Hybrid supervisory systems integrate and exchange information between discrete- and continuous-data-based controllers and subsystems. Application areas include process, manufacturing and service industries, healthcare, telecommunication, transportation and logistics, among others.

From the hardware point of view, the rapid progress of information-processing power and its commercial availability has made possible the development of complex supervisory systems. Many barriers that restrained the evolution of supervisory systems in the past have been removed by the recent popularisation...

This volume contains the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets, held at Zaragoza, Spain in June 1994. The annual Petri net conferences are usually visited by some 150 - 200 Petri net experts coming from academia and industry all over the world.
The 28 full papers were selected out of in total 85 submissions from 18 countries. Together with the 3 invited contributions, these papers give a state-of-the-art report on all relevant aspects of Petri nets.

Hybrid supervisory systems integrate and exchange information between discrete- and continuous-data-based controllers and subsystems. Application areas include process, manufacturing and service industries, healthcare, telecommunication, transportation and logistics, among others.

From the hardware point of view, the rapid progress of information-processing power and its commercial availability has made possible the development of complex supervisory systems. Many barriers that restrained the evolution of supervisory systems in the past have been removed by the recent popularisation...