WODES 2016 - 13th International Workshop on Discrete Event Systems

The interdisciplinary field of Discrete Event Systems (DES) combines different formalisms, methodologies and tools from control, computer science and operations research. The research activity in this field is driven by the needs of many different applications domains: manufacturing, process control, supervisory systems, software engineering, transportation, and so on. Discrete Event Systems is now a mature field and many interesting applications have been developed. This 13th International Workshop on Discrete Event Systems will be hosted at Wyndham Grand Hotel, Xi'an, China. It aims to provide researchers from different fields with an opportunity to exchange information and new ideas, and to discuss new developments in the field of DES theory and applications.
Topics
The workshop will cover all topics in discrete event theory and applications, including (but not limited to) the following:
Formalisms and modeling methodologies: Petri nets, automata, statecharts, process algebras, max-plus algebra, queuing network;
Control of discrete-event systems with emphasis on supervisory control and on real time control;
Performance evaluation, optimization and scheduling;
Diagnosis, fault detection, test, identification;
Discrete approaches for hybrid systems;
Event-driven methods in systems and control;
Applications including manufacturing systems, transportation systems, power production, distributed systems, software engineering, home automation, workflow, telecommunication systems, biological systems;
Automation methods and software tools enabling efficient handling of industrial-sized systems.