SAIS (Symbiotic Artificial Immune Systems) is a novel Artificial Immune System inspired by symbiotic relationships observed in biology. It leverages the three key stages of symbiotic relationships—mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism—for population updating, as seen in the Symbiotic Organisms Search (SOS) algorithm. This approach effectively tackles the challenges associated with large population sizes and enhances population diversity, issues that traditional AIS and SOS algorithms struggle to address efficiently. This project aims to provide an open-source implementation of the SAIS algorithm to foster innovation and research in bio-inspired computing and immune-inspired algorithms.

The paper has been published in the Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO '24 Companion).

The preprint is available on arXiv.

• Implementation of the Symbiotic Artificial Immune Systems algorithm.
• Easy to calculate the objective value of the function.
• Customizable for different optimisation needs.
• Support for multiple benchmark functions.

Ensure the following dependencies are installed on your system:

• Python 3.x
• numpy

Install sais using pip:

pip install sais

Here's a simple example of how to use the SAIS package to optimise a function:

from sais import run

# define your benchmark number and population size
population_size = 2000
# number from Benchmarks List
benchmark_number = 1

run(population_size, benchmark_number)

Example outputs:

Starting SAIS for benchmark 1 with population size 2000.
Iterations Number: 8
Running Time: 0.18377017974853516 Secounds
Best Fitness: 4.523554492464579e-10
Best Antibody: [2.9999822  0.49999976]

How to get the value corresponding to the target point on the function:

import numpy as np
from sais import benchmark_result


x = np.random.uniform(np.pi, np.pi, 2)
y = sais.benchmark_result(x, 2)
print(x, y)

### Benchmarks (Name, Range, Global Minimum)
# F1 = Beale [-4.5; 4.5]; 0
# F2 = Easom [-100,100]; -1
# F3 = Matyas [-10,10]; 0
# F4 = Bochachvesky 1 [-100,100]; 0
# F5 = Booth [-10, 10]; 0
# F6 = Michalewicz 2[0,pi]; -1.8013
# F7 = Schaffer [-100; 100]; 0
# F8 = Six Hump Camel Back [-5; 5]; -1.03163
# F9 = Bochachvesky 2 [-100,100]; 0
# F10 = Bochachvesky 3 [-100,100]; 0
# F11 = Shubert [-10,10]; -186.73
# F12 = Colville [-10,10]; 0
# F13 = Michalewicz 5 [0,pi]; -4.6877
# F14 = Zakharov[-5,10]; 0
# F15 = Michalewicz 10 [0,pi]; -4.6877
# F16 = Step [-5.12; 5.12]; 0
# F17 = Sphere [-100,100]; 0
# F18 = SumSquares [-10, 10]; 0
# F19 = Quartic [-1.28,1.28]; 0
# F20 = Schwefel 2.22 [-10,10]; 0
# F21 = Schwefel 1.2 [-10,10]; 0
# F22 = Rosenbrock [-30,30]; 0
# F23 = Dixon-Price [-10, 10]; 0
# F24 = Rastrigin [-5.12; 5.12];
# F25 = Griewank [-600,600]; 0
# F26 = Ackley [-600; 600]; 0

For any questions or suggestions, please contact us via:

• Email
• GitHub Issue

This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.

@inproceedings{song2024sais,
  title={SAIS: A Novel Bio-Inspired Artificial Immune System Based on Symbiotic Paradigm},
  author={Song, Junhao and Yuan, Yingfang and Pang, Wei},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion},
  pages={2115--2118},
  year={2024}
}

We extend our sincere thanks to Dr. Wei Pang for his expert guidance and to Dr. Yingfang Yuan for his pivotal contributions to this project. We also acknowledge Heriot-Watt University and Imperial College London for their support and the academic environment that facilitated our research.