Immunocomputing is a terminology introduced to describe a new computa-

tional approach that aims at implementing information processing principles

from proteins and immune networks in new kinds of computer algorithms and

software, leading to the concept of an immunocomputer (Tarakanov et al.,

2003). Artificial immune systems (AIS)1, by contrast, is a terminology that refers

to adaptive systems inspired by theoretical and experimental immunology with

the goal of solving problems (de Castro and Timmis, 2002). They encompass

any system or computational tool that extracts ideas and metaphors from the

biological immune system in order to solve problems.