Exploiting the Immune System for Computation (Profile)

Over the past five years, within The University of Kent’s Computing Laboratory, a group has emerged that is investigating the natural immune system as inspiration for computation. The group has established itself as one of the world leaders in the field of Artificial Immune Systems (AIS), through their work on extracting immunological metaphors for applications in machine learning, optimisation, software testing and fault tolerance. The approach adopted is interdisciplinary, with group members that are experts in various areas of computer science, mathematics and immunology. The group at Kent has been instrumental in the establishment of the International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS) and a UK based academic network for AIS known as ARTIST.