Contributed by: Alessandro Giua

        4th Workshop on Discrete Event Systems  (WODES'98)

                     Preliminary Announcement

                        August 26-28, 1998
                          Cagliari, Italy

           http://bode.diee.unica.it/~wodes98/wodes98.html

MAIN THEME: Discrete Event Systems: Applications and Tools


AIMS AND SCOPES

DES has developed to be an interdisciplinary field of shared interest,
methodologies and applications between control and computer science.
The research activity in this field was primarily motivated by the
needs of different domains: manufacturing, supervisory systems,
transportation, software engineering, and so on. DES is now a
mature field and many interesting applications have been developed.

The workshop will aim to bring together researchers from different
sciences (control theoreticians, software engineers, computer
scientists) in order to exchange information and ideas and discuss
new developments in the field. It is envisaged that areas of
interaction will be further explored and common applications will
be considered with focus on design, techniques and implementation
for the new era of technology.

TOPICS

The workshop will focus on the control of DES (with emphasis on real
time control), computer science (with emphasis on hybrid systems,
timed systems, Petri nets, process algebras, software verification
and design), and applications (with emphasis on manufacturing
systems and software engineering).

PLENARY LECTURES

Five plenary lectures are planned: two on control engineering, one on
computing science and two on applications.

WORKSHOP ADDRESS

All contributions PREFERABLY in electronic form are to be directed to

  WODES98
  Alessandro Giua
  Dip. Ingegneria Elettrica ed Elettronica
  University of Cagliari
  Piazza d'Armi
  I-09123 Cagliari
  Italy

  E-mail: wodes98@diee.unica.it
  Phone:  +39-70-675-5892
  Fax:    +39-70-675-5900
  WWW:    http://bode.diee.unica.it/~wodes98/wodes98.html
  ftp:    bode.diee.unica.it
          directory: /pub/wodes98

SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT DATES

July 1997           - First announcement and call for papers
January 15, 1998    - Deadline for submission of contributed
                      papers (max 6 Proceedings pages)
April 15, 1998      - Notification of acceptance of submitted papers,
                      second announcement and preliminary program
June 15, 1998       - Deadline for reception of camera-ready papers
June 15, 1998       - Deadline for early registration
August 26-28, 1998  - WODES98