Modeling Development Processes in MGS

Author(s):  
Jean-Louis Giavitto ◽  
Olivier Michel

Biology has long inspired unconventional models of computation to computer scientists. This chapter focuses on a model inspired by biological development both at the molecular and cellular levels. Such biological processes are particularly interesting for computer science because the dynamic organization emerges from many decentralized and local interactions that occur concurrently at several time and space scales. Thus, they provide a source of inspiration to solve various problems related to mobility, distributed systems, open systems, etc. The fundamental mechanisms of biological development are now understood as changes within a complex dynamical system. This chapter advocates that these fundamental mechanisms, although mainly developed in a continuous framework, can be rephrased in a discrete setting relying on the notion of rewriting in a topological setting. The discrete formulation is as formal as the continuous one, enables the simulation, and opens a way to the systematic study of the behavioral properties of the biological systems. Directly inspired from these developmental processes, the chapter presents an experimental programming language called MGS. MGS is dedicated to the modeling and simulation of dynamical systems with dynamical structures. The chapter illustrates the basic notions of MGS through several algorithmic examples and by sketching various biological models.

1993 ◽  
Vol 46 (11S) ◽  
pp. S229-S233
Author(s):  
Josef S. To¨ro¨k

Lyaponov exponents are a generalization of the eigenvalues of a dynamical system at an equilibrium point. They are used to determine the stability of any type of steady-state behavior, including chaotic solutions. More specifically, Lyapunov exponents measure the exponential rates of divergence or convergence associated with nearby trajectories. This paper presents an efficient method of estimating the Lyapunov spectrum of continuous dynamical systems. Based on the Lie series expansion of the flow, the technique can be readily implemented to estimate the Lyapunov exponents of dynamical systems governed by ordinary differential equations.


2007 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 195-200
Author(s):  
A.V. Zhiber ◽  
O.S. Kostrigina

In the paper it is shown that the two-dimensional dynamical system of equations is Darboux integrable if and only if its characteristic Lie algebra is finite-dimensional. The class of systems having a full set of fist and second order integrals is described.


Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 379
Author(s):  
Miguel Abadi ◽  
Vitor Amorim ◽  
Sandro Gallo

From a physical/dynamical system perspective, the potential well represents the proportional mass of points that escape the neighbourhood of a given point. In the last 20 years, several works have shown the importance of this quantity to obtain precise approximations for several recurrence time distributions in mixing stochastic processes and dynamical systems. Besides providing a review of the different scaling factors used in the literature in recurrence times, the present work contributes two new results: (1) For ϕ-mixing and ψ-mixing processes, we give a new exponential approximation for hitting and return times using the potential well as the scaling parameter. The error terms are explicit and sharp. (2) We analyse the uniform positivity of the potential well. Our results apply to processes on countable alphabets and do not assume a complete grammar.


1989 ◽  
Vol 03 (15) ◽  
pp. 1185-1188 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. SEIMENIS

We develop a method to find solutions of the equations of motion in Hamiltonian Dynamical Systems. We apply this method to the system [Formula: see text] We study the case a → 0 and we find that in this case the system has an infinite number of period dubling bifurcations.


2021 ◽  
pp. 102986492098831
Author(s):  
Andrea Schiavio ◽  
Pieter-Jan Maes ◽  
Dylan van der Schyff

In this paper we argue that our comprehension of musical participation—the complex network of interactive dynamics involved in collaborative musical experience—can benefit from an analysis inspired by the existing frameworks of dynamical systems theory and coordination dynamics. These approaches can offer novel theoretical tools to help music researchers describe a number of central aspects of joint musical experience in greater detail, such as prediction, adaptivity, social cohesion, reciprocity, and reward. While most musicians involved in collective forms of musicking already have some familiarity with these terms and their associated experiences, we currently lack an analytical vocabulary to approach them in a more targeted way. To fill this gap, we adopt insights from these frameworks to suggest that musical participation may be advantageously characterized as an open, non-equilibrium, dynamical system. In particular, we suggest that research informed by dynamical systems theory might stimulate new interdisciplinary scholarship at the crossroads of musicology, psychology, philosophy, and cognitive (neuro)science, pointing toward new understandings of the core features of musical participation.


Entropy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Charles Delvenne

In this discussion paper we argue that category theory may play a useful role in formulating, and perhaps proving, results in ergodic theory, topogical dynamics and open systems theory (control theory). As examples, we show how to characterize Kolmogorov–Sinai, Shannon entropy and topological entropy as the unique functors to the nonnegative reals satisfying some natural conditions. We also provide a purely categorical proof of the existence of the maximal equicontinuous factor in topological dynamics. We then show how to define open systems (that can interact with their environment), interconnect them, and define control problems for them in a unified way.


2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (02) ◽  
pp. 1550010
Author(s):  
Sheng Huang ◽  
Mikael Skoglund

This note proves that an induced transformation with respect to a finite measure set of a recurrent asymptotically mean stationary dynamical system with a sigma-finite measure is asymptotically mean stationary. Consequently, the Shannon–McMillan–Breiman theorem, as well as the Shannon–McMillan theorem, holds for all reduced processes of any finite-state recurrent asymptotically mean stationary random process. As a by-product, a ratio ergodic theorem for asymptotically mean stationary dynamical systems is presented.


1998 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 471-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. B. WARD

We show that for almost every ergodic $S$-integer dynamical system the radius of convergence of the dynamical zeta function is no larger than $\exp(-\frac{1}{2}h_{\rm top})<1$. In the arithmetic case almost every zeta function is irrational.We conjecture that for almost every ergodic $S$-integer dynamical system the radius of convergence of the zeta function is exactly $\exp(-h_{\rm top})<1$ and the zeta function is irrational.In an important geometric case (the $S$-integer systems corresponding to isometric extensions of the full $p$-shift or, more generally, linear algebraic cellular automata on the full $p$-shift) we show that the conjecture holds with the possible exception of at most two primes $p$.Finally, we explicitly describe the structure of $S$-integer dynamical systems as isometric extensions of (quasi-)hyperbolic dynamical systems.


Author(s):  
Eric A. Butcher ◽  
S. C. Sinha

Abstract In this paper, some analysis techniques for general time-periodic nonlinear Hamiltonian dynamical systems have been presented. Unlike the traditional perturbation or averaging methods, these techniques are applicable to systems whose Hamiltonians contain ‘strong’ parametric excitation terms. First, the well-known Liapunov-Floquet (L-F) transformation is utilized to convert the time-periodic dynamical system to a form in which the linear pan is time invariant. At this stage two viable alternatives are suggested. In the first approach, the resulting dynamical system is transformed to a Hamiltonian normal form through an application of permutation matrices. It is demonstrated that this approach is simple and straightforward as opposed to the traditional methods where a complicated set of algebraic manipulations are required. Since these operations yield Hamiltonians whose quadratic parts are integrable and time-invariant, further analysis can be carried out by the application of action-angle coordinate transformation and Hamiltonian perturbation theory. In the second approach, the resulting quasilinear time-periodic system (with a time-invariant linear part) is directly analyzed via time-dependent normal form theory. In many instances, the system can be analyzed via time-independent normal form theory or by the method of averaging. Examples of a nonlinear Mathieu’s equation and coupled nonlinear Mathieu’s equations are included and some preliminary results are presented.


Author(s):  
Lionel Rosier

In this chapter, we consider a class of discrete dynamical systems defined on the homogeneous space associated with a regular tiling of RN, whose most familiar example is provided by the N-dimensional torus TN. It is proved that any dynamical system in this class is chaotic in the sense of Devaney, and that it admits at least one positive Lyapunov exponent. Next, a chaos-synchronization mechanism is introduced and used for masking information in a communication setup.


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