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Immunity-Based Systems : A Design Perspective /

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This book presents a framework for communication intensive autonomous agents inspired from the immune system. With the rapid increase of computational power and networking technology similarity between computer and biological systems may now practically work. The framework presented fills the need t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ishida, Yoshiteru
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2004.
Series:Advanced information processing.
Subjects:
Computer science.
Computer Communication Networks.
Artificial intelligence.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Towards a Systems Science for Biological Systems
  • The Immune System as an Information System
  • Defining Immunity-Based Systems
  • A Self-Organizing Network Based on the Concept of the Immune Network
  • Sensor Networks by the Self-Organizing Network
  • A Multiagent Framework Learned from the Immune System
  • An Application of the Immune Algorithm with Agent Architecture
  • Information Flow, Biological Field and Autonomous Decentralized Systems
  • The Immune System as a Self-Defining Process
  • Conclusion.