Abstract
An attractive idea when investigating large systems is to mimic the success of statistical mechanics, i e to consider a large system composed of many copies of identical subsystems. A fundamental difficulty is that it is hard to find meaningful systemtheoretic problems which can be obtained by interconnecting identical subsystems. This paper therefore considers a class of linear systems called flow systems. Although the systems are not identical many of their properties remain invariant for different interconnections, Flow systems can therefore be used as a starting point for analysing certain large systems. Flow systems have been used as models for industrial and biological processes.
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Åström, K.J. (1976). Flow Systems. In: Ho, Y.C., Mitter, S.K. (eds) Directions in Large-Scale Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2259-7_5
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