CALL FOR PAPERS, ORAL PRESENTATIONS & POSTERS
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The 12th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems
August 27-29, 2013 - University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
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http://www.artificial-immune-systems.org/icaris2013/
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icaris2013
http://www.artificial-immune-systems.org/icaris2013/cfp.html

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 22nd April 2013


 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Pietro Lio’, University of Cambridge, UK 
Natalio Krasnogor, University of Nottingham, UK 
Benedict Seddon, National Institute for Medical Research, UK
Alan Winfield, University of the West of England, UK

**** Special issue in Natural Computing

General Information:

ICARIS 2013 aims to build on the success of previous years to provide   a forum for AIS researchers in both academia and industry to present and discuss their latest advances. In addition to peer-reviewed papers, ICARIS 2013 will present a range of plenary lectures and tutorials to inspire and facilitate both the computer scientists and immunologists in their future and current work.

Important Dates:

Paper submission:        	22nd April 2013
Author notification:     	28th May 2013
Camera Ready submission: 	18th June 2013

Invited Keynote Speakers:

We have a variety of prestigious speakers for this year’s conference, which we hope will be of interest to participants of both tracks. We are pleased to announce the following plenary speakers to date: 

Pietro Lio’, University of Cambridge, UK 
Natalio Krasnogor, University of Nottingham, UK 
Benedict Seddon, National Institute for Medical Research, UK
Alan Winfield, University of the West of England, UK

Conference Location: 

This conference is hosted by the University of Nottingham, and will be held at the East Midlands Conference Centre, situated on the University Park Campus. New for 2013, onsite hotel accommodation will be available at a competitive delegate rate. The University of Nottingham is easily accessible by public transport, 15 minutes from Nottingham City Centre. Nottingham is located in central England, 25 minutes taxi from Nottingham East Midlands Airport, and 1 hr 45 mins from London St Pancras on the Midland Mainline. For further details please refer to the conference website. 


Submission Guidelines:  

As the previous editions, ICARIS 2013 is divided into two main tracks:

Computational Immunology & Immunoinformatics 
Immune-inspired Computing


- Track on Computational Immunology & Immunoinformatics

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. 

In this track, authors are requested to submit an abstract up to 500 words in length, one figure and references. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* 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;
* Theoretical Immunology
* Quantitative Immunology

The deadline for abstract submissions is on or before the 22nd April 2013. 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.

During submission please indicate you are submitting for the Computational Immunology & Immunoinformatics track. All abstracts will undergo a quick review process for relevance to the conference and technical accuracy. Presentations will be approx. 15 minutes for each paper in this track, though we reserve the right to allocate a poster presentation slot to abstracts if necessary.

Submission: 500 word (plus one figure) abstract 
Deadline: 22nd April 
System: Easychair https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icaris2013


- Track on Immune-inspired Computing

This track is for research into the development and application of artificial immune systems. This includes:

* Research describing applications of AIS to computational and
engineering problems
* Theoretical analysis of immune inspired algorithms (e.g. mathematical modelling of algorithms, convergence analysis, empirical investigation into algorithm performance and complexity analysis)
Hybrid algorithms 
Novel immune algorithm development. 

For research pertaining to engineering and computational applications we expect the problem domain to be clearly explained in your submission. This should include why it is challenging and why AIS are a suitable methodology to use. For empirical research, experiments should be carefully explained, with the expectation that appropriate statistical analysis of results will be used to support 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. Where possible the submission should also discuss the practical implications of any theoretical results.

In this track authors may submit their manuscripts as EITHER an
abstract paper or regular paper, both of which may qualify for an oral or poster presentations. Abstract papers will be given approx. 15 minutes to present, full papers approx. 20 minutes (tbd). 


* Regular Paper Submission: 22nd April 2013 

All papers will undergo a double blind peer-review process.

Authors are requested to submit a PDF file in the first instance to:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icaris2013 following the
formatting instructions at the Springer-Verlag LNCS site, no later   than the submission deadline: 22 April 2013.

Papers should be a maximum of fourteen (14) pages. As this is a double blind process it is recommended that authors name and affiliation should not appear on the paper upon submission. 

All accepted papers, as for the previous editions, will be published   in Springer's series Lecture Notes in Computer Science. If you wish to present a poster and do not wish to be considered for oral presentation, then please indicate this when you submit the abstract. We reserve the right to allocate poster presentation slots to submissions that have requested oral presentation. The authors of the   best regular papers will be invited to extend their work for publication in the journal Natural Computing (TBC). 

* Abstract Paper: 22nd April 2013 

All abstracts will undergo a quick review process for relevance to the conference and technical accuracy. Abstracts should be no longer than 500 words, include no more than one figure and include appropriate references. If you wish to present a poster and do not wish to be considered for oral presentation, then please indicate this when you submit the abstract. We reserve the right to allocate poster presentation slots to submissions that have requested oral presentation.


*NOTE*:
During the submission authors must make clear which track the paper should to be considered for. You will be provided a reference number that will be used throughout the submission process.

We look forward to welcoming you to Nottingham in August 2013.
Uwe Aickelin, Julie Greensmith, Mario Pavone and Jon Timmis.