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An interdisciplinary perspective on artificial immune systems

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This review paper attempts to position the area of Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) in a broader context of interdisciplinary research. We review AIS based on an established conceptual framework that encapsulates mathematical and computational modelling of immunology, abstraction and then development of engineered systems. We argue that AIS are much more than engineered systems inspired by the immune system and that there is a great deal for both immunology and engineering to learn from each other through working in an interdisciplinary manner.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank many people in the AIS community who have engaged in many interesting discussions over the years, and in particular at the recent 2007 ICARIS conference who include: Emma Hart, Jorge Carnerio, Hugues Bersini, Rob de Boer, Uwe Aickelin, Julie Greensmith and Leandro de Castro. We would like to thank the reviewers for their many comments and suggestions.

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Paul Andrews is supported by EPSRC grant number EP/E053505/1, Nick Owens is supported by EP/E005187/1 and Ed Clark by EP/D501377/1.

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Timmis, J., Andrews, P., Owens, N. et al. An interdisciplinary perspective on artificial immune systems. Evol. Intel. 1, 5–26 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12065-007-0004-2

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