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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