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NiSIS 2006 – 2nd Annual Symposium
Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain
29 November, 2006 – 1 December, 2006

Sessions

Day 1 Day 2  Day 3 


 

29 Nov 2006, 09:00-10:30 Session AA1

Salon Tenerife
Plenary I: Welcome and Introduction
Chair: Derek Linkens, United Kingdom

Swarm Intelligent Systems: How Social Insects Provide Solutions to Complex Problems
Guy Theraulaz, University Paul Sabatier, France

 

 29 Nov 2006, 11:00-12:30 Session AB1

Salon Tenerife
Modelling I
Chair: Reinhard Guthke, Germany

Fuzzy Cluster and Rule-based Modelling to Classify Rheumatoid Arthritis and Osteoarthritis Patients Based on Gene Expression Data
Michael Pfaff, Germany; Dirk Woetzel, Dominik Driesch, Susanne Toepfer

Modeling the Cognitive Immune System Theory with a Learning Classifier System
Daniel Voigt,Germany; Werner Dilger, Henry Wirth

Dynamic Modeling of the Response to an Autoimmune Disease Therapy
Michael Hecker, Germany; Reinhard Guthke, Susanne Drynda, Joern Kekow, Hans-Jürgen Thiesen

EQML- An Evolutionary Qualitative Model Learning Framework
George Coghill, United Kingdom; Wei Pang

29 Nov 2006, 11:00-12:30 Session AB2

Salon Gomera
Competition on Benchmark
Chair: Jens Strackeljan, Germany

NiSiS 2006 Competition- A General overview
Jens Strackeljan, Germany

Detecting catalyst deactivation in a tube reactor
Peter Kaßler, Germany

Crosstrained Ensemble of Neural Networks for Robust Time Series Prediction
Dymitr Ruta, Great Britain

Apative Soft sensor- Using PSO for training the Elman Network
Martin Macas, Czech Republic

 

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break

 

 29 Nov 2006, 13:30-14:30 Session AC1

Salon Tenerife
Plenary II
Chair: Derek Linkens, United Kingdom

How do living Cells Compute?
Dennis Bray, United Kingdom

 

29 Nov 2006, 14:30-16:00 Session AD1

Salon Tenerife
Optimisation
Chair: Reinhard Guthke,Germany

 

Social Impact and Optimization
Martin Macas, Czech Republic; Lenka Lhotska

Optimisation of the Design of 3D Building Steel Structures Using Genetic Algorithms
Francisco Ortega, Spain; Belén Prendes, Antonio Bello, Joaquín Villanueva

Task Force on Nature-inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization - A Summary of Activities and Results
David A. Pelta, Spain

Supervising the Reinforcement Learning of a Joint Control Policy
Diego E. Pardo, Spain; Cecilio Angulo, Ricardo A. Téllez

29 Nov 2006, 14:30-16:00 Session AD2

Salon Gomera
Computation
Chair: Michael Pfaff, Germany

Can Developmental Biology Inspire Amorphous Computing ?
David Irons, United Kingdom; Nick Monk

Patchiness and Species Interactions in Water-Limited Ecosystems: A Pattern Formation Approach
Erez Gilad, United Kingdom

Living Art - A Synthesis of Artificial Life and Digital Art
Mannes Poel, Netherlands; Maher Ben Moussa, Marco Pash

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break

29 Nov 2006, 16:30-18:00 Session AE1

Salon Tenerife 
Control
Chair: Kauko Leiviskä, Finland

Nature-inspired Varying Control Based for Neuromuscular Blockade
Teresa Feio Mendonca, Portugal; Paula Rocha

Nature-inspired Adaptive Control for Anaesthesia Based on Diversity
Joao Miranda Lemos, Portugal; Teresa F. Mendonca

A Nature-inspired-Modeling-Optimization-Control System Applied to a Waste Incinerator Plant
Stefano Pizzuti, Italy; Mauro Annunziato, Ilaria Bertini, Alessandro Pannicelli

Chemotaxis for Controller Tuning
Kauko Leiviskä, Finland; Iiris Joensuu

29 Nov 2006, 16:30-18:00 Session AE2

Salon Gomera
Networks
Chair: Trevor P. Martin, United Kingdom

Dynamics in Natural and Human Communities
Tanja Falkowski, Germany

Multi-objective Scheduling for Distributed Security Services
Uzay Kaymak, Netherlands; Jose A. Larco, Rommert Dekker

Robustness Mechanisms in Biology
Rüdiger W. Brause, Germany

30 Nov 2006, 09:00-10:00 Session BA1

Salon Tenerife
Plenary III
Chair: Derek Linkens, United Kingdom

Complexity based on simplicity: is it time for liver-inspired modelling of tissue development, function and regeneration
Rolf Gebhardt, Germany

30 Nov 2006, 10:30-12:00 Session BB1

Salon Tenerife
Modelling II
Chair: Rüdiger W. Brause, Germany

Reverse-engineering Mammalian Brains for Building Complex Integrated Controllers
Ricardo Sanz, Spain; Ignacio Lopez, Adolfo Hernando, Julia Bemejo

Combining Genetic Programming and Semi-quantitative Representation to Learn Models of Physical Systems
Mehdi Khoury, United Kingdom; Georg Coghill, Frank Guerin

Modeling Crowd Motion Using Swarm Heuristics and Predictive Agents
Benjamin Garrett, USA; Mauro Annunziato, Alessandro Pannicelli, Carlo Liberto

30 Nov 2006, 10:30-12:00 Session BB2

Salon Gomera
Interpretation and Prediction
Chair: David A. Pelta, Spain

The Use of Ant Colony-inspired Methods in Electrocardiogram Interpretation - An Overview
Miroslav Bursa, Czech Republic; Lenka Lhotska

Unsupervised System for Discovering Patterns in Time-Series
Alexandra Scherbart, Germany; Nils Goerke

Commodity Trade Automation Using Evolution and Pattern Recognition
Andrzej Ruta,Poland

Advancing the self-healing properties of polymer-coated surfaces by applying thrombosis-inspred modeling
Aleksandar Jovanovic, Germany, N. Filipovic, D.T.Balos, D.J.Balos

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch Break

30 Nov 2006, 13:30-14:30 Session BC1

Salon Tenerife
Plenary IV
Chair: Derek Linkens, United Kingdom

Naturally Adaptive ICT
Mark Shackleton, Great Britain

30 Nov 2006, 14:30-16:00 Session BD1

Salon Tenerife
Data Analysis
Chair: Uzay Kaymak,The Netherlands

A Novel Biology-inspired Model for Evolutionary Subspace Clustering
Ira Assent, Germany; Ralph Krieger, Andreas Steffens, Thomas Seidl

Online Evolving Clustering of Web Documents
Anthony Evans, United Kingdom; Plamen Angelov, Xiaowei Zhou

Unsupervised Ensembles Techniques for Visualization
Bruno Baruque, Spain; Emilio Corchado, Bogdan Gabrys, Alvaro Herrero, Jordi Rovira, Javier Gonzalez

Analysis of Vestibular-Ocular Reflex by Evolutionary Algorithm
Petr Posik, Czech Republic; Daniel Novák

Selection of the Target Group based on Social Network
Przemysla Kazienko, Katarzyna Musial, Aleksander Zgrzywa

30.11.2006, 14:30-16:00 Session BD2

Salon Gomera
Architectures
Chair: Bogdan Gabrys, United Kingdom

A Hierarchical Layered Architecture for Intelligent Control of Autonomous Robots
Nils Goerke, Germany

Nature-inspired Decentralized Cooperative Metaheuristic Strategies for Logistic Problems
José Andrés Moreno Pérez, Spain; Belén Melián Batista, J. Marcos Moreno Vega

Recommendation in Wiki-news System Based on AIS Methods
Janusz Sobecki, Poland; Leszek Szczepanski

Lambda as a Complexity Control in Negative Correlation Learning
Mark Eastwood, United Kingdom; Bogdan Gabrys

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break

30 Nov 2006, 16:30-18:00 Session BE1

Salon Tenerife
Sensors
Chair: Davide Anguita, Italy

A Guiding Agent: Smart Dynamic Technology for Solving Distributed Problems
Juan Manuel Corchado Rodriguez, Spain; Maria A. Pellicer, Emilio S. Corchado

The Importance of Time in the Identification of Anomalous Situation by Means of MOVICAB-IDS
Emilio Corchado, Spain; Alvaro Herrero, Bruno Baruque

Sensor Merging for Wide Spread Identification of Hypnosis
Teresa Feio Mendonca, Portugal; Catarina S. Nunes, Joao M. Lemos

Soft Sensor for Predicting Crude Oil Distillation Side Streams Using Evolving Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Models - Results outlined.
Jose J. Macias Hernandez, Spain; Plamen Angelov, Xiaowei Zhou

30 Nov 2006, 16:30-18:00 Session BE2

Salon Gomera
The Pap-Smear Benchmark
Chair: Jan Jantzen, Denmark

Analysis of pap-smear Image Data
Jan Jantzen, Denmark; Georgios Dounias

Nearest Neighbor Based Pap-Smear Cell Classification Using Tabu Search for Feature Selection
Iannis Marinakis, Greece; Georgios Dounias

Nature-inspired Intelligent Techniques for Pap Smear Diagnosis: Ant Colony Optimization for Cell Classification
Iannis Marinakis, Greece; Georgios Dounias

Pap Smear Diagnosis Using a Hybrid Intelligent Scheme Focusing on Genetic Algorithm Based Feature Selection and Nearest Neighbor Classification
Iannis Marinakis, Greece; Georgios Dounias

01 Dec 2006, 09:00-10:30 Session CA1

Salon Tenerife
Brokerage Session: Prospective Proposals and Initiatives in FP 7
Chair: Aleksandar Jovanovic, Germany

Please find here the Präsentation which Karl Lieven gave and furthermore the introduction by Pekka Karp during the Presentation of the 7th Framework Programme in Helsinki in November 2006. You can ask for more detailed material at the NiSIS Service Centre

01 Dec 2006, 11:00-12:30 Session CB1

Salon  Tenerife
Task Force Workshop "Nature-inspired Combinatorial Machine Learning"
Chair: Davide Anguita, Italy

01 Dec 2006, 11:00-12:30 Session CB2

Salon Gomera
Task Force Workshop "Sparking New Ideas through Brain-Like Associatin Networks"
Chair: Michael berthold, Germany 

01 Dec 2006, 13:30-15:00 Session CC1

Salon Tenerife
Task Force Workshop "Nature-inspired Self healing Soft Sensors for Process Industry"
Chair: Monika Berendsen, Germany

01 Dec 2006, 13:30-15:00 Session CC2

Salon Gomera
Task Force Workshop " Nature-inspired Robustness"
Chair: Rüdiger W. Brause, Germany

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