Immunity through swarms: Agent-based simulations of the human immune system

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3239, Issue , 2004, Pages 400-412

  Jacob, Christian ^a   Litorco, Julius ^a   Lee, Leo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODIES; ANTIGENS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; VIRUSES;

3-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; AGENT BASED SIMULATION; ANTIBODY-ANTIGEN; EMERGENT BEHAVIOURS; HUMAN IMMUNE SYSTEMS; INFECTED CELLS; LOCAL INTERACTIONS; MULTIPLE AGENTS;

IMMUNE SYSTEM;

EID: 35048864427     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30220-9_32     Document Type: Article

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