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Kercel - chapters in “Systems Biology: Principles, Methods and Concepts”

Friday, May 11th, 2007

From an October 2006 post by Steve Kercel on the ROSEN-L discussion list:
Many of the issues that you have been discussing are addressed in
Systems Biology: Principles, Methods, and Concepts edited by
Andrzej Konopka, ISBN: 0824725204 published by CRC. ….
I have two chapters in the book. One discusses closure to efficient cause
from an engineering perspective, and the […]

Hofmeyr - chapter in “Systems Biology: Philosophical Foundations”

Friday, May 11th, 2007

From a March post by Jannie Hofmeyr on the ROSEN discussion list:
Yesterday a new book entitled “Systems Biology: Philosophical Foundations”
was published by Elsevier. In it I have a chapter entitled “The biochemical
factory that autonomously fabricates itself: A systems-biological view of
the living cell” which was inspired mainly by Rosen. I also link M,R-systems
to Von Neumann’s self-reproducing automata […]

Effective Processes, Computation, and Complexity

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

 

In 1936, two important papers in the field of mathematics and logic were published. One was “An Unsolvable Problem of Elementary Number Theory” by Alonzo Church. [1] The other was “On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem” by Alan Turing. [2] These papers were aimed at providing formal and rigorous definitions of the […]