An Unifying Decision-Making Framework in Discrete-Event Systems: Application to Centralized and Decentralized Control, Diagnosis and Prognosis

We develop a decision-making framework for DES, which is unifying in two ways. Firstly, it unifies the architectures: we develop a decision-making system for a generic well-formed architecture; and then, we specialize the framework for centralized and decentralized architectures. Secondly, it unifies supervisory control, diagnosis and prognosis: we develop a framework for a generic well-formed decision-maker; and then, we apply the framework to the three subjects. We hope that this unifying framework will contribute to a better understanding of the decision-making mechanism, and will promote its development.