Complex systems from the perspective of category theory I

functioning of the adjunction concept

Elias Zafiris

pp. 147-158

in: Axiomathes 15 (1), 2005.

Abstract

We develop a category theoretical scheme for the comprehension of the information structure associated with a complex system, in terms of families of partial or local information carriers. The scheme 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.