CFP:  International  Conference  in  Artificial  Immune  Systems

    http://artificial-immune-systems.org
    DEADLINE: 25 April 2005

4th International Conference in Artificial Immune Systems
Banff, Canada
14th-17th August 2005

** Conference Website **

http://artificial-immune-systems.org/

** 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 machine learning, pattern recognition, fault
detection, computer security, optimization, and distributed system
design.

The aims of ICARIS are to strengthen this emerging research area by
exploring different immunological mechanisms and their relation to
information processing, system design, 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 related areas,
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.

The conference will have three streams:

- Application Stream:  For practical "AIS Success Story" applications in
industry, commerce, arts, and academia.

- Technical Stream:   For work undertaken, with clear results obtained.

- Conceptual Stream:  For discussion papers without results, work in
progress papers etc.

** Important Dates **

Submission deadline:  April 25, 2005.
Review results:  May 16, 2005.
Revised papers due:  May 30, 2005.
Conference:   August 14-17, 2005.


** Submission Instructions **

The complete submission instructions can be found on the conference
website; however, potential authors should note that:

All papers will undergo a blind review process, with at least three
reviewers per paper.

The author name(s) and affiliation(s) should not appear on the paper.

Please follow the formatting site instructions at the Springer-Verlag
site.
Papers should be a maximum of fourteen (14) pages.

Authors are requested to submit a postscript or PDF file no later than
the
submission deadline.

Papers should be submitted via the ICARIS 2005 paper submission web
page.
You will be provided with a reference number that will be used
throughout the submission process.

All accepted papers will (tentatively) appear in the conference
proceedings, published by Springer-Verlag as part of their Lecture Notes
series. Details of Springer-Verlag can be found at SpringerVerlag's
site.


** Venue **

ICARIS 2005 will be held at the Banff Centre for Conferences located in
Banff, Alberta, which is about 100 kilometers west of Calgary. The Banff
Centre for Conferences is a part of the Banff School of Fine Arts.
Founded
as a theatre school, the Centre has evolved to accommodate major
conferences and workshops. The venue is situated across from Sulphur
Mountain and atop Tunnel Mountain overlooking the Bow Valley and is a
mere 10 minute walk to the "town lights".

The town of Banff is in Banff National Park, a designated UNESCO World
Heritage Site. Banff town site is alive with more than 200 shops, 75
accomodation choices, 100 cafes, restaurants, and bars, and a variety of
museums, galleries and National Historic Sites.


** Conference Secretariat **

ICARIS 2005
Camille Sinanan
Department of Computer Science
University of Calgary
2500 University Drive N.W.
Calgary, T2N 1N4 Canada

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Phone: +1 403 220 6316
Fax: +1 403 284 4707


** 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:

- Christian Jacob
  University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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- Marcin Pilat
  University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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Publicity Chairs:

- Simon Garrett
  University of Wales, Aberystwyth. UK.    
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- Namrata Khemka
  University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.
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Programme Committee:
- Uwe Aickelin, University of Nottingham. UK
- Paolo Arena, University of Catania, Italy
- Filippo Castiglione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
- 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, University College, London. UK
- Henry YK Lau, University of Hong Kong. P.R. China
- Doheon Lee, KAIST. Korea
- 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