Advancement in Artificial Immune Systems: A perspective of models, algorithms and applications

Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) are a branch of computational intelligence field inspired by the biological immune system. It has gained a lot of interest by researchers during the past decade aiming to develop immune-based models and techniques to solve complex computational or engineering problems. This work presents some applications of AIS techniques to health problems, i.e., cancer prediction, in addition to a thorough survey of existing AIS models and algorithms with a focus on the last five years.