Discrete Event System Specification
(DEVS)
DEVS is a modeling formalism. Just as arithmetic
underlies addition, multiplication, and other calculation,
so DEVS underlies simulation of discrete event models.
The analogy between DEVS simulation and calculation
is spelled out more fully in the DEVS Calculator Analogy.
DEVS stands for Discrete Event System Specification
and is a way of specifying a subset from a wider
set of dynamic input/output systems. DEVS models
can represent a wide variety of discrete event formalisms,
such as Petri Nets, and continuous formalisms, that were
not developed from a systems-theory perspective.