[agents] ICARIS 2013 CFP: The 12th Int. Conf. on Artificial Immune Systems - August 27-29, 2013, Nottingham, UK

[Mario Pavone]

                   CALL FOR PAPERS, ORAL PRESENTATIONS & POSTERS
                         **Apologies for cross-posting**
           The 12th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems
             August 27-29, 2013 - University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
                            icaris2013 at dmi.unict.it


                http://www.artificial-immune-systems.org/icaris2013/
               https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icaris2013
             http://www.artificial-immune-systems.org/icaris2013/cfp.html


Important Dates:
Paper submission:        22nd April 2013
Author notification:     28th May 2013
Camera Ready submission: 18th June 2012



General Information:
ICARIS 2013 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 2013 will present a range of plenary lectures and tutorials to  
inspire and facilitate both the computer scientists and immunologists  
in their work.

As the previous editions, ICARIS 2013 is divided into two main tracks:

* Computational Immunology & Immunoinformatics track
* Immune-inspired Computing track



- Track on 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.

Topics of interest include:
* Immune modelling;
* Structural Immunoinformatics;
* Epitope analysis and prediction;
* Analysis and prediction of MHC-peptide binding;
* Databases and ontologies for Immunoinformatics;
* Analysis and prediction of minor histocompatibility antigens;
* Predictive models on organ transplantation;
* Immunogenomics;
* Vaccine design;
* Multi-agent based models of immunity;
* Gene networks and systems biology in immunity;
* Allergenicity prediction;
* Theoretical Immunology
* Quantitative Immunology


In this track, authors are requested to submit an abstract up to 500  
words in length, one figure and references. The abstract submissions  
must be done no later than the submission deadline:  22 April 2013.  
All accepted abstracts will be published in a book of abstracts. Full  
versions of the best works on this track will be published in the  
Immunomics Research Journal.

During submission please indicate you are submitting for the  
Computational Immunology Abstract stream. All abstracts will undergo a  
quick review process for relevance to the conference and technical  
accuracy. Presentations will be approx. 15 minutes for each paper in  
this track, though we reserve the right to allocate a poster  
presentation slot to abstracts if necessary.



- Track on Immune-inspired Computing

This track is for papers describing applications to computational and  
engineering problems, and theoretical aspects (e.g. mathematical  
modelling 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 as either an  
abstract paper or regular paper, both of which are eligible for oral  
presentations. Abstract papers will be given approx. 15 minutes to  
present, full papers approx. 25 minutes.


* Regular Paper:

All papers will undergo a double blind review process.

Authors are requested to submit a PDF file:  
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icaris2013 following the  
formatting instructions at the Springer-Verlag LNCS site, no later  
than the submission deadline: 22 April 2013.

Papers should be a maximum of fourteen (14) pages. Is recommended that  
authors name and affiliation should not appear on the paper.

All accepted papers, as for the previous editions, will be published  
in Springer's series Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The authors of  
best regular papers will be invited to extend their work for  
publication in the Natural Computing (TBC) or Evolutionary  
Intelligence (TBC).


* Abstract Paper

All abstracts will undergo a quick review process for relevance to the  
conference and technical accuracy. Abstracts should be no longer than  
500 words, include no more than one figure and include appropriate  
references. If you wish to present a poster and do not wish to be  
considered for oral presentation, then please indicate this when you  
submit the abstract. We reserve the right to allocate poster  
presentation slots to submissions that have requested oral presentation.


*NOTE*:
During the submission authors must make clear which track the paper  
should to be considered for. You will be provided a reference number  
that will be used throughout the submission process.


We look forward to welcoming you to Nottingham in August 2013.
Uwe Aickelin, Julie Greensmith, Mario Pavone and Jon Timmis.


-- 
Dr. Mario Pavone (PhD)
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Catania
V.le A. Doria 6 - 95125 Catania, Italy
tel: 0039 095 7383038
fax: 0039 095 330094
Email: mpavone at dmi.unict.it
http://www.dmi.unict.it/mpavone/
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