Systemological conception of Physics of Systems

Prof. T.L.Kachanova, prof.B.F.Fomin

 

Within a framework of systemological conception the Physics of Systems is being developed as a postcybernetic paradigm of systemology.

Physics of Systems overcomes the complexity of the open systems, gives the apparatus of both scientific understanding and the rational explanation of the natural, social and technospheric systems in their natural scales and real complexity.

Physics of systems automatically generates reliable scientific knowledge out of the cumulative volumes of empirical data about the system states. While generating the knowledge the lore of experts is not required.

Ideas, approaches and methods of Physics of Systems are realized in information technologies. Technologies of Physics of Systems form the analytical core of the software-based technological cluster of Physics of Systems.

The Analytical Core automatically generates the symbolized system knowledge, automatically transforms the symbolized knowledge into comprehensible, reliable scientific knowledge, automatically begets for the open systems the accomplished scientific reconstructions of their states and their evolution, generates the solutions bases of the system problems, builds landscapes and decisions profiles, determines and analyses the properties of the solutions.

Physics of Systems and the technologies of its Analytical Core had given rise to the new generation of the technological platforms of the solutions' preparation on the basis of the scientific knowledge.

The technologies of Physics of Systems are approved in projects of natural science, humanitarian and technospheric projects:

  • system biology, theoretical medicine, human ecology, environmental protection.
  • planetary physics, heliogeophysics.
  • security
  • economical behavior, business models, business-analytics.
  • technological platforms of solutions' preparation in information-analytical, situational and logical centers.

 

Formation

Systemological conception of Physics of Systems had arisen from the decision of the general task of reconstructive analysis of complex systems according to empirical descriptions. (Kachanova T.L., Fomin B.F.). That decision had given rise to the fundamental scientific knowledge about internal world of the open systems [1, 2, 3].

Analytical apparatus of Physics of Systems (as a postcybernetic paradigm of systemology) had formed as a result of development of the open systems' language and the qualimetry of the system knowledge (Kachanova T.L., Fomin B.F.). Through this achievement the scientific understanding and rational explanation of the open systems' complexity on the basis of theory became possible [4].

The formation of the Physics of Systems had ended after the problem solving of scientifically proven descriptions' synthesis of concrete states phenomena and evolution of the open systems (Kachanova T.L., Fomin B.F.).

 

The Analytical Core

The technologies of Physics of Systems formed “the intellectual machine” of the open systems' complexity cognition. Today there’re three technologies of the Physics of Systems which comprise the Analytical Core of this “machine”, namely the technology of system reconstruction (ontological modeling), the technology of system examination (communicative modeling), the technology of system design (modeling of the states and evolution ones).

Focus on data

Integration in the united centre on the unified technological base of all accumulated empirical data about the open system.
Full-scale scientific examination of initial empirical context of the open system.
Design of the system knowledge's informational resource.
Design and management of the system’s informational monitoring.

Focus on knowledge

Generation, integration and interfacing of the scientific knowledge about the system in the united centre on the unified technological base.
System examination of both the quality and completeness of the system knowledge.
Design of system solutions on the basis of the knowledge.

Limitations

There’re no principle limitations on technologies applicability in different subject areas to the open systems possessing large complexity and large scale.

Outputs

States models. Scientific understanding, rational explanation of the states.
Evolution model of the system’s states. Scientific understanding, rational explanation of the evolution.
Formal descriptions of the system’s properties. Scientific understanding and rational explanation of these properties.
Informational, intellectual, technological, innovative resources of solutions production on the basis of the scientific knowledge.

Inputs

Empirical context of the system

Implementation scenario

Universal

Automatisation

Full

Productivity

High

Interdisciplinary interaction

On the basis of open systems' language and qualimetry of words and concepts of the language.

Contribution of the subject area experts

While preparing the initial empirical context of the system and while stating the target problems. While cognizing and evaluating the utility of acquired scientific knowledge and while choosing the spheres and methods of its application.

 

Technologies of the Analytical Core provided

  • The production and quality's certification of informational resources of the scientific knowledge's generation about the open systems and systemic problems.
  • The expertise of the informational resources' sufficiency for the accomplished knowledge's generation about open systems and for receiving of complete solutions of the target problems.
  • Defects diagnosis of the informational resources; requirements' forming to the design and management of informational monitorings of systems and problems.
  • Intellectual resources' generation (system knowledge bases) for scientific understanding and rational explanation of the open systems' complexity.
  • The expertise of actuality, applicability and sufficiency of the intellectual resources for scientific understanding and rational explanation of properties, states and evolution of open systems, receiving of accomplished solutions of concrete target problems.
  • Innovative resources' generation of the system problems' solutions.

 

Technologies of the Analytical Core laid foundation for

  • Huge volumes' mastering of accumulated empirical data about natural, humanitarian and technogenic systems.
  • The creation of the bases of reliable scientific knowledge about the open systems on the basis of available empirical databases about these systems' states.
  • Comprehensive solutions' generation for complex problems of the open systems on the basis of scientific knowledge.
  • Technological barriers' elimination of interdisciplinary interaction on the basis of the broad use of the open systems' language and the qualimetry of the system knowledge.
  • Designing and management of informational monitorings on the basis of the knowledge.
  • The creating of the new generation of decision support systems.
  • Problems resolution of the accumulation, coupling, storage and usage of the system knowledge on the principles of integrated informational infrastructures (I3) and research infrastructures (RIs).
  • The creation of technological platforms R&D, based on the knowledge.

 

Software-based technological cluster of the Physics of Systems

The cluster is the unique infrastructural operational centre of competence. The experience of the knowledge generation on the basis of technologies of physics of systems is concentrated in it. The cluster provided the new level of capabilities, productivity and quality.

 

 

Technology of System Reconstructions
(Ontological modeling)

Generates, organizes, shapes and represents the intellectual resource (the base of the scientific system knowledge).
Usage mode - automatic.
Inputs: empirical context of the system.
Outputs: the base of the scientific system knowledge; normative documentary reports “Solution Image”, “Solution Space”, “Solution Configuration”.

Technology of System Examination
(Communicative modeling)

Realizes the analysis of meaning, explanation and determination of the intellectual resource's all elements, evaluates the received scientific system knowledge from the position of its reliability, fullness, completeness, applicability, significance and actuality.
Usage mode - automatic.
Inputs: the base of the scientific system knowledge.
Outputs: normative documentary reports “Solution Quality”, “Solution Volume”, “Solution Essence”.

Technology of System Design
(Modeling of states and evolution)

Realizes the synthesis of adequate verified models of both the system's states and evolution of system's states, investigates the systems properties.
Generates, organizes, shapes and configures problems' system solutions.
Usage mode - automatic.
Inputs: informational, intellectual and technological resources.
Outputs: global, local and target scientific reconstructions of system states; global, local and target scientific reconstructions of the system's states evolution; normative documentary reports “Solutions Field”, “Solutions Base”, “Solutions Properties”.

Technology of Empirical Contexts' Formation

Converts multi-purpose vision of the system into the informational resource of the preparation of solutions.
Usage mode - automated.
Inputs: the empirical data about observed states of the system.
Outputs: the empirical context of the system; normative documentary report “Empirical Description”.

Technology of Solutions Behavior Generation

Creates the detailed behavioral system portraits and “animates” system solutions.
High-automated interface to the standard environments of computer simulation is being provided.
Usage mode - automated.
Inputs: resources of the knowledge (informational, intellectual, technological and innovative).
Outputs: normative documentary report “Behavioral Portraits”.

Technology of Analytical and Graphical Solutions Representation

Shapes the solutions for presentation to experts of subject domain.
High-automated interface to standard tools of Data Mining which are used for received solutions' figuration is being supported.
Usage mode - automated.
Inputs: resources of the knowledge (informational, intellectual, technological and innovative).
Outputs: normative documentary report “Solution”.

 

Network activities

The cluster of Physics of Systems strengthens the effectiveness of systems “Consortium - Scientific Group - R&D”; provides harmonization of all participants' interests of the research process; balances their efforts and speeds up goals achievement.

Means and resources of the cluster are available for scientific groups and consortiums through electronic communications on the principles of I3 (Integrated Infrastructural Initiatives) and RIs (Research Infrastructures).

The cluster possesses the unique functionality of the scientific solutions' preparation:

  • Unites informational resources of the individual scientific groups into uniform resource of the project.
  • Evaluates the quality and sufficiency of the informational resource from the positions of decision of every scientific task of the project.
  • Promotes the development of the project’s informational resource through the global coverage of the informational landscape and through the access to data sources in heterogeneous environment.
  • Strengthens the intellectual potential of the scientific group (consortium) by means of elimination of the technological barriers of interdisciplinary interaction of the project’s participants on every direction and stage of the research.
  • Improves coordination of implementation and culture of cooperation, organizes the work of all the participants of the project according to unified scenario covering the full cycle of the automatic preparation of solutions resources.
  • Generates the scientific knowledge on the project’s problems (intellectual resource).
  • Realizes all-round expertise of fullness, completeness, reliability, constructibility, applicability of the acquired knowledge (technological resource). Evaluates the risk of getting the negative answers due to the deficit of knowledge.
  • Receives model solutions of the system problems (innovative resource).
  • Reveals the new directions of researches, which are well-provided by resources.
  • Introduces the new practice of scientific problems’ solutions on the unified technological platform of the knowledge.
  • Masters all the volume of accumulated empirical data on system problems and on their basis forms the certified informational resource - empirical descriptions of the research objects (of the systems, phenomena, processes, problems).
  • Automatically generates and conducts automatic certification of intellectual, technological and innovative resources of the system problems' solutions.
  • Supports accumulation, storage, maintenance, expertise and exploitation of all the solutions resources in the united centre.
  • Automatically generates normative documentary reports about solutions resources, reached level of scientific understanding, rational explanation, representation and socialization of scientific knowledge and solutions received on the basis of the knowledge.
  • Automatically prepares and publishes normative documentary reports about resources of solutions and the development of resources.

 

Joint activities

The cluster of Physics of Systems furthers researches efficiency growth.

  • Consolidates and harmonizes researches.
  • Extends opportunities of scientific groups and consortiums.
  • Accelerates the dynamics, increases the flexibility of linked and joint researches.
  • Leads to the new quality.
  • Increases the competitiveness of the researches results.
  • Moves forward to the technological superiority.

 

The technological base of Physics of Systems is developing

The Technology of the Empirical Contexts' Formation is improving; the Technologies of Problem Vision Forming, Subject Examination and Laws Figuration are being created.

These technologies will soon be a part of the cluster of Physics of Systems.

In final version the cluster of Physics of Systems will comprise nine technologies in which the Physics of Systems will receive its full embodiment.

 

Leadership and independence of technologies

Technologies of Physics of Systems

Readiness by 2008

Innovative process duration

2009

2010

2011

World leaders. Independence is provided with

Technology of System Reconstructions

[5]

[5]

[5]

[5]

Technology of System Examination

[5]

[5]

[5]

[5]

Technology of System Design

[4]

[4]

[4]

[5]

While carrying out the right operations from 2009 till 2011 the independent world leaders can become

Technology of Empirical Contexts' Formation

[3]

[4]

[4]

[5]

Technology of Problems Vision Forming

[2]

[3]

[3]

[4]

Technology of Subject Examination

[2]

[3]

[3]

[4]

Technology of Laws Figuration

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

Dependence is inessential

Technology of Solutions Behavior Generation

[4]

[4]

[5]

[5]

Technology of Analytical and Graphic Solutions Representation

[4]

[4]

[5]

[5]

1[2] ([3]) – breadboard model is in laboratory (real) medium, [4] – prototype is in real medium, [5] – full readiness.

 
Application examples of Physics of Systems
  • Global system phenomena reconstructions of the solar activity and its influence on processes in geosphere and biosphere.
  • The research of the personnel health, working environment and the environmental conditions in the course of chemical weapons destruction, missile armament utilization and missile fuel components.
  • Scientific knowledge's generation about global mechanisms of organophosphorus toxic substances' influence on a man.
  • The creation of a new analytical platform to solve problems of system biology and computational toxicology.
  • Global system reconstructions of physiological and etiopathogenetic mechanisms of forming the bronchi obstruction.
  • The analysis of tension in the districts and regions of Russia.
  • The analytical core of situational centers of the federal public authorities.
  • The system analysis of products and technologies quality of metallurgical production.
  • Financial stability of Russian companies in metallurgy, machine building and O&G.

 

Publications

1. Kachanova T.L., Fomin B.F. Foundations of the systemology of phenomenal world. SPb.: Publishing Centre SPbGETU (St.Petersburg Electrotechnical University “LETI”), 1999, 180 p. (in Russian).

2. Kachanova T.L., Fomin B.F. Meta-technology of system reconstructions. SPb.: Publishing Centre SPbGETU (St.Petersburg Electrotechnical University “LETI”), 2002, 336 p. (in Russian).

3. Kachanova T.L., Fomin B.F. Technology of system reconstructions. In: Problems of innovation development, issue 2, Publishing Centre Politechnika, St.Petersburg, 2003, 146 p. (in Russian).

4. Kachanova T.L., Fomin B.F. Introduction into language of systems. SPb.: Publishing House “Nauka”, 2009, 340 p. (in Russian).