Abstract Systems Theory
By: edited by Mihajlo D. Mesarovic, Yasuhiko Takahara
Contributors: Takahara, Yasuhiko
Series: Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences -- 116; Lecture notes in control and information sciences -- 116.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 443
ISBN-13: 9783540505297; 9783540460381
Subjects: Engineering; Engineering mathematics
Description: This book reports on the new results in Abstract Systems Theory (AST). It shows the progress made so far in the effort launched in 1960 to develop a mathematical theory of systems based on the "top-down"-formalization-approach. The volume can be used as a supplementary reading in courses in systems theory and engineering. The material is organized in such a way that portions of the book relevant for the supplementary reading in different courses can be used independently from the rest of the text.
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Table of contents: title: Contents: Introduction; title: Basic Systems Concepts via Formalization; title: Basic Attributes; title: Structured Terminal Systems - Characterization; title: Basic Properties of Abstract Time Systems; title: Goal-Seeking Systems; title: Complex Systems; title: Appendix; title: Bibliography.