Cospans, Wiring Diagrams, and the Behavioral Approach

joint with Brendan Fong

We’re getting ready for the Turin workshop on the Categorical Foundations of Network Theory. So, we’re trying to get our thoughts in order.

Last time we talked about understanding types of networks as categories of decorated cospans. Earlier, David Spivak told us about understanding networks as algebras of an operad. Both these frameworks work at capturing notions of modularity and interconnection. Are they then related? How?

In this post we want to discuss some simil...