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Questions of Function: Modelling the Emergence of Immune Response

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Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS 2009)

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Abstract

The practice of borrowing designs from nature to solve problems is increasingly prevalent in our technology development. The reductionist paradigm that allowed technology to advance to its present state fails when faced with many richly interacting components: a hallmark of complex systems. The behaviour of such systems is not solely determined by the aggregate behaviour of its components, but by emergent effects. The divide-and-conquer strategy is insufficient as the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

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  1. University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1DJ, UK

    Tom Hebbron & Jason Noble

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of York, YO10 5DD, Heslington, York, UK

    Paul S. Andrews

  2. Departments of Computer Science and Electronics, University of York, YO10 5DD, Heslington, York, UK

    Jon Timmis

  3. Department of Electronics, University of York, YO10 5DD, Heslington, York, UK

    Nick D. L. Owens  & Andy M. Tyrrell  & 

  4. School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road, NG8 1BB, Nottingham, UK

    Uwe Aickelin

  5. School of Computing, Napier University, 10 Colinton Road, EH10 5DT, Edinburgh, UK

    Emma Hart

  6. Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Kent, CT2 7NF, Canterbury, UK

    Andrew Hone

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Hebbron, T., Noble, J. (2009). Questions of Function: Modelling the Emergence of Immune Response. In: Andrews, P.S., et al. Artificial Immune Systems. ICARIS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5666. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03246-2_7

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