1. Guest editorial

   • F. Frank Chen

   EditorialNotes Pages: 693 - 693

2. Transient functioning mode of manufacturing systems with operation time constraints

   • S. Calvez
   • P. Aygalinc
   • P. Bonhomme

   OriginalPaper Pages: 694 - 703

3. Deadlock prevention and avoidance in FMS: A Petri net based approach

   • I. B. Abdallah
   • H. A. ElMaraghy

   OriginalPaper Pages: 704 - 715

4. Discrete event control system design using automation Petri nets and their ladder diagram implementation

   • M. Uzam
   • A. H. Jones

   OriginalPaper Pages: 716 - 728

5. Deadlock avoidance control for manufacturing systems with multiple capacity resources

   • L. Ferrarini
   • M. Maroni

   OriginalPaper Pages: 729 - 736

6. Object-oriented approach of MCTPN for modelling Flexible manufacturing systems

   • Chung-Hsien Kuo
   • Han-Pang Huang
   • Min-Chin Yeh

   OriginalPaper Pages: 737 - 749

7. Deadlock prevention using Petri nets and their unfoldings

   • A. Taubin
   • A. Kondratyev
   • M. Kishinevsky

   OriginalPaper Pages: 750 - 759

8. Material flow and control sequence specification of flexible production systems using coloured Petri nets

   • K. Feldmann
   • A. W. Colombo

   OriginalPaper Pages: 760 - 774

9. Real-time control and scheduling of flexible manufacturing systems: An ordinal optimisation based approach

   • Chong Peng
   • F. Frank Chen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 775 - 786