TY - JOUR
T1 - Application areas of AIS
T2 - The past, the present and the future
AU - Hart, Emma
AU - Timmis, Jon
N1 - Funding Information:
Many of the ideas in this paper have evolved from useful and stimulating discussions at the ICARIS conferences with many people in the field, and in particular at meetings of the UK based ARTIST [1] . We would like to thank ARTIST for financial support provided during the development of ideas in this paper.
PY - 2008/1
Y1 - 2008/1
N2 - After a decade of research into the area of artificial immune systems, it is worthwhile to take a step back and reflect on the contributions that the paradigm has brought to the application areas to which it has been applied. Undeniably, there have been a lot of successful stories-however, if the field is to advance in the future and really carve out its own distinctive niche, then it is necessary to be able to illustrate that there are clear benefits to be obtained by applying this paradigm rather than others. This paper attempts to take stock of the application areas that have been tackled in the past, and ask the difficult question "was it worth it ?". We then attempt to suggest a set of problem features that we believe will allow the true potential of the immunological system to be exploited in computational systems, and define a unique niche for AIS.
AB - After a decade of research into the area of artificial immune systems, it is worthwhile to take a step back and reflect on the contributions that the paradigm has brought to the application areas to which it has been applied. Undeniably, there have been a lot of successful stories-however, if the field is to advance in the future and really carve out its own distinctive niche, then it is necessary to be able to illustrate that there are clear benefits to be obtained by applying this paradigm rather than others. This paper attempts to take stock of the application areas that have been tackled in the past, and ask the difficult question "was it worth it ?". We then attempt to suggest a set of problem features that we believe will allow the true potential of the immunological system to be exploited in computational systems, and define a unique niche for AIS.
KW - Applications
KW - Artificial immune systems
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U2 - 10.1016/j.asoc.2006.12.004
DO - 10.1016/j.asoc.2006.12.004
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34548500577
SN - 1568-4946
VL - 8
SP - 191
EP - 201
JO - Applied Soft Computing Journal
JF - Applied Soft Computing Journal
IS - 1
ER -