ON NETWORK DISTANCE COEFFICIENTS AND NETWORK DYNAMICS

We review and extend a method for measuring the amount of dissimilarity between N idiotypes of an immune network. We also show how the method can be used for a two-dimensional representation of the dynamics of the idiotypes of an immune network. To illustrate the method, dynamics of an N-dimensional immune network model are embedded in a shape-space called periodic Δ shape-space, which we introduce here.