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This paper presents the application of Artificial Immune Systems to the design of classifier ensembles. Ensembles of classifiers are a very interesting alternative to single classifiers when facing difficult problems. In general, ensembles are able to achieve better performance in terms of learning and generalisation errors. Several papers have shown that the processes of classifier design and ...

The mammalian immune system is a highly complex, inherently parallel, distributed system. The field of Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) has developed a wide variety of algorithms inspired by the immune system, few of which appear to capitalize on the parallel nature of the system from which inspiration was taken. The work in this paper presents the first steps at realizing a parallel artificial ...

the plant-pathogen interaction is a multifactor process that may lead to resistance or susceptible responses of plant to pathogens. during the arms race between plant and pathogens, various biochemical, molecular and physiological events are triggered in plant cells such as ros signaling, hormone activation and gene expression reprogramming. in plants, micrornas (mirnas) are key post-transcript...

Two metaheuristic algorithms namely Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) and Genetic Algorithms are classified as computational systems inspired by theoretical immunology and genetics mechanisms. In this work we examine the comparative performances of two algorithms. A special selection algorithm, Clonal Selection Algorithm (CLONALG), which is a subset of Artificial Immune Systems, and Genetic Algor...

Hidden Markov Models are widely used in speech recognition and bioinformatics systems. Conventional methods are usually used in the parameter estimation process of Hidden Markov Models (HMM). These methods are based on iterative procedure, like BaumWelch method, or gradient based methods. However, these methods can yield to local optimum parameter values. In this work, we use artificial techniq...

We present a framework which integrates artificial neural networks, artificial immune systems and a novel artificial endocrine system. The natural counterparts of these three components are usually assumed to be the principal actors in maintaining homeostasis within biological systems. This paper proposes a system which promises to capitalise on the self-organizing properties of these artificia...