dr. R. (Rein) Smedinga
Research interests
Education
I am interested in computer science education and been member of
the board of NIOC
since 2002.
Most appreciated course is the student colloquium, where we simulate a real CS conference for master students. We also produce conference proceedings and have a hall of fame for best presentations and best paper.
Software engineering
My current field of interest is software engineering, especially software architectures and product lines. A joint publication is [BBS]. In[GSB01] some ideas about fragments, i.e. a means to support architecture design, are shown.
Within education I am involved in object oriented techniques (in programming, analysis, design), UML, UP, Java etc.)
Discrete Event Systems
I have also done research in the field of discrete event systems (DESs). A DES is a system, in which events can happen. An event is some action, occurring at some time (but without any duration). A DES can be modeled by a triple, consisting of an alphabet (representing all possible events), a behaviour set (all possible sequences of events), and a task set (all possible sequences that lead to completed behaviour).
Theory has been developed about cooperation of such systems. Especially, questions about controlling DESs can be answered. Controllers can be computed to get a controlled system that act as prescribed and/or to avoid ending in deadlock.
DESs play an important role in many applications, like flexible manufacturing systems, computer networks, communication and protocol design, VLSI design and traffic systems.
This research has resulted in a PH.D.thesis and a couple of publications (most important ones: [SpSm] [SSR] [Sme19] [Sme17] [Sme16] [Sme10] ).
A first
workshop on the field has been organized together with Petr
Kozák (Institute of Information Theory and Automation,
Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague) in August 1992 in Prague
[WODES92] and a second workshop has been organisated in 1996 in
Edinburgh, Scotland, see [WODES96]. A third was organized in
Cagliari, see [WODES98] and a next one in Gent, Belgium. During
WODES2000 and the conference in Spain in 2002, I was
a member of the WODES-steering group.
A website with all WODES information is available through this link.
I have cooperated with Michael Spathopoulos (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK). In the period 1994-1999, joint research is done in the fields of decentralized and distributed controllers for discrete event systems, using hierarchical and distributed structures and study on how this theory can be applied in control problems for flexible manufacturing and traffic systems.
Within the framework of
Research Networks, Training and Mobility of Researchers, a
programme of the European Commission, Directorate General XII, the
ALAPEDES
project has started in october 1996 and was finished in 2001.
Citation
In Dutch Dictionary "Dikke van Dale":roker (de (m.); vgl. -er), rookster (de (v)) 1. iem. die tabak, sigaren, sigaretten of een pijp rookt, pleegt te roken: hij is een matig, een sterk, een zware roker; aangezien niet-rokers ook in het bijzijn van rokers niet roken zouden rokers bij niet-rokers ook niet mogen roken (Smedinga); (uitdr.) een tevreden roker is geen onruststoker; -- ook in samenst. als: hasjroker, opiumroker, pijproker, sigarenroker, sigarettenroker 2. iem. die vis, vlees enz. rookt; -- ook in samenst. als: haringroker, palingroker, visroker, vleesroker, zalmroker.