WODES
Workshop Series on Discrete Event Systems

Aims and scope

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.

The Workshop Series on Discrete Event Systems started in 1992 and has been held every two years. It aims to provide researchers from different fields (control theoreticians and control engineers, software engineers and computer scientists, operations research specialists) with an opportunity to exchange information and new ideas, and to discuss new developments in the field of DES theory and application.

The workshop covers all topics in discrete event theory and applications, including (but not limited to) the following:

• Formalisms and modelling methodologies: Petri nets, state automata, statecharts, process algebras, max/plus-algebra ...
• Control of discrete-event systems with emphasis on supervisory control and on real time control
• Performance evaluation, diagnosis, optimisation, implementation and scheduling
• Discrete approaches of hybrid systems and reactive systems
• Applications including manufacturing systems, transportation systems, process control, distributed systems, software engineering, office automation, workflow, protocols ...
• Emerging applications in telecommunication systems and related fields: performance evaluation, on-line control

Next edition

• WODES'12: 11th Int. Workshop on Discrete Event Systems. Guadalajara, Mexico. 3-5 October 2012.

Previous editions

• WODES'10: 10th Int. Workshop on Discrete Event Systems. Berlin, Germany. 30 August-1 September 2010.

• WODES'08: 9th Int. Workshop on Discrete Event Systems. Göteborg, Sweden. 28-30 May 2008.

• WODES'06: 8th Int. Workshop on Discrete Event Systems. Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. 10-12 July 2006.

• WODES'04: IFAC Workshop on Discrete Event Systems (7th edition). Reims, France. 22-24 September, 2004.

• WODES'02: 6th Int. Workshop on Discrete Event Systems. Zaragoza, Spain. 2-4 October, 2002.

• WODES'2000: 5th Workshop on Discrete Event Systems. Ghent, Belgium. 21-23 August, 2000.

• WODES'98: 4th Int. Workshop on Discrete Event Systems. Cagliari, Italy. 26-28 August, 1998.

• WODES'96: Int. Workshop on Discrete Event Systems. Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 19-21 August, 1996.

• WODES'94: 11th Int. Conf. on Analysis and Optimization of Systems, Discrete Event Systems. Sophia-Antipolis, France. 15-17 June, 1994.

• WODES'92: Int. Workshop on Discrete Event Systems. Prague, Czechoslovakia. 26-28 August, 1992.

Steering Committee

• Xiren Cao (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
• Christos Cassandras (Boston University, USA)
• Stéphane Lafortune (University of Michigan, USA)
• Bengt Lennartsson (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
• Jörg Raisch (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)
• Antonio Ramírez Treviño (CINVESTAV, Guadalajara, Mexico)
• Janan Zaytoon (University of Reims, France) Chair

Useful links

• DESTC: IEEE CSS Technical Committee on Discrete-Event Systems, and DESTC newsletter
• TC1.3: IFAC Technical Committee 1.3 on Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems. You may subscribe to the Newsletter following this link.
• DEDS. International journal "Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications". Springer.

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Page administrator: Alessandro Giua (giua@diee.unica.it)

Last update: March 2012.