Call for Papers: "2nd International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS-2003)"
Napier University, September 1st-3rd, 2003. http://www.aber.ac.uk/~icawww/IC3/icaris2003.htm 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. 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. Important Dates 1st May: Submission deadline 1st June: Review results 15th June: Revised papers due 1st-3rd Sept: Conference 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. Submission Instructions All papers will undergo a blind review process. Authors are requested to submit a postscript 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 twelve (12) 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. Organising Committee: Conference Chairs: - Jonathan Timmis, University of Kent at Canterbury. UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Peter Bentley, University College, London. UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Local Conference Chair: - Emma Hart, Napier University, Edinburgh. UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Publicity Chairs: - Dipankar Dasgupta, University of Memphis, Memphis. USA. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Simon Garrett, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Programme Committee: - Uwe Aickelin, University of the West of England. UK - Hugues Bersini, Universit� Libre de Bruxelles. Belgium - Steve Cayzer, HP (Bristol) plc. UK - Lois Boggess, Mississippi State University. USA - Ross Duncan, NCR FSG. Uk - Leandro de Castro, University of Campinas. Brazil - Stephanie Forrest, University of New Mexico. USA - Jungwon Kim, Kings College, London. UK - Mark Neal, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. UK - Peter Ross, Napier University. UK - Alexander Tarakanov, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation. Russia. - Andy Tyrell, University of York. UK - Slawomir T. Wierzchon, Polish Academy of Sciences. Poland. - Fernando von Zuben, University of Campinas, Brazil ------------------- MLnet community list http://www.mlnet.org/mlnet2/services/mlnet-community.html
