Title | Systems: Approaches, Theories, Applications [electronic resource] : Including the Proceedings of the Eighth George Hudson Symposium Held at Plattsburgh, New York, April 11-12, 1975 / edited by William E. Hartnett |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1977 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1239-3 |
Descript | 215 p. online resource |
1. A Category-Theoretic Approach to Systems in a Fuzzy World -- 1. Machines in a Category -- 2. Fuzzy Machines -- 2. Parallelism, Slides, Schemas, and Frames -- 1. Parallelism -- 2. Slides and Schemas -- 3. Frames and Schemas -- 4. Development -- 5. More on Parallelism -- 3. The Fundamental Duality of System Theory -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Networks -- 3. Duality -- 4. Conclusion -- 4. Towards a Systems Methodology of Social Control Processes -- 5. States and Events -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Properties and Predicates -- 3. Definition of a State Function -- 4. Law Statements -- 5. Lagrangian Law Schemata -- 6. State Spaces -- 7. Law Statements and Transformation Formulas -- 8. Events and Processes -- 9. Event Space -- 10. The Category of Events -- 11. Concluding Remarks -- 6. Understanding Social and Economic Change in the United States -- 1. System Dynamics -- 2. Dynamics to Be Represented -- 3. Social and Economic Issues -- 4. Structure of the Model -- 5. Status, Schedule, Procedure -- 7. Pattern Discovery in Activity Arrays -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Sampling Procedure -- 3. Evaluation of Masks -- 4. Reduction of ST-Structures -- 5. Conclusions -- 8. A Purposive Behavior Model -- 9. Complexity and System Descriptions -- 10. Concerns, Comments, and Suggestions -- 1. Educational Concerns -- 2. Useful Mathematical Models -- 3. Problems of Applied Mathematics -- 4. Modeling -- 5. State Modeling of Objects -- 6. Questions