Dear FRIAM...
I'm excited and happy to subscribe to the group. (Thanks for the invite
Stephen, - and David.) For many years I have architected and implemented
large-scale (mostly Java) enterprise software (applications and systems)
for corporations and gov. institutions mostly in North America on behalf
of a number of major computer systems vendors (e.g. Sun). However, for
the past few years, my passion has turned to the question "Why is the
organization and dynamics of living systems so different from those of
'engineered' ones - and why are their systemic properties so much more
interesting?" From a practical perspective, I hoped to improve the
engineering of large-scale computing systems from this research; but in
reality I became fascinated with the theory, and so I had to (lovingly)
read lots of books and research articles.
Anyway, to drive toward an answer to above question, I have developed a
mathematical theory of living and lifelike systems, which I call
"Organic Complex Systems". A few months ago I began to write up an
overview of the results of my research so far. I am nearing completion
of that paper, and intend to publish it on arXiv.org in a couple of
months with the hope of getting comments, and hopefully collaborators.
BTW, perhaps somewhat more descriptive of this work is the subtitle of
this forthcoming paper: "A Comprehensive Theoretical Apparatus for
Modelling the Organization and Dynamics of Living and Lifelike Systems".
Anyway, these are my immediate interests. I'm looking forward to finding
out about yours.
Take care,
Grant
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