[Bioclusters] NAIS'05 Int. Workshop - Extended Deadline

[Simone Bassis]

Dear Colleagues (Apologies if you receive this more than once),

   To accommodate those not quite finished but hoping to submit
   enough time to complete their papers, we have agreed to
   extend the deadline for submission by two weeks until friday April
   15, 2005.

  Depending on their content, refereed extended versions of selected
  paper will be published on a special issue of either Natural Computing
  or Nonlinear Analysis C-series.

   Kind Regards,

     Organizing Committee




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                         		    Call for Papers

      International Workshop on Natural and Artificial Immune Systems
					   (NAIS 2005)

                 Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy, June 9-10, 2005

      http://siren.dsi.unimi.it/conferences/IMMUNE05/html/index.html


   * Venue
      International Institute For Advanced Scientific Studies (IIASS),
      "E.R.Caianiello", Vietri sul Mare, (SA) Italy.
      http://www.iiassvietri.it/index.html
      http://www.iiassvietri.it/school2004/


   * Important Dates
      Submission deadline:               		April 15 2005
      Acceptance/Rejection notification: 	May 2, 2005
      Camera-ready copy of papers:       	June 6, 2005
      Workshop Date:                     		June 9-10, 2005

   * Aims and Scope
   The workshop aims at catalyzing the interaction between modelers (computer
   scientists, mathematicians and physicists), immunologists and biologists
   interested in discussing the information processing mechanisms
   emerging in the functionalities of either natural or artificial immune
   systems.
   The leading idea motivating this event is the attention to the various
   forms of “intelligent thinking” underlying the many
   attack/defense/adaptation strategies discovered in natural systems, such
   as tumor and virus escape mechanisms of
   animals and humans, or implemented in artificial systems.

   This approach may reap several basic benefits of the original
   cybernetics paradigm:
    -the emergence of the mind from chemical-physical reactions that can
   be studied and simulated,
    - the use of natural processing mechanisms for solving artificial
   problems, and the cross-fertilization of the natural and artificial
   research environments,
    -the adoption of comprehensive immune system models in the
   development of new therapeutic approaches.


   Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
   # Computational Immunology
   # Immunological Computation
   # Immunoinformatics
   # modelling and simulation of immune systems
   # model testing and game theory
   # biological and immersive learning
   # network security and artificial virus attacks
   # comparisons between Artificial Immune Systems and other
      biologically-inspired paradigms
   # theory and applications of Immunological Computing
   # Immunocomputing


   * Invited speakers
    -  Franco Celada, University of Genova, Italy
    -  Vincenzo Cutello, University of Catania, Italy
    -  Dipankar Dasgupta, University of Memphis, USA
    -  Doheon Lee, IBM-KAIST Bio-Computing Research Center, Korea
    -  Jon Timmis, Universityh of Kent, UK


   * Conference Proceedings
   The conference will feature both introductory tutorials and original
   refereed papers, to be published by an international publisher.
   See details of electronic submission on the web page:
   http://siren.dsi.unimi.it/conferences/IMMUNE05/html/index.html
   Depending on their content, refereed extended versions of selected
   paper will be published on a special issue of either Natural Computing or
   Nonlinear Analysis C-series.



   * Conference Chairs:
    - Bruno Apolloni, University of Milano, Italy.
      apolloni at dsi.unimi.it
    - Alberto Clivio, University of Milano, Italy.
      alberto.clivio at unimi.it
    - Vincenzo Cutello, University of Catania, Italy.
      cutello at dmi.unict.it
    - Giuseppe Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy.
      nicosia at dmi.unict.it


   *Programme Committee:
    - Franco Celada, University of Genova, Italy
    - Dipankar Dasgupta, University of Memphis, USA
    - Marco Gori, University of Siena, Italy
    - Doheon Lee, IBM-KAIST Bio-Computing Research Center, Korea
    - Piero Mussio, University of Milano, Italy
    - Anastasia Pagnoni, Unversity of Milano, Italy
    - Jon Timmis, Universityh of Kent, UK
    - Henry Linger, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
    - Fernando Esponda, University of New Mexico, USA

   * Getting Vietri Sul Mare
   http://www.iiassvietri.it/school2004/getting_vietri.htm

   * NAIS 2005 Conference Secretariats:
     - Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
       University of Catania,
       City University,
       V.le A. Doria 6, 95125 Catania, Italy
       Email: nais05 at dmi.unict.it
       Phone: +39-095-7383074
       Fax:   +39-095-330094

      or

     - Dip. di Scienze Dell'Informazione.
       University of Milano
       Via Comelico, 39
       20125 Milano, Italy
       Email: bassis at dsi.unimi.it
       Phone: +39-02-50316335
       Fax:   +39-02-50316228


   * For additional information or questions, contact
     Alberto Clivio, University of Milano, Italy, alberto.clivio at unimi.it
     Giuseppe Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy, nicosia at dmi.unict.it


   --
   Giuseppe Nicosia
   Ph.D. in Computer Science
   Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
   University of Catania
   V.le A. Doria 6 - 95125 Catania, Italy
   Email: nicosia at dmi.unict.it
   Tel:   + 39 095 738 30 80
   Fax:  + 39 095 33 00 94
   Web: www.dmi.unict.it/~nicosia