Introduction to Discrete Event Systems

A substantial portion of this book is a revised version of Discrete Event Systems: Modeling and Performance Analysis (1993), which was written by the first author and received the 1999 Harold Chestnut Prize, awarded by the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) for best control enginee...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cassandras, Christos G., Lafortune, Stéphane (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1999, 1999
Edition:1st ed. 1999
Series:The International Series on Discrete Event Dynamic Systems
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Systems and Models
  • 2 Languages and Automata
  • 3 Supervisory Control
  • 4 Petri Nets
  • 5 Timed Models
  • 6 Stochastic Timed Automata
  • 7 Markov Chains
  • 8 Introduction to Queueing Theory
  • 9 Controlled Markov Chains
  • 10 Introduction to Discrete-Event Simulation
  • 11 Sensitivity Analysis and Concurrent Estimation
  • I Review of Probability Theory
  • I.1 Basic Concepts and Definitions
  • I.2 Conditional Probability
  • I.3 Random Variables
  • I.4 Conditional Distributions
  • I.5 Functions of Random Variables
  • I.6 Expectation
  • I.7 Characteristic Functions
  • I.8 Random Sequences and Random Processes
  • II IPA Estimator
  • About the Authors