Plenary
Lecture
Nested Models Implemented in Nested Theories
Professor Eugene Kindler
Faculty of Science
University of Ostrava
Street 30. dubna 22, CZ - 701 03 Ostrava
CZECH REPUBLIC
E-mail:
ekindler@centrum.cz
Abstract:
Systems developed with human influence are often
facilitated by sophisticated information processing
components that influence the behavior of the system
itself. They can be automatic control automata and/or
humans. When it is necessary exactly to model such
systems (e.g. for their analysis but especially for
their simulation) the desire is to have a tool for their
exact describing, with a possibility to use the
description in further phases of the work (namely for
implementing simulation models) but also for readable
communication on the concerned system with other engaged
persons. Problems rise in case the described system has
an information processing unit that handles an internal
model of a certain system which would demand the same
tool. This system can be similar to the whole system or
not. Examples of the spectrum illustrating that
(non-)similarity will be given.
The solution consists in building formal theories in
that elements occur that are carriers of other formal
theories. These "local" formal theories may use some
information of the "world" in that their carriers occur,
i.e. may point out from them and penetrate to the formal
theory used for describing the system in that the
carriers occur and that can be influenced by those
carriers. In case we desire to have tools suitable
applicable for implementing computer models, the formal
theories can be suitable formulated in object-oriented
programming languages that are also block-oriented and
agent-oriented.
The characteristics of such languages that would
distinguish them from "poor" programming tools will be
presented, together with applications in logistics,
production, graphics and environmental science.
Brief Biography of the Speaker:
Eugene Kindler was born in 1935, studied mathematics at
Charles University in Prague, (Czechoslovakia) and then
computer science at the Research Institute of
Mathematical Machines in Prague. He is the author of the
first Czechoslovak ALGOL 60 compiler and the first
Czechoslovak simulation language and compiler (COSMO,
Compartmental System Modeling). Charles University
granted him PhDr in logic and RNDr (Rerum Naturalium
Doctor) in the theory of programming, Czechoslovak
Academy of Science granted him CSc (Candidate of
Sciences) in mathematics and physics. During 1958-1966
he worked with the Research Institute of Mathematical
Machines, then with the Institute of Biophysics of the
Faculty of General Medicine of Charles University (until
1973) and then with the Faculty of Mathematics and
Physics of the same University (until 2006). In
parallel, he engaged as professor of applied mathematics
at a new University of Ostrava (Czech Republic) and was
guest professor at the universities of Italian Pisa,
American Morgantown and French Clermont-Ferrand and
Lorient. Since 2006 he has been pensioned, collaborating
with the same Ostrava University as external specialist
in various research projects, in doctoral studies and
with a rather new Faculty of art.
Beside his official work in computer science, he applied
exact techniques (applied in programming language
analysis) to formulate the rhythmical laws of music in
free rhythm and is a director and soloist of singing
group Musica Poetica specialized to the chant originated
during the first millennium A.D. in Europe and certain
Near East Asian countries.
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