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Title: Discrete Event Systems: Modeling and Performance Analysis (The Aksen Associates Series in Electrical and Computer Engineering) by Christos G. Cassandras ISBN: 0-256-11212-6 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math Pub. Date: February, 1993 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $107.81

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Summary: A must-read for any Discrete Systems Engineering
Comment: 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.