Artificial Immune System Dissertation Bibliography

The intent of this archive is to catalogue all known Masters and Ph.D. thesis in or related to the field of Artificial Immune Systems (AIS). If you are aware of any missing thesis, please contact me.
Last Updated 10th November 2007

NOTE: This page has been superseded by a technical report version: Artificial Immune System Thesis Bibliography. (Updated November 2007)

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Ph.D. Dissertations (27)

• Luis J. Gonzalez. A Self-Adaptive Evolutionary Negative Selection Approach for Anomaly Detection [Ph.D. thesis]. Fort Lauderdale-Davie Florida, USA Nova Southeastern University; 2005
• Fabio Gonzalez. A Study of Artificial Immune Systems Applied to Anomaly Detection [Ph.D. thesis]. USA The University of Memphis; 2003
• Modupe Ayara. An Immune Inspired Approach For Adaptable Error Detection in Embedded Systems [Ph.D. thesis]. UK The University of Kent at Canterbury; 2005.
• Steven Andrew Hofmeyr. An Immunological Model of Distributed Detection and its Application to Computer Security [Ph.D. thesis]. USA Department of Computer Sciences, University of New Mexico; 1999
• Mihaela Oprea. Antibody Repertoires and Pathogen Recognition The Role of Germline Diversity and Somatic Hypermutation [Ph.D. thesis]. Albuquerque, NM, USA University of New Mexico; 1999.
• Andrew Secker. Artificial Immune Systems for Web Content Mining Focusing on the Discovery of Interesting Information [Ph.D. thesis]. Canterbury, UK University of Kent; 2006.
• Jonathan Timmis. Artificial Immune Systems A novel data analysis technique inspired by the immune network theory [Ph.D. thesis]. Wales, UK Department of Computer Science. University of Wales, Aberystwyth; 2000
• Junichi Suzuki. Biologically-inspired Autonomous Adaptability in Communication Endsystem An Approach Using an Artificial Immune Network [Ph.D thesis]. Japan Keio University; 2001.
• Ron R. Hightower. Computational Aspects of Antibody Gene Families [Ph.D. thesis]. NM, USA University of New Mexico; 1996
• Andrew B. Watkins. Exploiting Immunological Metaphors in the Development of Serial, Parallel, and Distributed Learning Algorithms [PhD thesis]. Canterbury, UK University of Kent; 2005.
• Giuseppe Nicosia. Immune Algorithms for Optimization and Protein Structure Prediction [Ph.D. thesis]. Italy Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania; 2004 Dec.
• Leandro Nunes de Castro Silva. Immune Engineering: Development of Computational Tools Inspired by the Artificial Immune Systems [Ph.D. thesis]. Brazil Department of Computer Engineering and Industrial Automation, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, State University of Campinas; 2001.
• Lei Wang. Immune evolutionary computation and its application [Ph.D. thesis]. Xi'an, China Xidian University; 2001.
• Emma Hart. Immunology as a Metaphor for Computational Information Processing Fact of Fiction? [Ph.D. thesis]. UK Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh; 2002.
• Jungwong W. Kim. Integrating Artificial Immune Algorithms for Intrusion Detection [Ph.D. thesis]. UK Department of Computer Science, University College London; 2002.
• Thomas P. Knight. MARIA: A Multilayered Unsupervised Machine Learning Algorithm Based on the Vertebrate Immune System [Ph.D. thesis]. UK The University of Kent at Canterbury; 2005.
• Vincent Detours. Modèles Formels de la Sélection des Cellules B et T [Ph.D. thesis]. France University of Paris; 1996.
• Hossam Meshref. Modelling Autonomous Agents' Behavior Using Neuro-Immune Networks [Ph.D. thesis]. USA Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech; 2002.
• Fernando Esponda. Negative Representations of Information [Ph.D. thesis]. NM, USA University of New Mexico; 2005.
• Zhou Ji. Negative Selection Algorithms from the Thymus to V-detector [Ph.D. Thesis]. USA University of Memphis; 2006.
• Thomas Stibor. On the Appropriateness of Negative Selection for Anomaly Detection and Network Intrusion Detection [Ph.D. thesis]. Germany Darmstadt University of Technology; 2006.
• Anil Buntwal Somayaji. Operating System Stability and Security through Process Homeostasis [Ph.D. thesis]. NM, USA The University of New Mexico; 2002.
• Nareli Cruz Cortés. Sistema Inmune Artificial para Solucionar Problemas de Optimización (Artificial immune system to solve problems of optimization) [Ph.D. thesis]. Mexico The Evolutionary Computation Group at CINVESTAV-IPN (EVOCINV); 2004
• Dejan Milutinovic. Stochastic Model of Micro-Agent populations [Ph.D. thesis]. Lisbon, Portugal Institute for Systems and Robotics, Lisbon Technology Institute; 2004.
• Derek Smith. The Cross-Reactive Immune Response Analysis, Modeling, and Application to Vaccine Design [Ph.D. thesis]. NM, USA University of New Mexico; 1997.
• Albert W.Y. Ko. The Design of an Immunity-based Search and Rescue System for Humanitarian Logistics [Ph.D. Thesis]. Hong Kong: The University of Hong Kong; 2006.
• Jorge Carneiro. Towards a comprehensive view of the immune system [Ph.D. thesis]. Portugal University of Porto; 1997.

Masters Thesis (33)

• Kelley J. Cardinale and Hugh M. O'Donnell. A Constructive Induction Approach to Computer Immunology [Master's thesis]. USA Air Force Institute of Technology, Air University; 1999.
• Paul K. Harmer. A Distributed Agent Architecture for a Computer Virus Immune System [Master's thesis]. USA Air Force Institute of Technology, Air University; 2000.
• Terri Oda. A Spam-Detecting Artificial Immune System [Master's thesis]. Ottawa, Canada Ottawa-Charleton Institute for Computer Science, School of Computer Science, Carleton University; 2005.
• Andrew B. Watkins. AIRS: A resource limited artificial immune classifier [Master's thesis]. USA Mississippi State University; 2001 Dec.
• Kathia Regina Lemos Juca. An Approach for Intrusion Detection with Immune System [Master's Thesis]. Brazil: Santa Catarina Federal University; 2001.
• Martin Thorsen Ranang. An Artificial Immune System Approach to Preserving Security in Computer Networks [Sivilingeniør's thesis]. Trondheim, Norway Norwegian University of Science and Technology; 2002.
• Nyrki Rantonen. An Artificial Immune System for Document Classification [Master's thesis]. Japan Nonlinear Science Laboratory, Toyo University; 2004.
• Mark A. Esslinger. An Artificial Immune System Strategy for Robust Chemical Spectra Classification via Distributed Heterogeneous Sensors [Master's thesis]. USA Air Force Institute of Technology, Air University; 2003.
• Christopher C. Lord. An Emergent Model of Immune Cognition [Master's thesis]. USA Carnegie Mellon University; 2003.
• Jeong Sik Jang. AISEC An Empiricial Investigation into an Artificial Immune System for Email Classification [Master's thesis]; 2004.
• Joseph M. Shapiro. An Evolutionary Algorithm to Generate Ellipsoid Detectors for Negative Selection [Master's thesis]. USA Air Force Institute of Technology, Air University; 2005.
• Amanda Marie Whitbrook. An idiotypic immune network for mobile robot control [Master's thesis]. UK School of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Nottingham; 2005.
• Johnny Kelsey. An Immune Inspired Algorithm for Function Optimisation [Master's thesis]. Kent, UK Computing Laboratory, University of Kent Canterbury; 2004.
• Jamie Twycross. An Immune System Approach to Document Classification [Master's Thesis]. UK University of Sussex; 2002 Aug.
• Nivedita Sumi Majumdar. Anomaly Detection in Single and Multidimensional Datasets Using Artificial Immune Algorithms [Master's thesis]. USA George Mason University; 2002.
• Lars Olsson. Anomaly Detection Using Self/Nonself Discrimination [Master's thesis]. UK Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems, The University of Sussex; 2002.
• Camilla Edmonds. Artificial Immune Networks for Function Optimisation [Master's thesis]. Canterbury, UK Computing Laboratory, University of Kent; 2003.
• X. Wang. Artificial Immune Optimization and Its Application in Industrial Electronics [Master’s Thesis]. Finland: Institute of Intelligent Power Electronics, Department of Electrical and Communications Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology; 2005 Jan.
• Lingjun Meng. Artificial Immune System for Knowledge Discovery [Master's thesis]. The Netherlands Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University; 2004.
• José Daniel Dias Pacheco. Computational Power of Killers and Helpers in the Immune System [Master Thesis]. Portugal: Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon University); 2004.
• Alex Kilgour. Developing a Practicle Artificial Immune System for Email Classification [Master's thesis]. UK Computing Laboratory, University of Kent; 2004.
• Kathy Jean Matthews. Immunotronics Self-repairing finite state machines [Master's thesis]. Bristol, UK University of West England; 2003.
• Bashar Barrishi. Modeling the artificial immune system to the human immune system with the use of agents [Master's thesis]. USA Oklahoma State University; 2004.
• Sankalp Balachandran. Multi-shaped detector generation using real valued representation for anomaly detection [Master's thesis]. USA The University of Memphis; 2005.
• Julie Greensmith. New Frontiers For An Artificial Immune System [Master's thesis]. UK University of Leeds; 2003.
• Justin Balthrop. RIOT: A Responsive System for Mitigating Computer Network Epidemics and Attacks [Master's thesis]. USA Univesity of New Mexico; 2005.
• Tom Morrison. Similarity Measure Building for Website Recommendation within an Artificial Immune System [Master's thesis]. UK School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham; 2003.
• Alexander Jakobus Graaff. The artificial immune system with evolved lymphocytes [Master's thesis]. South Africa Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology, University of Pretoria; 2003.
• Daniel Stow. Towards an immunological approach to network management learning, memory and cross-reactivity in an artificial immune system [Master's thesis]. UK Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems, The University of Sussex; 2000.
• Russell J. Aycock. Using an Inductive Learning Algorithm to Improve Antibody Generation in a Single Packet Computer Defense Immune System [Master's thesis]. USA Air Force Institute of Technology, Air University; 2002.
• John L. Bebo. Using Relational Schemata in a Computer Immune System to Detect Multiple-Packet Network Intrusions [Master's thesis]. USA Air Force Institute of Technology, Air University; 2002.
• Larissa A. O'Brien. Using Sequence Analysis to Perform Application-Based Anomaly Detection Within an Artificial Immune System Framework [Master's thesis]. USA Air Force Institute of Technology, Air University; 2003.
• Paul D. Williams. Warthog Towards a Computer Immune System for Detecting "Low and Slow" Information System Attacks [Master's thesis]. OH, USA AFIT/GCS/ENG/01M-15, Graduate School of Engineering and Management, Air Force Institute of Technology (AU), Wright-Patterson AFB; 2001.

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