Introduction: Discrete Event Systems
Philippe Declerck · 2012
The main motivation of this book is the modeling of a class of dynamic systems usually called “discrete event systems” where the timing of the events is crucial. This book is based on the three following mainstays. The topic of dioid algebra as (max, +) algebra has existed for the past three decades. In conventional algebra, linear programming is the oldest. The third mainstay is the Petri net. This introductory chapter describes the three main concepts. The modeling of the time behaviors also plays an important role.