Stochastic models for performance modelling and optimization of
manufacturing systems
Instructor : Prof. Xiaolan Xie
Content :
Part I : Untimed models (4h)
Chapter 1 : Introduction to discrete event systems
Chapter 2 : Language and automata
Chapter 3 : Petri nets
Part II : Markov chains (8h)
Chapter 4: Discrete time Markov chains
Chapter 5: Continuous time Markov Chains
Chapter 6: Queueing networks
Part III : Production lines (8h)
Chapter 7: Performance evaluation of failure prone transfer lines
Chapter 8: Design and analysis of Bernoulli Lines
Part IV: Performance optimization (12h)
Chapter 9: Dynamic programming & Markov decision processes
Chapter 10: Perturbation analysis and sample-path optimization
References:
C. Cassandras and S. Lafortune, Introduction to Discrete Event Systems, Springer, 2007
Martin Puterman, Markov decision processes, John Wiley & Sons, 1994
D.P. Bertsekas, Dynamic Programming, Prentice Hall, 1987
J. Li and S.M. Meerkov, Production Systems Engineering, WingSpan PRESS, 2008
S.B. Gershwin, Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Prentice Hall, 1994.
J.-M. Proth and X. Xie, Petri nets: a tool for design and management of manufacturing
systems, John Wiley & Sons, 1996.
Teaching methods: Courses, exercices, and computational studies with Excel (bring your
PC)
Resume:
Xiaolan Xie received his Ph.D degree from the University of Nancy I, Nancy, France, in 1989,
and the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches degree from the University of Metz, France, in
1995.
Currently, he is a chair professor at SJTU and a professor of industrial engineering and the
head of the department of Healthcare Engineering, ENSM.SE, France. Before Joining
ENSM.SE, he was a Research Director at the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique
et en Automatique (INRIA) from 2002 to 2005, a Full Professor at Ecole Nationale
d’Ingénieurs de Metz from 1999 to 2002, and a Senior Research Scientist at INRIA from 1990
to 1999. His research interests include design, planning and scheduling, supply chain
optimization, performance evaluation, and maintenance of manufacturing and healthcare systems. He is
author/coauthor of over 200 publications including over 80 journal articles and five books. He has rich industrial
application experiences with European industries. He is the French-leader for various EU-funded projects
including FP6-IST6 IWARD on swarm robots for health services, FP6-NoE I*PROMS on intelligent machines
and production systems, the FP5-GROWTH-ONE project for the strategic design of supply chain networks, the
FP5- GRWOTH thematic network TNEE on extended enterprises.
He has been an associate editor on the conference editorial board of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society,
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science & Engineering, IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control and IEEE
Transactions on Robotics & Automation. He has a Guest Editor of various special issues on health care
engineering in IEEE Trans. Syst. Man & Cybernetics, Annals of Operations Research (AOR, 2010), and Health
Care Management Science (HCMS, 2009), and four other special issues on discrete event systems and
manufacturing systems for IJCIM (2005), IJPR (2004, 2001), IEEE Trans. Robotics & Automation (2001). He is
general chair of ORAHS’2007, IPC chair of the IEEE Workshop on Health Care Management WHCM’2010 and
IPC member for many other conferences.