MODELING THE IMMUNE SYSTEM: ARCHITECTURE AND DYNAMICS OF IDIOTYPIC NETWORKS

The following sections are included:

• Introduction

• Modeling the Dynamics

• Dynamics of Subsystems of a Given Architecture

  • A pair of idiotype-anti-idiotype clones

  • Central immune system and control of autoreactive clones

• Architecture of Idiotypic Networks

  • Localized memory in idiotypic networks

  • Modeling the architecture on the hypercube

  • Metadynamics

• References