Discrete event systems, manufacturing systems, and communication networks. Based on the proceedings of a workshop that was an integral part of the 1992-93 IMA program on control theory, held at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA (Q1892795)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. Indexed articles: \textit{Caines, P. E.; Wei, Y. J.}, Markovian fragments of COCOLOG theories, 1-39 [Zbl 0878.93035] \textit{Chong, Edwin K. P.}, On-line optimization of queues using infinitesimal perturbation analysis, 41-57 [Zbl 0828.60076] \textit{Ho, Y. C.}, A new paradigm for stochastic optimization and parallel simulation, 59-72 [Zbl 0833.93062] \textit{Hu, Junjie; Caramanis, Michael}, Dynamic set-up scheduling of flexible manufacturing systems: Design and stability of near optimal general round robin policies, 73-104 [Zbl 0831.90066] \textit{Kurshan, R. P.}, Homomorphic reduction on coordination analysis, 105-147 [Zbl 0839.68063] \textit{Mallubhatla, Ranga; Pattipati, Krishna R.; Viswanadham, N.}, Discrete-time Markov-reward models of production systems, 149-175 [Zbl 0837.90062] \textit{McManis, Jennifer; Varaiya, Pravin}, Modeling real-time systems using rate automata, 177-199 [Zbl 0828.93002] \textit{Narain, Sanjai; Chadha, Ritu}, Symbolic discrete-event simulation, 201-224 [Zbl 0846.93064] \textit{Rudie, Karen; Willems, Jan C.}, Decentralized discrete-event systems and computational complexity, 225-241 [Zbl 0828.93003] \textit{Sharifnia, Ali}, Starvation-based instability of distributed scheduling policies in non-acyclic fluid and queuing networks, 243-253 [Zbl 0828.60077]