Sian Bailey

Peter Bailey

Kevin Crossley-Holland

Chris McEwan

Carol Lawson

Heroic, tragic, fantastical, funny, cautionary and mythical ... Whatever your choice of story, there's a poem here for you, because 'Once Upon a Poem' brings together some of the best stories told in verse! From the magical 'Jabberwocky' by Lewis Carroll to Roald Dahl's wicked retelling of Goldilocks, stunningly illustrated in colour and championed by today's best authors. Voted one of the best storybooks in 2004 by Books for Keeps.

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Once Upon a Poem

'Once Upon A Poem' brings together 15 stories told in verse. From 'Paul Revere's Ride' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and 'Jabberwocky' by Lewis Carroll; to Roald Dahl's wicked retelling of 'Goldilocks' and a rap version of 'Prince Theseus' by Tony Mitton.

Emma Hart

Jon Timmis

Andy Hone

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS 2010, held in Edinburgh, UK, in July 2010. The 23 revised full papers and extended immune modeling abstracts presented together with 9 PerAda workshop position statements were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on immune system modeling; theoretical artificial immune systems; and applied artificial immune systems.

9th International Conference, ICARIS 2010, Edinburgh, UK, July 26-29, 2010, Proceedings

Artificial Immune Systems

Arti?cial immune systems (AIS) is a diverse and maturing area of research that bridges the disciplines of immunology and computation. The original research impetus in AIS had a clear focus on applying immunological principles to c- putationalproblemsinpracticaldomainssuchascomputersecurity,datamining and optimization. As the ?eld has matured, it has diversi?ed such that we now see a growing interest in formalizing the theoretical properties of earlier - proaches, elaborating underlying relationships between applied computational models and those from theoretical immunology, as well a return to the roots of the domain in which the methods of computer science are being applied to - munological modelling problems. Following the trends in the ?eld, the ICARIS conference intends to provide a forum for all these perspectives. The 9th InternationalConference on AIS (ICARIS 2010)built on the success of previous years, providing a convenient vantage point for broader re?ection as it returned to Edinburgh, the venue of the Second ICARIS in 2003. This time, the conference was hosted by Edinburgh Napier University at its Craiglockhart Campus, recently reopened after extensive refurbishment which has resulted in a stunning building and state-of-the-art facilities. The extent to which the ?eld has matured over the preceding years is clear; a substantial track of theor- ical research now underpins the discipline. The applied stream has expanded in its outlook, and has examples of AIS algorithms being applied across a wide spectrum of practicalproblems,rangingfrom sensornetworksto semi-conductor design.

Chris McEwan

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