Discrete Event Systems: Modeling and Control: Proceedings of a Joint Workshop Held in Prague, August 1992: v. 13 (Progress in Systems and Control Theory) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3764328452 ISBN 13: 9783764328450

Publisher: Birkhauser Verlag AG, 1993

Synopsis

Research of discrete event systems is strongly motivated by applications in flex- ible manufacturing, in traffic control and in concurrent and real-time software verification and design, just to mention a few important areas. Discrete event system theory is a promising and dynamically developing area of both control theory and computer science. Discrete event systems are systems with non-numerically-valued states, inputs, and outputs. The approaches to the modelling and control of these systems can be roughly divided into two groups. The first group is concerned with the automatic design of controllers from formal specifications of logical requirements. This re- search owes much to the pioneering work of P.J. Ramadge and W.M. Wonham at the beginning of the eighties. The second group deals with the analysis and op- timization of system throughput, waiting time, and other performance measures for discrete event systems. The present book contains selected papers presented at the Joint Workshop on Discrete Event Systems (WODES'92) held in Prague, Czechoslovakia, on Au- gust 26-28, 1992 and organized by the Institute of Information Theory and Au- tomation of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechoslovakia, by the Automatic Control Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) , Zurich, Switzerland, and by the Department of Computing Science of the University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.

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Synopsis

A collection of papers on the dynamically developing area of discrete event systems control. Research in this area is strongly motivated by applications in flexible manufacturing, communications, database management, traffic control and concurrent and real-time software verification and design. The papers were presented at the Joint Workshop on Discrete Event Systems (WODES '92) held in Prague, Czechoslovakia, on August 26-28, 1992. They reflect four directions of current research: models of real-time system behaviour, methods for decreasing computation and model complexity, unifying approaches to modelling, and new results in performance analysis and optimization of discrete event systems. This work presents recent results as well as several introductory papers on different subareas. It is designed to be suitable as supplementary reading for a course on discrete event systems with a focus on logical aspects and review of other approaches.

Edition details

• Publisher: Birkhauser Verlag AG
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3764328452
• ISBN 13: 9783764328450
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Balemi Silvano, Kozak Petr, Smedinga Rein