Workshop on Discrete Event Systems, Amherst, MA, June 21-23, 1991

离散事件系统(DES)研讨会将于1991年6月21-23日的周末举行。离散事件系统领域兴起于20世纪80年代初的S，是为了将经典的系统和控制理论扩展到离散状态事件驱动的动态系统，并解决在制造、计算机系统和通信网络等领域中经常遇到的许多关键技术问题。虽然该领域已经达到了健康成熟的阶段，但它仍然是年轻的、多学科的。这次研讨会的提议源于一种广泛的兴趣，即把积极参与DES研究的学术界和工业界的人聚集在一起。讲习班的主要目标是：(A)巩固迄今的贡献，并探讨外地在以下方面的潜力对现有和未来技术的实际影响，(B)促进来自不同学科和不同学派的DES研究人员之间的互动，(C)使学生接触DES领域正在进行的活动，并培养他们的兴趣，(D)确定构成今后研究方向的目标的基准问题。讲习班将在非正式但结构良好的环境中举行，强调对关键技术问题的公开讨论和教程介绍。计划有大约50人参加，他们来自不同的学科，包括系统与控制、运筹学、工业工程和计算机科学。

A Workshop on Discrete Event Systems (DES) is being held during the weekend of June 21-23, 1991. The field of DES emerged in the early 1980's as an effort to extend classical system and control theory to discrete- state event-driven dynamic systems and to solve many critical technological problems commonly encountered in areas such as manufacturing, computer systems, and communication networks. Although the field has reached a stage of healthy maturity, it is still young and multidisciplinary in nature. The proposal for this Workshop stems from a broad-based interest to bring together people from both academia and industry who are actively involved in DES research. The main objectives of the Workshop are: (a) to consolidate contributions to date and explore the field's potential for practical impact on existing and future technologies, (b) to stimulate interaction among DES researchers from different disciplines and varying schools of thought, (c) to expose students to ongoing activities in the DES field and foster their interest, (d) to identify benchmark problems forming the targets for future research directions. The Workshop is to be conducted in an informal but well-structured setting, emphasizing open discussions of critical technical issues and tutorial presentations. It is planned for approximately 50 people from various disciplines including systems and control, operations research, industrial engineering, and computer science.