[BiO BB] ICARIS 2012 Call for Papers, Oral Presentations & Posters - 11th Int. Conf. on Artificial Immune Systems, August 28-31, 2012 Taormina, Italy

[Renato Umeton]

                       CALL FOR PAPERS, ORAL PRESENTATIONS & POSTERS
                                  *Apologies for cross-posting*
             The 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems
                                August 28-31, 2012 Taormina, Italy
                                       icaris2012 at dmi.unict.it

      http://www.artificial-immune-systems.org/icaris/2012/
      https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icaris2012
      http://www.artificial-immune-systems.org/icaris/2012/callForPapers.php

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

General Information:
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.

ICARIS 2012 is divided into two main tracks:
**28 and 29 August 2012: Computational Immunology & Immunoinformatics**
http://www.artificial-immune-systems.org/icaris/2012/callForPapers.php
(for Oral Presentations & Posters submission)

**30 and 31 August 2012: Immunological Computation, Immune-inspired Engineering,
Immune-inspired Heuristics**
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icaris2012
(for Full papers submission)
http://www.artificial-immune-systems.org/icaris/2012/callForPapers.php
(for Oral Presentations & Posters submission)


**Track on Computational Immunology**
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.

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

The abstract submissions must be done no later than the submission deadline: 1
March 2012. 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 and BMC Bioinformatics.


**Track on 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, or regular paper (as in the past editions).

* Abstract paper
Authors must follow the instructions described on ICARIS 2012 website:
http://www.artificial-immune-systems.org/icaris/2012/callForPapers.php

* Regular paper
All papers will undergo a double blind review process, and they should be no
longer than fourteen (14) pages. Is recommended that authors name and
affiliation should not appear on the 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, no
later than the submission deadline: 1 March 2012.

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 on this track will be invited to extend their work for
publication in the Evolutionary Computation Journal - MIT Press (TBC).

During the submission authors must make clear which stream the paper should to
be considered for.


We look forward to welcoming you to Taormina in August 2012.
C. Coello Coello, J. Greensmith, N. Krasnogor, P. Lio', G. Nicosia, M. Pavone.