CHARACTERISTICS OF NESTED LIVING SYSTEMS

Electrical Characteristics of Living Systems *

Ever since the picturesque description of "animal electricity" by Galvani in the latter part of the eighteenth century, it has been tacitly assumed that electrical phenomena could be found associated with many biological processes. In fact, in recent years, a score or more of distinguished investigators have been studying the alternating current characteristics of the nervous system. These stud...

Mathematical Modeling of the Temperature-Dependent Growth of Living Systems

In this investigation a non-equilibrium thermodynamic model of the temperature dependent biological growth of a living systems has been analyzed. The results are derived on the basis of Gompertzian growth equation. In this model, we have considered the temperature dependent growth rate and development parameter. The non-equilibrium thermodynamic model is also considered for exploring the variat...

Characteristics of Living Beings

Composite Systems : Decentralized Nested Transactions

This thesis deals with how to define and build correct distributed nested transactions in a completely decentralized way. In particular, it studies nested transactions in a distributed system of arbitrarily interconnected independent components, with only local knowledge in each component and local rules to enforce correctness. Such systems are called composite systems, and the corresponding tr...

Nested Nets for Adaptive Systems

We consider nested nets, i.e. Petri nets in which tokens can be Petri nets themselves. We study the value semantics of nested nets rather than the reference semantics, and apply nested nets to model adaptive workflow, i.e. flexible workflow that can be modified during the execution. A typical domain with a great need for this kind of workflow is health care, from which domain we choose the runn...