Design principles for the immune system and other distributed autonomous systems

Lee A Segel, Irun R Cohen

408 pages, parution le 15/07/2001

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Design Principles for the Immune System and Other Distributed Autonomous Systems examines the inner workings of a variety of distributed autonomous systems - from insect colonies to high level computer programs to the immune system. It offers insight into the world of these systems that emerge from the interactions of seemingly autonomous components and brings us up-to-date on the state of research in these areas.

Table of Contents

	Preface
Pt. I	An Overview of Immunology
1	Introduction to the Immune System	3
Pt. II	Case Studies in Immune Complexity: Experiments
2	Cytokines: A Common Signaling System for Cell Growth, Inflammation, Immunity, and Differentiation	29
3	Th1/Th2 Effector Choice in the Immune System: A Developmental Program Influenced by Cytokine Signals	79
4	Oral Tolerance	95
Pt. III	Design Principles for the Immune System
5	An Introduction to Immuno-ecology and Immuno-informatics	125
6	The Creation of Immune Specificity	151
7	Diversity in the Immune System	161
8	T Cells Obey the Tenets of Signal Detection Theory	185
9	Diffuse Feedback from a Diffuse Informational Network: In the Immune System and Other Distributed Autonomous Systems	203
10	Multistep Navigation and the Combinatorial Control of Cell Positioning: A General Model for Generation of Living Structure Based on Studies of Immune Cell Trafficking	227
11	Distributed, Anarchic Immune Organization: Semi-autonomous Golems at Work	241
Pt. IV	Biochemical Systems
12	New Approaches to Complex Chemical Reaction Mechanisms	261
Pt. V	Social Insects
13	Control Mechanisms for Distributed Autonomous Systems: Insights from the Social Insects	281
14	Task Allocation in Ant Colonies	293
Pt. VI	Applications to Computer Science
15	Biologically Motivated Distributed Designs for Adaptive Knowledge Management	305
16	Analogy Making as a Complex Adaptive System	335
17	Immunology as Information Processing	361
	Index	389

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Éditeur(s)	Oxford University Press
Auteur(s)	Lee A Segel, Irun R Cohen
Parution	15/07/2001
Nb. de pages	408
Format	15,6 x 23,4
Couverture	Broché
Poids	604g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780195137002

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