Foreword; Preface; List of participants; 1. An introduction to idempotency
Jeremy Gunawardena; 2. Tropical semirings Jean-Eric Pin; 3. Some
automata-theoretic aspects of min-max-plus semirings Daniel Krob; 4. The
finite power property for rational sets of a free group Flavio d'Alessandro
and Jacques Sakarovitch; 5. The topological approach to the limitedness
problem on distance automata Hing Leung; 6. Types and dynamics in partially
additive categories Gianfranco Mascari and Marco Pedicini; 7. Task resource
models and (max,+) automata Stéphane Gaubert and Jean Mairesse; 8.
Algebraic system analysis of timed Petri nets Guy Cohen, Stéphane Gaubert
and Jean-Pierre Quadrat; 9. Ergodic theorems for stochastic operators and
discrete event networks François Baccelli and Jean Mairesse; 10.
Computational issues in recursive stochastic systems Bruno Gaujal and Alain
Jean-Marie; 11. Periodic points of nonexpansive maps Roger D. Nussbaum; 12.
A system-theoretic approach for discrete-event control of manufacturing
systems Ayla Gürel, Octavian C. Pastravanu and Frank L. Lewis; 13.
Idempotent structures in the supervisory control of discrete event systems
Darren D. Cofer and Vijay K. Garg; 14. Maxpolynomials and discrete-event
dynamic systems Raymond A. Cunninghame-Green; 15. The Stochastic HJB
equation and WKB method Vassili N. Kolokoltsov; 16. The Lagrange problem
from the point of view of idempotent analysis Serguei Samborskii; 17. A new
differential equation for the dynamics of the Pareto sets Vassili N.
Kolokoltsov and Victor P. Maslov; 18. Duality between probability and
optimization Marianne Akian, Jean-Pierre Quadrat and Michel Viot; 19.
Maslov optimization theory: topological aspects Pierre Del Moral; 20.
Random particle methods in (max,+) optimization problems Pierre Del Moral
and Gérard Salut; 21. The geometry of finite dimensional pseudomodules
Edouard Wagneur; 22. A general linear max-plus solution technique Elizabeth
A. Walkup and Gaetano Borriello; 23. Axiomatics of thermodynamics and
idempotent analysis Victor P. Maslov; 24. The correspondence principle for
idempotent calculus and some computer applications Grigori L. Litvinov and
Victor P. Maslov.
