Discrete Event Systems, Manufacturing Systems, and Communication Networks
By: edited by P.R. Kumar, P.P. Varaiya
Contributors: Varaiya, P. P.
Series: The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications -- 73; IMA volumes in mathematics and its applications -- 73.
Publisher: Springer New York
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9781461393498; 9781461393474
Subjects: Mechanics; Mathematics; Mathematical optimization; Systems theory
Description: The study of discrete event dynamical systems (DEDS) has become rapidly popular among researchers in systems and control, in communication networks, in manufacturing, and in distributed computing. This development has created problems for researchers and potential "consumers" of the research. The first problem is the veritable Babel of languages, formalisms, and approaches, which makes it very difficult to determine the commonalities and distinctions among the competing schools of approaches. The second, related problem arises from the different traditions, paradigms, values, and experiences that scholars bring to their study of DEDS, depending on whether they come from control, communication, computer science, or mathematical logic. As a result, intellectual exchange among scholars becomes compromised by unexplicated assumptions.
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