A. Cataldo, E. Lee, Xiaojun Liu, E. Matsikoudis, Haiyang Zheng
{"title":"A constructive fixed-point theorem and the feedback semantics of timed systems","authors":"A. Cataldo, E. Lee, Xiaojun Liu, E. Matsikoudis, Haiyang Zheng","doi":"10.1109/WODES.2006.1678403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WODES.2006.1678403","url":null,"abstract":"Deterministic timed systems can be modeled as fixed point problems (B. Roscoe and G. Reed, 1988), (R. K. Yates, 1993), (E. A. Lee, 1999). In particular, any connected network of timed systems can be modeled as a single system with feedback, and the system behavior is the fixed point of the corresponding system equation, when it exists. For delta-causal systems, we can use the Cantor metric to measure the distance between signals and the Banach fixed-point theorem to prove the existence and uniqueness of a system behavior. Moreover, the Banach fixed-point theorem is constructive: it provides a method to construct the unique fixed point through iteration. In this paper, we extend this result to systems modeled with the superdense model of time (O. Maler et al., 1992), (Z. Manna and A. Pnueli, 1993) used in hybrid systems. We call the systems we consider eventually delta-causal, a strict generalization of delta-causal in which multiple events may be generated on a signal in zero time. With this model of time, we can use a generalized ultrametric (Generalized ultrametric spaces, I, 1996) instead of a metric to model the distance between signals. The existence and uniqueness of behaviors for such systems comes from the fixed-point theorem of (S. Priess-Crampe and P. Ribenboim, 1993), but this theorem gives no constructive method to compute the fixed point This leads us to define petrics, a generalization of metrics, which we use to generalize the Banach fixed-point theorem to provide a constructive fixed-point theorem. This new fixed-point theorem allows us to construct the unique behavior of eventually delta-causal systems","PeriodicalId":285315,"journal":{"name":"2006 8th International Workshop on Discrete Event Systems","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121793935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimal solutions of modular supervisory control problems with indecomposable specification languages","authors":"J. Komenda, J. van Schuppen","doi":"10.1109/WODES.2006.1678422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WODES.2006.1678422","url":null,"abstract":"This paper concerns supervisory control of large-scale modular discrete event systems (DES) with partial observations and general (indecomposable) specification languages. We have found new methods for computing supremal controllable sublanguages and supremal normal sublanguages independently. Unfortunately, these methods are difficult to put simply together for computation of supremal controllable and normal sublanguages. Therefore, we propose first a new method for computation of supremal controllable sublanguages that can be viewed as a complete observation counterpart of a method we have developed for supremal normal sublanguages. These can be put together in a procedure for computing optimal sublanguages, which avoids building of the global plant. Unlike our previous results, we present both necessary and sufficient structural conditions for modular control synthesis to equal global control synthesis for partially observed modules and general (indecomposable) specification languages","PeriodicalId":285315,"journal":{"name":"2006 8th International Workshop on Discrete Event Systems","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115188792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}