Recently there has been a growing interest in the use of the biological immune system as a source of inspiration for solving complicated computational problems. The immune system involves many information-processing abilities including pattern recognition, learning, memory and inherent distributed parallel processing and for these, and other reasons, it has received a significant amount of interest as a metaphor within computing. This emerging field is known as Artificial Immune Systems (AIS), and applications of AIS include, machine learning, fault diagnosis, computer security, scheduling, virus detection and optimisation.
The first book to provide a detailed and easy-to-understand introduction to this area
Leandro Nunes Castro
Artificial Immune Systems Biologically Inspired Computing CON_D031 CON_D037 Computational Intelligence Evolutionary Computation
From the reviews:
"This book reminds me a situation about 20 years ago, when the renaissance of an artificial neural net (ANN) had started. … I consider this book to be very recommendable for reading to everybody who is interested in progressive aspects of artificial intelligence and information technologies." (M. Novák, Neural Network World, Vol. 13 (4), 2003)