Communications of the ACM
Wireless sensor networks: a survey
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Maté: a tiny virtual machine for sensor networks
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
The Vision of Autonomic Computing
Computer
Self-Nonself Discrimination in a Computer
SP '94 Proceedings of the 1994 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Security in an autonomic computing environment
IBM Systems Journal
Specknets: New Challenges for Wireless Communication Protocols
ICITA '05 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Information Technology and Applications (ICITA'05) Volume 2 - Volume 02
Artificial immune systems---today and tomorrow
Natural Computing: an international journal
Immune system approaches to intrusion detection --- a review
Natural Computing: an international journal
Signs of a revolution in computer science and software engineering
ESAW'02 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Engineering societies in the agents world III
An immune-inspired approach to speckled computing
ICARIS'07 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Artificial immune systems
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Autonomic computing systems of the future will be required to exhibit a number of properties which cannot be engineered using current technologies and algorithms. The most direct inspiration for building such systems is nature, where for example the central nervous system and the immune system function in an autonomic manner. In this paper we show how mechanisms inspired by recent advances in the field of immunology may offer exactly the inspiration required for engineering this new generation of computational systems which are robust, secure, self-organise and self-heal in manner currently unachievable with established software engineering techniques. Immune-inspired mechanisms are often synonomous with providing security in computing applications --- however we intend to show that a wider examination of the immune literature offers far greater potential for exploitation of immune-mechanisms and paradigms than simply providing protection to a host. We conclude with a number of case studies, describing work currently in progress, which demonstrate two very different application areas in which the mechanisms described are being applied to illustrate our point.