CALL FOR CHAPTERS Artificial Immune Systems and Natural Computing: Applying Complex Adaptive Technologies

CALL FOR CHAPTERS
Submission Deadline: June 21, 2007
http://www.igi-pub.com/requests/details.asp?ID=212
Artificial Immune Systems and Natural Computing: Applying Complex
Adaptive Technologies
A book edited by Dr. Hongwei Mo

Introduction
The book is mainly divided into two parts:
One is mainly on Artificial Immune Systems (AIS). AIS is a relatively
recent and important example of using the real world as computational
inspiration. In addition to obvious security metaphor, many other AIS
application areas have been developed, to cover more general anomaly
detection, optimization, fault tolerance, and machine learning
applications such as recognition and classification, intelligence
agent, robotics and even cryptography and so on. This book will bring
recent development of AIS in different fields to readers.
The second part is mainly on natural computing. AIS only forms one of
a whole array of natural computing(NC) that is becoming available. In
addition to AISs, many other ways of nature inspired computing(NIC)
had been developed quickly in recent years, such as biomolecular/
molecular computing, including DNA computing, Membrane
Computing .etc., Quantum Computing,Swarm Intelligence(Ant Colony
Optimization, Particle Swarm Optimization .etc.),Artificial Neural
Networks, Evolutionary Computation and so on. Many new ideas, ways and
applications born in these areas will be shown in this book.

The Overall Objective of the Book

The book aims to provide latest empirical research findings in the
area and relevant theoretical frameworks of AIS and NC. So it is
written for professionals who want to improve their understanding of
the strategic role of AIS and NC in different fields. That is, it
introduces the developments and applications of AIS and NIC in recent
three years. What is more important, it proposes some new ideas,
methods and theories to solve problems of engineering and science.
It will be a good reference book for AIS and NC researchers. But it is
more important to note that these separate areas should not be seen as
independent. Rather, their results and insights should provide
valuable groundwork for the future computing challenge, to produce a
fully mature science of all forms of computation, which unifies the
classical and non-classical paradigms.

The Target Audience
The contents of this book will be attractive for graduate students,
doctor candidates, lectures, academic or professionals, researchers
and industry parties in Biology, Computing, Engineering, Computer
Science, Information technology, especially those who are interested
in developing and applying alternative problem solving techniques
inspired by immune system and also the other ways inspired by biology
or nature.
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following

Part I
Computational Immunology
Immune system model and simulation
Theories of AIS
AIS for Computer network security
AIS for Optimization
AIS for Faulty Detection
AIS for Data Mining
AIS for Web Mining
AIS for Scheduling
AIS for machine learning
AIS for Control
AIS for Emergent Computation
AIS for Cryptography
AIS for Pattern Recognition
AIS for Learning
AIS for Image Processing
AIS and Agent
AIS and Robotics
AIS for Software
AIS of Hardware and Software
AIS applications in industry or agriculture production
AIS applications in business, management or education
AIS applications in biology

Part II
Theories and applications (no limited field) of
Molecular & DNA computing
Membrane Computing
Artificial life
Chemical Computing
Cultural algorithms
Swarm Intelligence
Ants Colony
Evolutionary Computation
Artificial Neural Network
Fuzzy Computing
Bacterial foraging
Quantum Computing
Natural computing and informatics
Computing with words
Simulation and Emulation of Nature
Computing with Natural Materials(such as wetware computing)
Philosophy of Natural Computing
Natural Computing applications IN knowledge discovery, business,
science, finance, operations research, and more

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before June
21, 2007, a 2-5 page manuscript proposal clearly explaining the
mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted
proposals will be notified by July 1, 2007 about the status of their
proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters
are expected to be submitted by Feb 15, 2008. All submitted chapters
will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. The book is scheduled
to be published by IGI Global, www.igi-pub.com, publisher of the IGI
Publishing (formerly Idea Group Publishing), Information Science
Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing and Information Science
Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference) imprints.

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word
document) or by mail to:
Dr. Hongwei MO
College of Automation
Harbin Engineering University, Harbin，150001，China
Tel.: +86 451 82569906 ・ Fax: +86 451 82569906 ・ GSM: +86 451
13089988640
E-mail: honwei2004@xxxxxxx

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