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Over the last decade, the field of immunological computation has progressed slowly and steadily as a branch of computational intelligence. Immunological Computation: Theory and Applications presents up-to-date immunity-based computational techniques. After a brief review of fundamental immunology concepts, it examines computational models based on the negative selection process that occurs in the thymus. The text then explores immune networks, including continuous and discrete immune network models, clonal selection, hybrid models, and computational models based on danger theory. It also discusses real-world applications for the models covered in each chapter.
List of contents
Immunology Basics. Modeling the Biological Immune System. Negative Selection. Artificial Immune Networks. Clonal Selection Algorithm and Hybrid Models. Applications.
About the author
Dasgupta, Dipankar; Nino, Fernando
Summary
Clearly, nature has been very effective in creating organisms that are capable of protecting themselves against a wide variety of pathogens such as bacteria, fungi, and parasites. The powerful information-processing capabilities of the immune system, such as feature extraction, pattern recognition, learning, memory, and its distributive nature provide rich metaphors that researchers are finding very useful for the development of computational models. While some of these models are designed to give us a better understanding of the immune system, other models are being developed to solve complex real-world problems such as anomaly detection, pattern recognition, data analysis (clustering), function optimization, and computer security.
Immunological Computation: Theory and Applications is devoted to discussing different immunological mechanisms and their relation to information processing and problem solving. This unique volume presents a compendium of up-to-date work related to immunity-based techniques. After presenting the general abstractions of immune elements and processes used in computational models, it then—
- Reviews standard procedures, representations, and matching rules that are used in all immunological computation models
- Covers the details of one of the earliest and most well-known immune algorithms, based on the negative selection (NS) process that occurs in the thymus
- Examines promising immune models, including those based on danger theory, cytokine network models, and MHC-based models
The text goes further to describe a wide variety of applications, which include computer security, the detection and analysis of anomalies and faults, robotics, and data mining among others. To enhance understanding of this emerging field of study, each chapter includes a summary, review questions, and exercis
