Karen Rudie: Selected Publications

S.L. Ricker and K. Rudie, Knowledge is a Terrible Thing to Waste: Using Inference in Discrete-Event Control Problems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Volumn 52, Number 3, pp. 428-441, 2007.

L. Grigorov and K. Rudie, Near-Optimal Online Control of Dynamic Discrete Event Systems, Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications, Volume 16, pp. 419-449, 2006.

K. Rudie, S. Lafortune, F. Lin, Minimal Communication in a Distributed Discrete-Event System, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Volume 48, Number 6, pp. 957-975, 2003.

K. Rudie, How to be an Engineering Professor Yesterday, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Volume 23, Number 3, pp. 10-11, 2003.

M. Aghamirian, K. Rudie, A. Burns, and G. Frontini, Using Timed Discrete-Event Systems and Discrete-Event Simulation to Design Control Policies in a Manufacturing System, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Production Research, Blacksburg, VA, August 3-7, 2003.

S.L. Ricker and K. Rudie, Knowledge is a Terrible Thing to Waste: Using Inference in Discrete-Event Control Problems, Proceedings of the American Control Conference (ACC), Denver, CO, June 4-6, pp. 2246-2251, 2003.

S. Blouin, M. Guay, and K. Rudie, Discrete Abstractions for Nearly Integrable Continuous Systems: The Two Dimensional Case, International Journal of Hybrid Systems, Volume 2, Number 4, pp. 297-335, 2002.

E. Lemch, M. Guay, and K. Rudie, Modelling of Oil Production Operation in the Framework of Hybrid Systems, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Las Vegas, NV, December 10-13, pp. 1595-1600, 2002.

K. Rudie, The Current State of Decentralized Discrete-Event Control Systems, Proceedings of the Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Lisbon, Portugal, July 9-12, 2002.

S. Blouin, M. Guay, and K. Rudie, An Application of Discrete-Event Theory to Truck Dispatching, Proceedings of the American Control Conference (ACC), Arlington, VA, June 25-27, pp. 2315-2320, 2001.

S.L. Ricker and K. Rudie, Distributed Knowledge for Communication in Decentralized Discrete-Event Systems, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Sydney, Australia, December 12-15, pp. 9-15, 2000.

S.L. Ricker and K. Rudie, Know Means No: Incorporating Knowledge into Discrete-Event Control Systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Volume 45, Number 9, pp. 1656-1668, 2000.

G. Labinaz, M.M. Bayoumi, and K. Rudie, Viable Cascade Control and Application to a Batch Polymerization Process, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Volume 8, Number 3, pp. 396-407, 2000.

S.L. Ricker and K. Rudie, Incorporating Communication and Knowledge into Decentralized Discrete-Event Systems, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Phoenix, AZ, December 7-10, pp. 1326-1332, 1999.

K. Rudie, S. Lafortune, and F. Lin, Minimal Communication in a Distributed Discrete-Event Control System, Proceedings of the American Control Conference (ACC), San Diego, CA, June 2-4, pp. 1965-1970, 1999.

G. Labinaz, M.M. Bayoumi, and K. Rudie, A Survey of Modeling and Control of Hybrid Systems, Annual Reviews in Control, Volume 21, pp. 79-92, 1997.

S.L. Ricker, N. Sarkar, and K. Rudie, A Discrete-Event Systems Approach to Modeling Dextrous Manipulation, Robotica, Volume 14, pp. 515-525, 1996.

G. Labinaz, M.M. Bayoumi, and K. Rudie, Modeling and Control of Hybrid Systems: A Survey, in Proceedings of the IFAC World Congress, Volume J, July 1-5, pp. 293-304, 1996.

G. Labinaz, K. Rudie, L. Ricker, N. Sarkar, and M.M. Bayoumi, A Hybrid System Investigation of Fluid-Filled Tanks, Technical Report No. 96-01, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, 1996. Also presented at Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS), St. Louis, MO, June 24-28, 1996.

K. Rudie and J.C. Willems, The Computational Complexity of Decentralized Discrete-Event Control Problems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Volume 40, Number 7, pp. 1313-1319, 1995.

K. Rudie, N. Shimkin, and S.D. O'Young, Timed Discrete-Event Systems: A Manufacturing Application, Proceedings of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Volume I, Princeton, NJ, March 16-18, pp. 374-381, 1994.

K. Rudie and W.M. Wonham, Think Globally, Act Locally: Decentralized Supervisory Control, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Volume 37, Number 11, pp. 1692-1708, 1992. Reprinted in SPIE Milestone Series, Volume MS 124, Selected Papers on Sensor and Data Fusion , Edited by F. Sadjadi, pp. 206-222, 1996.

K. Rudie and W.M. Wonham, Protocol Verification Using Discrete-Event Systems, in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Tucson, AZ, December 16-18, pp. 3770-3777, 1992.

K. Rudie and W.M. Wonham, The Infimal Prefix-Closed and Observable Superlanguage of a Given Language, Systems & Control Letters, Volume 15, pp. 361-371, 1990.

K. Rudie and W.M. Wonham, Supervisory Control of Communicating Processes, in Protocol Specification, Testing, and Verification, X , L. Logrippo, R. L. Probert and H. Ural (eds.), Elsevier Science Pub. (North-Holland), pp. 243-257, 1990. Presented at IFIP Tenth International Symposium on Protocol Specification, Testing, and Verification , Ottawa, ON, 1989.