GENERAL SYSTEMS APPROACH TO OPEN SYSTEMS

Abstract

An open thermodynamic system exchanges energy or information with its environment. The general systems models of an open thermodynamic system have been obtained in this paper. These models are the non-integrable open system and the non-ergodic open system. These models are obtained by presenting the open system dynamics as unpredictable evolution. Evolution in both models is set as an autonomous action which is the observable projection of the open system dynamics. Unpredictability is presented as ambiguity in the case of the non-integrable open system, and as indeterminacy—in the case of the non-ergodic open system. It has been shown that the unpredictable evolution determines an encoding for the non-integrable open system, and a monochromatic subgraph—for the non-ergodic open system. The redundancy and entropy for both models have been introduced by using these combinatorial mechanisms. The application of the two open system models in artificial intelligence and in the functional diagnostics of dynamic systems has been discussed