On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Max OrHai <[email protected]> wrote: > My "thinking out loud" response would be that classical control theory may > not be very well suited to CS-type problems, which often can't even be > approximated by linear systems. Cybernetic feedback control, a la Weiner, is > IIRC mostly about systems with a few continuous variables, while our > problems more often involve large numbers of discrete variables.
The field that combines dynamical systems (which I believe also applies to control theory systems) and large numbers of discrete variables (topology) is called Symbolic Dynamics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_dynamics http://www.thetopologyofchaos.net/ If you start scratching the surface of this stuff, it's incredible how much work there is on it. I still don't have the slightest idea how it all works, but still find myself fascinated. wes _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
