University of Salerno, Italy
Francesco Basile received the Laurea degree cum laude in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electronic and computer engineering from the University of Naples, Naples, in 1995 and 1999, respectively. In 1999, he was a Visiting Researcher with the Departamento de Ingenieria Informatica y Systemas, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain, for six months. He is currently Full Professor of Automatic Control with the Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’informazione ed elettrica e matematica applicata, Università di Salerno, Fisciano, Italy. He has published over 130 papers in international journals and conferences. His current research interests include modeling and control of discrete event systems, automated manufacturing, and robotics. Prof. Basile is Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and has been Associate Editor of the International Journal of Robotics and Automation, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, and IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. He has been a member of the IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board and is Associate Editor of IEEE Control Systems Letters. He has been the General Chair of the 14th International Workshop on Discrete Event Systems (WODES 2018), and the scientific coordinator of several research projects with private firms on industrial automation and control of material handling systems.
Speech Title: Discrete-Event Systems: From Modeling and Simulation to Control
Abstract: Discrete-event systems were introduced to study and describe man-made systems following the advent of digital technology. Indeed, reality evolves in continuous time, rather than through discrete events. The analysis of discrete-event systems was initially conceived to speed up the simulation of systems such as manufacturing systems. However, although discrete-event systems were introduced with practical objectives and applications in the real world, their application has subsequently raised significant challenges. This plenary talk aims to review the main applications of discrete-event systems, with particular emphasis on control and automation, and to provide an overview of the current state of the art.
University of Genova, Italy
Simona Sacone (M’13) received a master’s degree in electronic engineering in 1992 and a Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering and computer science in 1997. She is currently an Associate Professor of automatic control with the Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering, University of Genova, Italy, where she teaches systems theory, identification and estimation techniques, and optimization and control of logistic systems, and where she acts as Coordinator of the Ph.D. course on systems engineering. She has authored and co-authored over 150 papers published in international journals, books and conference proceedings.
She is a member of the IFAC Technical Committees 7.4 on Transportation Systems and 1.3 on Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems, and Chair of the Technical Committee on Logistics of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems and for the IEEE Control Systems Magazine, and has acted as an Associate Editor for the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, the IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems, and the IFAC/IEEE Workshop on Discrete Event Systems.