1. Automata Theory -- Decomposition Theorems -- 2. Linear Systems Theory -- Algebraic Method for Calculating z-Transform -- The Formal Laplace Transform for Smooth Linear Systems -- On Invariants, Canonical Forms and Moduli for Linear, Constant, Finite Dimensional, Dynamical Systems -- System...

1 Introduction to Materials Management -- 1.1 Historical Development: A Brief Review -- 1.2 The Company Process and its Organization -- 1.3 The Company as a System -- 1.4 Application of the System Model to Materials Management -- 2 What is Materials Management? -- 2.1 Definition -- 2.2 Contents...