INLET
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 1705 ▶ |
| Object type | General information, Human sciences |
A channel or pocket within a system or subsystem.
An inlet corresponds to the penetration of part of the environment within the system. It is however more of a kind of internal extension of the boundary. In some sense, the whole of the digestive or the respiratory tract for example, could be considered as inlets, since their exchanges with the system proper take place only locally and through specific input (or output) transducers.
Inlets may end up as inclusions if the connection with the environment is completely severed. Such inclusions are generally, but not always, assimilated or eliminated after some time.
Social, economic and cultural analogies could be explored, as for example, foreign commercial communities within some nations or empires: Venetian or Genovese establishments within the Byzantine Empire was possibly a case.
See also
Frozen core