Theoretical foundations of artificial immune systems [Elektronische Ressource] / Christine Zarges

Theoretical Foundations ofArtificial Immune SystemsDissertationzur Erlangung des Grades einesDoktors der Naturwissenschaftender Technischen Universität Dortmundan der Fakultät für InformatikvonChristine ZargesDortmund2011Tag der mündlichen Prüfung: 05.07.2011Dekanin: Prof. Dr. Gabriele Kern-IsbernerGutachter: Dr. Thomas Jansen undProf. Dr. Günter RudolphAcknowledgementsFirst of all I would like to express my gratitude to my advisor Thomas Jansen, who hasalways been a great support. In particular, I am very grateful that he continued mysupervision after moving to Cork and gave me the opportunity to closely work togetherwith him during several research stays.I thank my co-authors Benjamin Doerr, Thomas Jansen, Dirk Sudholt, ChristianThyssen, and Carola Winzen. Moreover, I thank Jon Timmis and Giuseppe Nicosiafor discussing promising research questions that are of interest for the artificial immunesystems community.I gratefully acknowledge the financial support from several institutions: the FederalOffice for Information Security (BSI) within the project ‘Evolutionary algorithms forautonomous systems’, Google by the ‘Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship’, andlast but not least the MPI Saarbrücken.Finally I thank my parents for their steady support.iContentsI. Prologue 11. Foreword 31.1. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.2. Underlying Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .