Perturbation Analysis of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems

✍ Scribed by Yu-Chi Ho, Xi-Ren Cao (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 448
• Series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science 145
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Dynamic Systems (DEDS) are almost endless: military C31 Ilogistic systems, the emergency ward of a metropolitan hospital, back offices of large insurance and brokerage fums, service and spare part operations of multinational fums . . . . the point is the pervasive nature of such systems in the daily life of human beings. Yet DEDS is a relatively new phenomenon in dynamic systems studies. From the days of Galileo to Newton to quantum mechanics and cosmology of the present, dynamic systems in nature are primarily differential equations based and time driven. A large literature and endless success stories have been built up on such Continuous Variable Dynamic Systems (CVDS). It is, however, equally clear that DEDS are fundamentally different from CVDS. They are event driven, asynchronous, mostly man-made and only became significant during the past generation. Increasingly, however, it can be argued that in the modem world our lives are being impacted by and dependent upon the efficient operations of such DEDS. Yet compared to the successful paradigm of differential equations for CVDS the mathematical modelling of DEDS is in its infancy. Nor are there as many successful and established techniques for their analysis and synthesis. The purpose of this series is to promote the study and understanding of the modelling, analysis, control, and management of DEDS. The idea of the series came from editing a special issue of the Proceedings of IEEE on DEOS during 1988.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Introduction to Discrete Event Dynamic Systems....Pages 1-13
Introduction to Perturbation Analysis....Pages 15-27
Informal Treatment of Infinitesimal Perturbation Analysis....Pages 29-56
Foundations of Perturbation Analysis....Pages 57-136
Extensions of Infinitesimal Perturbation Analysis....Pages 137-183
Finite Perturbation Analysis....Pages 185-227
Generalized Sensitivity Analysis....Pages 229-276
Aggregation, Decomposition, and Equivalence....Pages 277-310
Back Matter....Pages 311-433

✦ Subjects

Electrical Engineering; Operation Research/Decision Theory