CRC出版的关于离散事件建模与仿真的教材ProductDescriptionComplexartificialdynamicsystemsrequireadvancedmodelingtechniquesthatcanaccommodatetheirasynchronous,concurrent,andhighlynon-linearnature.DiscreteEventsystemsSpecification(DEVS)providesaformalframeworkforhierarchicalconstructionofdiscrete-eventmodelsinamodularmanner,allowingformodelre-useandreduceddevelopmenttime.DiscreteEventModelingandSimulationpresentsapracticalapproachfocusedonthecreationofdiscrete-eventapplications.ThebookintroducestheCD++tool,anopen-sourceframeworkthatenablesthesimulationofdiscrete-eventmodels.AftersettingupthebasictheoryofDEVSandCell-DEVS,theauthorfocusesonhowtousetheCD++tooltodefineavarietyofmodelsinbiology,physics,chemistry,andartificialsystems.Theyalsodemonstratehowtomapdifferentmodelingtechniques,suchasFiniteStateMachinesandVHDL,toDEVS.Thein-depthcoverageelaboratesonthecreationofsimulationsoftwareforDEVSmodelsandthe3Dvisualizationenvironmentsassociatedwiththesetools.Amuch-neededpracticalapproachtocreatingdiscrete-eventapplications,thisbookoffersworld-classinstructiononthefield’smostusefulmodelingtools.AbouttheAuthorCarletonUniversity,Ottawa,Ontario,Canada