title: Architecture for an artificial immune system.
abstract: An artificial immune system (ARTIS) is described which incorporates many properties of natural immune systems, including diversity, distributed computation, error tolerance, dynamic learning and adaptation, and self-monitoring. ARTIS is a general framework for a distributed adaptive system and could, in principle, be applied to many domains. In this paper, ARTIS is applied to computer security in the form of a network intrusion detection system called LISYS. LISYS is described and shown to be effective at detecting intrusions, while maintaining low false positive rates. Finally, similarities and differences between ARTIS and Holland's classifier systems are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131, USA. sah@santafe.edu
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Hofmeyr
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Forrest
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D016494:Computer Security; D006801:Humans; D007107:Immune System; D008954:Models, Biological