Generalized Net Interpretations of Ivan Dimitrov's Informational Theory of Diseases

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Generalized Net Interpretations of Ivan Dimitrov's Informational Theory of Diseases is a book by Anthony Shannon, Joseph Sorsich, Krassimir Atanassov and Valentina Radeva, published in 2001 by "Prof. Marin Drinov" Publishing House of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, under ISBN 954-430-833-4.

Table of contents

• Preface
• In memoriam
• Chapter 1: Ivan Dimitrov's informational theory of diseases
  • 1.1 Informational models of diseases
  • 1.2 Cooperative systems
    • 1.2.1 Introduction
    • 1.2.2 Definitions
    • 1.2.3 Links
    • 1.2.4 Principles of a cooperation
  • 1.3 Cooperative machine
    • 1.3.1 Analogy between the machine and the living organism
    • 1.3.2 The functional design of the cooperative machine
  • 1.4 Biological basis of informational theory of diseases
    • 1.4.1 The informones
    • 1.4.2 Life, disease, old age and death from the point of view of cooperation
  • 1.5 Informational mechanisms of diseases
  • 1.6 Informational theory of diseases and diagnostic and therapeutic processes
    • 1.6.1 Diagnostics
    • 1.6.2 Informational theory of diseases and therapy
    • 1.6.3 Informational pathology and the classification of diseases
  • 1.7 Concluding remarks
• Chapter 2: Short remarks on the theory of generalized nets
• Chapter 3: Generalized net models of elements of the informational theory of diseases
  • 3.1 GN-interpretations of the basic components of the cooperative machine
  • 3.2 GN-interpretations of the functional organization of the cooperative machine
  • 3.3 GN-models of medical processes
• Chapter 4: First steps to a global generalized net model of the human body
  • 4.1 A global GN model of a human body
  • 4.2 GN model of the cardiovascular system
  • 4.3 The foreign object principle and generalized net interpretations of its bio-medical examples
• Bibliography