Reminder: ORS Local Search Talk (with L ASEORS)

[Harrison Andrew <SAHARRISON@mail.dstl.gov.uk>]

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> Operational Research Society Local Search Study Group (joint with LASEORS)
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> Title: An Introduction to Artificial Immune Systems
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> Speaker: Dr Jonathon Timmis, Computing Laboratory, University of Kent
>  	  (see www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/jt6/)
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> Venue:	Room 2001, Cass Business School, City University, London
> (106
>  	Bunhill Row, London EC1). NOTE NEW VENUE.
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> Time:	5pm (for 5.30pm start)
> Date:	22nd Oct 03
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> For directions see:  http://www.city.ac.uk/maps/cass.htm
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> Abstract:
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> The immune system is highly distributed, highly adaptive, self-organising
> in
> nature, maintains a memory of past encounters and has the ability to
> continually learn about new encounters. From a computational point of
> view,
> the immune system has much to offer by way of inspiration to computer
> scientists and engineers alike.  As computational problems become more
> complex, increasingly, people are seeking out novel approaches to these
> problems, often turning to nature for inspiration. A great deal of
> attention
> is now being paid to the vertebrae immune system as a potential source of
> inspiration, where it is thought that different insights and alternative
> solutions can be gleaned, over and above other biologically inspired
> methods. This talk will provide an overview of this exciting emerging area
> of research, namely Artifical Immune Systems and highlight potential uses
> of
> this new paradigm in a variety of application areas ranging from data
> mining, fault tolerance and optimisation.
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> This talk will be an introductory level, so suited to a wide audience.
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> 
> Andy  Harrison
> 
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> UK
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> email saharrison@dstl.gov.uk
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