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ReviewProceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences2021

Operads for complex system design specification, analysis and synthesis.

John D Foley, Spencer Breiner, Eswaran Subrahmanian, John M Dusel

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Review in Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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John D FoleyMetron, Inc., 1818 Library St., Reston, VA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0087-5339
Spencer BreinerUS National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA.
Eswaran SubrahmanianUS National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA.
John M DuselMetron, Inc., 1818 Library St., Reston, VA, USA.

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Abstract

As the complexity and heterogeneity of a system grows, the challenge of specifying, documenting and synthesizing correct, machine-readable designs increases dramatically. Separation of the system into manageable parts is needed to support analysis at various levels of granularity so that the system is maintainable and adaptable over its life cycle. In this paper, we argue that operads provide an effective knowledge representation to address these challenges. Formal documentation of a syntactically correct design is built up during design synthesis, guided by semantic reasoning about design effectiveness. Throughout, the ability to decompose the system into parts and reconstitute the whole is maintained. We describe recent progress in effective modelling under this paradigm and directions for future work to systematically address scalability challenges for complex system design.

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applied category theoryautomated reasoningcomplex systemscompositionalityoperadssystem design

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PMID35153565
PMCPMC8299556

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