Artificial Immune Systems 5th International Conference, ICARIS 2006,

ICARIS 2006 is the ?fth instance of a series of conferences dedicated to the comprehension and the exploitation of immunological principles through their translation into computational terms. All scienti?c disciplines carrying a name that begins with “art

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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 University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 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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Hugues Bersini Jorge Carneiro (Eds.)

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

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Volume Editors Hugues Bersini IRIDIA, ULB, CP 194/6 50, av. Franklin Roosevelt, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium E-mail: [email protected] Jorge Carneiro Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Apartado 14 2781-901 Oeiras, Portugal E-mail: [email protected]

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Preface

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 “immune system”) are similarly suffering from a very ambiguous identity. Their axis of research tries to stabilize an on-going identity somewhere in the crossroad of engineering (building useful artifacts), natural sciences (biology or psychology— improving the comprehension and prediction of natur