Abstract Compositional Analysis of Iterated Relations A Structural Approach to Complex State Transition Systems /

• Main Author: Geurts, Frederic (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1998.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1998.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1426
• Subjects: Computers.; Computer logic.; Special purpose computers.; Software engineering.; Computation by Abstract Devices.; Logics and Meanings of Programs.; Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems.; Software Engineering.

Table of Contents:

• Prologue: Aims, Themes, and Motivations
• Prologue: Aims, Themes, and Motivations
• Mathematical Framework: Iterated Relations and Composition
• Dynamics of Relations
• Dynamics of Composed Relations
• Abstract Complexity: Abstraction, Invariance, Attraction
• Abstract Observation of Dynamics
• Invariance, Attraction, Complexity
• Abstract Compositional Analysis of Systems: Dynamics and Computations
• Compositional Analysis of Dynamical Properties
• Case Studies: Compositional Analysis of Dynamics
• Experimental Compositional Analysis of Cellular Automata
• Compositional Analysis of Computational Properties
• Epilogue: Conclusions and Directions for Future Work.