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Immune System Modelling and Simulation
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Immune System Modelling and Simulation

by Filippo Castiglione, Franco Celada
April 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
286 pages
7h 23m
English
CRC Press
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C-ImmSim Unveiled
Immunology is a branch of biology that deals with the tasks
performed by cells, molecules and organs, to protect the body
of higher organisms such as fi shes, reptiles, birds and mammals,
against external assault of agents with potential ability to create
a functional damage to the host itself resulting in a life threat.
Almost any living organism evolved on the earth has a more or
less sophisticated immune system. The most convenient view
of the immune system is the one that identifi es cells as the main
actors of the immune response and the agent-based paradigm
as the most straightforward way to implement it.
The C-ImmSim simulator, the direct successor of IMMSIM,
will be described by fi rst defi ning the actors and then their ...
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ISBN: 9781466597488