The field of natural computing has been the focus of a substantial research effort in recent
decades. One particular strand of this concerns the development of computational …

The repertoire of lymphocyte receptors in the adaptive immune system protects organisms
from diverse pathogens. A well-adapted repertoire should be tuned to the pathogenic …

Biological systems such as human beings can be regarded as sophisticated information
processing systems, and can be expected to provide inspiration for various ideas to science …

In anomaly detection, the normal behavior of a process is characterized by a model, and
deviations from the model are called anomalies. In behavior-based approaches to anomaly …

Artificial immune systems are a collection of algorithms inspired by the human immune
system. Over the past 15 years, extensive research has been performed regarding the …

Audit trail patterns generated on behalf of a Unix process can be used to model the process
behavior. Most of the approaches proposed so far use a table of fixed-length patterns to …

Email is a convenient means of communication throughout the entire world today. The
increased popularity of email spam in both text and images requires a real-time protection …

Abstract The field of Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) concerns the study and development of
computationally interesting abstractions of the immune system. This survey tracks the …

We present an immune algorithm (IA) inspired by the clonal selection principle, which has
been designed for the protein structure prediction problem (PSP). The proposed IA employs …

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), sensors' locations play a critical role in many
applications. Having a GPS receiver on every sensor node is costly. In the past, a number of …