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*** Final Call for Papers ***
3rd International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems
13th - 16th September 2004
Catania, Italy.
(http://www.artificial-immune-systems.org)
Important Dates
Paper Submission: April 19th 2004 **EXTENDED
DEADLINE*
Acceptance Notification: May 31st 2004
Final Papers: June 20th 2004
Aims and Scope
The field of Artificial Immune Systems is one of the more recent
biologically inspired approaches to emerge from computer science.
The natural immune system is an adaptive learning system that
employs many parallel and complementary mechanisms for
defense against foreign pathogens. It is a distributed system,
capable of learning to identify previously unseen invaders and
remembering what it has learnt. Numerous immune algorithms now
exist, based on processes identified within human immune
systems. These computational techniques have many potential
applications, such as in pattern recognition, fault detection,
computer security, and optimization.
The aims of this conference are to strengthen this emerging
research area by exploring different immunological mechanisms
and their relation to information processing and problem solving.
The conference will provide a great opportunity for presenting and
disseminating the latest work in the field of Artificial Immune
Systems, and continues to be the only conference dedicated
entirely to the field of AIS.
World-leading researchers in the field will be present plenary
lectures and a number of general and specialist tutorials will be run
just before the main conference.
* All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings,
published by Springer-Verlag as part of their Lecture Notes series.
Details of Springer-Verlag can be found at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html and formatting details
can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
The conference will have two streams:
Technical Stream: For work undertaken, with clear results obtained
Conceptual Stream: For discussion papers without results, work in
progress papers etc.
Submission Instructions
All papers will undergo a blind review process. Authors are
requested to submit a postscript or .PDF file to the email address
below no later than the submission deadline.
The authors name and affiliation should not paper on the paper,
but
be included on a separate page.
Please follow the formatting instructions at the Springer-Verlag
site at the links given above.
Papers should be a maximum of fourteen (14) pages.
Authors must make it clear in their submission email which
stream
the paper is to be considered for.
Papers should be submitted via the submissions section of the
website. You will be provided with a reference number that will be
used
throughout the submission process.
Student Bursaries
A limited number of student bursaries are available for those who
can not afford to attend the conference. Application details are
available on the website.
Organising Committee:
Conference Chairs:
- Jonathan Timmis, University of Kent. UK.
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- Peter Bentley, University College, London. UK.
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Local Conference Chairs:
- Vincenzo Cutello, University of Catania, Catania. Italy.
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- Giuseppe Nicosia, University of Catania, Catania. Italy.
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Publicity Chairs:
- Simon Garrett, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. UK.
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Programme Committee:
- Uwe Aickelin, University of Nottingham. UK
- Steve Cayzer, HP (Bristol) plc. UK
- C Coello Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN. Mexico.
- Lois Boggess, Mississippi State University. USA
- Dipankar Dasgupta, University of Memphis. USA
- Leandro de Castro, Catholic University of Santos (Unisantos).
Brazil
- Darren Flower, Edward Jenner Institute for Vaccine Research. UK
- Stephanie Forrest, University of New Mexico. USA
- Alex Freitas, University of Kent. UK.
- Alessio Gaspar, University of South Florida. USA
- Fabio Gonzalez, National University of Colombia. Colombia.
- Emma Hart, Napier University.
- Yoshiteru Ishida, Toyohashi Univ. of Tech. Japan
- Colin Johnson, University of Kent. UK.
- Jungwon Kim, Kings College, London. UK
- Henry YK Lau, University of Hong Kong. P.R. China
- Doheon Lee, KAIST. Korea
- Wenjian Luo, University of Science and Technology of China,
Anhui. P.R. China
- Santo Motta, University of Catania. Italy.
- Mark Neal, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. UK
- Peter Ross, Napier University. UK
- Derek Smith, University of Cambridge. UK
- Susan Stepney, University of York. UK.
- Alexander Tarakanov, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and
Automation. Russia.
- Andy Tyrrell, University of York. UK
- Andrew Watkins, University of Kent. UK.
- Slawomir T. Wierzchon, Polish Academy of Sciences. Poland.
- Fernando von Zuben, University of Campinas, Brazil
Conference Secretariat:
Icaris 2004
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Catania,
City University,
V.le A. Doria 6, 95125 Catania, Italy
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T: +39 095 7383074
F: +39 095 330094
Sponsored by ARTIST
(http://www.artificial-immune-systems.org/artist.htm)
Venue:
Sheraton Catania
Cannizzaro - Catania, Italy
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Dr. Jon Timmis
Computing Laboratory
University of Kent. Canterbury.
Kent. CT2 7NF. UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1227 823636
Fax: +44 (0) 1227 762811
Web: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/~jt6
Book on AIS: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/aisbook
ICARIS Series: http://www.artificial-immune-systems.org
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