Title :
Visual Modeling and Simulation of Adaptive Immune System
Author :
Gong, Tao ; Cai, Zixing
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Inf. Sci. & Eng., Central South Univ., Hunan
Abstract :
A visual modeling approach and its computational technique were proposed to represent and simulate a kind of adaptive immune system. Because adaptive immune system is comprised of immune cells and immune molecules etc, the hierarchical model of the immune system is proposed, more faithful and suitable for visual simulation than traditional models. The hierarchical immune system mainly consists of inherent immune tier, adaptive immune tier and immune cell tier. The tri-tier model of the immune system is seamless and coherent with the architecture of the artificial immune system. At last, the visual result of the simulation shows that the visual modeling approach can provide an effective way of understanding the adaptive immune system
Keywords :
cellular biophysics; molecular biophysics; physiological models; adaptive immune system; adaptive immune tier; hierarchical immune system; immune cell tier; immune cells; immune molecules; inherent immune tier; tri-tier model; visual modeling; Adaptive systems; Artificial immune systems; Biological system modeling; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Concurrent computing; Differential equations; Immune system; Pattern matching; Pattern recognition;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005. IEEE-EMBS 2005. 27th Annual International Conference of the
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8741-4
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1615889
