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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: IET Syst Biol. 2010 Nov;4(6):453–466. doi: 10.1049/iet-syb.2010.0015

Table 1.

Operators and symbols used in MFA structures

Operator/symbol Definition
x := a Assignment of a value a to a variable x
x = a Comparison between x and a
/a Delimiter that precedes an operation a
a Delimiter that precedes a predicate a
a.b Component operator: b is a member of a
AB Bond association between A and B
xA Mapping input x to machine A