TPNC 2018 Program

Invited lectures: 45 minutes for presentation + 5 minutes for questions
Contributed talks: 23 minutes for presentation + 2 minutes for questions

PROGRAM

Wednesday, December 12

08:30 - 09:00	Registration
09:00 - 09:10	Opening
09:10 - 10:00	Hani Hagras. Explainable AI and Fuzzy Logic Systems - Invited lecture
10:00 - 10:15	Break
10:15 - 11:05	Roberto Barbuti, Anna Bernasconi, Roberta Gori and Paolo Milazzo. Computing Preimages and Ancestors in Reaction Systems Ziya Firat, Eliseo Ferrante, Nicolas Cambier and Elio Tuci. Self-organised Aggregation in Swarms of Robots with Informed Robots
11:05 - 11:20	Break
11:20 - 12:35	Fred Gruau and Luidnel Maignan. Cellular Computation, with Spatial Types on Planar Graph Yuichi Kato, Tetsuro Saeki and Jiwei Fei. Application of STRIM to Datasets Generated by Partial Correspondence Hypothesis Yuichi Komano and Takaaki Mizuki. Multi-party Computation Based on Physical Coins
12:35 - 13:50	Lunch
13:50 - 15:05	Shigeru Ninagawa. Patterns and their Interaction in Excitable Media on Face-centered Cubic Lattice Yuya Sugie, Yuki Yoshida, Normann Mertig, Takashi Takemoto, Hiroshi Teramoto, Atsuyoshi Nakamura, Ichigaku Takigawa, Shin-Ichi Minato, Masanao Yamaoka and Tamiki Komatsuzaki. Graph Minors from Simulated Annealing for Annealing Machines with Sparse Connectivity [Req. password] Miin-Shen Yang, Shou-Jen Chang-Chien and Yessica Nataliani. Gaussian-kernel c-means Clustering Algorithms
15:05 - 15:20	Break
15:20 - 16:35	Michael Hellwig and Hans-Georg Beyer. A Linear Constrained Optimization Benchmark for Probabilistic Search Algorithms: The Rotated Klee-Minty Problem Karlo Knezevic, Stjepan Picek, Luca Mariot, Domagoj Jakobovic and Alberto Leporati. The Design of (Almost) Disjunct Matrices by Evolutionary Algorithms Nam Le, Anthony Brabazon and Michael O'Neill. How the "Baldwin Effect" Can Guide Evolution in Dynamic Environments

Thursday, December 13

09:00 - 09:50	Juergen Branke. Design of Complex Systems via Simulation-based Optimisation [Req. password] - Invited lecture
09:50 - 10:05	Break
10:05 - 11:20	Katherine Malan. Landscape-aware Constraint Handling Applied to Differential Evolution Abtin Nourmohammadzadeh and Sven Hartmann. Fuel Efficient Truck Platooning with Time Restrictions and Multiple Speeds Solved by a Particle Swarm Optimisation Thambo Nyathi and Nelishia Pillay. Automated Design of Genetic Programming Classification Algorithms for Financial Forecasting Using Evolutionary Algorithms
11:20 - 11:35	Break and Group photo
11:35 - 12:50	Geoff Pond and Greg McQuat. Optimizing Fleet Staging of Air Ambulances in the Province of Ontario Takfarinas Saber, David Fagan, David Lynch, Stepan Kucera, Holger Claussen and Michael O'Neill. A Hierarchical Approach to Grammar-guided Genetic Programming: The Case of Scheduling in Heterogeneous Networks Maxim Sakharov and Anatoly Karpenko. Multi-memetic Mind Evolutionary Computation Algorithm Based on the Landscape Analysis
12:50 - 14:05	Lunch
14:05 - 15:20	Alexandru Amarioarei, Gefry Barad, Eugen Czeizler, Ana-Maria Dobre, Corina Itcus, Victor Mitrana, Andrei Paun, Mihaela Paun, Frankie Spencer, Romica Trandafir and Iris Tusa. DNA-guided Assembly of Nanocellulose Meshes Alejandro Díaz-Caro and Marcos Villagra. Classically Time-controlled Quantum Automata Tadao Maekawa, Manabu Honda, Osamu Ueno and Tsutomu Oohashi. Mortal Organisms Rescue Immortal Organisms from Evolutionary Inertness: Perspective of the Programmed Self-decomposition Model
15:20 - 15:35	Break
15:35 - 17:15	S. Sahand Mohammadi Ziabari and Jan Treur. Integrative Biological, Cognitive and Affective Modeling of a Drug-therapy for a Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Roland Ritt and Paul O'Leary. Symbolic Analysis of Machine Behaviour and the Emergence of the Machine Language Knud Thomsen. It Is Time to Dissolve Old Dichotomies in order to Grasp the Whole Picture of Cognition Mengzhe Chen and Nikolay M. Sirakov. Poisson Equation Solution and its Gradient Vector Field to Geometric Features Detection
17:30 - 19:45	Dublin Sightseeing Bus Tour

Friday, December 14

09:00 - 09:50	Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis. The Cellular Automata Computing Paradigm Enriched: From Simple Models to Real World Applications - Invited lecture
09:50 - 10:05	Break
10:05 - 11:20	Caroline Tichelaar and Jan Treur. Network-oriented Modeling of the Interaction of Adaptive Joint Decision Making, Bonding and Mirroring Jan Treur. Network Reification as a Unified Approach to Represent Network Adaptation Principles within a Network Jan Treur. Relating an Adaptive Network's Structure to its Emerging Behaviour for Hebbian Learning
11:20 - 11:35	Break
11:35 - 12:50	Toshinori Deguchi and Naohiro Ishii. On Capacity with Incremental Learning by Simplified Chaotic Neural Network Ata Kabán and Yamanporn Thummanusarn. Tighter Guarantees for the Compressive Multi-layer Perceptron Ryotaro Kamimura. Information-theoretic Self-compression of Multi-layered Neural Networks
12:50 - 14:05	Lunch
14:05 - 15:20	Tibor Kmet and Maria Kmetova. Radial Basis Function Networks Simulation of Age-structure Population Esma Mansouri-Benssassi and Juan Ye. Bio-inspired Spiking Neural Networks for Facial Expression Recognition: Generalisation Investigation Tamás Nyíri and Attila Kiss. Novel Ensembling Methods for Dermatological Image Classification
15:20 - 15:35	Break
15:35 - 16:25	Feras Odeh and Adel Taweel. SemVec: Semantic Features Word Vectors Based Deep Learning for Improved Text Classification Jiri Síma. Three Analog Neurons Are Turing Universal
16:25 - 16:35	Closing