[UAI] First CFP Int. Workshop on Natural Artificial Immune Systems '05 Apologies if you receive this more than once.
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                          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.
   nvkuumub@dsi.unimi.it
 - Alberto Clivio, University of Milano, Italy.
   ooxwqfk.cbjeam@unimi.it
 - Vincenzo Cutello, University of Catania, Italy.
   cajdyhp@dmi.unict.it
 - Giuseppe Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy.
   xjnbvad@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: grxp65@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: lfsynw@dsi.unimi.it
    Phone: +39-02-50316335
    Fax:   +39-02-50316228


* For additional information or questions, contact
  Alberto Clivio, University of Milano, Italy, ooxwqfk.cbjeam@unimi.it
  Giuseppe Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy, xjnbvad@dmi.unict.it


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Giuseppe Nicosia
Ph.D. in Computer Science                       Email: xjnbvad@dmi.unict.it
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science  Tel:   + 39 095 738 30 80
University of Catania                           Fax:   + 39 095 33 00 94
V.le A. Doria 6 - 95125 Catania, Italy          Web:   www.dmi.unict.it/~nicosia
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