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Artificial Immune Systems: Algorithms, Simulation, Modelling & Theory

IEEE CEC 2017 Special Session June 5-8, 2017, Donostia - San Sebastián, Spain http://ieee-cis-ais.org/ais-cec2017/ ais.cec2017@gmail.com

*** EXTENDED DEADLINE: January 30, 2017

*** NEWS: The BEST ACCEPTED papers, and the ones most REPRESENTATIVE in AIS will be invited to be significantly extended in order to be considered for a SPECIAL ISSUE in NATURAL COMPUTATION journal.

* 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; - Systems & Synthetic Immunology.

This special session is supported by IEEE CIS Task Force on Artificial Immune Systems (http://ieee-cis-ais.org).

* IMPORTANT DATES: paper submission: January 30, 2017 notification of acceptance: February 26, 2017 final paper submission: March 12, 2017 Conference dates: June 5-8, 2017

* ORGANIZERS: Thomas Jansen, Aberystwyth University, UK Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy Jon Timmis, University of York, UK