Program - 15th Brainstorming Week on Membrane Computing | Research Group on Natural Computing

TUESDAY, JANUARY 31
*Room: "Salón de Grados"*
09:00-09:30	Registration
09:30-10:30	Opening Minimal cooperation in polarizationless P systems with active membranes. Complexity aspects (Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez)
10:30-11:00	Concert
11:00-11:30	Coffe/Tea break
*Room: "H1.12"*
11:30-13:00	First session of provocative presentations MC, Close to 20 Years (Agustín Riscos-Núñez on behalf of Gheorghe Paun) Counting P systems (David Orellana-Martín) Announcement: Presentation of the ICAFL (György Vaszil) (Call for Papers can be found here) Closure Under Oracles of Complexity Classes for P systems (Antonio E. Porreca)
13:00-15:00	Lunch
15:00-20:00	Joint Work (with a Coffee/Tea break at 16.30)

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1
*Room: "H1.12"*
10:00-11:00	Second session of provocative presentations Families of Languages Associated with SN P Systems (José M. Sempere-Luna) P systems with costs (György Vaszil)
11:00-11:30	Special break Churros with chocolate and special cake (in honor of Gheorghe Paun's award of the "Order of the Star of Romania")
11:30-13:00	Third session of provocative presentations Life Is Not Fair (Rudolf Freund, previous material from NIT 2016 can be found here) A P System based on Negative Selection for Classification (Lian Ye) Polymorphic P systems (IMCS Bulletin Dec'16, 79-102) (Sergiu Ivanov)
13:00-15:00	Lunch
15:00-20:00	Joint Work (with a Coffee/Tea break at 16.30)

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2
*Room: "H1.12"*
10:00-11:00	Fourth session of provocative presentations Rediscovering Spiking Neural P Systems Simulating hierarchically-structured neurons (Luis Valencia-Cabrera) About APCol systems (Lucie Ciencialová)
11:00-11:30	Coffe/Tea break
11:30-13:00	Fifth session of provocative presentations A toolbox for simpler active membrane algorithms (Antonio E. Porreca & Luca Manzoni) Tissue P Systems with Multiset Splicing or Multiset Cut & Paste (Rudolf Freund with the first challenge) From NP-completeness to DP-completeness: a general methodology to solve product families (David Orellana-Martín) Remarks on the power of 1-depth P Systems with Active Membranes (Gábor Kolonits)
13:00-15:00	Lunch
16:00-17:30	Social event: A visit to the Hospital de los Venerables
21:00-??:??	Special dinner: Restaurant Don Fadrique

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3
*Room: "H1.12"*
10:00-11:00	Fifth session of provocative presentations Sparse-matrix representation of SNP systems for GPUs (David Orellana-Martín on behalf of Miguel Á. Martínez-del-Amor) Membrane Computing Applications in Computational Economics (Eduardo Sánchez-Karhunen)
11:00-11:30	Coffe/Tea break
11:30-13:00	Results obtained during the meeting Crazy Unserious Chaotic Randomized P systems (Sergiu Ivanov) Variants of Spiking Neural P Systems with Coloured Spikes (Rudolf Freund with the solution to the first challenge and with second challenge inside the slides)
13:00	Closing
13:00-15:00	Lunch

SOCIAL EVENT

Visit to the Hospital de los Venerables.

«Hospital Venerables 001» por Anual - Trabajo propio. Disponible bajo la licencia CC BY 3.0 vía Wikimedia Commons

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

MENU (let us know if you have any restriction):
Starters (for sharing): Surtido de Chacinas, Soldaditos de Berenjenas Fritas a la Miel y Pimientos del Piquillo rellenos de Mariscos
Main (To choose one): Mero al Horno con Salsa Verde Ó
Medallones de Solomillo de Cerdo Reducción de Pedro Ximénez
Dessert: Tocino de Cielo con Nata
Included drinks: Beers, soda, water, white wine "Manzanilla", red wine "Rioja Crianza", white wine "Cava"

PLACE: At the street Don Fadrique, 7.

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Program - 15th Brainstorming Week on Membrane Computing

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