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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos New York University, NY, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Christian Jacob Marcin L. Pilat Peter J. Bentley Jonathan Timmis (Eds.)

Artificial Immune Systems 4th International Conference, ICARIS 2005 Banff, Alberta, Canada, August 14-17, 2005 Proceedings

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Volume Editors Christian Jacob University of Calgary, Dept. of Computer Science and Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada E-mail: [email protected] Marcin L. Pilat University of Calgary, Department of Computer Science 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada E-mail: [email protected] Peter J. Bentley University College London, Department of Computer Science Malet Place, London, WC1E 6BT, UK E-mail: [email protected] Jonathan Timmis University of York, Department of Electronics and Computer Science Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK E-mail: [email protected]

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Preface

Your immune system is unique. It is in many ways as complex as your brain, but it is not centred in one location, like the brain. It is not a single organ—it consists of many different cell types, diverse methods of intercellular communication, an