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As one of the emerging algorithms in the field of Artificial Immune Systems (AIS), the Dendritic Cell Algorithm (DCA) has been successfully applied to a number of challenging real-world problems. However, one criticism is the lack of a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-06-03 Feng Gu , Julie Greensmith , Uwe Aickelin

Theoretical analyses of the Dendritic Cell Algorithm (DCA) have yielded several criticisms about its underlying structure and operation. As a result, several alterations and fixes have been suggested in the literature to correct for these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-07-05 Feng Gu , Jan Feyereisl , Robert Oates , Jenna Reps , Julie Greensmith , Uwe Aickelin

Our main tenet argues that the primary role of positive thymic selection and the resulting T cell population is the maintenance of a homeostatic equilibrium with self MHC-self peptide complexes. The homeostatic T cell repertoire can…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2011-10-06 Tamas Szabados , Tibor Bakacs

Immune cells learn about their antigenic targets using tactile sense: during recognition, a highly organized yet dynamic motif, named immunological synapse, forms between immune cells and antigen-presenting cells (APCs). Via synapses,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 Miloš Knežević , Shenshen Wang

The immune system is a highly parallel and distributed intelligent system which has learning, memory, and associative capabilities. Artificial Immune System is an evolutionary paradigm inspired by the biological aspects of the immune system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-02-22 Tejbanta Singh Chingtham , G. Sahoo , M. K. Ghose

This paper explores the potential of agentic AI in autonomously detecting and responding to anomalies within complex systems, emphasizing its ability to transform traditional, human-dependent anomaly management methods.

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Reza Vatankhah Barenji , Sina Khoshgoftar

The adaptive immune system provides a diverse set of molecules that can mount specific responses against a multitude of pathogens. Memory is a key feature of adaptive immunity, which allows organisms to respond more readily upon…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-04-14 Oskar H Schnaack , Armita Nourmohammad

The vertebrate immune system is a wonder of modern evolution. Occasionally, however, correlations within the immune system lead to inappropriate recruitment of preexisting T cells against novel viral diseases. We present a random energy…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-10 Jeong-Man Park , Michael W. Deem

T cells orchestrate adaptive immune responses upon activation. T cell activation requires sufficiently strong binding of T cell receptors on their surface to short peptides derived from foreign proteins bound to protein products of the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Andrej Kosmrlj , Mehran Kardar , Arup K. Chakraborty

The T cell arm of the adaptive immune system provides the host protection against unknown pathogens by discriminating between host and foreign material. This discriminatory capability is achieved by the creation of a repertoire of cells…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-01-03 Kevin Ng Chau , Jason T. George , José N. Onuchic , Xingcheng Lin , Herbert Levine

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are at the core of most Deep learning (DL) algorithms that successfully tackle complex problems like image recognition, autonomous driving, and natural language processing. However, unlike biological brains…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Spyridon Chavlis , Panayiota Poirazi

In this paper, we present a memory-augmented algorithm for anomaly detection. Classical anomaly detection algorithms focus on learning to model and generate normal data, but typically guarantees for detecting anomalous data are weak. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Ziyi Yang , Teng Zhang , Iman Soltani Bozchalooi , Eric Darve

The adaptive immune system is a natural diagnostic and therapeutic. It recognizes threats earlier than clinical symptoms manifest and neutralizes antigen with exquisite specificity. Recognition specificity and broad reactivity is enabled…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-07-26 Alex J. Brown , Igor Snapkov , Rahmad Akbar , Milena Pavlović , Enkelejda Miho , Geir K. Sandve , Victor Greiff

The analysis of system calls is one method employed by anomaly detection systems to recognise malicious code execution. Similarities can be drawn between this process and the behaviour of certain cells belonging to the human immune system,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-07-05 Jungwon Kim , Julie Greensmith , Jamie Twycross , Uwe Aickelin

Anomaly detection has become an indispensable tool for modern society, applied in a wide range of applications, from detecting fraudulent transactions to malignant brain tumours. Over time, many anomaly detection techniques have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Mikael Sabuhi , Ming Zhou , Cor-Paul Bezemer , Petr Musilek

Anomaly detection is a significant problem faced in several research areas. Detecting and correctly classifying something unseen as anomalous is a challenging problem that has been tackled in many different manners over the years.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Federico Di Mattia , Paolo Galeone , Michele De Simoni , Emanuele Ghelfi

The similarity between neural and immune networks has been known for decades, but so far we did not understand the mechanism that allows the immune system, unlike associative neural networks, to recall and execute a large number of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-03-20 Elena Agliari , Alessia Annibale , Adriano Barra , A. C. C. Coolen , Daniele Tantari

T-cell receptors (TCR) are key proteins of the adaptive immune system, generated randomly in each individual, whose diversity underlies our ability to recognize infections and malignancies. Modeling the distribution of TCR sequences is of…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-01 Giulio Isacchini , Zachary Sethna , Yuval Elhanati , Armita Nourmohammad , Aleksandra M. Walczak , Thierry Mora

We argue that immune system is an adaptive complex system. It is shown that it has emergent properties. Its network structure is of the small world network type. The network is of the threshold type, which helps in avoiding autoimmunity. It…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2008-01-08 E. Ahmed , A. H. Hashish

A key challenge in systems biology is the elucidation of the underlying principles, or fundamental laws, which determine the cellular phenotype. Understanding how these fundamental principles are altered in diseases like cancer is important…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2014-08-06 Andrew Teschendorff , Peter Sollich , Reimer Kuehn