Exploiting the analogy between the immune system and sparse distributed memories

Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 333-358

  Hart, Emma ^a   Ross, Peter ^a  

^a EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Immune systemsparse distributed memorydata clustering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKING; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROORGANISMS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

CLUSTERING; IMMUNE SYSTEM; METAPHORS; SPARSE DISTRIBUTED MEMORIES (SDM); SPARSE DISTRIBUTED MEMORYDATA;

IMMUNOLOGY;

EID: 3543116020     PISSN: 13892576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026191011609     Document Type: Conference Paper

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