Identification of a reversible catenary system by the measure of one compartment

Abstract

The known results on compartment system's identification requires observations and measures on some compartments. However, in many situations some compartments can not be measured, so the minimization of the compartment's number to be measured is a very important problem to solve. In this work, this problem had been solved for a class of compartmental systems. It is proved that all reversible catenary system is identifiable by the measure of one compartment, the principal compartment.