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Susan Stepney, Robert E. Smith, Jonathan Timmis, Andy M. Tyrrell.
Towards a Conceptual Framework for Artificial Immune Systems.

[ICARIS 2004]In Giuseppe Nicosia, Vincenzo Cutello, Peter J. Bentley, Jon Timmis, editors. ICARIS 2004: Third International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, Catania, Sicily, September 2004. Volume 3239 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp 53-64. Springer, 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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  author = "Susan Stepney and Robert E. Smith and Jonathan Timmis and Andy M. Tyrrell",
  title = "Towards a Conceptual Framework for Artificial Immune Systems",
  pages = "53--64",
  crossref = "ICARIS-04"  
)

@proceedings(ICARIS-04,
  title = "ICARIS 2004: Third International Conference
           on Artificial Immune Systems,
           Sicily, September 2004",
  booktitle = "ICARIS 2004: Third International Conference
           on Artificial Immune Systems,
           Sicily, September 2004",
  editor = "Giuseppe Nicosia and Vincenzo Cutello and Peter J. Bentley and Jon Timmis",
  series = "LNCS",
  volume = 3239,
  publisher = "Springer",
  year = 2004
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