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Categorical modelling is a useful tool in the study of systems. To motivate this, interpretation of elementary category theory ideas are illustrated in terms of time-varying complex systems. A brief introduction to the notion of categorical shape theory to model approximating situations is given.
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Rattray, C. (1994). The shape of complex systems. In: Pichler, F., Moreno Díaz, R. (eds) Computer Aided Systems Theory — EUROCAST '93. EUROCAST 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 763. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57601-0_41
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