Supervisory control of a class of discrete event processes
SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization
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Systems & Control Letters
Synthesis of feedback control logic for discrete manufacturing systems
Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
The hierarchical lattices of a finite machine
Systems & Control Letters
A Survey of Petri Net Methods for Controlled Discrete EventSystems
Discrete Event Dynamic Systems
A General Architecture for Decentralized Supervisory Control of Discrete-Event Systems
Discrete Event Dynamic Systems
Supervisory control of communicating processes
Proceedings of the IFIP WG6.1 Tenth International Symposium on Protocol Specification, Testing and Verification X
Control and supervision of discrete event processes
Control and supervision of discrete event processes
Undecidable problems of decentralized observation and control on regular languages
Information Processing Letters
Introduction to Discrete Event Systems
Introduction to Discrete Event Systems
Choice-point nets: a discrete-event modelling technique for analyzing health care protocols
Allerton'09 Proceedings of the 47th annual Allerton conference on Communication, control, and computing
Concurrency control generation for dynamic threads using discrete-event systems
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Transition Complexity of Incomplete DFAs
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A summary of the area of control of discrete-event systems is given. In this research area, automata and formal language theory is used as a tool to model physical problems that arise in technological and industrial systems. The key ingredients to discrete-event control problems are a process that can be modeled by an automaton, events in that process that cannot be disabled or prevented from occurring, and a controlling agent that manipulates the events that can be disabled to guarantee that the process under control either generates all the strings in some prescribed language or as many strings as possible in some prescribed language. When multiple controlling agents act on a process, decentralized control problems arise. In decentralized discrete-event systems, it is presumed that the agents effecting control cannot each see all event occurrences. Partial observation leads to some problems that cannot be solved in polynomial time and some others that are not even decidable.