Modelling the Immune System with Situated Agents

The Immune System (IS) constitutes the defence mechanism of higher level organisms to micro organismic threats. It is genuinely distributed system comprising mechanisms of adaptation to unknown threats by means of the cooperation of heterogenous autonomous entities, whose interaction endows the overall system with learning capabilities. This paper describes how a Multi Agent approach, and more precisely the Situated Cellular Agents (SCA) model, was applied to represent specific elements and mechanisms of the IS. After a brief description of the composing parts and internal mechanisms of the IS, the SCA model will be introduced and exploited to represent them.