Immune identification of piezoelectric material constants using BEM

This article deals with an application of the artificial immune system (AIS) to the identification problem of piezoelectric structures analysed by the boundary element method (BEM). The AIS is applied to identify material properties of piezoelectrics. The AIS is a computational adaptive system inspired by the principles, processes and mechanisms of biological immune systems. The algorithms typically use the characteristics of immune systems, such as learning and memory to simulate and solve a problem in a computational manner. The main advantage of the AIS, contrary to gradient methods of optimization, is the fact that it does not need any information about the gradient of fitness function.