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ORS Local Search Talk (with LASEORS)



Operational Research Society Local Search Study Group (joint with LASEORS)
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Title: An Introduction to Artificial Immune Systems
 
Speaker: Dr Jonathon Timmis, Computing Laboratory, University of Kent
 	  (see www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/jt6/)
 
Venue:	Room 2001, Cass Business School, City University, London (106
 	Bunhill Row, London EC1). NOTE NEW VENUE.

Time:	5pm (for 5.30pm start)
Date:	22nd Oct 03
 
For directions see:  http://www.city.ac.uk/maps/cass.htm

Abstract:

The immune system is highly distributed, highly adaptive, self-organising in
nature, maintains a memory of past encounters and has the ability to
continually learn about new encounters. From a computational point of view,
the immune system has much to offer by way of inspiration to computer
scientists and engineers alike.  As computational problems become more
complex, increasingly, people are seeking out novel approaches to these
problems, often turning to nature for inspiration. A great deal of attention
is now being paid to the vertebrae immune system as a potential source of
inspiration, where it is thought that different insights and alternative
solutions can be gleaned, over and above other biologically inspired
methods. This talk will provide an overview of this exciting emerging area
of research, namely Artifical Immune Systems and highlight potential uses of
this new paradigm in a variety of application areas ranging from data
mining, fault tolerance and optimisation.
 
This talk will be an introductory level, so suited to a wide audience.


Andy  Harrison

Secretary Local Search Study Group

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