eprintid: 13630 rev_number: 7 eprint_status: archive userid: 353 dir: disk0/00/01/36/30 datestamp: 2016-08-09 08:52:11 lastmod: 2021-08-27 17:41:28 status_changed: 2016-08-09 08:52:11 type: article metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 1 creators_name: Casti, J. creators_id: 974 title: Linear Metabolism-Repair Systems ispublished: pub keywords: Metabolism-repair systems, linear systems, cellular models, replication abstract: 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 date: 1988 date_type: published id_number: 10.1080/03081078808935001 creators_browse_id: 1179 full_text_status: none publication: International Journal of General Systems volume: 14 number: 2 pagerange: 143-167 refereed: TRUE issn: 0308-1079 coversheets_dirty: FALSE fp7_project: no fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article citation: Casti, J. (1988). Linear Metabolism-Repair Systems. International Journal of General Systems 14 (2) 143-167. 10.1080/03081078808935001 .