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The 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems - ICARIS 2012
August 28th - 31st, 2012
Taormina, Italy
http://www.artificial-immune-systems.org/icaris/2012/
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* * * IMPORTANT DATES * * *
Full paper submission: 1st March 2012
Acceptance notification: 15th May 2012
Final camera ready: 15th June 2012
ICARIS: 28th - 31st August 2012
Artificial immune systems (AIS) is a diverse and maturing area of
research that bridges the disciplines of immunology and engineering. The
scope of AIS ranges from modelling and simulation of the immune system
through to immune-inspired algorithms and engineering solutions. In
recent years, algorithms inspired by theoretical immunology have been
applied to a wide variety of domains, including computer security, fault
tolerance, data-mining and optimisation. Increasingly, theoretical
insight into aspects of artificial and real immune systems has been
sought through mathematical and computational modelling and analysis.
ICARIS 2012 aims to build on the success of previous years to provide a
forum for AIS researchers in academia and industry to present and
discuss their latest advances. We are accepting submissions to two
distinct streams of research: Computational Immunology &
Immunoinformatics, and Immunological Computation & Immune-inspired
Engineering. In addition, we also invite submissions for oral/poster
presentations and plenary talks. ICARIS 2012 will present a range of
plenary lectures and tutorials to inspire and facilitate both the
computer scientists and immunologists in their work.
All submitted papers will be double blind reviewed with at least three
reviewers. Selection criteria will be based on relevance, originality,
significance, impact, technical soundness and quality of the
presentation. Manuscripts must not exceed 14 pages. Contributions are
welcome to submission through the system available at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icaris2012. The accepted
papers will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer.
The authors of the best accepted papers will be published in Immunomics
Research Journal and Evolutionary Computation (TBC).
ICARIS 2012 is divided into two main tracks:
* 28 and 29 August 2012: Computational Immunology & Immunoinformatics
http://www.artificial-immune-systems.org/icaris/2012/callForPapers.php
(for Oral Presentations & Posters submission)
* 30 and 31 August 2012: Immunological Computation, Immune-inspired
Engineering, Immune-inspired Heuristics
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icaris2012
(for Full papers submission)
http://www.artificial-immune-systems.org/icaris/2012/callForPapers.php
(for Oral Presentations & Posters submission)
- Track on Computational Immunology
This track aims is to attract researchers from computer science,
information science, engineering, biomathematics, biomedicine,
bioinformatics, systems biology, and immunology to share and exchange
their knowledge of state-of-the-art research issues, methodologies,
ideas, and challenges.
Topics of interest include:
* Immune modelling;
* Structural Immunoinformatics;
* Epitope analysis and prediction;
* Analysis and prediction of MHC-peptide binding;
* Databases and ontologies for Immunoinformatics;
* Analysis and prediction of minor histocompatibility antigens;
* Predictive models on organ transplantation;
* Immunogenomics;
* Vaccine design;
* Multi-agent based models of immunity;
* Gene networks and systems biology in immunity;
* Allergenicity prediction.
In this track, authors are requested to submit an abstract following the
instructions on ICARIS 2012 website:
http://www.artificial-immune-systems.org/icaris/2012/callForPapers.php
The abstract submissions must be done no later than the submission
deadline: 1
March 2012. All accepted abstracts will be published in a book of abstracts.
Full versions of the best works on this track will be published in the
Immunomics Research Journal and BMC Bioinformatics.
- Track on Immunological Computation, Immune-inspired Engineering,
Immune-inspired Heuristics
This track is for papers describing applications to computational and
engineering problems, and theoretical aspects (e.g. mathematical
modelling of algorithms, convergence analysis, empirical investigation
into algorithm performance and complexity analysis) of AIS. For the
first class, the problem domain should be clearly explained, detailing
why it is challenging and why AIS are a suitable methodology to use.
Experiments should be carefully explained, with the expectation that
appropriate statistical analysis of results will be used to help draw
conclusions. Where possible, the approach taken should be compared with
alternative strategies. In order to appeal to the widest audience,
theoretical papers must ensure that mathematical arguments and
backgrounds are clearly presented, and the paper should also discuss the
practical implications of any theoretical results.
In this track authors may submit their manuscripts in two different
ways: abstract paper, or regular paper (as usual tradition).
* Abstract paper
Authors must follow the instructions described on ICARIS 2012 website:
http://www.artificial-immune-systems.org/icaris/2012/callForPapers.php
* Regular paper
All papers will undergo a double blind review process, and they should
be no longer than fourteen (14) pages. Is recommended that authors name
and affiliation should not appear on the paper. Authors are requested to
submit a PDF file at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icaris2012 following the
formatting instructions at the Springer-Verlag LNCS site, no later than
the submission deadline: 1 March 2012.
NOTE:
During the submission authors must make clear which stream the paper
should to be considered for. You will be provided a reference number
that will be used throughout the submission process.
* Conference Chairs *
Carlos A. Coello Coello
Julie Greensmith
Natalio Krasnogor
Pietro Lio
Giuseppe Nicosia
Mario Pavone
* Local Organising Committee *
Giovanni Carapezza
Piero Consoli
Jole Costanza
Giovanni Murabito
* Publicity Chairs *
German Terrazas Angulo
Nareli Cruz Cortes
Renato Umeton
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German Terrazas, Ph.D.
Research Fellow
Interdisciplinary Computing and Complex Systems (ICOS)
School of Computer Science
Jubilee Campus, University of Nottingham
Nottingham NG8 1BB
United Kingdom
website: http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gzt
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