文档介绍：Journal putational Science 2 (2011) 165–177
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Beyond graphs: A new synthesis
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Claudio Mattiussi , Peter Dürr, Daniel Marbach, Dario Floreano
Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
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Article history: Artificial works, electronic circuits, and works are some examples of systems that can
Received 28 July 2010
be modeled works, that is, as collections of interconnected nodes. In this paper we introduce the
Received in revised form 11 January 2011
concept of the terminal graph (t-graph for short), which improves on the concept of graph as a unifying
Accepted 25 January 2011
principle for the representation, computational synthesis, and inference of technological and biological
Available online 10 March 2011
networks. We begin by showing how to use the t-graph concept to better understand the working of
existing methods for putational synthesis works. Then, we discuss the issue of the “missing
Keywords:
methods”, that is, of putational methods work synthesis whose existence can be inferred
Graph
using the perspective provided by the concept of t-graph. Finally, ment on the application of the
Terminal graph (t-graph)
t-graph perspective to problems work inference, to the field works, works,
Network representation
Network synthesis and to the understanding of works and developmental processes.
Network inference © 2011 Elsevier . All rights reserved.
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1. Introduction vides mon framework for the classification and assessment of
existing methods, and for the design of new methods for -
Many biological and technological systems of considerable rel- putational synthesis and inference works. Thus, in addition
evance can be modeled works, that is, as c