GATE ELEMENT
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 1388 ▶ |
| Object type | Methodology or model |
A processor through which the system receives or emits. the inputs or outputs which affect its behavior (definition adapted from J.L.LE MOIGNE, 1977, p.89).
LE MOIGNE uses this concept, proposed by KLIR and LÖFGREN as a part of his general model of the system.
These processors constitute a finite set :“… they play a specially privileged part in the definition of the ”Syst+me G+n+ral“ in view that it is through these that the Representation System (i.e. the observer) observes the behavioral sequences of the object to be modelized (Ibid).
LE MOIGNE adds: “It results from this definition that a closed system has no gates (i.e. boundary) ! Or in a less paradoxical fashion, that its environment is empty” (Ibid).
Let us remember that it would be better to speak of an \term“{isolated system}”, which is a pure abstraction and no model of any concrete system.