Bernard P. Zeigler [SEP] occupation
Bernard P. Zeigler
Bernard P. Zeigler (born March 5, 1940, in Montreal) is a Canadian engineer, and emeritus professor at the University of Arizona, known for inventing Discrete Event System Specification (DEVS) in 1976.
Zeigler received his BA in engineering physics in 1962 from McGill University, his M.S.E.E. from MIT in 1964, and his PhD in computer and communication science in 1969 from the University of Michigan. He started his academic career in 1969 as associate professor at the University of Michigan. From 1975 to
DEVS
DEVS abbreviating Discrete Event System Specification is a modular and hierarchical formalism for modeling and analyzing general systems that can be discrete event systems which might be described by state transition tables, and continuous state systems which might be described by differential equations, and hybrid continuous state and discrete event systems. DEVS is a timed event system.
History.
DEVS is a formalism for modeling and analysis of discrete event systems (DESs). The DEVS formalism was invented by Bernard P. Zeigler, who is emeritus professor at the University