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*Call for Papers
*Paper formatting and submission
*Organisers/Committee
*Accommodation and travel
*Registration information
*Programme
*Poster Information
*Student Bursary Form
*Previous ICARIS conferences

Organising Committee:

Conference Chairs:
- Jonathan Timmis, University of Kent. UK.
    J.Timmis@ukc.ac.uk
- Peter Bentley, University College, London. UK.
    P.Bentley@cs.ucl.ac.uk

Local Conference Chairs:
- Vincenzo Cutello, University of Catania, Catania. Italy.
    cutello@dmi.unict.it
- Giuseppe Nicosia, University of Catania, Catania. Italy.
    nicosia@dmi.unict.it

Publicity Chair:
- Simon Garrett, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. UK.
    smg@aber.ac.uk

Programme Committee:
- 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.
- Lois Boggess, Mississippi State University. USA
- 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, Kings 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
- Santo Motta, University of Catania. Italy.
- Mark Neal, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. UK
- 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:
Icaris 2004
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Catania,
City University,
V.le A. Doria 6, 95125 Catania, Italy
Email: icaris04@dmi.unict.it
T: +39 095 7383074
F: +39 095 330094

Aims and Scope 

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, or danger theory.
• 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 will provide an excellent opportunity 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.
    All papers will be published in an issue of the Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes series.

The conference will have two streams:
- Technical Stream: For work undertaken and completed, with clear results obtained.
- Conceptual Stream: For discussion papers without results, work in progress papers etc.

News   

Proceedings for This Year This year's proceedings are on-line and can be found here.

Journal to Publish ICARIS Papers The International Journal on Unconventional Computing will publish the best papers from ICARIS 2004. There are no details as yet, but they will appear here when known. See here for more information on the journal.

Registration Form The registration form is now online. Please fill in and return as described at this page. Thanks.

Notification of Acceptance There have been some problems with a couple of referees. As a result the notification of acceptance has been delayed until June 10th. We apologise the the incovenience.

Immunoinformatics There will be a special session on immunoinformatics, run by Darren Flower.

Plenary Speaker This year's plenary session speaker will be Alan Perelson. Alan is well-known for his ground-breaking work in immune network theory during the late-80's and early-90's, as well as his continual input into the Sante Fe group and their development of negative detection algorithms based on the negative selection of T-cells.

Proceedings from previous ICARIS conferences 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.
     You can still get the online conference proceedings from ICARIS-2002, and Robin Callard's plenary talk. Also available are a bibtex file for ICARIS-2002, and table of contents, in .DOC format. 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. The deadline for application is July 1st 2004. If you can not afford to register before the bursaries are awarded, please contact one of the organisers.
   Please give us some idea of the area of AIS or immune modelling that you are studying in the space marked 'PhD title' Both full and part-time students may apply for a bursary. Contact the organisers if you require any further information. Application form is here.

Tutorial Sessions   

There will be four tutorial sessions:

1. Jon Timmis, University of Kent at Canterbury:
   "An Introduction to Artificial Immune Systems"
2. Filippo Castiglione, Istituto Applicazioni del Calcolo "M. Picone" Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) Rome Italy
   "The immune system and related pathologies: can we get something by simulating it on a computer?"
3. Robin Callard, Immunobiology Unit, Institute of Child Health, London UK
   "Modelling the Immune System and biologically inspired computation"
4. Leandro de Castro, Catholic University of Santos (Unisantos), Brazil
   "Engineering Applications of Artificial Immune Systems"

Important Dates

3^rd May: Submission deadline
31^st May: Review results
20^th June: Revised papers due
13^th-16^th Sept: Conference

Sponsorship and Support   

We wish to thank ARTIST (An academic network for ARTificial Immune SysTems) and the University of Catania, faculty of science for their sponsorship and support.