The ISYS Project

Investigating the Application of Immune System Theory to Machine Learning

Published / Accepted

  • Jon Timmis, Mark Neal and John Hunt : Data Analysis using Artificial Immune Systems, Cluster Analysis and Kohonen Networks : Some comparisons. To appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Tokyo, Japan. 1999
  • Jon Timmis, Mark Neal and John Hunt : An Artificial Immune System for Data Analysis. To appear in the Proceedings of the International Workshop on Intelligent Processing in Cells and Tissues (IPCAT), 1999
  • John Hunt, Jon Timmis, Denise Cooke, Mark Neal and Clive King, Jisys: The development of an Artificial Immune System for real world applications, Applications of Artificial Immune Systems, Dipankar Dasgupt Ed., Pub. Springer-Verlag, 1998.ISBN 3-540-64390-7
  • Mark Neal, John Hunt and Jon Timmis, Augmenting an Artificial Immune Network, in Proc of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, San Diego ,
    • pp. 3821-3826, (1998)
  • J. E. Hunt, C. M. King and D. E. Cooke, Immunizing against fraud, Proc. Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, IEE Colloquium, October 1996.
  • J. E. Hunt and D. E. Cooke, Learning Using An Artificial Immune System, in Journal of Network and Computer Applications: Special Issue on Intelligent Systems: Design and Application, Vol. 19, pp. 189-212, (1996).
  • J. E. Hunt and A. Fellows, Introducing an Immune Response into a CBR system for Data Mining, to appear in BCS ESG'96 Conference and published as Research and Development in Expert Systems XIII, 1996.
  • J. E. Hunt, D. E. Cooke and H. Holstein, Case memory and retrieval based on the Immune System, in the First International Conference on Case Based Reasoning, (October 1995) Published as Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development, Ed. Manuela Weloso and Agnar Aamodt, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1010, pp 205 -216.
  • J. E. Hunt and D. E. Cooke, An Adaptive, Distributed Learning System, based on the Immune System, in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Systems Man and Cybernetics, pp 2494 - 2499, (1995).
  • D. E. Cooke and J. E. Hunt, Recognising Promoter Sequences Using an Artificial Immune System, in Proc. Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology (ISMB'95), Pub AAAI Press, pp 89-97, (1995).

    • Awaiting referee result

  • John Hunt, Jon Timmis, Mark Neal and Helen Fuel, Visualising Class Similarities as an Immune Network, submitted to Journal of Visual Languages and Computing

    • Work in Progress

  • Jon Timmis, Mark Neal and John Hunt : Formal Definition of an Artificial Immune System.
  • Jon Timmis, Mark Neal and John Hunt : Visualisation of an Artificial Immune Network : Aiding the Data Mining Process
    • For information or copies of any of the above please contact:

    Mr. Jon Timmis,
    Computer Science Department,
    University of Wales, Aberystwyth,
    Penglais Campus,
    Aberystwyth, Dyfed. SY23 3DB.
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