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3.1 Antibodies
The antibodies have a structure similar to those of Farmer and colleagues [3]. They
consist of three components: a paratope, an encoding of the temperature, and an
idiotope, cf. figure 3. Both, paratope and idiotope, have four attributes encoding the
type of the room, the weekday, the daytime, and the frequency of use (of the room).
The encoding of the temperature contains the current heating temperature and the
optimal temperature. The last one is used to adapt the heating temperature to changes
of the current temperature caused by regulations or ventilations By its paratope an
antibody can recognize epitopes as parts of antigens but also idiotopes of other
antibodies. The encoding of the temperature is evaluated in the central unit and is
used to control the heating system.
Fig. 3.
The structure of the antibodies
3.2 Antigens
The structure of the antigens is similar to that of the paratopes of the antibodies. It
consists of the same four attributes, but in addition it has two other attributes encoding
the indoor and the outdoor temperature. The additional attributes are required for the
adaptation of the optimal temperature by the system and so indirectly of the heating
temperature as well.
3.3 B-cells
B-cells are used as carriers of antibody molecules. In addition to the antibody a B-cell
has three attributes that encode parameters for the concentration, the ageing, and the
selection of the cell. The value of the concentration parameter describes the
concentration of the antibody in the network; the other two parameters are used to
control the selection and elimination of the cell.
