Influence of Technology on Learning Processes

Kaspars Balodis, Karlis Jerins, Rusins Freivalds, Agnis Skuskovniks, Ilja Kucevalovs: Weak Computation by Frequency Finite-State Transducers

15:45 - 16:00 Break

16:00 - 17:10

Poster session

Chu Qin, Xiao Hua Ma, Zhe Shi, Yu Zong Chen: Evaluation of the Hit and Target Selectivity Performance of Machine Learning Multi-Target Virtual Screening Models

Lin Tao, Feng Zhu, Yuzong Chen: Genome-Wide Protein-Protein Interactions Prediction from Amino Acid Sequence Using Support Vector Machines

Mauricio Guevara-Souza, Edgar Vallejo: Accelerating Simulations of Population Replacement Using Multicore Technologies

Adam Kozaný: Influence of Forbidding a Rule Type on the Development of PM Colony

David Iclanzan, Camelia Chira: Evolving Complex Cellular Automata Rules

David Iclanzan, D. Dumitrescu: Multiobjective Evolution of Mixed Nash Equilibria

Alina Vasilieva, Elena Shishova: Quantum Query Algorithms for Computing Multivalued Functions

17:10 - 17:25 Break

17:25 - 18:25 Faustino Gómez: Scalable Neuroevolution for Reinforcement Learning - Invited Talk

Wednesday, October 3

9:00 - 11:00 Christian Blum: Hybrid Metaheuristics - Invited Tutorial

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 - 13:00

Petr Sosik, Ludek Cienciala: Tissue P Systems with Cell Separation: Upper Bound by PSPACE

Tibor Kmet, Maria Kmetova: Neural Netwoks Solving Free Final Time Optimal

Darko Stefanovic: Maze Exploration with Molecular-Scale Walkers

13:00 - 14:45 Lunch

14:45 - 16:45

Sergio Santander-Jiménez, Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez, Juan A. Gómez-Pulido, Juan M. Sánchez-Pérez: Comparing Different Operators and Models to Improve a Multiobjective Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm for Inferring Phylogenies

Víctor Berrocal-Plaza, Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez, Juan M. Sánchez-Pérez, Juan A. Gómez-Pulido: A Multi-Objective Approach to Solve the Location Areas Problem

Ran Gelles, Tal Mor: On the Security of Interferometric Quantum Key Distribution

Michel Boyer, Ran Gelles, Tal Mor: Attacks on QKD with Fixed Apparatus

16:45 - 17:00 Break

17:00 - 18:00 Barbara M. Terhal: Fragility of Quantum Information and Quantum Error Correction - Invited Talk

Thursday, October 4

9:00 - 10:00 Peter Tiño: Computational Intelligence in Astronomy - Win-Win Situation - Invited Talk

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:00

Mauricio Guevara and Edgar Vallejo: Wolbachia Infection Improves Genetic Algorithms as Optimization Procedure

Salimur Choudhury, Kai Salomaa, Selim G. Akl: Cellular Automaton Based Motion Planning Algorithms for Mobile Sensor Networks

María Botón-Fernández, Francisco Prieto, Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez: Nature-inspired Algorithms Applied to an Efficient and Self-adaptive Resources Selection Model for Grid Applications

12:00 - 12:15 Break

12:15 - 13:15 Andrew Childs: Universal Computation by Multi-particle Quantum Walk - Invited Talk

13:15 Closing

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