The research team

The research is conducted in the framework of project METALAU of l'INRIA Rocquencourt within the Max Plus working group, the other members of which are

Jean-Pierre Quadrat

Stéphane Gaubert

Marianne Akian

Moreover, ENPC and INRIA are two out of th eight partners of the European network ALAPEDES.

Some surveys and course notes

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We offer three surveys (in English) plus a basic course (in French):

• a presentation given for a French-Belgian-Dutch summer school on DES on 7-11 June 1993 in Spa, Belgium (160 Ko) ;
• a presentation initially given for a plenary session at the 11th International Conference on System Analysis and Optimization, 15-17 June 1994, Sophia-Antipolis, France, slightly revisited and completed for a talk given to the working group "Tropical algebras" on 6-7 June 1996 in Paris (412 Ko) ;
• a presentation given for a plenary session at the IFAC Conference "Systems Structure and Control", 8-10 July 1998, Nantes, France, apperaed in a slightly revised version in Annual Reviews in Control (224 Ko);
• the notes of a course given for a few years (up to 1995) at École des Mines de Paris to undergraduate students specializing in Automatic Control and to graduate students of the University of Paris-Orsay (in which École des Mines is involved). This course has been taken over since then by Stéphane Gaubert who used to supervise the exercises with the computer (532 Ko);
• the notes of a two-week course given at the University of Rosario in April 2000 (these notes are in Spanish) (2 120 Ko).

Other sources of information

• The "green book" Synchronization an Linearity: an Algebra for Discrete Event Systems, by François Baccelli, Guy Cohen, Geert Jan Olsder and Jean-Pierre Quadrat, published by Wiley in 1992. This book is now out of print but it is now available on line.
• The Web site of the working group "Tropical algebras", that of Stéphane Gaubert (both already quoted), and also that of Jean-Pierre Quadrat, all providing links, bibliographical data and on line documents.
• The Web site of Petr Kozák, one of the initial organizers of WODES (Workshop on Discrete Event Systems) which is held every two years since 1992. This site contains numerous other links which have not been duplicated here.
• The newsletter on DES by Edwin K. P. Chong accessible from this page.
• Le "Journal on Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, Theory and Applications" published by Kluwer, of which this page author is Associate Editor.
• The activity report of the META2 project of INRIA which offers a tutorial on Max Plus algebra and its applications (in French).
• A list of our publications  

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