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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

-- 
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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