Artificial Immune Systems: 5th International Conference, ICARIS 2006, Oeiras, Portugal, September 4-6, 2006. Proceedings

Jose Faro, Jaime Combadao, Isabel Gordo (auth.), Hugues Bersini, Jorge Carneiro (eds.)3540377492, 9783540377498

ICARIS 2006 is the ?fth instance of a series of conferences dedicated to the comprehension and the exploitation of immunological principles through their translation into computational terms. All scienti?c disciplines carrying a name that begins with “arti?cial” (followed by “life,” “reality,” “intelligence” or “- munesystem”) aresimilarlysu?ering froma veryambiguousidentity.Their axis of research tries to stabilize an on-going identity somewhere in the crossroad of engineering (building useful artifacts), natural sciences (biologyor psychology— improving the comprehension and prediction of natural phenomena) and t- oretical computer sciences (developing and mastering the algorithmic world). Accordingly and depending on which of these perspectives receives more s- port, they attempt at attracting di?erent kinds of scientists and at stimul- ing di?erent kinds of scienti?c attitudes. For many years and in the previous ICARIS conferences, it was clearly the “engineering” perspective that was the most represented and prevailed through the publications. Indeed, since the o- gin of engineering and technology, nature has o?ered a reserve of inexhaustible inspirations which have stimulated the development of useful artifacts for man. Biology has led to the development of new computer tools, such as genetic – gorithms, Boolean and neural networks, robots learning by experience, cellular machines and others that create a new vision of IT for the engineer: parallel, ?exible andautonomous.Inthis type of informatics,complexproblemsareta- led with the aid of simple mechanisms, but in?nitely iterated in time and space.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
Did Germinal Centers Evolve Under Differential Effects of Diversity vs Affinity?….Pages 1-8
Modelling the Control of an Immune Response Through Cytokine Signalling….Pages 9-22
Modeling Influenza Viral Dynamics in Tissue….Pages 23-36
Cellular Frustration: A New Conceptual Framework for Understanding Cell-Mediated Immune Responses….Pages 37-51
The Swarming Body: Simulating the Decentralized Defenses of Immunity….Pages 52-65
Analysis of a Growth Model for Idiotypic Networks….Pages 66-80
Randomly Evolving Idiotypic Networks: Analysis of Building Principles….Pages 81-94
The Idiotypic Network with Binary Patterns Matching….Pages 95-108
Tolerance vs Intolerance: How Affinity Defines Topology in an Idiotypic Network….Pages 109-121
On Permutation Masks in Hamming Negative Selection….Pages 122-135
Gene Libraries: Coverage, Efficiency and Diversity….Pages 136-149
Immune System Modeling: The OO Way….Pages 150-163
A Computational Model of Degeneracy in a Lymph Node….Pages 164-177
Structural Properties of Shape-Spaces….Pages 178-192
Integrating Innate and Adaptive Immunity for Intrusion Detection….Pages 193-202
A Comparative Study on Self-tolerant Strategies for Hardware Immune Systems….Pages 203-214
On the Use of Hyperspheres in Artificial Immune Systems as Antibody Recognition Regions….Pages 215-228
A Heuristic Detector Generation Algorithm for Negative Selection Algorithm with Hamming Distance Partial Matching Rule….Pages 229-243
A Novel Approach to Resource Allocation Mechanism in Artificial Immune Recognition System: Fuzzy Resource Allocation Mechanism and Application to Diagnosis of Atherosclerosis Disease….Pages 244-255
Recognition of Handwritten Indic Script Using Clonal Selection Algorithm….Pages 256-266
Diophantine Benchmarks for the B-Cell Algorithm….Pages 267-279
A Population Adaptive Based Immune Algorithm for Solving Multi-objective Optimization Problems….Pages 280-293
omni-aiNet: An Immune-Inspired Approach for Omni Optimization….Pages 294-308
Immune Procedure for Optimal Scheduling of Complex Energy Systems….Pages 309-320
Aligning Multiple Protein Sequences by Hybrid Clonal Selection Algorithm with Insert-Remove-Gaps and BlockShuffling Operators….Pages 321-334
Controlling the Heating System of an Intelligent Home with an Artificial Immune System….Pages 335-348
Don’t Touch Me, I’m Fine: Robot Autonomy Using an Artificial Innate Immune System….Pages 349-361
Price Trackers Inspired by Immune Memory….Pages 362-375
Theoretical Basis of Novelty Detection in Time Series Using Negative Selection Algorithms….Pages 376-389
Danger Is Ubiquitous: Detecting Malicious Activities in Sensor Networks Using the Dendritic Cell Algorithm….Pages 390-403
Articulation and Clarification of the Dendritic Cell Algorithm….Pages 404-417
Immune-Inspired Adaptive Information Filtering….Pages 418-431
An Immune Network for Contextual Text Data Clustering….Pages 432-445
An Immunological Filter for Spam….Pages 446-458
Back Matter….Pages –