discrete event
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdiscreteandevent
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discrete
adjective
uk/dɪˈskriːt/us/dɪˈskriːt/
clearly separate or different in shape ...
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event
noun[C]
uk/ɪˈvent/us/ɪˈvent/
anything that happens, especially something important ...
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(Definition ofdiscreteandeventfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thediscreteevent-based nature of granular synthesis suggested the rainfall metaphor used in the device, which then indicated a watering can as an appropriate controller.
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This model is in effect adiscreteevent-history model and is well suited for datasets with a large number of tied observations.
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The inherent parallelism and distributed nature ofdiscreteeventmodels lend themselves well for such an approach.
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Another, more flexible approach may bediscreteeventsimulation (15).
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A new approach for dealing with the startup problem indiscreteeventsimulation.
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The functions and parameters defined in the simulation model are identical to thediscreteeventmathematical model of the system.
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Thediscreteeventmodel of the system will be the same as (2).
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Some applications ofdiscreteeventmodelling and simulation have already been successfully implemented in industry while others are finding their ways very rapidly.
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The question of how long to run adiscreteeventsimulation before data collection starts is an important issue when estimating steady-state performance measures such as average queue lengths.
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Basically, the mundane nature of an event becomes encoded as a general memory that can reflect the consolidation of routine daily experiences, borrowing elements from shared butdiscreteeventepisodes.
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Perfectivity favors an interpretation in which the onset-plus-result structure is viewed as a single,discreteevent.
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He derived equations of state and developed adiscreteeventcontroller to direct the assembly process through a series of contact states towards the desired final state.
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Another possible direction of the work can be to implement thediscreteeventsimulation models and event-based controller on a parallel computing platform such as transputer.
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The controller itself can then be expressed as adiscreteeventmodel which may be tested, validated and finely tuned through computer simulation prior to its real-time implementation.
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Its design is based on thediscreteeventsequence of units' operations to be carried out to bring a real process from one initial state to a desired one.
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Discreteeventmodeling is used at low to middle abstraction.
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