Artificial Immune Systems and Their Applications
at
IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics(SMC'2000)
Nashville, Tennessee, October 8-11, 2000.

A special track on Artificial Immune Systems and Their Applications will be organized (third time) at the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. This interdisciplinary track will serve as a forum for presenting and disseminating current research in the field of Artificial Immune Systems. The aims are to strengthen this emerging research area by exploring different immunological mechanisms and their relation to information processing and problem solving.

The scope of this special track/sessions include the following topics(but are not limited to):

Computational methods based on Immunological principles
Artificial Immune systems for Pattern Recognition
Immunity-based system for Anomaly or fault detection
Immune Network Models and their applications
Immunity-based system as a multi-agent system
Immunogenetic approaches
Immunity-based systems for self-organization
Immunity-based approach for collective intelligence
Immunity-based systems for optimization and search
The immune system as Autonomous Decentralized Systems
Immunity-based approach for Artificial Life
Immunological approach for computer security
Immunity-based systems as a distributed learning system
Immunological Computation for data mining
Immunity-based Cognitive Models
 
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers related to the listed topics. Those who are interested should send a title and an extended abstract (or full paper upto 8 pages) on or before February 1, 2000 via email or air mail to the address below:

Track Chair:

Dipankar Dasgupta, Ph.D                               
Division of Computer Science                          
Mathematical Sciences Dept.                                     
The University of Memphis                                 
Memphis, TN 38152-6429                                 
U.S.A                                                              
Tel: (901) 678-4147                                           
Fax: (901) 678-2480                                          
dasgupta@msci.memphis.edu                           

Important Dates:

February 1, 2000 ::Extended Abstract

April 20, 2000 :: Notification of Acceptance

June 16, 2000 :: Final Submission

For general information of SMC'2000, please visit the web page of the conference at http://mot.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/smc2000/.