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The secret life of the immune system: inspiring pervasive systems
17 November 2009
Emma Hart

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The immune system performs more than simply defence and exploiting its additional functionality can lead to the design of better pervasive adaptive systems.

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Emma Hart
School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University
http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/~emmah

Emma Hart is professor of Emergent Computing. She obtained a BA (Hons) from the University of Oxford (UK) before going on to study artificial intelligence, obtaining an MSc in knowledge-based systems in 1995 and a PhD in artificial immune systems in 2002, both from the University of Edinburgh (UK). Her research interests lie in the application of biologically inspired computing techniques to adaptive systems.

References

E. Hart and J. Timmis, Applications of AIS: the past, the present and the future, Appl. Soft Comput. 8 (1), pp. 191-201, 2008.

I. R. Cohen, Tending Adam's Garden: Evolving the Cognitive Immune Self, Academic Press, London/San Diego, 2004.

J. Stewart, The Primordial VRM System and the Evolution of Vertebrate Immunity, R. G. Landes Company, Austin, 1994.

http://www.specknet.org SpeckNet research consortium. Accessed 14 October 2009.

U. Aickelin and J. Greensmith, Sensing danger: innate immunology for intrusion detection, Elsevier Inform. Secur. Tech. Rep. 218, pp. 218-227, 2008.

http://www.symbrion.eu Symbrion project. Accessed 14 October 2009.

DOI: 10.2417/2200911.1837