RT Journal Article
SR 00
ID 10.1080/03081078808935001
A1 Casti, J.
T1 Linear Metabolism-Repair Systems
JF International Journal of General Systems
YR 1988
FD 1988
VO 14
IS 2
SP 143
OP 167
K1 Metabolism-repair systems, linear systems, cellular models, replication
AB 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
SN 0308-1079
LK https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/13630/