title: Visual modeling and simulation of adaptive immune system.
abstract: A visual modeling approach and its computational technique were proposed to represent and simulate a kind of adaptive immune system. Because adaptive immune system is comprised of immune cells and immune molecules etc, the hierarchical model of the immune system is proposed, more faithful and suitable for visual simulation than traditional models. The hierarchical immune system mainly consists of inherent immune tier, adaptive immune tier and immune cell tier. The tri-tier model of the immune system is seamless and coherent with the architecture of the artificial immune system. At last, the visual result of the simulation shows that the visual modeling approach can provide an effective way of understanding the adaptive immune system.
authors.affiliation: College of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410083, China. taogong@sigmaxi.org
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gong
authors.forename: Zixing
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Cai