Artificial Immune Systems and Their Applications

Estimating and Predicting the Number of Free HIV and T Cells by Nonlinear Kalman Filter.- 1 Introduction.- 2 A Stochastic Model of the HIV Pathogenesis.- 3 A State Space Model for the HIV Pathogenesis.- 4 An Illustrative Example.- 5 Some Monte Carlo Studies.- 6 Conclusion and Discussion.- References.- Modeling the Effects of Prior Infection on Vaccine Efficacy.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Materials and Methods.- 3 Results and Discussion.- References.- Artificial Immune Systems: Applications.- Jisys: The Development of an Artificial Immune System for Real World Applications.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Research into ISYS.- 3 The JISYS System.- 4 Jisys System Structure.- 5 The Mortgage Fraud Application.- 6 Analysis of JISYS.- 7 Comparison with Related Work.- 8 Future Work.- 9 Conclusions.- References.- Decentralized Behavior Arbitration Mechanism for Autonomous Mobile Robot Using Immune Network.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Biological Immune System.- 3 Proposed Behavior Arbitration Mechanism Based on the Immune System.- 4 Adaptation Mechanisms.- 5 Conclusions and Further Work.- References.- Parallel Search for Multi-Modal Function Optimization with Diversity and Learning of Immune Algorithm.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Immune Algorithm.- 3 Experiments and Implementation Details.- 4 Conclusion.- References.- Immunized Adaptive Critic for an Autonomous Aircraft Control Application.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Levels of Intelligent Control.- 3 The Autonomous Aircraft Control Problem.- 4 Immunized Computational Systems.- 5 Immunized Adaptive Critics.- 6 Conclusion.- References.- Blueprint for a Computer Immune System.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Requirements for a Computer Immune System.- 3 Implementing an Immune System for Cyberspace.- 4 Evaluation and Final Remarks.- References.- An Anomaly Detection Algorithm Inspired by the Immune System.- 1 Introduction.- 2 A Negative Selection Algorithm.- 3 Anomaly Detection.- 4 Experiments.- 5 Conclusions.- References.- Immunity-Based Management System for a Semiconductor Production Line.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Problem of Semiconductor Production System.- 3 Immunity-Based System and Multi-Agent Nets.- 4 Conclusion.- References.- Indexed Bibliography.- Author Index.