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 consists solely of discrete state spaces and event-driven state transition mechanisms.
Topics in DEDS include:
- Automata theory
- Supervisory control theory
- Petri net theory
- Discrete event system specification
- Boolean differential calculus
- Markov chain
- Queueing theory
- Discrete-event simulation
- Concurrent estimation
References
- "IEEE CSS Technical Committee on Discrete Event Systems".
- Cassandras, C. G.; Lafortune, S. (2008). Introduction to Discrete Event Systems. Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-33332-8.
- Kumar, Ratnesh; Garg, Vijay K. (1995). Modeling and Control of Logical Discrete Event Systems. Springer. ISBN 978-0-7923-9538-6.