The concept of the ship immune system

The paper presents the concept of the ship immune system. The task of the system mentioned is to differentiate self objects, i.e. objects that are not dangerous to our ship, from other objects that can be a potential threat. To perform the task the system uses mechanisms adapted from artificial immune systems. Since, the traditional model of artificial immune system assumes objects represented in the form of binary strings, in the paper modifications to this model are proposed. The modifications mentioned either makes it possible to represent objects in the form of real valued vectors or transform real valued representations to simpler binary or integer ones.