Immune responses: A stochastic model

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

Volumn 5132 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 24-35

  Salazar Bañuelos, Anastasio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; FLOW INTERACTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING;

ARTIFICIAL IMMUNE SYSTEMS; IMMUNE RESPONSES; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES;

IMMUNOLOGY;

EID: 51049095164     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85072-4_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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