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 self-regulating processes and defense against foreign pathogens. It is a distributed system, capable of constructing and maintaining a dynamical and structural identity and 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 adaptive distributed control, machine learning, pattern recognition, fault detection, computer security, optimization, and distributed system design.

The aims of ICARIS are to strengthen this emerging research area by exploring different immunological mechanisms and their relation to information processing, system design, 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 related areas, and continues to be the only conference dedicated entirely to the field of AIS.

A very special session will gather famous theoretical immunologists for a groundbreaking debate. These immunologists are: Antonio Coutinho, Melvin Cohn, Irun Cohen and Zvi Grossman

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

Submission Instructions

The complete submission instructions can be found on the conference website; however, potential authors should note that:

• They have to register to the submission form before submitting their paper.
• All papers will undergo a review process, with at least three reviewers per paper.
• The author name(s) and affiliation(s) should not appear on the paper.
• Please follow the formatting site instructions at the Springer-Verlag site.
• Papers should be a maximum of fourteen (14) pages.
• Authors are requested to submit a postscript or PDF file no later than the submission deadline.
• Papers should be submitted by going on the submission form

All accepted papers will tentatively appear in the conference proceedings, published by Springer-Verlag as part of their Lecture Notes series. Details of Springer-Verlag can be found at SpringerVerlag's site.

Organising Committee