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Book Logical Control of Complex Resource Allocation Systems

Download or read book Logical Control of Complex Resource Allocation Systems written by Spyros Reveliotis and published by Now Publishers. This book was released on 2017-04-05 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Logical Control of Complex Resource Allocation Systems provides a comprehensive tutorial on solutions to supervisory control problems in stochastic network theory and applications.

Book Logical Control of Complex Resource Allocation Systems

Download or read book Logical Control of Complex Resource Allocation Systems written by Spyros A. Reveliotis and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem addressed in this document concerns the coordinated allocation of a finite set of reusable resources to a set of concurrently running processes. These processes execute in a staged manner, and each stage requires a different subset of the system resources for its support. Furthermore, processes will hold upon the resources currently allocated to them until they will secure the necessary resources for their next processing stage. Such resource allocation dynamics currently arise in the context of many flexibly automated operations: from the workflow that takes place in various production shop floors and certain internet-supported platforms that seek to automate various service operations; to the traffic coordination in guidepath-based transport systems like industrial monorail and urban railway systems; to the resource allocation that takes place in the context of the contemporary multi-core computer architectures. From a theoretical standpoint, the resource allocation problems that are abstracted from the aforementioned applications, correspond to the problem of scheduling a stochastic network with blocking and deadlocking effects. This is an area of the modern scheduling theory with very limited results. To a large extent, this lack of results is due to the intricacies that arise from the blocking, and especially the deadlocking effects that take place in these networks, and prevents a tractable analysis of these problems through the classical modeling frameworks. Hence, the departing thesis of the work that is presented in this document, is the decomposition of the aforementioned scheduling problems to (i) a supervisory control problem that will seek to prevent the deadlock formation in the underlying resource allocation dynamics, and (ii) a scheduling problem that will be formulated on the admissible subspace to be defined by the adopted supervisory control policy. Each of these two subproblems can be further structured and addressed using some formal modeling frameworks borrowed, respectively, from the qualitative and the quantitative theory of Discrete Event Systems. At the same time, the above two subproblems possess considerable special structure that can be leveraged towards their effective and efficient solution. The presented material provides a comprehensive tutorial exposition of the current achievements of the corresponding research community with respect to the first of the two subproblems mentioned above. As it will be revealed by this exposition, the corresponding results are pretty rich in their theoretical developments and practically potent. At the same time, it is expected and hoped that the resulting awareness regarding the aforementioned results will also set the stage for undertaking a more orchestrated effort on the second of the two subproblems mentioned above.

Book Real Time Management of Resource Allocation Systems

Download or read book Real Time Management of Resource Allocation Systems written by Spyros A. Reveliotis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-07-18 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real-Time Management of Resource Allocation Systems focuses on the problem of managing the resource allocation taking place within the operational context of many contemporary technological applications, including flexibly automated production systems, automated railway and/or monorail transportation systems, electronic workflow management systems, and business transaction supporting systems. A distinct trait of all these applications is that they limit the role of the human element to remote high-level supervision, while placing the burden of the real-time monitoring and coordination of the ongoing activity upon a computerized control system. Hence, any applicable control paradigm must address not only the issues of throughput maximization, work-in-process inventory reduction, and delay and cost minimization, that have been the typical concerns for past studies on resource allocation, but it must also guarantee the operational correctness and the behavioral consistency of the underlying automated system. The resulting problem is rather novel for the developers of these systems, since, in the past, many of its facets were left to the jurisdiction of the present human intelligence. It is also complex, due to the high levels of choice – otherwise known as flexibility – inherent in the operation of these environments.

Book Supervisory Control and Scheduling of Resource Allocation Systems

Download or read book Supervisory Control and Scheduling of Resource Allocation Systems written by Bo Huang and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents strategies with reachability graph analysis for optimizing resource allocation systems Supervisory Control and Scheduling of Resource Allocation Systems offers an important guide to Petri net (PN) models and methods for supervisory control and system scheduling of resource allocation systems (RASs). Resource allocation systems are common in automated manufacturing systems, project management systems, cloud data centers, and software engineering systems. The authors—two experts on the topic—present a definition, techniques, models, and state-of-the art applications of supervisory control and scheduling problems. The book introduces the basic concepts and research background on resource allocation systems and Petri nets. The authors then focus on the deadlock-free supervisor synthesis for RASs using Petri nets. The book also investigates the heuristic scheduling of RASs based on timed Petri nets. Conclusions and open problems are provided in the last section of the book. This important book: Includes multiple methods for supervisory control and scheduling with reachability graphs, and provides illustrative examples Reveals how to accelerate the supervisory controller design and system scheduling of RASs based on PN reachability graphs, with optimal or near-optimal results Highlights both solution quality and computational speed in RAS deadlock handling and system scheduling Written for researchers, engineers, scientists, and professionals in system planning and control, engineering, operation, and management, Supervisory Control and Scheduling of Resource Allocation Systems provides an essential guide to the supervisory control and scheduling of resource allocation systems (RASs) using Petri net reachability graphs, which allow for multiple resource acquisitions and flexible routings.

Book Verifying Concurrent Processes Using Temporal Logic

Download or read book Verifying Concurrent Processes Using Temporal Logic written by B. T. Hailpern and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1982-03 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Discrete Time and Discrete Space Dynamical Systems

Download or read book Discrete Time and Discrete Space Dynamical Systems written by Kuize Zhang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discrete-Time and Discrete-Space Dynamical Systems provides a systematic characterization of the similarities and differences of several types of discrete-time and discrete-space dynamical systems, including: Boolean control networks; nondeterministic finite-transition systems; finite automata; labelled Petri nets; and cellular automata. The book's perspective is primarily based on topological properties though it also employs semitensor-product and graph-theoretic methods where appropriate. It presents a series of fundamental results: invertibility, observability, detectability, reversiblity, etc., with applications to systems biology. Academic researchers with backgrounds in applied mathematics, engineering or computer science and practising engineers working with discrete-time and discrete-space systems will find this book a helpful source of new understanding for this increasingly important class of systems. The basic results to be found within are of fundamental importance for further study of related problems such as automated synthesis and safety control in cyber-physical systems using formal methods.

Book Selected Water Resources Abstracts

Download or read book Selected Water Resources Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Advances in Computer Science and Information Technology

Download or read book Advances in Computer Science and Information Technology written by Tai-hoon Kim and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-06-20 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advanced Science and Technology, Advanced Communication and Networking, Information Security and Assurance, Ubiquitous Computing and Multimedia Appli- tions are conferences that attract many academic and industry professionals. The goal of these co-located conferences is to bring together researchers from academia and industry as well as practitioners to share ideas, problems and solutions relating to the multifaceted aspects of advanced science and technology, advanced communication and networking, information security and assurance, ubiquitous computing and m- timedia applications. This co-located event included the following conferences: AST 2010 (The second International Conference on Advanced Science and Technology), ACN 2010 (The second International Conference on Advanced Communication and Networking), ISA 2010 (The 4th International Conference on Information Security and Assurance) and UCMA 2010 (The 2010 International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Multimedia Applications). We would like to express our gratitude to all of the authors of submitted papers and to all attendees, for their contributions and participation. We believe in the need for continuing this undertaking in the future. We acknowledge the great effort of all the Chairs and the members of advisory boards and Program Committees of the above-listed events, who selected 15% of over 1,000 submissions, following a rigorous peer-review process. Special thanks go to SERSC (Science & Engineering Research Support soCiety) for supporting these - located conferences.

Book Holonic and Multi Agent Systems for Manufacturing

Download or read book Holonic and Multi Agent Systems for Manufacturing written by Vladimir Marik and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The research of holonic and agent-based systems is developing very rapidly. The community around this R&D topic is also growing fast - despite the fact that the real-life practical implementations of such systems are still surprisingly rare. H- ever, the managers in different branches of industry feel that the holonic and agent-based systems represent the only way of managing and controlling very c- plex, highly distributed systems exploring vast volumes of accumulated knowledge. The relevant research and development activities gain more and more visible support from both industry as well as public sectors. Quite naturally, the number of scientific events aimed at the subject field is also growing rapidly. We see new lines of conf- ences like INDIN, we observe a strong focus of the already well-established conferences, e. g. , INCOM or ETFA, being shifted toward holonic and agent-based manufacturing systems. We see an increased interest of the IEEE System, Man and Cybernetics Society, especially its Technical Committee on Distributed Intelligent Systems which leverages the experience gathered by the members of the former Ho- nic Manufacuting Systems (HMS) consortium. We see a clear orientation of the IEEE SMC Transactions, part C, toward applications of agent-oriented solutions. The same is true of the International Journal on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS). This is a really good sign of the increasing importance of the field.

Book Fuzzy Logic  Soft Computing and Computational Intelligence

Download or read book Fuzzy Logic Soft Computing and Computational Intelligence written by and published by 清华大学出版社有限公司. This book was released on 2005 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Estimation and Inference in Discrete Event Systems

Download or read book Estimation and Inference in Discrete Event Systems written by Christoforos N. Hadjicostis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Estimation and Inference in Discrete Event Systems chooses a popular model for emerging automation systems—finite automata under partial observation—and focuses on a comprehensive study of the key problems of state estimation and event inference. The text includes treatment of current, delayed, and initial state estimation. Related applications for assessing and enforcing resiliency—fault detection and diagnosis—and security—privacy and opacity—properties are discussed, enabling the reader to apply these techniques in a variety of emerging applications, among them automated manufacturing processes, intelligent vehicle/highway systems, and autonomous vehicles. The book provides a systematic development of recursive algorithms for state estimation and event inference. The author also deals with the verification of pertinent properties such as: the ability to determine the exact state of a system, “detectability”; the ability to ensure that certain classes of faults can be detected/identified, “diagnosability”; and the ability to ensure that certain internal state variables of the system remain “hidden” from the outside world regardless of the type of activity that is taking place, “opacity”. This book allows students, researchers and practicing engineers alike to grasp basic aspects of state estimation in discrete event systems, aspects like distributivity and probabilistic inference, quickly and without having to master the entire breadth of models that are available in the literature.

Book Resource Allocation in Next Generation Broadband Wireless Access Networks

Download or read book Resource Allocation in Next Generation Broadband Wireless Access Networks written by Singhal, Chetna and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the growing popularity of wireless networks in recent years, the need to increase network capacity and efficiency has become more prominent in society. This has led to the development and implementation of heterogeneous networks. Resource Allocation in Next-Generation Broadband Wireless Access Networks is a comprehensive reference source for the latest scholarly research on upcoming 5G technologies for next generation mobile networks, examining the various features, solutions, and challenges associated with such advances. Highlighting relevant coverage across topics such as energy efficiency, user support, and adaptive multimedia services, this book is ideally designed for academics, professionals, graduate students, and professionals interested in novel research for wireless innovations.

Book Building Knowledge Based Systems for Natural Resource Management

Download or read book Building Knowledge Based Systems for Natural Resource Management written by Daniel L. Schmoldt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If one were forced to use a single key word to describe the decade of the 1980's, a very prominent one would be "technology. " Leading the forefront of tech nology advancement were breakthroughs in electronics. Devices that were uncommon or unknown in 1980 became commonplace, and almost indispens able, by 1989. This trend has continued into the 1990's and it does not seem to be abating in any way. Microwave ovens, video recorders, telephone answer ing machines, compact disc players, computers, and a host of smaller or less sophisticated devices now appear in most households. The development of small and inexpensive computers, i. e. , personal computers, has placed computing resources within reach of many more people. In addition, many traditional, and largely mechanical devices, have been enhanced by electronics. For example, specialized microprocessors are combined with arrays of electronic sensors to control and monitor sophisticated engineering components in most new auto mobiles. In this and many other ways, we are touched by the new electronics in almost every aspect of our daily lives. Initially, personal computers were little more than toys. They contained only a small fraction of the computing power of their immediate ancestors, the mini computers and mainframe computers. However, rapid improvements in integ rated circuit design and chip manufacture produced regular reductions in size and cost of computer components. During the same time, processor speed and sophistication increased.

Book Logic Programming and Automated Reasoning

Download or read book Logic Programming and Automated Reasoning written by Harald Ganzinger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-07-12 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on Logic for Programming and Automated Reasoning (LPAR'99), held in Tbilisi, Georgia, September 6-10, 1999, and hosted by the University of Tbilisi. Forty-four papers were submitted to LPAR'99. Each of the submissions was reviewed by three program committee members and an electronic program com mittee meeting was held via the Internet. Twenty-three papers were accepted. We would like to thank the many people who have made LPAR'99 possible. We are grateful to the following groups and individuals: to the program committee and the additional referees for reviewing the papers in a very short time, to the organizing committee, and to the local organizers of the INTAS workshop in Tbilisi in April 1994 (Khimuri Rukhaia, Konstantin Pkhakadze, and Gela Chankvetadze). And last but not least, we would like to thank Konstantin - rovin, who maintained the program committee Web page; Uwe Waldmann, who supplied macros for these proceedings and helped us to install some programs for the electronic management of the program committee work; and Bill McCune, who implemented these programs.

Book Computer Literature Bibliography  1946 1963

Download or read book Computer Literature Bibliography 1946 1963 written by W. W. Youden and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Miscellaneous Publication   National Bureau of Standards

Download or read book Miscellaneous Publication National Bureau of Standards written by United States. National Bureau of Standards and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: