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Theory and Practice of Natural Computing

8th International Conference, TPNC 2019, Kingston, ON, Canada, December 9–11, 2019, Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 11934)

Part of the book sub series: Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues (LNTCS)

Conference series link(s): TPNC: International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Natural Computing

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Table of contents (17 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Invited Talks

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Analysing Emergent Dynamics of Evolving Computation in 2D Cellular Automata

      • John S. McCaskill, Norman H. Packard
      Pages 3-40Open Access
    3. Human-Inspired Socially-Aware Interfaces

      • Dominik Schiller, Katharina Weitz, Kathrin Janowski, Elisabeth André
      Pages 41-53
  3. Applications of Natural Computing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55
    2. Stochastic Mechanisms of Growth and Branching in Mediterranean Coral Colonies

      • Ozan Kahramanoğulları, Lorenzo Bramanti, Maria Carla Benedetti
      Pages 57-69
    3. Operation Insertion on the Conjugacy and Commutativity of Words

      • Kalpana Mahalingam, Hirapra Ravi
      Pages 70-81
    4. Boolean Recombinase-Based Devices

      • Guillaume Pérution-Kihli, Sarah Guiziou, Federico Ulliana, Michel Leclère, Jérôme Bonnet
      Pages 82-94
    5. Card-Based Protocol Against Actively Revealing Card Attack

      • Ken Takashima, Daiki Miyahara, Takaaki Mizuki, Hideaki Sone
      Pages 95-106
  4. Genetic Algorithms, Swarm Intelligence, and Heuristics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159
    2. Genetic Algorithm for Optimization of the Replacement Schedules for Major Surface Combatants

      • Michele Fee, Bart van Oers, Richard Logtmeijer, Jean-Denis Caron, Van Fong
      Pages 161-172
    3. Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-satellite Collection Scheduling

      • Jason T. Lam, François Rivest, Jean Berger
      Pages 184-196
    4. Evolution of Locomotion Gaits for Quadrupedal Robots and Reality Gap Characterization

      • Usama Mir, Zainullah Khan, Umer Iftikhar Mir, Farhat Naseer, Waleed Shah
      Pages 197-207
  5. Quantum Computing and Information

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Natural Computing, TPNC 2019, held in Kingston, ON, Canada, in December 2019.
The 15 full papers presented in this book, together with two invited talk, were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named:

Applications of Natural Computing; Evolutionary Computation; Genetic Algorithms, Swarm Intelligence, and Heuristics; Quantum Computing and Information.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain

    Carlos Martín-Vide

  • Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Canada

    Geoffrey Pond

  • University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain

    Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez

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