TY  - JOUR
ID  - iiasa13630
UR  - https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/13630/
IS  - 2
A1  - Casti, J.
Y1  - 1988///
N2  - Metabolism-repair systems represent a formal mathematical framework for representing characteristic properties of living systems such as repair, replication, adaptation and so forth. In this paper, the concrete realization of such structures is developed in the case when the system ?metabolism? is linear. Explicit results are given to show when system repair operations can counteract environmental and metabolic fluctuations. Additional results pertaining to the replication operation and the possibility for ?Lamarckian? inheritance are also given, together with a formal demonstration of the increase in complexity as we proceed from the processes of metabolism to repair to replication. The paper concludes with a discussion of several application areas, together with a consideration of several conceptual and mathematical questions requiring attention for further development of this non-Newtonian systems paradigm
JF  - International Journal of General Systems
VL  - 14
KW  - Metabolism-repair systems
KW  -  linear systems
KW  -  cellular models
KW  -  replication
SN  - 0308-1079
TI  - Linear Metabolism-Repair Systems
SP  - 143
AV  - none
EP  - 167
ER  -