Conference Program
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Session Timetable
| Monday 5th December | 9:30am - 10:45am | Welcome. Keynote 1 - Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College |
| 10:45am - 11:00am | Coffee/Tea | |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm | BIONETICS Session 1 | |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm | BIONETICS WIP Papers 1 & NANO Special Session | |
| 3:00pm - 3:30pm | Coffee/Tea | |
| 3:30pm - 5:30pm | NANO (cont.) and BIONETICS Session 2 | |
| 3:30pm - 6:00pm | BIONETICS WIP Papers 2 | |
| 7:00pm | Conference Dinner | |
| Tuesday 6th December | 9:15am - 10:30am | Keynote 2 - Dario Floreano, EPFL |
| 10:30am - 11:00am | Coffee/Tea | |
| 11:00am - 1:00pm | BIONETICS Session 3 | |
| 1:00pm - 2:00pm | Lunch | |
| 2:00pm - 3:00pm | PhD Forum Keynote - Gusz Eiben, Vrije University, Amsterdam | |
| 3:00pm - 3:15pm | Coffee/Tea | |
| 3:15pm - 5:15pm | PhD Forum | |
| 5:45pm - 6:45pm | PhD Forum "Ask the Expert" |
Monday, December 5th
| Time | Room 1 - Crown Room | Room 2 - Reading Room |
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| 09:30 | Keynote: "A Methodology for Engineering Intelligent Socio-Technical Systems" Jeremy Pitt (Imperial College, London) Chair:Jon Timmis (University of York) | |
| 10:45 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 | Bionetics Session 1 Chair: TBC |
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"Incremental Versus Optimal Network Design: The Price of Evolution"
Saeideh Bakshi, Constantine Dovrolis | ||
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"A Genetic Algorithm for a Joint Routing and Scheduling Problem in Heterogeneous Networks"
Hela Masri, Adel Guitouni and Krichen Saoussen | ||
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"The Protein Processor Associative Memory on a Robotic Hand-Eye
Coordination Task"
Omer Qadir, Jon Timmis, Andy Tyrrell, Gianluca Tempesti | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch - Tempus Restaurant | |
| 13:30 | Bionetics Work In Progress Papers 1 Chair: TBC |
NANO Special Session Chair: Tadashi Nakano (Osaka University) |
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"Dynamic Hawk and Dove Games within Flocks of Birds"
Eitan Altman, Julien Gaillard, Majed Haddad, Piotr Wiecek |
"Analog Molecular Communication in Nano-networks"
Ali Akkaya, Tuna Tugcu | |
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"Some Initial Experiments in Calibrating Emissions Models using an Evolutionary Algorithm"
Neil Urquhart |
"Synchronization of Inhibitory Molecular Spike Oscillators"
Michael Moore, Tadashi Nakano | |
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"A Comparative Evaluation of Business Intelligence Technologies with Application to Product Profiling"
Takudzwa Mabande, Antoine Bagula, Joseph Balikuddembe, Pheeha Machaka |
Short Paper: "Propagation Delay of Brownian Molecules in Nano-biosensor Networks"
Yutaka Okaie, Tadashi Nakano, Michael Moore | |
| 15:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:30 | NANO Special Session (continued) and Bionetics Session 2 Chair: TBC |
Bionetics Work In Progress Papers 2 Chair: TBC |
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"Co-channel Interference for Communication via Diffusion System in Molecular Communication"
Mehmet Şükrü Kuran, Tuna Tugcu |
"A Biologically-Inspired Model for Recognition of Overlapped Patterns"
Saifullah Mohammad | |
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"Channel Design and Optimization of Active Transport Molecular Communication)"
Nariman Farsad, Andrew Eckford, Satoshi Hiyama |
"A Bio-inspired Coverage and Connectivity Maintenance Algorithm"
Emi Mathews, Tobias Graf, Kosala Suranga Sanjaya Bandara Kulathunga | |
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"BIO-CORE: Bio-inspired Self-Organising Mechanisms Core"
Jose Luis Fernandez-Marquez, Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Sara Montagna |
"Monitoring of a Large Wi-Fi Hotspots Network: Performance Investigation of Soft Computing Techniques"
Pheeha Machaka, Antoine Bagula, Takudzwa Mabande | |
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"Analysing the Reliability of a Self-reconfigurable Modular Robotic System"
Lachlan Murray, Wenguo Liu, Alan Winfield, Jon Timmis, Andy Tyrrell |
"Gossip Inspired Sensor Activation Protocol for a Correlated Chemical Environment"
Champake Mendis | |
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner - National Railway Museum, Leeman Road |
Tuesday, December 6th
| Time | Crown Room | Room 2 |
|---|---|---|
| 09:15 | Keynote: "Micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: From Biology to Engineering" Dario Floreano (EPFL) Chair:TBC | |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 | Bionetics Session 3 Chair: TBC |
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"Comparison of Ant-Inspired Gatherer Allocation Approaches using Memristor-Based Environmental Models"
Ella M Gale, Benjamin de Lacy Costello, Andy Adamatsky | ||
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"Genetic Channel Capacity Revisited"
Félix Balado | ||
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"Biologically Inspired Attack Detection in Superpeer-Based P2P Overlay Networks"
Paul Snyder, Yusuf Osmanlioglu, Guiseppe Valetto | ||
| 13:00 | Lunch - Tempus Restaurant | |
| 14:00 | PhD Forum Keynote: "Methodological Issues in Bio-inspired Computing" Gusz Eiben (Vrije University, Amsterdam) Chair:TBC | |
| 15:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 13:30 | PhD Forum Chair: TBC |
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"Applying Bees Algorithm for Trust Management in Cloud Computing"
Mohamed Firdhous, Osman Ghazali, Suhaidi Hassan | ||
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"Artificial Negative Selection: Searching for an Appropriate Application Scenario"
Yevgen Nebesov | ||
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"Spatio-Temporal Modeling and simulation of Mycobacterium Pathogenesis using Petri nets"
Rafael Carvalho, Fons J. Verbeek, Annemarie Meijer, Willem Davids | ||
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"Immune Inspired Adaptive Information Filtering: Focusing on Profile Adaptation"
Nurulhuda Mohd Azmi, Fiona Polack, Jon Timmis | ||
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"Design and Modeling for Self-Organizing Autonomic Systems"
Paul Snyder, Giuseppe Valetto | ||
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"Asynchronous Idiotypic Network Simulator" (Demo Paper)
Kevin Sim | ||
| 17:45 | PhD Forum "Ask the Expert" Chair: TBC |
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| 18:45 | Close. |









