Complex Systems from the Perspective of Category Theory: I. Functioning of the Adjunction Concept

Zafiris, Elias (2003) Complex Systems from the Perspective of Category Theory: I. Functioning of the Adjunction Concept.

Abstract

We develop a category theoretical framework for the comprehension of the information structure associated with a complex system, in terms of families of partial or local information carriers. The framework is based on the existence of a categorical adjunction, that provides a theoretical platform for the descriptive analysis of the complex system as a process of functorial information communication.