Contents -- Preface -- PART I: AN OVERVIEW OF IMMUNOLOGY -- 1 Introduction to the Immune System -- PART II: CASE STUDIES IN IMMUNE COMPLEXITY: EXPERIMENTS -- 2 Cytokines: A Common Signaling System for Cell Growth, Inflammation, Immunity, and Differentiation -- 3 Th1/Th2 Effector Choice in the Immune System: A Developmental Program Influenced by Cytokine Signals -- 4 Oral Tolerance -- PART III: DESIGN PRINCIPLES FOR THE IMMUNE SYSTEM -- 5 An Introduction to Immuno-ecology and Immuno-informatics -- 6 The Creation of Immune Specificity -- 7 Diversity in the Immune System -- 8 T Cells Obey the Tenets of Signal Detection Theory -- 9 Diffuse Feedback from a Diffuse Informational Network: In the Immune System and Other Distributed Autonomous Systems -- 10 Multistep Navigtation and the Combinatorial Control of Cell Positioning: A General Model for Generation of Living Structure Based on Studies of Immune Cell Trafficking -- 11 Distributed, Anarchic Immune Organization: Semi-autonomous Golems at Work -- PART IV: BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMS -- 12 New Approaches to Complex Chemical Reaction Mechanisms -- PART V: SOCIAL INSECTS -- 13 Control Mechanisms for Distributed Autonomous Systems: Insights from the Social Insects -- 14 Task Allocation in Ant Colonies -- PART VI: APPLICATIONS TO COMPUTER SCIENCE -- 15 Biologically Motivated Distributed Designs for Adaptive Knowledge Management -- 16 Analogy Making as a Complex Adaptive System -- 17 Immunology as Information Processing -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X.