An optimization framework of dendritic cells

The paradigm of a signal cascading network of Dendritic Cells (DCs) underpins T-cells priming in the human immune system, which is one of the critical cell-mediated components in the innate immunity. This study is motivated by the immunological behavior of DCs, intracellular signal processing, and the architecture of the aforementioned signal-driven network in the maturation and migration processes. In parallel with these immuno-features and problem-solving techniques, a distributed DC-inspired framework is developed for resolving optimization problems. In the context of the study, the capabilities of the proposed framework are experimented in a small-scale resources scheduling problem. As of the obtained results, sets of high-quality solutions are produced, which also provide significant insights for the further development of DC-mediated framework as presented in this paper.