Special issue on recent trends in discrete event systems

Abstract

This special issue of DEDS on Recent Trends in Discrete Event Systems was inspired by the 10th International Workshop on Discrete Event Systems (WODES 2010), which was held on the campus of Technische Universitat Berlin from 30 August to 1 September 2010. The Workshop Series on Discrete Event Systems started in 1992. Since then workshops have been held every two years: in Prague (1992), Antibes (1994), Edinburgh (1996), Cagliari (1998), Ghent (2000), Zaragoza (2002), Reims (2004), Ann Arbor (2006), Goteborg (2008) and Berlin (2010). Since its inception, WODES has been one of the most influential series of international meetings devoted to various aspects of discrete event systems. The WODES 2010 program included three invited lectures by Paulo Tabuada (UCLA), Rene Boel (Ghent University), and Rajeev Alur (University of Pennsylvania). It also included 50 regular and 22 invited papers selected from a total of 103 submissions. The proceedings of WODES 2010 have been published by IFAC, the International Federation of Automatic Control, and are available online at http://www.ifac-papersonline.net. Following WODES 2010, we were invited by the editorial board of this journal and the WODES steering committee to prepare a special issue of DEDS highlighting