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   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.   
      
   Important Dates   
      
   Paper submission: July 31, 2007   
   Acceptance/Rejection notification: November 30, 2007   
   Special issue publication: Spring 2008   
      
   Guest Editors   
      
   Dr. Xiao-Zhi Gao   
   Helsinki University of Technology, Finland   
   gao@cc.hut.fi   
      
   Prof. Mo-Yuen Chow   
   North Carolina State University, USA   
   chow@ncsu.edu   
      
   Prof. David Pelta   
   University of Granada, Spain   
   dpelta@decsai.ugr.es   
      
   Dr. Jon Timmis   
   University of York, UK   
   jtimmis@cs.york.ac.uk   
      
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