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 , Santa Fe Institute Publications Committee January, 1988 , Foreword , Immune Surveillance , How Immune Cells Find Their Targets: Quantitative Studies of Cell Adhesion, Migration, and Chemotaxis , Population Dynamics of Tumors Attacked by Immunocompetent Killer Cells , Immune Surveillance: Towards a Tumor-Specific Model , Mathematical Models of HIV Infection , AIDS: Background and the Dynamics of the Decline of Immunocompetence , HIV Infection from an Ecological Viewpoint , Analysis of Immune System Retrovirus Equations , Complexities of Antigen-Antibody Systems , Models of Immunolysis Assays: A Vesicle-Based Approach for Direct Binding , Pseudo-Cooperativity Resulting from Ring Closure in Divalent Antibody-Divalent Antigen Interactions , Estimation of Antibody Affinity via Reduced-Order Modeling , Symbolic Interpretation of Data and the Definition of Factors in Immunogenetics , Immune Suppression and Self-Tolerance , Idiotypic Control of the Immune Response to Ferredoxin , Predominant Use of the Particular V Gene in the KLH-Specific Suppressor T Cell Family , The Role of l-J+ Macrophages in the Induction of Antigen B-Specific T-Suppressor Cells , Control of Lethal Autoreactivity without a Network , Idiotypic Networks , Categories of Idiotope Overlap and anti-Idiotypic Mimicry of Antigen , In Search of T-Cell Help for the Internal Image of the Antigen , Symmetry and Asymmetry in the Immune Network , Symmetric Idiotypic Networks: Connectance and Switching, Stability, and Suppression , The N-Dimensional Network , Computations in Shape Space: A New Approach to Immune Network Theory , Polydispersity in Immune Networks , Cognitive Networks: Immune, Neural, and Otherwise , Toward a Realistic Model of the Immune System