Authors are invited to submit papers and proposals for special sessions on all aspects of DES research to the workshop secretariat by  May 1st, 2012.

Contributions must be not published or submitted to other conferences/journals before or parallel to this workshop. They should clearly state the problem being addressed, the goal of the work and the results achieved.

Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF; they must comply with the IFAC paper layout. Accepted papers will be limited to 6 pages in the proceedings, to be published  in IFAC-PapersOnLine. However up to eight pages papers will be allowed with additional charges of 50 EUR per page. Template files  are also available for some common word processing tools.

For  submission of papers please use your  EasyChair account.

Topics

- Formalisms and modeling methodologies for DES: Petri nets, automata, state charts, process algebras, max/plus-algebra, queueing networks...
- Observability and fault diagnosis of DES
- Control of DES with emphasis on supervisory control and on real time control
- Performance evaluation, parametric optimization and scheduling
- Discrete approaches of hybrid systems and reactive systems
- Fluid approximations of DES
- Applications including manufacturing systems, transportation systems, process control, distributed systems, hardware and software engineering, office automation, workflow, protocols, telecommunication systems, biological systems, ...
- Computer tools