text_combined: simone bassis lfsynwdsiunimiit dear colleagues cordially inviting join international workshop natural artificial immune systems nais05 held june 9 10 vietri sul mare salerno italy workshop aims catalyzing interaction modelers computer scientists mathematicians physicists immunologists biologists interested discussing information processing mechanisms emerging functionalities either natural artificial immune systems leading idea motivating event attention various forms intelligent thinking underlying many attackdefenseadaptation strategies discovered natural systems tumor virus escape mechanisms animals humans implemented artificial systems like everyday virus attacks universe computer systems activities take place iiass centre located beautiful amalfi coast south italy may read technical program find information conference nais05 website httpsirendsiunimiitconferencesimmune05htmlindexhtml registration site regular sessions session natural immune systems invited talk current paradigms immunology clivio invited talk reverse engineering biosystems lee modelling immune system situated agents bandini f celada manzoni r puzone g vizzari supporting collaborative knowledge work methodology developing ict tools biomedical research h linger evolutionary hypothesis bacterial populations b apolloni bassis clivio gaito malchiodi session ii artificial immune systems invited talk challenges artificial immune systems j timmis lipschitzian pattern search immunological algorithm quasinewton method protein folding problem innovative multistage approach v cutello g nicosia g narzisi anile spinella invited talk clonal selection algorithm coloring hitting set satisfiability problems v cutello g nicosia diversity artificial immune systems incorporating diversity operator ainet j timmis work progress session iii artificial immune systems artificial immunebased optimization technique solving economic dispatch power system tk rahaman securing ipv6based mobile ad hoc networks artificial immune system j rrushi session iv natural immune systems fuzzy continuous petri netbased approach modeling immune systems ipark na lee kh lee general learning rule network modeling neuroimmune interactome remondini p tieri valensin e verondini c franceschi f bersani profiling network attacks via ais pagnoni visconti panel session thought immune systems panelist b apolloni clivio v cutello lee h linger j timmis look forward seeing vietri b apolloni clivio v cutello g nicosia nais05 general cochairs wed 06 aug 2008 131621 0200 uai call participation nais05