[alife] CfP ICARIS 2012 - NEWS: extended deadline - three special , issues - plenary speakers

Tue Mar 20 10:51:53 PDT 2012

                    CALL FOR PAPERS, ORAL PRESENTATIONS & POSTERS
                          **Apologies for cross-posting**
           The 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems
                          August 28-31, 2012 Taormina, Italy
                                icaris2012 at dmi.unict.it

http://www.artificial-immune-systems.org/icaris/2012/
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icaris2012
http://www.artificial-immune-systems.org/icaris/2012/callForPapers.php

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NEWS:

*Extended deadline April 15, 2012

*Proceedings will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science

* Plenary Speakers:
- Piero Mastroeni, University of Cambridge, UK
- Stephanie Forrest, University of New Mexico, USA

* Three special issues on the following journals:
1) Immunomics Research journal
2) Evolutionary Intelligence
3) Natural Computing

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Important Dates:
Paper submission:     15th April 2012 (extended)
Author notification:  1st  June 2012
Paper final version:  15th June 2012

General Information:
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. In addition to peer-reviewed papers,
ICARIS 2012 will present a range of plenary lectures and tutorials to
inspire and facilitate both the computer scientists and immunologists in
their work.

ICARIS 2012 is divided into two main tracks:
* 28 and 29 August 2012: Computational Immunology, Immunoinformatics &
Systems Immunology

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, Immunoinformatics & Systems Immunology

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Special Issue in Immunomics Research Journal and Natural Computing

Plenary Speaker:
- Piero Mastroeni, University of Cambridge, UK

More Speakers will be announced.
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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:  15 April 2012 (extended). 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
Natural Computing.

- Track on Immunological Computation, Immune-inspired Engineering &
Immune-inspired Heuristics

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Special Issue in Evolutionary Intelligence and Natural Computing

Plenary Speaker:
- Stephanie Forrest, University of New Mexico, USA

More Speakers will be announced.
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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 the link
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icaris2012 following the
formatting instructions at the Springer-Verlag LNCS site, no later than
the submission deadline: 15 April 2012 (extended).

All accepted papers, as for the previous editions, will be published in
Springer's series Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The authors of best
(regular) papers on this track will be invited to extend their work for
publication in Evolutionary Intelligence and Natural Computing journals.

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.

We look forward to welcoming you to Taormina in August 2012.
C. Coello Coello, J. Greensmith, N. Krasnogor, P. Lio', G. Nicosia, M.
Pavone ICARIS 2012 Chairs

German Terrazas Angulo, Nareli Cruz Cortes and Renato Umeton - ICARIS
2012 Publicity Chairs

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