Self-Nonself Discrimination in a Computer

Stephanie Forrest, Alan S. Perelson, Lawrence Allen and Rajesh Cherukuri

Working Papers from Santa Fe Institute

Abstract: The problem of protecting computer systems can be viewed generally as the problem of learning to distinguish {\it self} from {\it other}. We describe a method for change detection which is based on the gereration of T cells in the immune system. Mathematical analysis reveals computational costs of the system, and preliminary experiments illustrate how the method might be applied to the problem of computer viruses.

Date: 1994-06
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