General Systems Theory

The course is a substitute for:

General Systems Theory (X33OTS)

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Department of Cybernetics

Synopsis:

In this class students will learn the general, broadly founded methodology of Systems Theory to gain a sufficient insight in general systems principles and their theoretical limits. The course aims a wrapping up knowledge from other special classes and giving a common frame for many special engineering problems encountered in practice. It is dealt with such concepts like identification, decomposition and self-organisation.

Requirements:

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Introduction to Systems Theory. System classes, formal model, architecture

2. Source systems

3. Object systems, variables, discrete versus continuous, image systems

4. Data systems. Noiseless and noisy data and their representation

5. Behavior systems, state-transition systems

6. Generative systems

7. Quantitative and qualitative approach to uncertainty modeling in assorted systems

8. Structure systems

9. The design problem, identification, reconstruction. Robustness and stability

10. Metasystems. Self-organisation

11. Computational complexity. The limits of formal systems

12. Goal-oriented systems

13. System similarity. Systems modelling problem

14. Descriptivity and sufficiency of system description, multi-scale analysis

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. - 14. Students will study selected papers and discuss them in the reading part of the class.

Study Objective:

Study materials:

[1] Klir, G. J.: Architecture of Systems Problem Solving. Plenum Press, 1985

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Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Technická kybernetika-inženýrský blok (compulsory course)
• Biomedicínské inženýrství - inženýrský blok (compulsory course)
• Biomedicínské inženýrství - inženýrský blok (compulsory course)
• Technická kybernetika-inženýrský blok (compulsory course)