Towards a Conceptual Framework for Artificial Immune Systems

We propose that bio-inspired algorithms are best developed and analysed in the context of a multidisciplinary conceptual framework that provides for sophisticated biological models and well-founded analytical principles, and we outline such a framework here, in the context of AIS network models. We further propose ways to unify several domains into a common meta-framework, in the context of AIS population models. We finally hint at the possibility of a novel instantiation of such a metaframework, thereby allowing the building of a specific computational framework that is inspired by biology, but not restricted to any one particular biological domain.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: ICARIS
• Authors: Susan Stepney, Robert E. Smith, Jonathan Timmis, Andrew M. Tyrrell
• Keywords: AIS Network Models, ICARIS 2004, Multidisciplinary Conceptual Framework, Sophisticated Biological Models