Immunological memory is associative
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Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to show that immunological memory is an associative and robust memory that belongs to the class of sparse distributed memories. This class of memories derives its associative and robust nature by sparsely sampling the input space and distributing the data among many independent agents. Other members of this class include a model of the cerebellar cortex and Sparse Distributed Memory (SDM). First we present a simplified account of the immune response and immunological memory. Next we present SDM, and then we show the correlations between immunological memory and SDM. Finally, we show how associative recall in the immune response can be both beneficial and detrimental to the fitness of an individual.
- Authors:
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- New Mexico Univ., Albuquerque, NM (United States). Dept. of Computer Science
- Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States); National Insts. of Health, Bethesda, MD (United States); Sullivan Foundation (Joseph P. and Jeanne M.) (United States); Office of Naval Research, Washington, DC (United States); National Science Foundation, Washington, DC (United States); Santa Fe Inst., NM (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 477660
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-96-3891; CONF-961248-1
ON: DE97002367; CNN: NIH AI28433, RR06555;ONR N00014-95-1-0364;NSF IRI-9157644
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: ICMAS `96: Multiagent systems workshop on imunity-based systems, Kyoto (Japan), Dec 1996; Other Information: PBD: [1996]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 55 BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE, BASIC STUDIES; RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ANTIBODIES; LYMPHOCYTES
Citation Formats
Smith, D J, Forrest, S, and Perelson, A S. Immunological memory is associative. United States: N. p., 1996.
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Smith, D J, Forrest, S, & Perelson, A S. Immunological memory is associative. United States.
Smith, D J, Forrest, S, and Perelson, A S. 1996.
"Immunological memory is associative". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/477660.
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abstractNote = {The purpose of this paper is to show that immunological memory is an associative and robust memory that belongs to the class of sparse distributed memories. This class of memories derives its associative and robust nature by sparsely sampling the input space and distributing the data among many independent agents. Other members of this class include a model of the cerebellar cortex and Sparse Distributed Memory (SDM). First we present a simplified account of the immune response and immunological memory. Next we present SDM, and then we show the correlations between immunological memory and SDM. Finally, we show how associative recall in the immune response can be both beneficial and detrimental to the fitness of an individual.},
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year = {Tue Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1996},
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