Welcome to the website for the ARTIST network.

The field of Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) is a new and exciting area of research, whose implications to the design and implementations of systems in the future are manifold. This is not limited to the obvious virus detection in computer systems, but could extend from fault-tolerant hardware design to machine learning. However, to allow this new area to develop and for the UK to continue to lead the world in such activities, a more structured approach is needed to co-ordinate and support researchers in this area. This network is designed to help bolster these researchers in the UK, stimulate and extend the community of AIS practitioners within theUK and provide the necessary infrastructure and financial support for them to pursue further interactions between themselves and international collaborators,in order to drive forward this area of research.

To see the case for support please click here

!! ARTIST 2006 Interdisciplinary Workshop on Artificial Immune Systems - details here !!

Special Issue on AIS in International Journal of Unconventional Computing 1(3) 2005
http://www.oldcitypublishing.com/IJUC/IJUC.html
"Artificial Immune Systems: A New Computational Intelligence Approach"
Leandro N. de Castro and Jonathan Timmis http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/aisbook
"On Growth, Form and Computers"
Peter Bentley http://www.peterbentley.com
Special issue of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines 4(4) on AIS edited by Peter Bentley and Jon Timmis
http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1389-2576
"Immunocomputing: Principles and Applications" Alexander O. Tarakanov, Victor A. Skormin and S.P. Sokolova. http://www.springer-ny.com/detail.tpl?isbn=038795533X

ARTIST 2006 Interdisciplinary Workshop on Artificial Immune Systems, to be held at Pavilion Hotel, York on 21st - 22nd November 2006. More details including how to apply here
Student Spring School on ARTIFICIAL IMMUNE SYSTEMS, to be held at University of Wales, Aberystwyth, April 8-13th, more details including application details here
International Workshop on Natural and Artificial Immune Systems, (NAIS 2005) Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy, June 9-10, 2005 http://siren.dsi.unimi.it/conferences/IMMUNE05/html/index.html
2nd ARTIST Workshop will be held in 26-27April 2005. Click here
Human Immune System Inspires NASA Machine-Software Fault Detector ( Article): Some technical details of this work and the tool is available from the University E-files available here
New mailing list artist-forum[at]ohm.york.ac.uk to replace ais-forum[at]kent.ac.uk. Existing members have been added already. If you would like to register then please email artist-forum-request
Follow up from the 1st Artist Workshop, May 2004

EPSRC grant for Two timescale immunological learning for idiotypic behaviour mediation awarded to Dr Uwe Aickelin, School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, more details here
EPSRC Fellowship for Operational Research for Context Aware Intrusion Detection awarded to Dr Uwe Aickelin, School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, more details here
AIS grant for An Extensible Architecture for Homeostasis in Electronic Systems. An EPSRC award for Dr. J Timmis, Prof A Tyrrell and Dr A Greensted to run from July 2006 - Sept 2009, more details here
EPSRC grant for AIS: A new project investigating the use of AIS in bioinformatics has just begun, in collaboration between Alex Freitas, Jon Timmis and Darren Flower. See website for more information: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/projects/biasprofs
Uwe Aickelin has secured an EPSRC grant entitiled Danger Theory: The Link between Intrusion Detection and Artificial Immune Systems (GR/S47809/01). more...

The Twenty-sixth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence call for contributions, more details here
Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NICSO 2006): Granada, June 29-30 2006, http://www.nicso2006.org/
International Congress of Immunogenomics and Immunomics (BCII2006): http://www.bcii2006.org
5th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS 2006) first call for papers, more details here
Workshop on Artificial Immune Systems and Immune System Modelling to be held as part of AISB'06: Adaptation in Artificial and Biological Systems, more details here
UK KDD (Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining) SYMPOSIUM - UKKDD'06, more details here
Special Session on Recent Developments in Artificial Immune Systems to feature at IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Vancouver, Canada, July 16th - 21st 2006. More details here