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What is DEVS Formalism

Chapter 8
Handbook of Research on Culturally-Aware Information Technology: Perspectives and Models
(Discrete EVent Specification Formalism): is a modular and hierarchical formalism for modeling and analyzing complex systems. DEVS formalism was introduced by Dr. Bernard P. Zeigler in his first book Theory of Modeling and Simulation in 1976.
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Discrete Event Modeling and Simulation of the Mythical Thought Morphodynamics Involved in Claude Levi Strauss Structural Analysis
Jean-François Santucci (University of Corsica, France), Emmanuelle De Gentili (University of Corsica, France), and Ghjasippina Thury-Bouvet (University of Corsica, France)
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 27
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-883-8.ch008
Abstract
In this chapter the authors present an exploration into the potential benefits of deploying structuralism analysis in the framework of human and social sciences using computer science modeling and simulation concepts and tools. They describe in detail in this chapter object oriented modeling and simulation software allowing the analysis of folktales. This software is based on the DEVS (Discrete Event System specification) formalism in order to both propose the modeling of a given myth issued from the oral literature of a given culture and the simulation of the corresponding myth transformations as described by Claude Levi Strauss when he dealt with mythical thought. The resulting software has been realized using the PythonDEVS kernel. The validation of the implemented software is performed on a set of folktales issued from corsican mythology and a set of myths from South and North America taken from Claude Levi Strauss’s Mythologiques book series.
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