Artificial Immune Systems: Third International Conference, ICARIS 2004, Catania, Sicily, Italy, September 13-16, 2004. Proceedings

D. Dasgupta, K. KrishnaKumar, D. Wong, M. Berry (auth.), Giuseppe Nicosia, Vincenzo Cutello, Peter J. Bentley, Jon Timmis (eds.)9783540230977, 3540230971

Arti?cial Immune Systems have come of age. They are no longer an obscure computersciencetechnique,workedonbyacoupleoffarsightedresearchgroups. Today, researchers across the globe are working on new computer algorithms inspired by the workings of the immune system. This vigorous ?eld of research investigates how immunobiology can assist our technology, and along the way is beginning to help biologists understand their unique problems. AIS is now old enough to understand its roots, its context in the research community, and its exciting future. It has grown too big to be con?ned to s- cial sessions in evolutionary computation conferences. AIS researchers are now forming their own community and identity. The International Conference on Arti?cial Immune Systems is proud to be the premiere conference in the area. As its organizers, we were honored to have such a variety of innovative and original scienti?c papers presented this year. ICARIS 2004 was the third international conference dedicated entirely to the ?eld of Arti?cial Immune Systems (AIS). It was held in Catania, on the beautiful island of Sicily, Italy, during September 13–16, 2004. While hosting the conference, the city of Catania gave the participants the opportunity to enjoy the richness of its historical and cultural atmosphere and the beauty of its natural resources, the sea, and the Etna volcano.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
Negative Selection Algorithm for Aircraft Fault Detection….Pages 1-13
A Hierarchical Immune Network Applied to Gene Expression Data….Pages 14-27
Artificial Immune Regulation (AIR) for Model-Based Fault Diagnosis….Pages 28-41
Optimal Circuit Design Using Immune Algorithm….Pages 42-52
Towards a Conceptual Framework for Artificial Immune Systems….Pages 53-64
Immunologic Responses Manipulation of AIS Agents….Pages 65-79
Optima, Extrema, and Artificial Immune Systems….Pages 80-90
An Immuno Control Framework for Decentralized Mechatronic Control….Pages 91-105
AIS Based Robot Navigation in a Rescue Scenario….Pages 106-118
Reactive Immune Network Based Mobile Robot Navigation….Pages 119-132
A Fractal Immune Network….Pages 133-145
Nootropia: A User Profiling Model Based on a Self-Organising Term Network….Pages 146-160
Towards Danger Theory Based Artificial APC Model: Novel Metaphor for Danger Susceptible Data Codons….Pages 161-174
Online Negative Databases….Pages 175-188
Definition of MHC Supertypes Through Clustering of MHC Peptide Binding Repertoires….Pages 189-196
BcePred: Prediction of Continuous B-Cell Epitopes in Antigenic Sequences Using Physico-chemical Properties….Pages 197-204
Integration of Immune Models Using Petri Nets….Pages 205-216
MHC Class I Epitope Binding Prediction Trained on Small Data Sets….Pages 217-225
Convergence Analysis of a Multiobjective Artificial Immune System Algorithm….Pages 226-235
A Comparison of Immune and Neural Computing for Two Real-Life Tasks of Pattern Recognition….Pages 236-249
An Artificial Immune System Based Visual Analysis Model and Its Real-Time Terrain Surveillance Application….Pages 250-262
Exploring the Capability of Immune Algorithms: A Characterization of Hypermutation Operators….Pages 263-276
Exploiting Immunological Properties for Ubiquitous Computing Systems….Pages 277-289
A Robust Immune Based Approach to the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma….Pages 290-301
Artificial Innate Immune System: An Instant Defence Layer of Embryonics….Pages 302-315
Immune System Approaches to Intrusion Detection – A Review….Pages 316-329
Multimodal Search with Immune Based Genetic Programming….Pages 330-341
An Artificial Immune System for Misbehavior Detection in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks with Virtual Thymus, Clustering, Danger Signal, and Memory Detectors….Pages 342-356
Developing Efficient Search Algorithms for P2P Networks Using Proliferation and Mutation….Pages 357-371
A Game-Theoretic Approach to Artificial Immune Networks….Pages 372-385
Modelling Immune Memory for Prediction and Computation….Pages 386-399
Immunity Through Swarms: Agent-Based Simulations of the Human Immune System….Pages 400-412
Studies on the Implications of Shape-Space Models for Idiotypic Networks….Pages 413-426
Exploiting Parallelism Inherent in AIRS, an Artificial Immune Classifier….Pages 427-438
An Overview of Computational and Theoretical Immunology….Pages 439-441
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