Apologies if you receive this more than once. ================= 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: March 25, 2005 Acceptance/Rejection notification: April 25, 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 - John 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 bottom of the web page: http://siren.dsi.unimi.it/conferences/IMMUNE05/html/index.html * Conference Chairs: - Bruno Apolloni, University of Milano, Italy. apolloni@dsi.unimi.it - Alberto Clivio, University of Milano, Italy. alberto.clivio@unimi.it - Vincenzo Cutello, University of Catania, Italy. cutello@dmi.unict.it - Giuseppe Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy. nicosia@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 - John Timmis, Universityh of Kent, UK - Henry Linger, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia * 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@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@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@unimi.it Giuseppe Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy, nicosia@dmi.unict.it