For the purpose of their full or partial automation, complex automated systems are abstracted as higher-level models by implicitly describing their underlying continuous variable dynamics, giving rise to the proliferation of discrete event systems. When it is necessary to describe the interaction of higher-level event-driven, lower-level time-driven, and continuous material flow dynamics, both event and continuous variables are present so as to constitute hybrid systems. This leads to so-far the most general dynamic systems whose automation can satisfy the intensive demand for system flexibility, reliability, and robustness. This session aims to provide a communication opportunity for academics and industry researchers in such particular discrete event & hybrid systems (DEHS). Its main objective is to address their applicability and application in industrial automation, thus clarifying the subsequent development directions. Its focus is on how the DEHS theories can benefit automation and what their potentials are.
