Topological collections, transformations and their application to the modeling and the simulation of dynamical systems：（拓扑集合、转换和应用动态系统的建模和仿真）.pdfVIP

Topological Collections, Transformations and Their Application to the Modeling and the Simulation of Dynamical Systems Jean-Louis Giavitto ´ CNRS – LaMI, umr 8042, Universit´e d’Evry – GENOPOLE Tour Evry-2, 523 Place des Terrasses de l’Agora ´ 91000 Evry, France giavitto@lami.univ-evry.fr 1 Introduction I take the opportunity given by this invited talk to promote two ideas: (1) a topological point of view can fertilize the notion of rewriting and (2) this topo- logical approach of rewriting is at the core of the modeling and the simulation of an emerging class of dynamical systems (DS): the DS that exhibit a dynamical structure (or (DS)2 in the rest of this paper). This presentation is based upon the results of two research projects, 81/2 and MGS, that I have pursued hand in hand with Olivier Michel. The results and software tools presented here belong also to him and have been elaborated thanks to our long and fruitful collaboration. I have voluntarily adopted in this presentation an informal style, including some non-technical considerations. Thus, the reader must take the opinions, subjective statements and positions expressed here with a grain of salt. For the technical details, he may refer to the papers published elsewhere. The MGS home page: http://mgs.lami.univ-evry.fr is a good starting point. This presentation is organized as follows. Section 2 tries to develop an alter- native understanding of the concept of a data structure: a data structure can be seen as a space where the computation moves following some path. This point of view is exemplified in section 3 on the des