CAST Methods in Modelling

1 Introduction.- 1.1 Problem-Solving by Models.- 1.2 Systems Theory Instrumented Modelling.- 1.3 CAST - Computer Aided Systems Theory.- 1.4 CAST Methods in Modelling: An Overview.- References - Chapter 1.- 2 Cast Method Bank Systems.- 2.1 CAST Method Bank System Design.- 2.2 CAST.FSM - Finite State Machine Method Bank System.- 2.3 CAST.FOURIER - Method Bank for Generalized Spectral Techniques.- 2.4 CAST.LISAS - Simulation Tool for Regular Networks of Finite State Machines.- 2.5 CAST.PN - An Editor and Simulation Tool for Petri Nets.- 2.6 CAST Applications.- References - Chapter 2.- 3 Modelling and Simulation.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 System Specification Formalisms.- 3.3 Abstract Simulator Concepts.- 3.4 Implementations of Modelling and Simulation Environments.- 3.5 Multifacetted Modelling.- 3.6 Towards Variable Structure Modelling and Simulation.- References - Chapter 3.- 4 Machine Vision.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 CAST and Machine Vision.- 4.3 Modelling Objects for Visual Recognition.- 4.4 Spontaneous Recognition of Structured Objects.- 4.5 An Integrated Development Tool for Machine Vision.- References - Chapter 4.- 5 Implementation Issues.- 5.1 Software Development for CAST.- 5.2 Building Class Hierarchies.- 5.3 Browsers for CAST Tools.- 5.4 Implementing Data Persistency in LISP.- 5.5 Direct Embedding of Procedural Code in LISP.- References - Chapter 5.- Appendix: CAST.FSM User's Guide.- A.1 CAST.FSM Background.- A.2 System Requirements.- A.2.1 Hardware.- A.2.2 Software.- A.3 CAST.FSM Installation.- A.4 Starting a CAST Session and Browsing.- A.4.1 The CAST Class Browser.- A.4.2 The CAST Instance Browser.- A.4.3 Defining a System.- A.4.4 Petri Nets Make the Difference.- A.5 Table Editing.- A.6 Analysis Operations.- A.6.1 I/O-Experiment.- A.6.2Lattice.- A.6.3 Others.- A.7 Synthesis, System Transformations and the Realization Tree.- A.8 Living with a Prototype: Errors and Breaks.- A.8.1 Beginners and casual CAST.FSM Users.- A.8.2 Power Users.- A.9 Saving Realizations on Files.- References - Appendix.