Design Principles for the Immune System and Other Distributed Autonomous Systems

Preface Part I: An Overview of Immunology Introduction to the Immune System Part II: Case Studies in Immune Complexity: Experiments Cytokines: A Common Signaling System for Cell Growth, Inflammation, Immunity, and Differentiation Th1/Th2 Effector Choice in the Immune System: A Developmental Program Influenced by Cytokine Signals Oral Tolerance Part III: Design Principles for the Immune System An Introduction to Immuno-Ecology and Immuno-Informatics The Creation of Immune Specificity Diversity in the Immune System T Cells Obey the Tenets of Signal Detection Theory Diffuse Feedback from a Diffuse Informational Network: IN the Immune System and Other Distributed Autonomous Systems Multistep Navigation and the Combinatorial Control of Cell Positioning: A General Model for Generation of Living Structure Based on Studies of Immune Cell Trafficking Distributed, Anarchic Immune Organization: Semi-Autonomous Golems at Work Part IV: Biochemical Systems New Approaches to Complex Chemical Reaction Mechanisms Part V: Social Insects Control Mechanisms for Distributed Autonomous Systems: Insights from the Social Insects Task Allocation in Ant Colonies Part VI: Applications to Computer Science Biologically Motivated Distributed Designs for Adaptive Knowledge Management Analogy Making as a Complex Adaptive System Immunology as Information Processing Index