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Towards Efficient and Effective Negative Selection Algorithm: A Convex Hull Representation Scheme

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Negative Selection Algorithm (NSA) is one of several algorithms inspired by the principles of natural immune system. The algorithm received the researchers attention due to its applicability in various research areas and a number of valuable efforts are made to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of it. The heart of NSA is to somehow find rules called detectors to discriminate self and anomaly areas. Each detector in NSA defines a subspace of problem space where no self data is located. One of the major issues in NSA is detector’s shape or representation of detectors which can affect the detection performance significantly. This paper for the first time proposes a new representation for detectors based on convex hull. Since convex hull is a general form of other geometric shapes, it retains the benefits of other shapes meanwhile it provides some new features like the asymmetric shape. Experimental results show a significant enhancement in the accuracy of negative selection algorithm compared to other common representation shapes.

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Majd, M., Shoeleh, F., Hamzeh, A., Hashemi, S. (2010). Towards Efficient and Effective Negative Selection Algorithm: A Convex Hull Representation Scheme. In: Deb, K., et al. Simulated Evolution and Learning. SEAL 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6457. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17298-4_4

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