Program - 16th Brainstorming Week on Membrane Computing | Research Group on Natural Computing

TUESDAY, JANUARY 30
*Room: "Salón de Grados"*
09:00-09:30	Registration
09:30-10:45	Opening Meta/Mega (Research) Topics in Membrane Computing (Society) (Gheorghe Paun) Presenting Int. Journal of Membrane Computing (Gheorghe Paun) Tissue P systems with evolutional communication rules. Complexity aspects (Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez)
10:45-11:30	Coffee/Tea break
*Room: "H1.12"*
11:30-13:00	First session of provocative presentations Cooperation in communication in cell-like P systems (David Orellana-Martín) Spiking Neural P System with Shunting Inhibition (Jiang Yun) Mode-freeness (Sergiu Ivanov) Social robotics and Membrane Computing (Ignacio Pérez-Hurtado)
13:00-15:00	Lunch
15:00-20:00	Joint Work (with a Coffee/Tea break at 16.30)

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31
*Room: "H1.12"*
9:30-10:30	Second session of provocative presentations Can Membrane Computing meet Deep Learning? A motivation: Movies Tags Extraction Using Deep Learning Evolving Spiking Neural P systems (Francis C. Cabarle, Miguel A. Martínez-del-Amor, Xiangxiang Zeng, Henry Adorna) The Fundamental Circuits Design for P Systems Implementation (Zeyi Shang)
10:30-11:00	Special coffee/tea break Churros with chocolate
11:00-13:00	Third session of provocative presentations Decision P-trees and Random P-forests (José M. Sempere) Generalised dependency graphs solving a special case of the P conjecture (Antonio E. Porreca) Announcement: Presentation of the WMC at UCNC and MCU at Fontainebleau (Rudolf Freund) Some provocative thoughts on the future of P systems (Rudolf Freund) Chocolate Automata (Rudolf Freund)
13:00-15:00	Lunch
15:00-20:00	Joint Work (with a Coffee/Tea break at 16.30)

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1
*Room: "H1.12"*
9:30-10:30	Fourth session of provocative presentations Automaton-like P Colonies: New Variants (Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú, Lucie Ciencialová) Membrane systems and time Petri nets (B. Aman, Péter Battyányi, G. Ciobanu, Gy. Vaszil)
10:30-11:00	Coffee/Tea break
11:00-13:00	Fifth session of provocative presentations Announcement: Presentation of the Special Session on Biologically Inspired Parallel and Distributed Computing, Algorithms and Solutions at HPCS 2018 (Agustín Riscos-Núñez) Cell-like P systems with evolutional communication rules. Complexity aspects (David Orellana-Martín) P Colony Automata with LL(k) conditions (Kristóf Kántor)
13:00-15:00	Lunch
16:00-18:00	Social event: A visit to the preserved Roman city Itálica
20:30-??:??	Special dinner: Tavern Bocanegra

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2
*Room: "H1.12"*
9:30-10:30	Sixth session of provocative presentations When Search Based Software Engineering Meets Membrane Computing (Raluca Lefticaru)
10:30-11:00	Coffee/Tea break
11:00-13:00	Results obtained during the meeting New results on "Generalised dependency graphs solving a special case of the P conjecture" (Antonio E. Porreca) Extended deadline to WMC papers (Rudolf Freund) P Systems with Activation and Blocking of Rules (Rudolf Freund)
13:00	Closing
13:00-15:00	Lunch

SOCIAL EVENT

Visit to the Roman city of Itálica.

"Amphitheater" by Diego Delso, License CC-BY-SA via Wikimedia Commons

The BWMC organization will arrange a meeting time to get there from the venue.

MENU (let us know if you have any restriction):
Starters (for sharing): Surtido de Chacinas, ensaladilla rusa.
Main (To choose one): Solomillo ibérico, presa ibérica, atún or pez espada
Dessert: Variety of cakes.
Included drinks: Beers, soda, water, wine.

PLACE: At the street Av. de Finlandia, s/n.

Research Group on Natural Computing

BWMC 2018

Program - 16th Brainstorming Week on Membrane Computing

SOCIAL EVENT

SPECIAL DINNER