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A special issue on Advanced Communications, Control and Computing for Industrial Internet of Things of the IEEE Internet of Things Journal has been planned, focused on the communications-control-computing co-design. Submission deadline: June 15th, 2021.

Upcoming Events

ACC 2026

Wed, May 27, 2026 - Fri, May 29, 2026

2026 American Control Conference

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

General Chair(s): Randy Beard

Program Chair(s): Eric Frew

WiOpt 2026

Wed, Jun 3, 2026 - Sat, Jun 6, 2026

The 24th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad hoc, and Wireless Networks

Columbus, OH, USA

General Chair(s): Jia (Kevin) Liu , Yin Sun , Elif Uysal

Program Chair(s): Falko Dressler , I-Hong Hou , Bo Ji

WODES 2026

Mon, Jun 8, 2026 - Wed, Jun 10, 2026

18th Workshop on Discrete Event Systems

Eindhoven, The Netherlands

General Chair(s): Michel Reniers

Michel Reniers

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Biography

Michel Reniers is an Associate Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). His research interests include model-based engineering of supervisory controllers, synthesis of supervisory controllers for modal logics, engineering of cyber-physical systems (of systems) and development of modeling languages (CIF) and model transformations.

In Reniers’ research the emphasis is on application of formal methods in engineering of supervisory controllers for high-tech and embedded systems. The research focuses on furthering the state-of-the-art and the state-of-the-practice in model-based systems engineering approaches for supervisory controllers. This includes research themes such as supervisory controller synthesis for networked systems, the combination of supervisory control and throughput optimization, and supervisory control for system product lines.

Application areas for the research are manufacturing and high-tech systems such as lithography manufacturing, automotive systems, waterway locks and tunnel installations, robotics and autonomous systems.

Michel Reniers obtained his MSc in Computer Science from TU/e in 1994 followed by a PhD in 1999. He began working for TU/e in 1999 as an assistant professor in the section Analysis and Design of Systems (OAS), followed by an assistant professorship in the section Systems Engineering (SE). He was appointed Associate Professor in 2015.

Michel is a member of various organizations, including IEEE (senior member), IEEE CSS Technical Committee on Discrete Event Systems, and IFAC Technical Committee 1.3 on Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems. Michel has been chair of Working Group 3 on Tools for systems of systems engineering and management of the Communication and Support Action CPSoS and was coauthor of the Proposal of a European Research and Innovation Agenda on Cyber-physical Systems of Systems – 2016-2025.

Affiliation(s)

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

, Martin Fabian

Program Chair(s): Cristian Mahulea

Cristian Mahulea

Biography

Cristian Mahulea is an Associate Professor (Profesor Titular de Universidad) at the University of Zaragoza (Spain) with the Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering.

He received the Laurea and M.S. degrees in control engineering from the "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iasi (Romania), in 2001 and 2002, respectively, and Ph.D. degree in systems engineering from the University of Zaragoza (Spain) in 2007. He joined the University of Zaragoza in 2008 as assistant professor, becoming associate professor in 2017. He was visiting professor at the University of Cagliari (Italy) with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering during five months in 2008 and 2010.

His research interests include discrete-event systems, hybrid systems, automated manufacturing, Petri nets, mobile robotics and healthcare systems. He co-authored, with Mihaela Matcovschi and Octavian Pastravanu the book Applications of Petri Nets in Studying Discrete Event Systems, Iasi, Romania in 2002 and co-authored with Marius Kloetzer and Ramon Gonzalez the book Path Planning of Cooperative Mobile Robots Using Discrete Event Models, Wiley-IEEE Press, January 2020. He participated and was the main developer of one MATLAB toolbox called Petri Net Toolbox for the simulation, analysis and synthesis of discrete-event systems modeled with discrete Petri nets and one Matlab toolbox called RMTool for path planning and motion control of mobile robots.

He has been a Visiting Researcher at the University of Sheffield (U.K.), University of Cagliari (Italy), Boston University (USA) and ENS Paris-Saclay (France).

He is a Senior Member of IEEE.

Affiliation(s)

University of Zaragoza

Spain

, Patrícia Nascimento Pena

, Martijn Goorden