The immune system as a reactive system: Modeling T cell activation with statecharts

2001 IEEE Symposium on Human-Centric Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 15-22

  Kam, Na'aman ^a   Cohen, Irun R ^a   Harel, David ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMMUNOLOGY; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

REACTIVE SYSTEMS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0035790856     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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