oded@wisdom.weizmann.ac.IL (Oded Maler) (06/27/89)
During one of my random walks in our library I came across the following
paper:
R.C. Conant and W.R. Ashby, Every Good Regulator of a System Must be a
Model of that System, Int. J. of Systems Science, Vol. 1, 89-97, 1970.
From the abstract: ".. a theorem is presented which shows, under very
broad conditions, that any regulator that is maximally both successful
and simple *must* be isomorphic with the system being regulated .."
(I've not yet read it in detail (not even xeroxed it) but from browsing
I can tell that it uses only basic automata theory and conditional
probabilities).
Oded Maler
Department of Applied Mathematics
Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot 76100, Israel
(oded@wisdom.bitnet or
oded@wisdom.weizmann.ac.il)
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