ii Preface The following material has been selected for the course " Discrete Event Dynamic Systems " which is part of the curriculum for students in electrical engineering at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich. The course has been given the first time in the summer term 1998. The book material not only deals with dynamic systems, it is dynamic itself. During the current term, it wil...

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