DATES: August 28-31, 2012
LOCALE: Taormina, Sicily, Italy
URL: http://www.artificial-immune-systems.org/icaris/2012/

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.

NEW there are now two different tracks with two different submission kinds and registrations (first track - second track - both):

28 and 29 August 2012: Computational Immunology & Immunoinformatics

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.

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

30 and 31 August 2012: Immunological Computation, Immune-inspired Engineering, Immune-inspired Heuristics

This track is for papers describing applications to computational and engineering problems, and theoretical aspects (e.g. mathematical modeling 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: Authors must follow the instructions described on ICARIS 2012 website: http://www.artificial-immune-systems.org/icaris/2012/callForPapers.php

Regular 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.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission: 1st March 2012
Author notification: 15th May 2012
Paper final version: 15th June 2012

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Contact: icaris2012[at]dmi.unict.it