5th International Conference on
Artificial Immune Systems

4th-6th September, 2006 in Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

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Very special event !!
At the first day of the conference a groundbreaking debate is organised between well-known theoretical immunologists: Antonio Coutinho, Melvin Cohn, Irun Cohen and Zvi Grossman.

The Preliminary Program is on line !! There are some changes. Also, look at the update information to reach the Institute from your hotel

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Organising Committee

Conference Chairs:

- Hugues Bersini, IRIDIA, ULB, Belgium
   
- Jorge Carneiro, Instituto Gulbenkian, Portugal.
   


Local Conference Chairs:

- Jorge Carneiro, Instituto Gulbenkian, Portugal.
   
- Hugues Bersini, IRIDIA, ULB, Belgium
   

Programme Committee:
- Hugues Bersini, IRIDIA, ULB, Belgium
- Jorge Carneiro, IGC, Portugal
- Peter Bentley, UCL, UK
- Jon Timmis, University of York, UK
- Simon Garret, University of Wales
- Uwe Aickelin, University of Nottingham. UK
- Paolo Arena, University of Catania, Italy
- Filippo Castiglione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
- Steve Cayzer, HP (Bristol) plc. UK
- C Coello Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN. Mexico.
- Vincenzo Cutello, University of Catania, Catania. Italy.
- Dipankar Dasgupta, University of Memphis. USA
- Leandro de Castro, Catholic University of Santos (Unisantos). Brazil
- Darren Flower, Edward Jenner Institute for Vaccine Research. UK
- Stephanie Forrest, University of New Mexico. USA
- Alex Freitas, University of Kent. UK.
- Alessio Gaspar, University of South Florida. USA
- Fabio Gonzalez, National University of Colombia. Colombia.
- Emma Hart, Napier University.
- Yoshiteru Ishida, Toyohashi Univ. of Tech. Japan
- Colin Johnson, University of Kent. UK.
- Jungwon Kim, University College, London. UK
- Henry YK Lau, University of Hong Kong. P.R. China
- Doheon Lee, KAIST. Korea
- Wenjian Luo, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui. P.R. China
- Mark Neal, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. UK
- Giuseppe Nicosia, University of Catania, Catania. Italy.
- Peter Ross, Napier University. UK
- Derek Smith, University of Cambridge. UK
- Susan Stepney, University of York. UK.
- Alexander Tarakanov, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation. Russia.
- Andy Tyrrell, University of York. UK
- Andrew Watkins, University of Kent. UK.
- Slawomir T. Wierzchon, Polish Academy of Sciences. Poland.
- Fernando von Zuben, University of Campinas, Brazil


Conference Secretariat:
Muriel Decreton
IRIDIA
Université Libre de Bruxelles
CP 194/6
50, av. Franklin Roosevelt
1050 Bruxelles

Email: mdecreto@ulb.ac.be
Phone: +00322 6502733
Fax: +003226502715

Aims and Scope

The field of Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) 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 and self-regulatory processes. It is a distributed system, capable of constructing and maintaining a dynamical and structural identity, 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 distributed and adaptive control, machine learning, pattern recognition, fault detection, computer security, optimization, and distributed system design.

The aims of the conference are to strengthen AIS research by exploring different immunological mechanisms, and their relation to information processing and problem solving.

The main themes of the conference include:

  • Self-nonself models, self-assertional models.
  • Network models (e.g., of B-cells).
  • Clonal selection and hypermutation.
  • Danger theory models.
  • Abstractions of other immunological processes.
  • Comparisons between AIS and other naturally-inspired paradigms.
  • Applications of AIS.
  • Theory of AIS.

The conference provides the leading forum for presenting and disseminating the latest work in the field of Artificial Immune Systems, and is the only conference dedicated entirely to the field of AIS.

The conference will have four streams:

  • Theoretical Stream: We would like specially for this conference to encourage papers dedicated to computer simulations of real immunology.

  • Application Stream: For practical "AIS Success Story" applications in industry, commerce, arts, and academia

  • Technical Stream: For work undertaken and completed, with clear results obtained.

  • Conceptual Stream: For discussion papers without results, work in progress papers etc.


All papers will tentatively be published in an issue of the Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

Accommodation The accommodation section includes information about official ICARIS accommodation.

Proceedings from previous ICARIS conferences

  • ICARIS 2005: ICARIS-2005's proceedings are on-line and can be found here.
  • ICARIS 2004: ICARIS-2004's proceedings are on-line and can be found here.
  • ICARIS 2003: Some copies of the proceedings from ICARIS-2003 are still available, priced at 50Euro or 36UK Pounds. Please contact any of the committee for further details.

  • ICARIS 2002: You can still get the online conference proceedings from ICARIS-2002.

The Gulbenkian Institute of Science

The bibliography information for ICARIS is available at The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies too.

Bursaries A number of bursaries will be available for PhD students to aid with the cost of conference attendance. They are particularly for students who have little or no financial support from their institution.

Tutorials and Special Sessions

There will be a number of tutorial sessions, which will be announced soon.

Lisboa

Sponsorship and Support

The sponsors will be announced soon

Important Dates in 2006

Submission deadline:

May 15, 2006

Review results:

June 12, 2006

Revised papers due:

June 20, 2006

Conference:

September 4-6, 2006

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