Discrete event dynamic system

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In control engineering, a discrete event dynamic system (DEDS) is a discrete-state, event-driven system of which the state evolution depends entirely on the occurrence of asynchronous discrete events over time. Although similar to continuous-variable dynamic systems (CVDS), DEDS contains solely of discrete state spaces and event-driven state transition mechanisms.

Topics in DEDS include:

• Automata theory
• Supervisory control
• Petri net
• Markov chain
• Queueing theory
• Discrete event simulation
• Concurrent estimation

[edit] References

• Cassandras, C.G.; Lafortune, S. (2008). Introduction to Discrete Event Systems. Springer. ISBN 0387333320.