Event-based control & systems

• Event-based and self-triggered control,
• Continuous and periodic event-triggered control,
• State-feedback and output-based event-triggered control,
• Event-based PI and PID controllers,
• Event-based control over networks,
• Decentralized event-triggered control,
• Distributed event-triggered control,
• Distributed event-triggered control for multi-agent systems,
• Event-based state estimation,
• Control systems with Lebesgue sampling,
• Lyapunov sampling for event-driven controllers,
• Event-based intermittent control,
• Generalized predictive event-triggered control,
• Discrete-event systems

Event-based communication, computing & systems

• Event-based and time-triggered communication architectures,
• Event-based protocols,
• Flexible time-triggered protocols and architectures,
• Event-based fieldbuses,
• Event-based real-time systems
• Controller Area Networks (CAN),
• Complex events detection,
• Event-based wireless sensor and control systems,
• Event-triggered and self-triggered real-time task scheduling,
• Performance evaluation of event-based communication systems,
• Event-based and adaptive sampling,
• Cost-aware sampling,
• Adaptive sampling and sleep mode,
• Intelligent sampling,
• Design of event-based sampling criteria,
• Event-based spatial and spatio-temporal sampling,
• Intelligent event-driven sensors,
• Send-on-delta data reporting strategy,
• Event-based communication systems modelling and design,
• Event-based control applications
• Programming Languages,
• Software Engineering,
• Security & Privacy,
• Big Data & Data Management,
• Intelligent Systems,
• Distributed & Parallel Computing,
• Cloud Computing

Event-based signal processing & systems

• Event-driven signal processing chain,
• Event-driven signal processing theory,
• Event-driven data acquisition,
• Event-driven analog-to-digital conversion techniques,
• Adaptive-rate analog-to-digital conversion,
• Level-crossing analog-to-digital converters,
• Event-driven filters, Event-driven adaptive filters,
• Clockless and self-timed circuits and architectures,
• Spectral analysis of event-triggered sampled data,
• Asynchronous Delta modulation,
• Asynchronous Delta modulator implementations,
• Event-based signal reconstruction methods,
• Event-based signal processing applications,
• Intelligent event-driven sensors,
• Continuous-time digital signal processing,
• Event-driven computing,
• Biologically-inspired event-driven systems,
• Spike-event generation,
• Event-driven visual attention,
• Event-driven vision sensing,
• Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS) systems,
• Frame-free event-driven vision systems,
• Address-Event Representation (AER) protocol and interface,
• Event-driven convolution processors,
• Event-driven stereo vision

Discrete Event Systems

• Formalisms and modeling methodologies: Petri nets, automata, statecharts, process algebras, max-plus algebra, queuing networks
• Control of discrete-event systems: supervisory control; real time control
• Performance evaluation, optimization, scheduling
• Diagnosis, fault detection, test, identification
• Hybrid systems
• Applications: manufacturing systems, communication protocols and systems, transportation systems, office and home automation, urban automation, smart grid, large-scale distributed systems, healthcare systems, software engineering
• Electronic Design Automation of software tools to support operation of large-scale distributed systems such as manufacturing systems, building automation, highway automation, urban automation
• Computer tools for DES modelling, synthesis, analysis