Abstract:Given two dynamical systems, we quantify how similar they are with respect to their interaction with the outside world. We focus on the case where simpler systems act as a specification for a more complex one. Combining a behavioral and probabilistic perspective we define several useful notions of the distance of a system to a specification.

We show that these distances can be used to tune a complex system. We demonstrate that our approach can successfully make non-linear networked systems beh… Show more
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