Canonical models and the law of requisite variety

DOI10.1007/BF00939150MaRDI QIDQ799549zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors John L. Casti

Publication date 1985

Published in Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00939150

zbMATH Keywords

reachabilityrequisite variety

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Varieties and morphisms (14A10) Controllability (93B05) Observability (93B07) Canonical structure (93B10) Communication, information (94A99)

Review text

The law of requisite variety from cybernetics is shown to be related to the reachability and observability properties of a dynamical control system. In particular, it is established that the transmission of all input variety to the system output is possible if and only if the system is canonical, i.e., completely reachable and completely observable.

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