Lana Josipovic: Katalogdaten im Herbstsemester 2023

NameFrau Prof. Dr. Lana Josipovic
LehrgebietDigitale Systeme und Design- Automatisierung
Adresse
Inst. f. Techn. Informatik u. K.
ETH Zürich, ETZ G 82
Gloriastrasse 35
8092 Zürich
SWITZERLAND
Telefon+41 44 632 70 61
E-Mailljosipovic@ethz.ch
DepartementInformationstechnologie und Elektrotechnik
BeziehungAssistenzprofessorin (Tenure Track)

NummerTitelECTSUmfangDozierende
227-0102-00LDiscrete Event Systems Information 6 KP4GL. Josipovic, L. Vanbever, R. Wattenhofer
KurzbeschreibungIntroduction to discrete event systems. We start out by studying popular models of discrete event systems. Then we analyze discrete event systems from an average-case and from a worst-case perspective, and study verification. Topics include: Automata and Languages, Specification Models, Stochastic Discrete Event Systems, Worst-Case Event Systems, Verification, Petri Nets.
LernzielOver the past few decades the rapid evolution of computing, communication, and information technologies has brought about the proliferation of new dynamic systems. A significant part of activity in these systems is governed by operational rules designed by humans. The dynamics of these systems are characterized by asynchronous occurrences of discrete events, some controlled (e.g. hitting a keyboard key, sending a message), some not (e.g. spontaneous failure, packet loss).

The mathematical arsenal centered around differential equations that has been employed in systems engineering to model and study processes governed by the laws of nature is often inadequate or inappropriate for discrete event systems. The challenge is to develop new modeling frameworks, analysis techniques, design tools, testing methods, and optimization processes for this new generation of systems.

In this lecture we give an introduction to discrete event systems. We start out the course by exploring the limits of what is computable and what is not. In doing so, we will consider three distinct models of computation which are often used to model discrete event systems: finite automata, push-down automata and Turing machines (ranked in terms of expressiveness power). In the second part of the course we analyze discrete event systems. We first examine discrete event systems from an average-case perspective: we model discrete events as stochastic processes, and then apply continuous time markov chains and queueing theory for an understanding of the typical behavior of a system. Then we analyze discrete event systems from a worst-case perspective using the theory of online algorithms and adversarial queueing. In the last part of the course we introduce methods that allow to formally verify certain properties of Finite Automata and Petri Nets. These are some typical analysis questions we will look at: Do two given systems behave the same? Does a given system behave as intended? Does the system eventually enter a dangerous state?
Inhalt1. Regular Languages
2. Non-Regular Languages
3. Markov Chains
4. Stochastic Discrete Event Systems
5. Worst-Case Event Systems
6. Verification of Finite Automata
7. Petri Nets
SkriptAvailable at https://disco.ethz.ch/courses/des/
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