The Boolean functions may be iterated either asynchronously, when
their coordinates are computed independently of each other, or
synchronously, when their coordinates are computed at the same
time. In Boolean Systems: Topics in Asynchronicity, a book
addressed to mathematicians and computer scientists interested in
Boolean systems and their use in modelling, author Serban E. Vlad
presents a consistent and original mathematical theory of the
discrete-time Boolean asynchronous systems. The purpose of the book
is to set forth the concepts of such a theory, resulting from the
synchronous Boolean system theory and mostly from the synchronous
real system theory, by analogy, and to indicate the way in which
known synchronous deterministic concepts generate new asynchronous
nondeterministic concepts. The reader will be introduced to the
dependence on the initial conditions, periodicity,
path-connectedness, topological transitivity, and chaos. A property
of major importance is invariance, which is present in five
versions. In relation to it, the reader will study the maximal
invariant subsets, the minimal invariant supersets, the minimal
invariant subsets, connectedness, separation, the basins of
attraction, and attractors. The stability of the systems and their
time-reversal symmetry end the topics that refer to the systems
without input. The rest of the book is concerned with input
systems. The most consistent chapters of this part of the book
refer to the fundamental operating mode and to the combinational
systems (systems without feedback). The chapter Wires, Gates, and
Flip-Flops presents a variety of applications. The first appendix
addresses the issue of continuous time, and the second one sketches
the important theory of Daizhan Cheng, which is put in relation to
asynchronicity. The third appendix is a bridge between
asynchronicity and the symbolic dynamics of Douglas Lind and Brian
Marcus.
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