Distributed and autonomous sensing based on the immune network |
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Authors: | Yoshiteru Ishida |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Knowledge-based Information Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology, 441-8122 Toyohashi, Japan |
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Abstract: | A distributed and autonomous sensor network is proposed based on the informational features of the immune network: recognition
of nonself by distributed and dynamically interacting units, recognition by a simple comparison with the units themselves,
dynamic propagation of activation that would lead to system-level recognition, and memory embedded as stable equilibrium states
in the dynamic network. The network is explained by an illustrative example of an eight-coin puzzle: a balance must be used
only three times to identify one coin with a different weight from the other seven coins. Our network also uses a dynamic
structure network rather than the fixed structures used in neural networks. Simulations show that nonself (the different coin
in the eight-coin puzzle, the sensor/process fault in the monitoring example) will be identified by dynamically propagating
activation through the network.
This work was presented, in part, at the International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, Oita, Japan, February 18–20,
1996 |
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Keywords: | Distributed system Immune system Recognition Sensor system Complex system |
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