IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS SOCIETY TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ON DISCRETE EVENT SYSTEMS Newsletter......................................................May, 2000 Editor: Edwin K. P. Chong Chair, IEEE CSS Technical on DES School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University 1285 Electrical Engineering Bldg. West Lafayette, IN 47907-1285 Phone: (765) 494-9143 Fax: (765) 494-3371 e-mail: echong@ecn.purdue.edu WWW: http://www.ece.purdue.edu/~echong/ DESTC Web Page: http://www.ece.purdue.edu/~echong/des_tc/ _._________________________________________________________________________._ Contents: 1. Editorial 2. Announcement 2.1 5th Workshop on Discrete Event Systems (WODES2000) August 21-23, 2000, Ghent, Belgium 2.2 NSF Workshop on Logic Control for Manufacturing Systems June 26-27, 2000, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor _._________________________________________________________________________._ Editorial _._________________________________________________________________________._ Welcome to the newsletter of the IEEE Control Systems Technical Committee Group on Discrete Event Systems! See http://www.ece.purdue.edu/~echong/des_tc/ for information on the DESTC. I'd like to encourage more active contributions of news items and articles in the newsletter, which is the central focus of our activities (at present). If you have other ideas on activities for our technical committee, I'd be interested in hearing about them. Edwin Chong _._________________________________________________________________________._ Announcements _._________________________________________________________________________._ Contributed by: Rene Boel The preliminary programme and registration forms for the 5th Workshop on Discrete Event Systems (WODES2000) August 21-23, 2000 Ghent, Belgium are now available at the web site http://systems.rug.ac.be/wodes2000 The conference programme includes: * 3 plenary talks by E. Lee (U.C. Berkeley), A. Deshpande (Teja Inc.) and B. Brandin(Siemens Research), * 2 mini courses (C. Cassandras and Y. Wardi on "Hybrid Dynamical Systems: Modeling and Optimal Control", and F. Vazquez-Abad on "Sensitivity Analysis for Gradient Estimation of DES Performance Measures"), * 47 contributed papers (with sessions on supervisory control, control of Petri nets, (max,+)-theory, formal methods for PLCs, automata theory and Petri net theory, timed Petri nets, scheduling and optimization, stochastic systems, and applications), * a discussion session, * a tool demonstration session. Venue The conference and the conference dinner will be held in "Het Pand", a historical building in the center of Ghent. Ghent is one of the oldest cities in Flanders, the Dutch speaking northern part of Belgium. It is a place rich in history, architecture, culture and gastronomy. It is also very close (less than 60 km) to other interesting historical cities, such as Bruges, Antwerp and Brussels. Invitation All students and researchers from industry and from academia interested in the interdisciplinary field of Discrete Event Systems are cordially invited to participate in this conference. The conference programme provides a nice balance between theory and applications. The topics treated in the conference integrate methodologies from control and from computer science. Please note that the deadline for early registration at a reduced rate is June 20, 2000. _._________________________________________________________________________._ Contributed by: Dawn Tilbury NSF Workshop on Logic Control for Manufacturing Systems June 26-27, 2000 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Sponsored by NSF and the Engineering Research Center for Reconfigurable Machining Systems Academicians and practitioners are invited to attend a workshop on Logic control for manufacturing systems. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together participants from industry and academia to create an understanding of the gaps which exist between the theory of discrete-event systems and control and their implementation in industrial manufacturing systems. There is no registration fee for the workshop; however, preregistration is required. The workshop will begin on Monday morning at 8am and will conclude after lunch on Tuesday. Industry representatives will give an overview of the challenges faced in logic control and current efforts on addressing these issues. Academic researchers will present introductions to and research results on logic control using both Petri net and finite state machine methods. Time will be allocated for discussion during break-out sessions and a poster session. More information on the workshop, including a complete schedule and abstracts of presentations, is available at http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~tilbury/logiccontrol/workshop.html or contact one of the organizers: Dawn Tilbury (tilbury@umich.edu) and Pramod Khargonekar (pramod@umich.edu). _._________________________________________________________________________._ The End _._________________________________________________________________________._ Wed May 31 12:25:14 EST 2000