Artificial Dendritic Cells: Multi-faceted Perspectives Export

@incollection{citeulike:5971681, abstract = {Dendritic cells are the crime scene investigators of the human immune system. Their function is to correlate potentially anomalous invading entities with observed damage to the body. The detection of such invaders by dendritic cells results in the activation of the adaptive immune system, eventually leading to the removal of the invader from the host body. This mechanism has provided inspiration for the development of a novel bio-inspired algorithm, the Dendritic Cell Algorithm. This algorithm processes information at multiple levels of resolution, resulting in the creation of information granules of variable structure. In this chapter we examine the multi-faceted nature of immunology and how research in this field has shaped the function of the resulting Dendritic Cell Algorithm. A brief overview of the algorithm is given in combination with the details of the processes used for its development. The chapter is concluded with a discussion of the parallels between our understanding of the human immune system and how such knowledge influences the design of artificial immune systems.}, author = {Greensmith, Julie and Aickelin, Uwe}, citeulike-article-id = {5971681}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92916-1_16}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/d3g315553232k404}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-92916-1_16}, journal = {Human-Centric Information Processing Through Granular Modelling}, keywords = {2009, ais, metaheuristics, optimization}, pages = {375--395}, posted-at = {2009-10-19 18:17:39}, priority = {2}, title = {Artificial Dendritic Cells: Multi-faceted Perspectives}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92916-1_16}, year = {2009} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:5971681 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5971681 N2 - Dendritic cells are the crime scene investigators of the human immune system. Their function is to correlate potentially anomalous invading entities with observed damage to the body. The detection of such invaders by dendritic cells results in the activation of the adaptive immune system, eventually leading to the removal of the invader from the host body. This mechanism has provided inspiration for the development of a novel bio-inspired algorithm, the Dendritic Cell Algorithm. This algorithm processes information at multiple levels of resolution, resulting in the creation of information granules of variable structure. In this chapter we examine the multi-faceted nature of immunology and how research in this field has shaped the function of the resulting Dendritic Cell Algorithm. A brief overview of the algorithm is given in combination with the details of the processes used for its development. The chapter is concluded with a discussion of the parallels between our understanding of the human immune system and how such knowledge influences the design of artificial immune systems. JF - Human-Centric Information Processing Through Granular Modelling EP - 395 TI - Artificial Dendritic Cells: Multi-faceted Perspectives SP - 375 KW - 2009 KW - ais KW - metaheuristics KW - optimization AU - Greensmith, Julie AU - Aickelin, Uwe PY - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92916-1_16 ER -