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5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF NATURAL COMPUTING

TPNC 2016

Sendai, Japan

December 12-13, 2016

Organized by:

Cyberscience Center
Tohoku University

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/TPNC2016/

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PROGRAM


Monday, December 12


09:00 - 09:30    Registration

09:30 - 09:40    Opening

09:40 - 10:30    Luis Martínez López: Managing Natural Noise in Recommender Systems - Invited lecture

10:30 - 11:00    Coffee break

11:00 - 12:15

Anissa Lamani and Masafumi Yamashita: Realization of Periodic Functions by Self-stabilizing Population Protocols with Synchronous Handshakes

Ahnaf Munir, Sakhawat Hossen and Salimur Choudhury: Localized Load Balancing in RFID Systems

Abtin Nourmohammadzadeh and Sven Hartmann: The Fuel-efficient Platooning of Heavy Duty Vehicles by Mathematical Programming and Genetic Algorithm

12:15 - 13:45    Lunch

13:45 - 15:00

Itaru Ueda, Akihiro Nishimura, Yu-Ichi Hayashi, Takaaki Mizuki and Hideaki Sone: How to Implement a Random Bisection Cut

Kui Chen and Hitoshi Kanoh: A Discrete Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm Based on Similarity for Graph Coloring Problems

Marcin Czajkowski and Marek Kretowski: A Multi-objective Evolutionary Approach to Pareto Optimal Model Trees. A Preliminary study

15:00 - 17:00    Visit to the Sendai Castle Ruins


Tuesday, December 13


09:00 - 09:50    Qingfu Zhang: Multiobjective Evolutionary Computation, Decomposition and Regularity - Invited lecture

09:50 - 10:20    Coffee break

10:20 - 11:35

Vassilis Papapanagiotou, Roberto Montemanni and Luca Maria Gambardella: A Sampling-based Metaheuristic for the Orienteering Problem with Stochastic Travel Times

Kazi Shah Nawaz Ripon, Hakon Dissen and Jostein Solaas: Real Time Traffic Intersection Management Using Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithm

Jayanta Kumar Das, Pabitra Pal Choudhury and Ayesha Arora: Natural and Efficient Sub-traction Operation in Carry Value Transformation (CVT)-Exclusive OR (XOR) Paradigm

11:35 - 11:50    Break and Group photo

11:50 - 12:50    Poster presentations

Christian Blum and Borja Calvo: MDS-BEEP: A Biologically Inspired Distributed Algorithm for Minimal Dominating Set Computation

Keitel Cervantes-Salguero, Ibuki Kawamata, Shin-Ichiro Nomura and Satoshi Murata: Design and Construction of Reusable DNA Logic Gates Based on Electric Field Actuation

Roman Neruda and Klara Peskova: Hyper-parameter Search Methods for Better Model Recommendation

Chinasa Sueyoshi and Takashi Naka: Exhaustive Analysis for the Effects of Network Structures and Reaction Saturation Levels on the Multi-stability in Cellular Signaling Systems

Antonio J. Tallón-Ballesteros and Luís Correia: Two-level Feature Selection in Data Mining

Antonio J. Tallón-Ballesteros, Cristina Urbano-Sánchez, María Rodríguez-Romero and Luís Correia: Is the Information Extracted Enough to Apply Machine Learning Algorithms?

12:50 - 14:20    Lunch

14:20 - 15:35

Balázs Indig, Noémi Vadász and Ágnes Kalivoda: Decreasing Entropy: How Wide to Open the Window?

Ozan Kahramanogullari: Simulating Stochastic Dynamic Interactions with Spatial Information and Flux

Wataru Yahiro and Masami Hagiya: Implementation of Turing Machine Using DNA Strand Displacement

15:35 - 15:50    Break

15:50 - 17:30

Lorenzo Bottarelli, Manuele Bicego, Matteo Denitto, Alessandra Di Pierro and Alessandro Farinelli: A Quantum Annealing Approach to Biclustering

Josef Moudrík and Roman Neruda: Determining Player Skill in the Game of Go with Deep Neural Networks

Zbigniew Suraj and Piotr Grochowalski: Flexible Generalized Fuzzy Petri Nets for Rule-based Systems

Pak-Kan Wong, Man Leung Wong and Kwong-Sak Leung: Learning Grammar Rules in Probabilistic Grammar-based Genetic Programming

17:30 - 17:40    Closing