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You would have to be more precise in describing what you mean by "all relationships between systems". A simple graph (meaning vertices and edges with no additio
by ironSkillet 8y ago
You would have to be more precise in describing what you mean by "all relationships between systems". A simple graph (meaning vertices and edges with no additional information) can encode the notions of a system and the existence of relationships between two systems, but without more structure you can't day much more. But this is already useful. If you have a big system you're trying to understand, a good first step is to draw a graph of the major components with edges indicating a dependency.
- elbear 8y agoSystems interact through inputs and outputs, right? I mean, one system's output can be another system's input and even the second system's output can be the first one's input. I guess my question was if there's something that can't be described or modelled with graphs. As I said, my intuition is fuzzy, because I don't know much graph theory.