[alife] CFP: ICARIS 2012 (The 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems)

[German Terrazas Angulo]

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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/
Email: icaris2012 at dmi.unict.it
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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).


Target topics on Computational Immunology & Immunoinformatics:

Immune modelling
Structural Immunoinformatics
Epitope analysis and prediction
Analysis and prediction of MHCpeptide binding and minor
histocompatibility antigens
Databases and ontologies for Immunoinformatics
Analysis and prediction of Predictive models on organ transplantation
Immunogenomics
Vaccine design
Multi-agent based models
Gene networks and systems biology in immunity


* * * IMPORTANT DATES * * *
Full paper submission: 1st March 2012
Acceptance notification: 15th May 2012
Final camera ready: 15th June 2012
ICARIS: 28th - 31st August 2012


* 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


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