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Anticipatory Systems
Philosophical, Mathematical and Methodological Foundations
- 1st Edition, Volume 1 - October 22, 2013
- Author: Robert Rosen
- Editor: G. Klir
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 8 6 2 7 - 3
The first detailed study of this most important class of systems which contain internal predictive models of themselves and/or of their environments and whose predictions are… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThe first detailed study of this most important class of systems which contain internal predictive models of themselves and/or of their environments and whose predictions are utilized for purposes of present control. This book develops the basic concept of a predictive model, and shows how it can be embedded into a system of feedforward control. Includes many examples and stresses analogies between wired-in anticipatory control and processes of learning and adaption, at both individual and social levels. Shows how the basic theory of such systems throws a new light both on analytic problems (understanding what is going on in an organism or a social system) and synthetic ones (developing forecasting methods for making individual or collective decisions).
Of interest to systems and control engineers, industrial engineers and production managers.
Preliminaries. General introduction. The reactive paradigm: its basic features. Natural and formal systems the concept of a natural system. The concept of a formal system. Encodings between natural and formal systems. The modelling relation. The modelling relation within mathematics. Specific encodings between natural and formal systems. Encodings of physical systems. Encodings of biological systems: preliminary remarks. Specific encodings of biological systems. Models, metaphors and abstractions. The encodings of time. Time and dynamics: introductory remarks. Time in Newtonian dynamics. Time in thermodynamics and statistical analysis. Probabilistic time. Time in general dynamical systems. Time and sequence: logical aspects of time. Similarity and time. Time and age. Open systems and the modelling relation general introduction. Open, closed and compensated systems. Compensation and decompensation. The main theorem. Models as closed systems. The concept of error. Error and complexity. Order and disorder. The stability of modelling relations. Anticipatory systems general introduction. An example: forward activation. General characteristics of temporal spanning. An application: senescence. Adaptation, natural selection and evolution. Learning. Selection in systems and subsystems. Perspectives for the future. Appendix. Index.
- No. of pages: 446
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 1
- Published: October 22, 2013
- Imprint: Pergamon
- eBook ISBN: 9781483286273