Visual modeling and simulation of adaptive immune system

Tao Gong; Zixing Cai

doi:10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1615889

Visual modeling and simulation of adaptive immune system

Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2005:2005:6116-9. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1615889.

Authors

Tao Gong¹, Zixing Cai

Affiliation

¹ College of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410083, China. taogong@sigmaxi.org

PMID: 17281659
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1615889

Abstract

A visual modeling approach and its computational technique were proposed to represent and simulate a kind of adaptive immune system. Because adaptive immune system is comprised of immune cells and immune molecules etc, the hierarchical model of the immune system is proposed, more faithful and suitable for visual simulation than traditional models. The hierarchical immune system mainly consists of inherent immune tier, adaptive immune tier and immune cell tier. The tri-tier model of the immune system is seamless and coherent with the architecture of the artificial immune system. At last, the visual result of the simulation shows that the visual modeling approach can provide an effective way of understanding the adaptive immune system.