Title
The Meaning of Structure in Interconnected Dynamic Systems
Abstract
Interconnected dynamic systems are a pervasive component of our modern infrastructures. The complexity of such systems can be staggering, which motivates simplified representations for their manipulation and analysis. This work introduces the complete computational structure of a system as a common baseline for comparing different simplified representations. Linear systems are then used as a vehicle for comparing and contrasting distinct partial structure representations. Such representations simplify the description of a system's complete computational structure at various levels of fidelity while retaining a full description of the system's input-output dynamic behavior. Relationships between these various partial structure representations are detailed, and the landscape of new realization, minimality, and model reduction problems introduced by these representations is briefly surveyed.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2011
CoRR
linear system,input output,dynamic system
Field
DocType
Volume
Mathematical optimization,Fidelity,Linear system,Control theory,Control engineering,Mathematics,Dynamical system
Journal
abs/1108.2755
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.58
9
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Enoch Yeung1189.21
Jorge M. Goncalves2324.61
Henrik Sandberg31215112.50
Sean Warnick419825.76