Networks of open systems

Understand

Many systems of interest in science and engineering are made up of interacting subsystems.

• These subsystems, in turn, could be made up of collections of smaller interacting subsystems and so on.
• In a series of papers David Spivak with collaborators formalized these kinds of structures (systems of systems) as algebras over presentable colored operads.
• It is also very useful to consider maps between dynamical systems, which in effect amounts to viewing dynamical systems as objects in an appropriate category.