An interdisciplinary perspective on artificial immune systems

Evolutionary Intelligence

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 5-26

  Timmis, J ^a   Andrews, P ^a   Owens, N ^a   Clark, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Applications of artificial immune systems; Artificial immune systems; Computational immunology; Computational modelling; Immune inspired computing; Immunocomputing; Immunological modelling; Mathematical modelling

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL IMMUNE SYSTEM; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; IMMUNE INSPIRED COMPUTING; IMMUNOCOMPUTING; IMMUNOLOGICAL MODELLING; MATHEMATICAL MODELLING;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

IMMUNOLOGY;

EID: 74549139894     PISSN: 18645909     EISSN: 18645917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12065-007-0004-2     Document Type: Review

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