Immunity-based systems : a design perspective

1 Introduction.- 2 Toward a Systems Science for Biological Systems.- 3 The Immune System as an Information System.- 4 Defining Immunity-Based Systems.- 5 A Self-Organizing Network Based on the Concept of the Immune Network.- 6 Sensor Networks Using the Self-Organizing Network.- 7 A Multiagent Framework Learned from the Immune System.- 8 An Application of the Immune Algorithm with an Agent Framework.- 9 Information Flow, Biological Field, and Autonomous Distributed Systems.- 10 The Immune System as a Self-Defining Process.- 11 Conclusions.- References.