Hi,

More info about Artificial Immune Systems can be found
at http://issrl.cs.memphis.edu/AIS/

cheers

bruce

"Alejandro F. Reimondo" <aleReimondo at smalltalking.net> wrote:
> Has anyone undestand or implemented an alternative
>  like the explained in the paper
>  at http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/forrest94selfnonself.html
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Self-Nonself Discrimination in a Computer (1994)
> by Stephanie Forrest and Alan S. Perelson
> 
> 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.
> -------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Hope that a mechanism of self discrimination
>  on the swiki can be interesting to explore.
> Ale.
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cees de Groot" <cg at cdegroot.com>
> Newsgroups: lists.squeak
> To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 9:01 PM
> Subject: Another Swiki defence idea: better tools
> 
> 
> > The premise of a Swiki's openness is that it is easier to rollback than to
> > damage it. Why not simply add a button to the recent changes screen, so
> that
> > you can roll back any damage done from a single IP during a given time
> frame
> > with one push of the button? Some smart ideas like that, some distributed
> > system maintenance, and script kiddies are likely to give up very quickly
> > (especially if the FrontPage explains that you've got these buttons in
> place,
> > yaddayadda).
> >
> >
> > --
> > Cees de Groot               http://www.cdegroot.com     <cg at cdegroot.com>
> > GnuPG 1024D/E0989E8B 0016 F679 F38D 5946 4ECD  1986 F303 937F E098 9E8B
> > Cogito ergo evigilo
> >