DEDS: A New Paradigm for Performance Analysis, Computation and Optimization

该奖项“DEDS：性能分析、计算和优化的新范例”，根据“国家重要技术领域的综合研究课程开发”计划颁发，其动机是快速的技术变革带来了设计、分析和控制离散事件动态系统(DEDS)的需求。DED的代表是通信、制造、计算机通信和其他受人为规则管理的系统的网络。随着研究这些系统的范式转变已经成熟，也许类似于控制系统理论中Sputnik时代发生的重大概念进步，需要新的设计、控制和优化方法。该奖项的主要重点是将DEDS的研究成果带入课堂。这项工作包括开发新课程和一个以模拟为基础的教学“电子”实验室，以及利用教育技术的最新进展来传播项目成果的创新方法。

This award, "DEDS: A New Paradigm for Performance Analysis, Computation and Optimization," made under the program for "Combined Research Curriculum Development in Technological Areas of national Importance," is motivated by the rapid technological changes which have brought the need to design, analyze, and control Discrete Event Dynamic Systems (DEDS). DEDS are typified by networks for communications, manufacturing, computer traffic, and other systems governed by man-made rules. As a paradigm change is ripe to take place in the study of these systems, perhaps similar to the major conceptual advances that occurred during the Sputnik era in control system theory, new methods for design, control, and optimization are needed. The major focus of this award is to bring research results in DEDS into the classroom. This effort includes the development of new courses and a simulation-based instructional "electronic" laboratory, and an innovative approach for the dissemination of the project results that exploits recent advances in educational technology.