Artificial Immune Systems: 5th International Conference, ICARIS 2006, Oeiras, Portugal, September 4-6, 2006, Proceedings

ICARIS 2006 is the fifth instance of a series of conferences dedicated to the comprehension and the exploitation of immunological principles through their translation into computational terms. All scientific disciplines carrying a name that begins with “artificial” (followed by “life,” “reality,” “intelligence” or “— munesystem”) aresimilarlysuffering froma veryambiguousidentity.Their axis of research tries to stabilize an on—going identity somewhere in the crossroad of engineering (buildin...