Introduction to Discrete Event Systems

Stephane Lafortune Christos G. Cassandras

ISBN 10: 0792386094 / ISBN 13: 9780792386094

Published by Springer, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Introduction to Discrete Event Systems
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792386094
• ISBN 13: 9780792386094
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Book by Cassandras, Christos G., Lafortune, Stephane

From the Back Cover

Introduction to Discrete Event Systems is a comprehensive introduction to the field of discrete event systems, offering a breadth of coverage that makes the material accessible to readers of varied backgrounds. The book emphasizes a unified modeling framework that transcends specific application areas, linking the following topics in a coherent manner: language and automata theory, supervisory control, Petri net theory, Markov chains and queueing theory, discrete-event simulation, and concurrent estimation techniques.

Distinctive features of the second edition include:

• more detailed treatment of equivalence of automata, event diagnosis, and decentralized event diagnosis
• expanded treatment of centralized and decentralized control of partially-observed systems
• new sections on timed automata with guards (in the Alur-Dill formalism) and hybrid automata
• an introduction to hybrid systems
• updated coverage of discrete event simulation, including new software tools available
• recent developments in sensitivity analysis for discrete event systems as well as hybrid systems

This textbook is valuable to advanced-level students and researchers in a variety of disciplines where the study of discrete event systems is relevant: control, communications, computer engineering, computer science, manufacturing engineering, operations research, and industrial engineering.