Self-Nonself Discrimination in a Computer

  • Authors:
  • Stephanie Forrest;Alan S. Perelson;Lawrence Allen;Rajesh Cherukuri

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • SP '94 Proceedings of the 1994 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

The problem of protecting computer systems can be viewed generally as the problem of learning to distinguish self from other. We describe a method for change detection which is based on the generation 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.