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Immunity-Based Systems

A Design Perspective

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  • © 2004

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Authors:
  1. Yoshiteru Ishida

    1. Department of Knowledge-Based Information Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology, Tempaku, Toyohashi, Japan

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Part of the book series: Advanced Information Processing (AIP)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Introduction

    • Yoshiteru Ishida
    Pages 1-5

  3. Toward a Systems Science for Biological Systems

    • Yoshiteru Ishida
    Pages 7-26

  4. The Immune System as an Information System

    • Yoshiteru Ishida
    Pages 27-54

  5. Defining Immunity-Based Systems

    • Yoshiteru Ishida
    Pages 55-76

  6. A Self-Organizing Network Based on the Concept of the Immune Network

    • Yoshiteru Ishida
    Pages 77-94

  7. Sensor Networks Using the Self-Organizing Network

    • Yoshiteru Ishida
    Pages 95-106

  8. A Multiagent Framework Learned from the Immune System

    • Yoshiteru Ishida
    Pages 107-120

  9. An Application of the Immune Algorithm with an Agent Framework

    • Yoshiteru Ishida
    Pages 121-138

  10. Information Flow, Biological Field, and Autonomous Distributed Systems

    • Yoshiteru Ishida
    Pages 139-149

  11. The Immune System as a Self-Defining Process

    • Yoshiteru Ishida
    Pages 151-163

  12. Conclusions

    • Yoshiteru Ishida
    Pages 165-166

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 167-177
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About this book

After I came to know Jerne's network theory on the immune system, I became fascinated with the immune system as an information system. The main pro­ totypes for biological information systems have been the neural systems and the brain. However, the immune system is not only an interesting informa­ tion system but it may provide a design paradigm for artificial information systems. With such a consideration, I initiated a project titled "autonomous decentralized recognition mechanism of the immune network and its applica­ tion to distributed information processing" in 1990 under a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on a Priority Area ("Autonomous Distributed Systems") supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture. During the project, I promoted the idea that the immune system could be a prototype of autonomous distributed systems. After the project, we organized an international workshop on immunity­ based systems in 1996 in conjunction with the International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems held in Kyoto, Japan. Recently, there have been several international conferences related to topics inspired by the immune system and an increasing number of research papers related to the topic. In writing this book, a decade after the project, I still believe that the immune system can be a prototype, a compact but sophisticated system that nature has shown us for building artificial information systems in this network age of the twenty-first century.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Knowledge-Based Information Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology, Tempaku, Toyohashi, Japan

    Yoshiteru Ishida

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