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Towards a Conceptual Framework for Artificial Immune Systems

S Stepney, R Smith, J Timmis, and A Tyrrell

In G Nicosia and et al, editors, Third International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, number 3239 in LNCS, pages 182-196. Springer, September 2004.

Abstract

We propose that bio-inspired algorithms are best developed and analysed in the context of a multidisciplinary conceptual framework that provides for sophisticated biological models and well-founded analytical principles, and we outline such a framework here, in the context of AIS network models. We further propose ways to unify several domains into a common meta-framework, in the context of AIS population models. We finally hint at the possibility of a novel instantiation of such a meta-framework, thereby allowing the building of a specific computational framework that is inspired by biology, but not restricted to any one particular biological domain.

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Bibtex Record

@inproceedings{1972,
author = {S Stepney and R Smith and J Timmis and A Tyrrell},
title = {{Towards a Conceptual Framework for Artificial Immune Systems}},
month = {September},
year = {2004},
pages = {182-196},
keywords = {determinacy analysis, Craig interpolants},
note = {},
doi = {},
url = {http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2004/1972},
    publication_type = {inproceedings},
    submission_id = {15861_1095940938},
    ISBN = {3540230971},
    booktitle = {Third International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems},
    number = {3239},
    series = {LNCS},
    publisher = {Springer},
    refereed = {yes},
    editor = {G Nicosia and et al},
}

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