Discrete Event Sys Modeling & Performance (The Aksen Associates Series in Electrical and Computer Engineering)

By Christos G. Cassandras

The aim of this text is to teach the student what discrete event systems (DES) are about and how they differ from "classical systems"; describe the differences between various modelling approaches;... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0256112126
• ISBN13: 9780256112122
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 790 Pages
• Weight: 2.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.3" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

A must-read for any Discrete Systems Engineering

Cassandras' "Discrete Event Systems" is up there with Horowitz and Hill's "The Art of Electronics", Strang's "Introduction to Applied Mathematics" and Hayt and Kemmerly's "Engineering Circuit Analysis". These books all share an ability to take a complex area and cover it broadly, yet keep the reader interested and convey an infectious enthusiasm for the subject.Cassandras builds a basis for presentation by weaving together such diverse topics as continuous systems models, discrete time systems, automata theory and Markov chanis. These are used to present the notions of timed and untimed discrete event systems and elementary queuing theory. The theoretical developments consume about 6 of the 9 chapters. In addition, there is an excellent appendix on basic probability theory. The three remaining chapters (chapter 4, 8 and 9) focus directly on simulation. At any rate, this text requires minimal background (elementary knowledge of probability and differential equations) and it will leave you with a respectable background in Discrete Event Simulation -- and a whole lot of other related topics.