Journal of Neural Computing and Applications
Call for Papers
Special Issue on Artificial Immune Systems: Theory and Applications
Natural immune systems are sophisticated and complex defense and
maintenance
systems with remarkable capabilities, such as learning, memory, and
adaptation. The immune system can be viewed in two parts: the innate
immune
system and the adaptive immune system. The innate immune system is
inherited
from birth, and endows on the host non-specific recognition of pathogenic
material. The adaptive (or acquired) immune system is afforded by the
specific recognition of pathogenic material, and adapts over the lifetime
of
the host through a process of cloning, mutation, and selection. During the
past decade, numerous novel computational models and algorithms have been
developed based on such immunological principles. Artificial Immune
Systems
(AIS), inspired by the natural immune systems, are an emerging kind of
soft
computing paradigm. Applied to a wide variety of applications, the AIS
have
recently gained considerable research interest from different communities.
Their successful industry applications include robotics, optimization,
fault
tolerance, process control, etc.
This special issue focuses on presenting the latest work in the theory and
applications of the artificial immune systems. The topics of interest for
this special issue include, but are not limited to:
Immunological modeling
Population and network based immune algorithms
Architectures and frameworks inspired by immune systems
Novel developments in AIS, such as danger theory and cognitive immune
paradigm
Applications of AIS (including industrial employment of artificial immune
algorithms)
Hardware implementation of AIS
Immunoinformatics
Fusion of artificial immune systems and other soft computing methods
Theoretical analysis of AIS
Prospective authors are invited to submit their full papers to the guest
editors before the deadline.
Im****tant Dates
Paper submission: August 31, 2007
Acceptance/Rejection notification: December 31, 2007
Special issue publication: Spring 2008
Guest Editors
Dr. Xiao-Zhi Gao
Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
gao@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mo-Yuen Chow
North Carolina State University, USA
chow@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
David Pelta
University of Granada, Spain
dpelta@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jon Timmis
University of York, UK
jtimmis@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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