All
conference events take place at
the Four
Points Hotel in downtown Kingston.
- Registration
and breaks: Limestone Foyer
- Sessions:
Limestone Ballroom
- Welcome
reception and lunches: Old Stones Private Dining Room
- Banquet:
Gibraltar Room
Keynote lecture 
| Workshop 
| Tutorial 
| Conference papers 
| Other 
Sunday August 12, 2007
16:00
|
Arrival and
registration |
Evening
|
Welcome
reception |
Monday August 13, 2007
8:00
|
Registration |
8:45
|
Opening: Selim
G. Akl, Conference Chair |
9:00
|
Keynote
lecture: How Neural Computing Can Still be Unconventional
After All These Years
Professor
Michael Arbib, University of Southern California |
10:00
|
Break |
| UC '07 Session
1 |
10:30
|
Agudelo,
J.C. and Carnielli, W.
Unconventional Models of Computation Through Non-Standard Logic Circuits |
11:00
|
Aono,
M. and Hara, M.
Living Amoeba-Based Neurocomputer
Can Break Through Deadlock |
11:30
|
Arulanandham,
J.J.
Unconventional Stateless
Turing-like Machines |
Lunch
|
|
Workshop on
Unconventional Computational Problems
Organizers: Marius Nagy and Naya
Nagy (Queen’s University)
|
13:30
|
Nagy,
M. and Akl, S.G.
Parallelism in Quantum Information Processing Defeats the Universal
Computer |
14:00
|
Drzadzewski,
G. and Wineberg, M.
Comparing Minimum Neighbourhood Evaluation Schemes for Finding
Spatially Robust Solutions |
14:30
|
Drzadzewski,
G. and Wineberg, M.
How Solution Density Affects the Finding of Spatially Robust Solutions |
15:00
|
Break |
15:30
|
Hamann,
H. and Worn, H.
Embodied Computation |
16:00
|
Jafer,
S. and Wainer, G.A.
An Environment for Advanced Parallel Simulation of Cellular Models |
16:30
|
Nagy,
N. and Akl, S.G.
Authenticated Quantum Key Distribution without Classical Communication |
17:00
|
Juan Frausto-Solis and Ernesto
Liñán-García
MultiQuenching-Simulated Annealing Algorithm applied to the Protein
Folding Problem |
Evening
|
20:00
Guided Walking
Tour of Queen's University and Historic Kingston, free to conference
participants (please meet in the conference lobby and (if you would
like) bring ~$3.50 for fresh ice cream afterwards)
|
Tuesday August 14, 2007
| UC
'07 Session 2 |
9:00
|
Freund,
R., Paun, G., and Perez-Jimenez, M.J.
Polarizationless P Systems with Active Membranes Working in the
Minimally Parallel Mode |
9:30
|
Goldfarb,
L.
On One Unconventional Framework for Computation |
10:00
|
Ishdorj,
T.-O. and Petre, I.
Computing Through Gene Assembly |
10:30
|
Break |
11:00
|
Khalid,
S., Shah, S.I., and Ahmad , J.
Learning Vector Quantization Network for PAPR Reduction in Orthogonal
Frequency Division Multiplexing Systems |
11:30
|
Khan,
A., Bashir, S., Naeem, M., Shah, S.I., and Sheikh, A.
Binary Ant Colony Algorithm for Symbol Detection in a Spatial
Multiplexing System |
Lunch
|
14:00
|
Tutorial:
Quantum Infomation Processing
Professor Gilles Brassard, Université de Montréal
|
Evening
|
17:15-18:30 Delvalle's Art Corner Tour, free to conference participants;
18:30
free time, UC'07 Suggests: 1000 Island Cruise |
Wednesday August 15, 2007
9:00
|
Keynote
lecture: Organic User Interfaces (Oui!): Designing
Computers in Any Way
Shape or Form
Professor
Roel Vertegaal, Queen’s University |
10:00
|
Break |
| UC '07 Session 3 |
10:30
|
Nagy,
N. and Akl, S.G.
Quantum Authenticated Key Distribution |
11:00
|
Pacheco,
J. and Costa, J.F.
The Abstract Immune System Algorithm |
11:30
|
Prost,
F.
Taming Non-Compositionality Using New Binders |
Lunch
|
13:30
|
Presentation
on UC’08 by
Professor Rudolf Freund, Vienna University of Technology |
|
Workshop on
Language Theory in Biocomputing
Organizers:
Michael Domaratzki (University of Manitoba)
and Kai Salomaa (Queen’s University)
|
14:00
|
Ishdorj,T.-O.,
Loos, R., and Petre, I.
Computational Efficiency of Intermolecular Gene Assembly |
14:30
|
Kari,
L. and Mahalingam, K.
Watson-Crick Bordered Words and Their Syntactic Monoid |
15:00
|
Balan,
M.S.
Automaton Models Inspired by Peptide Computing |
15:30
|
Break |
16:00
|
Daley,
M., McQuillan, I., and McQuillan, J.M.
Theoretical and Computational Properties of Transpositions |
16:30
|
Biegler,
F., Daley, M., and Locke, M.E.O.
Computation by Annotation: Modelling Epigenetic Regulation |
17:00
|
Jack,
J., Romero-Campero, F., Perez-Jimenez, M., Ibarra, O.H., and Paun, A.
Simulating Apoptosis Using Discrete Methods: A Membrane System and a
Stochastic Approach |
Evening
|
18:15 Sunset
ceremony at Fort Henry, free to conference participants (please meet in the conference lobby) |
Thursday August 16, 2007
9:00
|
Keynote
lecture: Nanocomputing by Self-Assembly
Professor
Lila Kari, University of Western Ontario |
10:00
|
Break |
| UC
'07 Session 4 |
10:30
|
Rabanal,
P., Rodriguez, I. and Rubio, F.
Using River Formation Dynamics to Design Heuristic Algorithms |
11:00
|
Schoening,
U.
Principles of Stochastic Local Search |
11:30
|
Szeto,
K.Y.
Spatial and Temporal Resource Allocation for Adaptive Parallel Genetic
Algorithm |
Lunch
|
14:00
|
Tutorial:
Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks—Challenges and
Opportunities
Professor
Hossam Hassanein, Queen’s University |
Evening
|
Conference
Banquet |
Friday August 17, 2007
9:00
|
Keynote
lecture: Algorithmic Cooling: Putting a New Spin on the
Identification
of Molecules
Professor
Tal Mor, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology |
10:00
|
Break |
| UC
'07 Session 5 |
10:30
|
Velez,
M. and Ospina, J.
Gravitational Topological Quantum Computation |
11:00
|
Wiesner,
K. and Crutchfield, J.P.
Computation in Sofic Quantum Dynamical Systems |
11:30
|
Yang,
L., Dang, Z., and Ibarra, O.H.
Bond Computing Systems: a Biologically Inspired and High-level Dynamics
Model for Pervasive Computing |
Closing and Lunch
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