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Italian Workshop on Neural Nets

International Workshop on Natural and Artificial Immune Systems

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Challenges for Artificial Immune Systems

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In this position paper, we argue that the field of Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) has reached an impass. For many years, immune inspired algorithms, whilst having some degree of success, have been limited by the lack of theorectical advances, the adoption of a limited immune inspired approach and the limited application of AIS to hard problems.

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    Maria Marinaro

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    Giuseppe Nicosia

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Timmis, J. (2006). Challenges for Artificial Immune Systems. In: Apolloni, B., Marinaro, M., Nicosia, G., Tagliaferri, R. (eds) Neural Nets. WIRN NAIS 2005 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3931. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11731177_42

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