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DISC School on Control of Discrete-Event Systems: Automata and Petri nets perspectives

The proposed PhD School is organized in the framework of the DISC (Distributed Supervisory Control of Large Plants) INFSO-ICT-224498 European Project in the work programme 2007-08 of the Theme ICT (Information and Communication Technologies), addresses Objective: Networked Embedded and Control Systems.
The activity of DISC has started in September 2008 and will finish at the end of December 2011. The main goal of this project is to develop methods and algorithms for modular control design and diagnosis of complex distributed plants and new tools for the modeling, simulation and supervisory control design that have been integrated in a common software platform. As the DoW and later the survey (SWP1.1) put into light, inside DISC two complementary lines of research are being developed. A first one tries to develop modeling techniques for distributed architectures (asynchronous) or to convenient approximations thereof (synchronous products of automata). The second one put the accent on largely populated systems, rather than on the distributiveness, even if distributed systems are obviously considered. In other words, distribution and fluidification are two complementary aims inside DISC.
Among the different objectives of the DISC project, there is the dissemination of the results. The organization of this school is one of the most important contributions in this respect.

Venue

The PhD DISC School will be held in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, from June 6 to June 10, 2011.
On Saturday June 11, it will be given the possibility to interested students, to take a final examination.

Detailed information on the venue, flights and hotels can be found here.

Program

The DISC PhD school includes lectures based on automata, Petri nets, dioid theory and applications, software sessions and short lectures by participants.
The scientific program is divided into three main tracks: one devoted to automata, the second one to Petri nets and the last one to case studies and dioid theory. A list of the lectures is given in the following. The three tracks are intertwined in the program.
A pdf file containing the whole program is also downloadable.
Here can be downloaded useful material for DISC school regarding:
  • Automata.
  • Petri nets.
  • Dioid Theory tool session.
  • Petri toolbox.

    Registration

    The registration fee is 200,00 Euros and includes lunches and coffee breaks (from Monday June 6 to Friday June 10) and the social dinner.

    Registration is now open and it will close on Friday May 13, 2011. All interested participants are kindly invited to send as soon as possible an email to Maria Paola Cabasino.

    Organizing Committee

  • Maria Paola Cabasino
    University of Cagliari, Italy
    Email: cabasino@diee.unica.it

  • Carla Seatzu
    University of Cagliari, Italy
    Email: seatzu@diee.unica.it

  • Manuel Silva
    University of Zaragoza, Spain
    Email: silva@unizar.es

  • Jan H. van Schuppen
    Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Email: J.H.van.Schuppen@cwi.nl


    Web: http://www.disc-project.eu



  • Last Update: December 31, 2011