Christos Cassandras and Stéphane Lafortune are happy to announce the publication of the third edition of their textbook, Introduction to Discrete Event Systems, by Springer in November 2021. The first two editions of this popular textbook were published in 1999 (Kluwer Academic Publishers) and 2008 (Springer), respectively.
This unique textbook comprehensively introduces the field of discrete event systems, offering a breadth of coverage that makes the material accessible to readers of varied backgrounds. The book emphasizes a unified modeling framework that transcends specific application areas, linking the following topics in a coherent manner: language and automata theory, supervisory control, Petri net theory, Markov chains and queueing theory, discrete-event simulation, and perturbation analysis and concurrent estimation techniques.
The third edition is a “superset” of the second one, with new material added based on our teaching of discrete event systems courses at Boston University and at the University of Michigan, and they reflect active research trends in discrete event systems since the publication of the second edition.
Topics and features:
- detailed treatment of automata and language theory in the context of discrete event systems, including application to state estimation and diagnosis
- comprehensive coverage of centralized and decentralized supervisory control
- timed models, including timed automata and hybrid automata
- stochastic models for discrete event systems and controlled Markov chains
- discrete event simulation
- an introduction to stochastic hybrid systems
- sensitivity analysis and optimization of discrete event and hybrid systems
- new in the third edition: opacity properties, enhanced coverage of event diagnosis and of supervisory control under partial observation, overview of latest software tools, updated treatment of Infinitesimal Perturbation Analysis and of concurrent estimation
This proven textbook is essential to students and researchers in a variety of disciplines where the study of discrete event systems is relevant: control, communications, computer engineering, computer science, manufacturing engineering, transportation networks, operations research, and industrial engineering.
This book is available through SpringerLink as an e-book (PDF and EPUB formats) or as a print-on-demand hard cover at
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-72274-6
The e-book is available for free download at Springer subscribing institutions.
Bibliographic information:
ISBN 978-3-030-72272-2
ISBN 978-3-030-72274-6 (eBook)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72274-6
Christos G. Cassandras is Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Professor of Systems Engineering, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University.
Stéphane Lafortune is the N. Harris McClamroch Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
