Kevin D. Reilly
Alan Sprague
A. Fannin
Biologically Inspired Simulation:
Agent Metaphors and Immune Systems
Proc. Summer Simulation Conference, 2001
Abstract
We first introduce a context of biologically inspired computation, with
immunologically based computing as a subset or family member.
Immunological details are suppressed until late in the paper with a dual
purpose: to break away from the common ``what you should know about
immunity" at the start, and at the end, to provide a survey that may
promote exploiting the biological base.
Four points or planks, operating in
current research and setting a tone for the future are presented:
agent systems, in practice and theory (with openings to formal logic);
viewing the immune system in terms of its subsystems (parts) and as a complex
integrated system ("the whole";
an inventory-manufacturing system, implemented in Prolog, as a practical
tool as well as a back-door entry to (yet more) logical theorizing; and the
final surveying of immunology fundamentals.
Key Words:
Immunological computing, agent systems, logic, inventory, manufacturing