"Artificial intelligence"
Immune System
Artificial Immune Systems are currently all set to find their way into diverse areas of Computer Science.
The word immune is derived from the Latin word immunis, the meaning of which has several shades. The Original Latin word stands for not serving. Ancient Romans used the word to mean exemption from military Service.
When man was at his wits end he started looking at Mother Nature for better and wiser solutions. For ages he observed nature's intricate yet subtle mechanisms that facilitate classifying and memorizing, foraging to fmd optimal paths to food sources and preservation of the self by both defence and aggression. Studies conducted on these mechanisms have yielded altogether new computational paradigms that have helped model workable and feasible solutions for the real world. More recently the biological immune system has been in the limelight. The biological immune system, one of the many places where the search for solutions to complex problems was carried out, is still in a state of theoretical infancy. Theoretical immunology is based on biological tests. Only a portion of it has been empirically tested and proved. An understanding of the actual mechanism still remains elusive.
Artificial Immune Systems are currently all set to find their way into diverse areas of Computer Science. the significant aspects of the biological immune system and elucidates the manner in which algorithms modeled from them have been put to use in various fields. It may be emphasized here that though the biological perspective has not been detailed herein as it is beyond the scope of this book, an understanding of the immune system as a whole is imperative for developing newer and more efficient immune based algorithms and applications. Readers are urged to look into the glossary of terms at the end of this chapter for terminology not defined explicitly in the text.
A biological being is under constant attack by invading agents or antigens. Antigens, generally encompass foreign agents such as the molecules on the surface of pathogens. Strangely, the body has been known to react to a variety of harmless agents too. Foreign implants, blood transfusion, pollen and drugs can trigger reactions that are similar to those when invaded by pathogens. There are yet other weird times when the body reacts to
its own cells too!
Artificial Immune Systems are currently all set to find their way into diverse areas of Computer Science. the significant aspects of the biological immune system and elucidates the manner in which algorithms modeled from them have been put to use in various fields. It may be emphasized here that though the biological perspective has not been detailed herein as it is beyond the scope of this book, an understanding of the immune system as a whole is imperative for developing newer and more efficient immune based algorithms and applications. Readers are urged to look into the glossary of terms at the end of this chapter for terminology not defined explicitly in the text.
A biological being is under constant attack by invading agents or antigens. Antigens, generally encompass foreign agents such as the molecules on the surface of pathogens. Strangely, the body has been known to react to a variety of harmless agents too. Foreign implants, blood transfusion, pollen and drugs can trigger reactions that are similar to those when invaded by pathogens. There are yet other weird times when the body reacts to
its own cells too!
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