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4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF NATURAL COMPUTING

TPNC 2015

Mieres, Spain

December 15-16, 2015

Organised by:

European Centre for Soft Computing

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

http://grammars.grlmc.com/tpnc2015/

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PROGRAM

Tuesday, December 15

08:15 - 08:45 Registration

08:45 - 09:00 Opening

09:00 - 09:50 A.E. Eiben: EvoSphere: the World of Robot Evolution - Invited Lecture

09:50 - 10:20 Coffee Break

10:20 - 11:35

Oualid Chenni, Yanis Bouda, Hamid Benachour and Chahnez Zakaria: A Content-based Recommendation Approach Using Semantic User Profile in E-recruitment

Luca Mariot and Alberto Leporati: A Genetic Algorithm for Evolving Plateaued Cryptographic Boolean Functions

Muhammad Marwan Muhammad Fuad: Hierarchical Clustering of DNA Microarray Data Using a Hybrid of Bacterial Foraging and Differential Evolution

11:35 - 11:50 Break and Group Photo

11:50 - 13:05

Abtin Nourmohammadzadeh and Sven Hartmann: Fault Classification of a Centrifugal Pump in Normal and Noisy Environment with Artificial Neural Network and Support Vector Machine Enhanced by a Genetic Algorithm

Stjepan Picek, Sylvain Guilley, Claude Carlet, Domagoj Jakobovic and Julian Miller: Evolutionary Approach for Finding Correlation Immune Boolean Functions of Order t with Minimal Hamming Weight

Gracian Trivino and Daniel Sanchez-Valdes: Generation of Linguistic Advices for Saving Energy: Architecture

13:05 - 14:35 Lunch

14:35 - 15:25

John A. Smolin: Theory and Practice of Quantum Computing - Invited Lecture

15:25 - 15:40 Break

15:40 - 16:40 Poster Session

Silvio Capobianco, Jarkko Kari and Siamak Taati: Some Notes about Reversibility in Cellular Automata

Dariusz Kalocinski, Nina Gierasimczuk and Marcin Mostowski: Learning semantics by coordination

Gábor Prószéky and Balázs Indig: Natural parsing: a psycholinguistically motivated computational language processing model

Luis M. San-Jose-Revuelta: Improved GPS Satellites Selection Using a Tabu Search Optimization Algorithm

Antoni Sobkowicz and Wojciech Stokowiec: You think this is funny? - Detecting sentiment and humor in Steam reviews using nature inspired methods

Didier Verna: Software Systems and Unicellular Life: Puzzling Analogies

Wednesday, December 16

09:00 - 09:50 Guy Theraulaz: Stigmergic Interactions and 3D Nest Construction in Ant Colonies - Invited Lecture

09:50 - 10:20 Coffee Break

10:20 - 11:35

Ilana Agmon and Tal Mor: A Model for the Emergence of Coded Life

Akihiro Nishimura, Takuya Nishida, Yu-Ichi Hayashi, Takaaki Mizuki and Hideaki Sone: Five-card Secure Computations Using Unequal Division Shuffle

Tomoyuki Yamakami: Straight Construction of Non-interactive Quantum Bit Commitment Schemes from Indistinguishable Quantum State Ensembles

11:35 - 11:50 Break

11:50 - 13:05

Pablo Arrighi and Gilles Dowek: Discrete Geodesics and Cellular Automata

Mohammad Ali Javaheri Javid, Robert Zimmer, Anna Ursyn and Mohammad Majid al-Rifaie: A Quantitative Approach for Detecting Symmetries and Complexity in 2D Plane

Hiroshi Umeo, Keisuke Imai and Akihiro Sousa: A Generalized Minimum-time Minimum-state-change FSSP Algorithm

13:05 - 13:20 Closing