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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