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Daisyworld & Beyond is a research network organised around a focal, "self-regulating" feedback control system - Daisyworld - that was originally formulated in terms of coupling between life and its material environment, but is used here as a launch platform for considering self-regulation in any complex system with multiple feedback loops.
The Daisyworld model itself is being widely applied to problems in cybernetics, complex systems theory, physiology, evolution, ecology, Earth system science and information technology. The network will bring together scientists from this diversity of fields, whose common interest in Daisyworld, coupled with their own avenues of research, have given them a strong interest in systems theory. As a focus for research in this area, we encourage researchers to register their interest by becoming a member and by using the network to exchange information, ideas and proposals with other members. The network aims to synthesise existing work inspired by Daisyworld with established systems theory, focusing on the nature of the control system and its mathematical description. The natural scientists in the group will share knowledge with mathematicians, complex systems and telecommunications researchers. Then we will identify and consider a wider range of feedback control systems, and seek to contribute to a general mathematical theory of feedback control. We aim to identify interesting feedback control questions and problems and to design new model systems to help answer these. In particular, applications in telecommunications and computer systems including the Internet will be assessed, with the involvement of BT. The output of the network will be disseminated via this website and scientific papers. The knowledge gained will be shared with interested students, other networks and members of the broader scientific community. |
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