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Call for Papers
1st International Conference on ARtificial Immune Systems (ICARIS-2002)
University of Kent at Canterbury. September 9th-11th, 2002.
http://www.aber.ac.uk/icaris-2002
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 is the first ever conference
dedicated entirely to the field of AIS.
All papers will be published in conference proceedings. The best papers will
be also be published in a special issue of the journal Genetic Programming
and Evolvable Machines in early 2003.
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
15th June Submission deadline
15th July Review results
1st Aug Revised papers due
9th-11th Sept Conference
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. Submitted papers are to be in single-spaced, 10-point
type on 8-1/2" x11" OR A4 paper with 1" margins at top and 3/4" margin at
left, right and bottom, and are a maximum of ten (10) pages.
The authors name and affiliation should not paper on the paper, but be
included on a separate page.
Authors must make it clear in their submission email which stream the paper
is to be considered for.
Word templates and LaTeX files for final camera-ready copies will be made
available via the conference website.
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.
J.Timmis at ukc.ac.uk
- Peter Bentley, University College, London. UK.
P.Bentley at cs.ucl.ac.uk
Publicity Chair:
- Simon Garrett, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. UK.
smg at aber.ac.uk
Programme Committee:
- Uwe Aickelin, University of the West of England. UK
- Hugues Bersini, Université Libre de Bruxelles. Belguim
- Dipankar Dasgupta, University of Memphis, USA
- Leandro de Castro, University of Kent at Canterbury. UK
- Stephanie Forrest, University of New Mexico. USA
- Jungwon Kim, Kings College, London. UK
- Mark Neal, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. UK
- Andy Tyrell, University of York. UK
- Fernando von Zuben, University of Campinas, Brazil
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-------------------Dr. Simon Garrett---------------------
ADDR: Dept. Computer Science, Penglais,
University of Wales, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DB, UK
TEL: +44 (0)1970 622537
WEB: www.aber.ac.uk/~smg
EMAIL: smg at aber.ac.uk
