TY - GEN
T1 - Modelling the immune system with situated agents
AU - Bandini, Stefania
AU - Celada, Franco
AU - Manzoni, Sara
AU - Puzone, Roberto
AU - Vizzari, Giuseppe
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - The Immune System (IS) represents the defence mechanism of higher level organisms to micro organismic threats. It is a genuinely distributed system provided with mechanisms of adaptation to unknown threats by means of the cooperation of heterogenous autonomous entities. Features of the overall systems, such as learning capabilities, possibility to tackle unknown threats in any part of the body, are a consequence of these interactions. This paper describes how a Multi-Agent approach, and more precisely the Situated Cellular Agents (SCA) model, can be suitably applied to represent specific elements and mechanisms of the IS. After a brief description of the composing parts and the internal mechanisms of the IS, the SCA model will be introduced and exploited to represent them.
AB - The Immune System (IS) represents the defence mechanism of higher level organisms to micro organismic threats. It is a genuinely distributed system provided with mechanisms of adaptation to unknown threats by means of the cooperation of heterogenous autonomous entities. Features of the overall systems, such as learning capabilities, possibility to tackle unknown threats in any part of the body, are a consequence of these interactions. This paper describes how a Multi-Agent approach, and more precisely the Situated Cellular Agents (SCA) model, can be suitably applied to represent specific elements and mechanisms of the IS. After a brief description of the composing parts and the internal mechanisms of the IS, the SCA model will be introduced and exploited to represent them.
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U2 - 10.1007/11731177_31
DO - 10.1007/11731177_31
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33745774581
SN - 3540331832
SN - 9783540331834
VL - 3931 LNCS
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 231
EP - 243
BT - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
T2 - 16th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets, WIRN 2005, and International Workshop on Natural and Artificial Immune Systems, NAIS 2005
Y2 - 8 June 2005 through 11 June 2005
ER -