On the Boolean Minimal Realization Problem in the Max-Plus Algebra

Reference

B. De Schutter and B. De Moor, "On the Boolean Minimal Realization Problem in the Max-Plus Algebra," Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Discrete Event Systems (WODES'98), Cagliari, Italy, pp. 231-236, Aug. 1998.

Abstract

The max-plus algebra is one of the frameworks that can be used to model discrete event systems. One of the open problems in the max-plus-algebraic system theory for discrete event systems is the minimal realization problem. In this paper we present some results for a simplified version of the general minimal realization problem: the boolean minimal realization problem, i.e., we consider models in which the entries of the system matrices are either equal to the max-plus-algebraic zero element or to the max-plus-algebraic identity element.

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Bibtex entry

@inproceedings{DeSDeM:98-42,
author={B. {D}e Schutter and B. {D}e Moor},
title={On the {B}oolean Minimal Realization Problem in the Max-Plus Algebra},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Discrete Event Systems (WODES'98)},
address={Cagliari, Italy},
pages={231--236},
month=aug,
year={1998}
}


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