Conference Proceedings
On the Role of the AIS Practitioner
E Hart, M Read, C McEwan, U Aickelin, J Greensmith
Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems Advances in Artificial Life Ecal 2013 | MIT Press | Published : 2013
Abstract
Cognisant of the gulf between engineers and immunologists that currenty hinders a truly inter-disciplinary approach to the field of Artificial Immune Systems (AIS), we propose a redefinition of the term AIS practitioner, as an individual who identifies those components and interactions captured in computational immunology models that are responsible for a particular property of interest (POI), and distils from these a set of algorithms and principles that can be applied in an engineering domain. We outline the role of the cross-disciplinary practitioner and the potential benefits to the field.