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The Immune System: the ultimate fractionated cyber-physical system

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science 2013-09-23 v1 Other Quantitative Biology

Abstract

In this little vision paper we analyze the human immune system from a computer science point of view with the aim of understanding the architecture and features that allow robust, effective behavior to emerge from local sensing and actions. We then recall the notion of fractionated cyber-physical systems, and compare and contrast this to the immune system. We conclude with some challenges.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1309.5145,
  title  = {The Immune System: the ultimate fractionated cyber-physical system},
  author = {Carolyn Talcott},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.5145},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

In Proceedings Festschrift for Dave Schmidt, arXiv:1309.4557

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