Systems Theory Approach

Chapter 4 covers much of the same ground as chapter 3 but from a more formal dynamical systems theory approach. The discrete CA world is examined in the context of what is known about the behavior of continuous dynamical systems, and a number of important methodological tools developed by dynamical systems theory (i.e. Lyapunov exponents, invariant measures, and various measures of entropy and... 

The discussed functional safety approach can be understood as the beginning of a new era of functional safety in civil engineering. Furthermore, the conclusion can be drawn that it is necessary to consider systems theory approach in functional safety to address the complexity in modem buildings. 

While systems in physics and chemistry are often taken for granted and are considered to be arbitrarily delimitable units of consideration, social systems cannot even be defined (and much less analyzed and studied) without simultaneously considering their environment and delineating their boundaries from their interval dynamics as well as from their interactions with all those features that do not pertain to the system. The problems which obviously arise in this context are carefully analyzed by N. Luhmann in his well-known system theory approach [27]. Problems of a similar nature arise when considering biological processes. In addition, it might... 

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