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CALL FOR PAPERS
Artificial Immune Systems: Algorithms, Simulation, Modelling & Theory
IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence
– IEEE CEC 2018 Special Session –
8-13 July 2018, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
*** SUBMISSION deadline: January 15, 2018
The Immune System protects organisms against diseases, and over the years has been an important source of inspiration for the development of algorithms to be applied in a wide range of applications, such as learning, pattern recognition, optimisation and classification. Many of these algorithms are built on solid theoretical foundations, through understanding mathematical models and computational simulation of aspects of the immune system. The scope of this research area ranges from modelling to simulation of the immune system, to the development of novel engineering solutions to complex problems, and bridges several disciplines to provide new insights into immunology, computer science, mathematics and engineering.
This special session aims to focus on the recent advances on Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) field, also offering new conceptual models for understanding the dynamics that underlie the immune system.
This special session is supported by IEEE CIS Task Force on Artificial Immune Systems (http://ieee-cis-ais.org).
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
– Computational & Mathematical modelling of the Immune System;
– Theoretical aspects of immune inspired algorithms;
– Novel algorithms and new immune operators;
– Benchmarking immune inspired algorithms against other techniques;
– Empirical and Theoretical investigations into performance and complexity of immune inspired algorithms;
– Hybridisation of immune inspired algorithms with other techniques;
– Immune inspired algorithms for Big Data;
– Systems & Synthetic Immunology.
All the papers have to be submitted electronically through the congress application. The deadline for contribution paper submission is *January 15, 2018*.
Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers on any topics related to AIS.
* IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper submission: January 15, 2018
Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2018
Final paper submission: May 1, 2018
Early registration: May 1, 2018
Conference dates: July 8-13, 2018
* PAPER SUBMISSION:
Manuscripts should be prepared according to the standard format and page limit of regular papers specified in WCCI 2018 webpage (http://www.ecomp.poli.br/~
Special session papers are treated the same way as regular conference papers. Please specify that your paper is for the special session on AIS: Algorithms, Simulation, Modelling & Theory. All accepted papers will be published in the IEEE CEC 2018 conference proceedings and included in the IEEE Xplore digital library, and indexed by EI Compendex.
* ORGANIZERS:
Guilherme P. Coelho, University of Campinas, Brazil
Zaineb Chelly, Aberystwyth University, UK
Grazziela Figueredo, University of Nottingham, UK
Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy