In control engineering, a discrete-event dynamic system (DEDS) is a discrete-state, event-driven system of which the state evolution depends entirely on the occurrence of asynchronous discrete events over time. Although similar to continuous-variable dynamic systems (CVDS), DEDS consists solely of discrete state spaces and event-driven state transition mechanisms.

Topics in DEDS include:

• Automata theory
• Supervisory control theory
• Petri net theory
• Discrete event system specification
• Boolean differential calculus
• Markov chain
• Queueing theory
• Discrete-event simulation
• Concurrent estimation

References

• "IEEE CSS Technical Committee on Discrete Event Systems".
• Cassandras, C. G.; Lafortune, S. (2008). Introduction to Discrete Event Systems. Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-33332-8.
• Kumar, Ratnesh; Garg, Vijay K. (1995). Modeling and Control of Logical Discrete Event Systems. Springer. ISBN 978-0-7923-9538-6.