Immune system clonal selection

The clonal selection theory explains the operation of the humoral immune system as follows. 

The development of the immune system as it relates to comparative developmental toxicology has been considered in several publications over the last decade (Barnett, 1996 Dietert et al., 2000 Holladay Smialowicz, 2000 Chapin, 2002 Holladay Blaylock, 2002 Holsapple, 2002 Holsapple et al., 2003 Luster et al., 2003 Luebke et al., 2004). Immune development is a dynamic process involving cellular proliferation, migration, recognition, selection, apoptosis, clonal expansion, dissemination to peripheral sites, and, finally, cell cooperation and function. Because many of the changes... 

Abstract. In this paper we present an Abstract Immune System Algorithm, based on the model introduced by Farmer et at, inspired on the theory of Clonal Selection and Idiotypic Network due to Niels Jeme. The proposed algorithm can be used in order to solve problems much in the way that Evolutionary Algorithms or Artificial Neural Networks do. Besides presenting the Algorithm itself, we briefly discuss its various parameters, how to encode input data and how to extract the output data from its outcome. The reader can do their own experiments using the workbench found in the address http //ctp.di.fct.unl.pt/ jddp/immune/. 

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