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Lee A. Segel, Irun R. Cohen, editors. Design Principles for the Immune System and Other Distributed Autonomous Systems. OUP. 2001

 

Contents

Steven A. Hofmeyer.
Introduction to the immune system
Thomas N. Denny.
Cytokines: A common signalling system for cell growth, inflammation, immunity, and differentiation
Dragana Jankovic, Alan Sher.
Th1/Th2 efferctor choice in the immune system: a developmental program influenced by cytokine signals
Howard L. Weiner.
Oral tolerance
Charles G. Orosz.
An introduction to immuno-ecology and immuno-informatics
Irun R. Cohen.
The creation of immune specificity
Jose A. M. Borghans, Rob J. de Boer.
Diversity in the immune system
Andre J. Noest.
T cells obey the tenets of signal detection theory
Lee A. Segel.
Diffuse feedback from a diffuse informational network: in the immune system and other distributed autonomouse systems
Eugene C. Butcher, Ellen F. Foxman, Junliang Pan, Eric J. Kunkel.
Multistep navigation and the combinatorial control of cell positioning: a general model for generation of living structure based on studies of immunne cell trafficking
Ele E. Sercarz.
Distributed, anarchic immune organization: semi-autonomous golems at work
John Ross, Marcel O. Vlad.
New approaches to complex chemical reaction mechanisms
Eric W. Bonabeau.
Control mechanisms for distributed autonomous systems: insights from social insects
Deborah M. Gordon.
Task allocation in ant colonies
Luis Mateus Rocha, Johan Bollen.
Biologically motivated distributed designs for adaptive knowledge management
Melanie Mitchell.
Analogy making as a complex adaptive system
Stephanie Forrest, Steven A. Hofmeyer.
Immunology as information processing