The special issue focuses on the fruitful possible interactions between discrete-event control and computer science, especially in the domain of the modelling, analysis and control of real-time, reactive systems.

The topics include (but are not
limited to) the following:
• Formalisms and modelling methodologies: Petri nets, state automata,
statecharts, process algebras...
• Reactivity of discrete-event systems with emphasis on supervisory
control, real time control and on mode management
• Performance evaluation, diagnosis, optimization and implementation
• Discrete approaches of hybrid, reactive and embedded systems
• Applications including transportation systems, distributed systems, telecommunications, systems on chip, energy, manufacturing systems ...
• Emerging applications in critical systems and related fields:
performance assessment, on-line control, reconfiguration, mode management,
safe control, fault-tolerant systems...
• Software tools enabling efficient handling of industrial-sized systems.
• Validation techniques : verification, test generation, ...
• Specification and programming languages for describing discrete-event and reactive systems