SCHEDULE & PROGRAM 2017 V2

Tuesday, June 20

9:00 Opening Ceremony Session 1 (Session chair: prof. Jiří Pospíchal, approx. 15min/paper)

9:0509:50 40+5min Prof. Shengxiang Yang (De Montfort University, United Kingdom) Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Optimization Problems

09:5010:35 Evolutionary Computation (3x): ID17{024, 021, 026}

10:3510:45 Coffee Break

10:45 11:30 40+5min Dr. Carola Doerr, Ph.D. (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France) Theory of Evolutionary Computation - what is it and why bother?

11:3012:30 Evolutionary Computation (4x): ID17{060, 023, 030, 008}

12:3013:00 Lunch Break (not included) 13:00 Session 2 (Session chair: prof. Lars Nolle, approx. 15min/paper)

13:0014:00 55+5min Prof. dr. Thomas Bäck (Leiden University, Netherlands) Evolutionary Algorithms for Industrial Problems

14:0015:00 Evolutionary Computation (4x): ID17{051, 064, 048, 031}

15:0015:15 Coffee Break

15:1516:00 Metaheuristics (4x): ID17{057, 055, 049, 034} 16:00 Session 3 (Session chair: prof. Pavel Ošmera, approx. 12 min/paper)

16:0016:45 40+5min Dr. Swagatam Das, Ph.D. (Indian Statistical Institute, India) Handling Data Irregularities in Classification: Some Recent Approaches and Future Challenges

16:4517:00 Coffee Break

17:0018:00 Metaheuristics (5x): ID17{056, 047, 003, 018, 033} 18:00 Social - Welcome Reception

Wednesday, June 21

8:30 Session 4 (Session chair: prof. Ronald Hochreiter, approx. 12 min/paper)

8:30 9:15 40+5min Dr Marco Castellani, Ph.D (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom) Competitive Co-Evolution of Multi-Layer Perceptron Neural Networks

9:1510:05 Neural Networks (4x): ID17{016, 025, 038, 054}

10:0510:15 Coffee Break

10:1511:00 40+5min Prof. Krzysztof Krawiec (Poznan University of Technology, Poland) Opening the Black Box: Alternative Search Drivers for Genetic Programming and Test-based Problems

11:0011:40 Intelligent Control (3x): ID17{022, 052, 058}

11:4011:50 Coffee Break

11:5012:35 40+5min Dr. Jiri Sima, DrSc. (The Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic) The Computational Power of NNs and Representations of Numbers in Non-Integer Bases

12:3513:15 Lunch Break (not included) 13:30 Session X (Chairs: Radek Matoušek and Jan Roupec, approx. 15 min/talk!) THE WORKSHOP: rendezvous of participants 13:15, the workshop program will be specify at the registration dinner included at 18:05, projector and audio equipment are provided, returning from the workshop 23:00

Thursday, June 22

9:00 Session 5 (Session chair: prof. Pavel Ošmera, approx 12 min/paper)

9:0010:00 40+5min MSc. Jaroslav Jirkovsky – HUMUSOFT (MathWorks) Deep Learning for Computer Vision with MATLAB

10:0011:00 Intelligent Image Processing (5x): ID17{053, 015, 007, 040, 014}

11:0011:15 Coffee Break

11:1512:30 Soft Computing (other subject) (7x): ID17{013, 019, 020, 039, 036, 010, 050} 12:30 Closing Ceremony

MENDEL 2017 conference venue Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Brno University of Technology Technická 2896/2 616 69 Brno Czech Republic

REGISTRATION Building A5, Room No. U7 via entrance of Building A2 June 20, open from 8:15am http://www.fme.vutbr.cz/planek/?lang=1

Brno Geographic information Coordinates 49° 12' North latitude, 16° 34' East longitude Elevation between 190 and 425 m above sea level Climate Thanks to its location between the Bohemian-

Moravian Hills and the Southern Moravian lowlands, Brno enjoys a very pleasant, moderate climate, ideal for recreation and everyday living. Average daytime temperature

in Summer (June-August) is +22C. Brno enjoys good natural circulation of air, ensuring very high air quality. No severely violent storms or similar natural disasters have ever been recorded in the city.

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