This book covers the topics of immune surveillance, mathematical models of HIV infection, complexities of antigen-antibody systems, immune suppression and tolerance, and idiotypie networks.

About the Santa Fe Institute , Foreword , Cell Stimulation and Receptor Crosslinking , Desensitization, Histamine Release and the Aggregation of IgE on Human Basophils , Progress Toward Understanding the Molecular Details and Consequences of IgE-Receptor Crosslinking , Two Distinct States of Crosslinked IgE Receptors That May Trigger and Terminate Secretion from RBL-2H3 Mast Cells , A Molecular Basis For Immune Regulation: The Immunon Hypothesis , Cell-Cell Adhesion Resembles Receptor Crosslinking , B Cell Clonogenesis Induced by Anti-Immunoglobulin (Anti-lg) and Interleukins , Antigen Presentation and the Structure of Antigenic Determinants , Where Did the Macrophage Get the Antigen From? , Statistics in Immunology and Biochemistry , Hydrophilicity, Solvent Accessibility and Location of Antigenic Determinants in Proteins , Dynamics of the Immune Response , The Regulation of Lymphocyte Proliferation by Proliferating Lymphocytes: Is Lactate a Central Regulatory Element in the Immune System? , Modeling Dynamical Aspects of the Immune Response: I. T Cell Proliferation and the Effect of IL-2 , Role of Multistability in an Immune Response Model: A Combined Discrete and Continuous Approach , Systematic Approach to Modeling Immune Response , The Flow Topology of the Herzenberg Immunological Control Networks , A Logical Dynamic Systems Approach to the Regulation of Antigen-Driven Lymphocyte Stimulation , Decision Criteria and Coherence in the Regulation of the Immune Response , Antibody Affinity Distribution-Based Models for Vaccine Potency Assessment , On Immune Process Stochastic Structure , Maturation of the Immune Response , Maturation of the Immune Response Via Adaptive Walks On Affinity Landscapes , Affinity Maturation and Ecological Succession