CISE Invited Lecture 10/27/17: Stéphane Lafortune, University of Michigan

Friday, October 27, 2017, 12:30pm-1:30pm
8 St. Mary’s Street, PHO 404/428
Food will be served

Stéphane Lafortune
University of Michigan
CISE Resident Scholar

Introduction to Discrete Event Dynamic Systems

We present a general introduction to the class of dynamic systems knows as “discrete event systems”, where the states take discrete values and the dynamics are event-driven. We describe the two modeling formalisms of automata and Petri nets and illustrate them on a common example. We discuss some applications of diagnosis and supervisory control of discrete event systems.

Stéphane Lafortune is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He obtained his degrees from Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal (B.Eng), McGill University (M.Eng), and the University of California at Berkeley (PhD), all in electrical engineering. Dr. Lafortune is a Fellow of the IEEE (1999). His research interests are in discrete event systems and include multiple problem domains: modeling, diagnosis, control, optimization, and applications to computer systems. He co-authored, with C. Cassandras, the textbook Introduction to Discrete Event Systems (2nd Edition, Springer, 2008). He is co-developer of the software packages DESUMA and UMDES.

Faculty Host: Christos Cassandras