A distributed approach against computer viruses inspired by the immune system

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E83-B, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 908-915

  Okamotq, Takeshi ^a   Ishida, Yoshiteru ^a  

^a TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agent; Cell division; Computer virus; Immune system; Selfreference

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; COMPUTER VIRUSES; DOS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

IMMUNE SYSTEM; RECOVERY SYSTEM;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034187881     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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