A hierarchical theory of system topology and distributed functional fusions
Yingxu Wang · 2017
It is recognized that systems are the most complicated entities in abstract, physical, information, cognitive, brain, and social worlds across a wide range of science and engineering disciplines. This paper presents a theory of distributed system topologies and adaptive fusion mechanisms. It reveals that structural and functional relations play a centric role in system behavior modeling. A special phenomenon of system incremental fusion is discovered and formally described in order to explain the adaptive mechanisms of system gains. The hierarchical topology theory of systems provides a methodology for efficiently handling distributed structural and behavioral complexities in system representation, modeling, analysis, synthesis, inference, and implementation. Applications of the formal theories of distributed system topology and adaptive hierarchical relations are explored in distributed, adaptive and cognitive system engineering.