Immunity as Inspiration for Elimination of Oil Spills Multi-Agent Coalition Formation with B-Cell Algorithm

Stability of water ecosystems is often disturbed by dangerous chemicals – products of human activities having negative economical and environmental impact. Oil spills are typical examples of these dangerous chemicals. They are eliminated with different strategies, e. g. self-cleaning of water surface, usage of booms, collectors of oil spills or autonomous robots. This paper investigates the application of the immunitybased principles with multi-agent coalition formation technique for elimination of oil spills. Combination of these approaches is not usual for solving this problem. Clonal selection-based B-Cell Algorithm (BCA) is investigated for this purpose and compared with the algorithm Clonalg-Opt.