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The purpose of this paper is to solve particular cases of differential systems of equations which express the behaviour of conjugate systems, in order to see what kind of symmetry or harmony is established in the common evolution of the two systems.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p>Becoming with the Dubois' definition of conjugate retardation and anticipation variables and his mixed advanced\u2010retarded differential equations, the paper considers some cases: first case when information about future and past is kept constant, without and with an impulse from the side of the master system, then when information about future and respective past is a variable.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>In the case with variable information about future and past, and for a constant shift time, there are found exponential solutions; it has been ascertained that the two trajectories present a symmetry expressed by their proportionality all the time. A definition of symmetry by anticipation and retardation is given. It is also found that a system with uniform linear development cannot be in a symmetry by anticipation and retardation with any other system.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Practical implications<\/jats:title><jats:p>In the paper, the practical implications are linked by the relationship between man and his environment and how to consider the data delivered by forecast.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>The calculus and its results, the notion of symmetry by anticipation and retardation, examples and conclusions, all are original contributions.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/03684920910976871","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2009,10,5]],"date-time":"2009-10-05T10:50:42Z","timestamp":1254739842000},"page":"1162-1170","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Symmetry of conjugate systems with anticipation and retardation"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"38","author":[{"given":"Eufrosina","family":"Otlacan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]}],"member":"140","reference":[{"key":"key2022020520074856600_b1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Dubois, D.M. 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