Ebook: Artificial Immune Systems: 6th International Conference, ICARIS 2007, Santos, Brazil, August 26-29, 2007. Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS 2007, held in Santos, Brazil, in August 2007.

The 36 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on search and optimization, classification and clustering, anomaly detection and negative selection, robotics, control and electronics. Modeling papers, conceptual papers, as well as technical papers and general applications are also included.

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The field of artificial immune systems (AIS) is one of the most recent naturalcomputing approaches to emerge from engineering, computer science and theoreticalimmunology. The immune system is an adaptive system that employsmany parallel and complementary mechanisms to maintain homeostasis and defendthe organism against pathological agents. It is a distributed system, capableof constructing and maintaining a dynamical and structural identity, learning toidentify previously unseen invaders and remembering what it has learnt. Numerousimmune algorithms now exist, based on processes identified within thevertebrate immune system. These computational techniques have many potentialapplications, such as in distributed and adaptive control, machine learning, patternrecognition, fault and anomaly detection, computer security, optimization,and distributed system design.