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Artificial Immune Systems - Models, algorithms and applications
Copyright © 2010 Academic Research Publishing Agency.This article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) are computational paradigms that belong to the computational intelligence family and are inspired by the biological immune system. During the past decade, they have attracted a lot of interest from researchers aiming to develop immune-based models and techniques to solve complex computational or engineering problems. This work presents a survey of existing AIS models and algorithms with a focus on the last five years.This article is available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fun
Information Fusion for Anomaly Detection with the Dendritic Cell Algorithm
Dendritic cells are antigen presenting cells that provide a vital link
between the innate and adaptive immune system, providing the initial detection
of pathogenic invaders. Research into this family of cells has revealed that
they perform information fusion which directs immune responses. We have derived
a Dendritic Cell Algorithm based on the functionality of these cells, by
modelling the biological signals and differentiation pathways to build a
control mechanism for an artificial immune system. We present algorithmic
details in addition to experimental results, when the algorithm was applied to
anomaly detection for the detection of port scans. The results show the
Dendritic Cell Algorithm is sucessful at detecting port scans.Comment: 21 pages, 17 figures, Information Fusio
Optimizing radiation therapy treatments by exploring tumour ecosystem dynamics in-silico
In this contribution, we propose a system-level compartmental population dynamics model of tumour cells that interact with the patient (innate) immune system under the impact of radiation therapy (RT). The resulting in silico - model enables us to analyse the system-level impact of radiation on the tumour ecosystem.
The Tumour Control Probability (TCP) was calculated for varying conditions concerning therapy fractionation schemes, radio-sensitivity of tumour sub-clones, tumour population doubling time, repair speed and immunological elimination parameters. The simulations exhibit a therapeutic benefit when applying the initial 3 fractions in an interval of 2 days instead of daily delivered fractions. This effect disappears for fast-growing tumours and in the case of incomplete repair. The results suggest some optimisation potential for combined hyperthermia-radiotherapy.
Regarding the sensitivity of the proposed model, cellular repair of radiation-induced damages is a key factor for tumour control. In contrast to this, the radio-sensitivity of immune cells does not influence the TCP as long as the radio-sensitivity is higher than those for tumour cells. The influence of the tumour sub-clone structure is small (if no competition is included). This work demonstrates the usefulness of in silico – modelling for identifying optimisation potentials
Immunogens and Antigen Processing: Report from a Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise Working Group
The Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise convened a meeting of a Working Group in July 2009 to discuss recent progress in rational design of the components of an HIV vaccine, such as inserts, vectors and adjuvants,and in understanding antigen processing and presentation to T and B cells. This Report summarizes the key points of that discussion, and subsequent discussions with the Chairs of the other Enterprise Working Groups, the Enterprise Science Committee, the Enterprise Council and the broader scientific community during open sessions at scientific conferences
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