This paper may be considered as a practical reference for those who wish to add (now sufficiently matured) Agent Based modeling to their analysis toolkit and may or may not have some System Dynamics or Discrete Event modeling background. We focus on systems that contain large numbers of active objects (people, business units, animals, vehicles, or even things like projects, stocks, products, et...

In this section we present an overview for the development of complex discrete event and hybrid systems within the robotics, automation, and intelligent system domain. We start by presenting an overview of discrete event and hybrid systems, and then illustrate the concept by an example from the robotics and automation domain. The application discussed is for formulating an observer for manipula...

This paper addresses the problem of determining the diagnosability of hybrid systems by abstracting hybrid models to a discrete event setting. From the continuous model the abstraction only remembers two pieces of information: indiscernability between modes (when they are guaranteed to generate different observations) and ephemerality (when the system cannot stay forever in a given set of modes...