For some distributed parameter systems the vectors may be infinite-dimensional (typically functions).

The award was given based on "fundamental contributions to control of distributed parameter systems and computational mathematics."

This article is an example from the domain of electrical systems, which is a special case of the more general distributed parameter systems.

Theories in physics like the Butterfly effect from chaos theory open up the possibility of a type of distributed parameter systems in causality.

A distributed parameter system (as opposed to a lumped parameter system) is a system whose state space is infinite-dimensional.