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Mappings and Constructions of Systems

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This chapter considers interactions between systems through mappings and the construction of large-scale systems. In particular, Section 3.1 looks at various mappings from one general system into another. Section 3.2 studies the construction of free sums of systems and related mapping properties. Section 3.3 shows why product and Cartesian product systems exist. And Section 3.4 considers the concept of one-level product systems.

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  1. School of Business, Slippery Rock University School of Business, Slippery Rock, PA, USA

    Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest

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Forrest, J.YL. (2018). Mappings and Constructions of Systems. In: General Systems Theory. IFSR International Series in Systems Science and Systems Engineering, vol 32. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04558-6_3

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