Biological Inspiration for Artificial Immune Systems
Abstract
Artificial immune systems (AISs) to date have generally been inspired by naive biological metaphors. This has limited the effectiveness of these systems. In this position paper two ways in which AISs could be made more biologically realistic are discussed. We propose that AISs should draw their inspiration from organisms which possess only innate immune systems, and that AISs should employ systemic models of the immune system to structure their overall design. An outline of plant and invertebrate immune systems is presented, and a number of contemporary research that more biologically-realistic AISs could have is also discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1001.2208,
title = {Biological Inspiration for Artificial Immune Systems},
author = {Jamie Twycross and Uwe Aickelin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.2208},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
12 pages, 6th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS2007), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4628, Santos, Brazil