Phase transition and the computational complexity of generating r-contiguous detectors

  • Authors:
  • Thomas Stibor

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Darmstadt University of Technology

  • Venue:
  • ICARIS'07 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Artificial immune systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The problem of generating r-contiguous detectors in negative selection can be transformed in the problem of finding assignment sets for a Boolean formula in k-CNF. Knowing this crucial fact enables us to explore the computational complexity and the feasibility of finding detectors with respect to the number of self bit strings |S|, the bit string length l and matching length r. It turns out that finding detectors is hardest in the phase transition region, which is characterized by certain combinations of parameters |S|, l and r. This insight is derived by investigating the r-contiguous matching probability in a random search approach and by using the equivalent k-CNF problem formulation.