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Reconstructability Analysis: An Overview

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Simulation and Model-Based Methodologies: An Integrative View

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The purpose of reconstructability analysis is to provide systems investigators with useful methodological tools for dealing with the various questions regarding the relationship between overall systems and their various subsystems. The term “system” is viewed in reconstructability analysis as a characterization of certain type of fuzzy measures by which the constraint among variables of interest is described.

Two complementary problems are involved in reconstructability analysis: (i) given an overall system, determine which sets of subsystems can be used to reconstruct it adequately (reconstruction problem); (ii) given a set of systems characterized by the same kind of measure, derive from it as much knowledge as possible regarding the unknown overall system (identification problem).

This chapter gives an overview of the main issues involved in reconstructability analysis and its current state of development.

This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant ECS-8006590 and NATO International Research Grant No. 1837.

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  1. Department of Systems Science, School of Advanced Technology State, University of New York, 13901, Binghamton, New York, USA

    George J. Klir

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  1. Computer Science Department, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Tuncer I. Ören

  2. Computer Science Department, Wayne State University, Detroit, Illinois, USA

    Bernard P. Zeigler

  3. Computer Science Department, Dutch Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Maurice S. Elzas

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Klir, G.J. (1984). Reconstructability Analysis: An Overview. In: Ören, T.I., Zeigler, B.P., Elzas, M.S. (eds) Simulation and Model-Based Methodologies: An Integrative View. NATO ASI Series, vol 10. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82144-8_14

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