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 such as manufacturing, process control, supervisory systems, software engineering, transportation.
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.
DES and cyber-physical systems often operate in open and interactive environments and their communication with the outside world may reveal some important secrets of the system. Particularly encouraged are results relating to security and safety properties for cyber-physical systems. Similarly, new results in real-time systems with application in manufacturing are welcome.