Immunology as Information Processing (2000)
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| Venue: | Design Principles for the Immune System and Other Distributed Autonomous Systems |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Forrest00immunologyas,
author = {Stephanie Forrest and Steven A. Hofmeyr},
title = {Immunology as Information Processing},
booktitle = {Design Principles for the Immune System and Other Distributed Autonomous Systems},
year = {2000},
pages = {361--387},
publisher = {Oxford University Press}
}
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This chapter describes the behavior of the immune system from an informationprocessing perspective. It reviews a series of projects conducted at the University of New Mexico and the Santa Fe Institute, which have developed and explored the theme "immunology as information processing." The projects cover the spectrum from serious modeling of real immunological phenomena, such as crossreactive responses in animals and the generation of diversity, to computer science applications, especially the attempt to develop an immune system for computers to protect them against viruses, intrusions, and other malicious activities. In each project, we have used an approach with the following steps: (1) Identify a specific mechanism that appears to be interesting computationally, (2) write a computer program that implements or models the mechanism, (3) study its properties through simulation and mathematical analysis, and (4) demonstrate its capabilities, either by applying the ...
