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Artificial Immune Systems

5th International Conference, ICARIS 2006, Oeiras, Portugal, September 4-6, 2006, Proceedings

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  • © 2006

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 4163)

Part of the book sub series: Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues (LNTCS)

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Table of contents (34 papers)

  1. Computer Simulation of Classical Immunology

  2. Computer Simulation of Idiotypic Network

  3. ImmunoInformatics Conceptual Papers

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About this book

ICARIS 2006 is the ?fth instance of a series of conferences dedicated to the comprehension and the exploitation of immunological principles through their translation into computational terms. All scienti?c disciplines carrying a name that begins with “arti?cial” (followed by “life,” “reality,” “intelligence” or “- munesystem”) aresimilarlysu?ering froma veryambiguousidentity.Their axis of research tries to stabilize an on-going identity somewhere in the crossroad of engineering (building useful artifacts), natural sciences (biologyor psychology— improving the comprehension and prediction of natural phenomena) and t- oretical computer sciences (developing and mastering the algorithmic world). Accordingly and depending on which of these perspectives receives more s- port, they attempt at attracting di?erent kinds of scientists and at stimul- ing di?erent kinds of scienti?c attitudes. For many years and in the previous ICARIS conferences, it was clearly the “engineering” perspective that was the most represented and prevailed through the publications. Indeed, since the o- gin of engineering and technology, nature has o?ered a reserve of inexhaustible inspirations which have stimulated the development of useful artifacts for man. Biology has led to the development of new computer tools, such as genetic - gorithms, Boolean and neural networks, robots learning by experience, cellular machines and others that create a new vision of IT for the engineer: parallel, ?exible andautonomous.Inthis type of informatics,complexproblemsareta- led with the aid of simple mechanisms, but in?nitely iterated in time and space.

Editors and Affiliations

  • IRIDIA, CoDE, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

    Hugues Bersini

  • Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Oeiras, Portugal

    Jorge Carneiro

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