1. Foreword to the Special Issue

   • Yu-Chi Ho

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 5

2. Guest Editorial

   • Han-Fu Chen
   • Da~Zhong Zheng

   OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 8

3. Period of Processing on Serial Production Line, Optimal Scheduling and Application

   • Wende Chen
   • Jing Xu
   • Qihong Liang

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 21

4. Convergence Rate of Ordinal Optimization for Stochastic Discrete Event Systems

   • Qian-Yu Tang
   • Han-Fu Chen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 23 - 43

5. Stable and Real-Time Scheduling of a Class of Hybrid Dynamic Systems

   • Qian Chuan Zhao
   • Da Zhong Zheng

   OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 64

6. Intelligent Control Paradigm for Dynamic Discrete Event System Simulation

   • Robert de Souza
   • Zhao Zhen Ying

   OriginalPaper Pages: 65 - 73

7. A Queueing Model for the Design and Analysis of a Mining Stockyard

   • Michael Binkowski
   • Brenan J. McCarragher

   OriginalPaper Pages: 75 - 98