The rapid growth in the number of behavior analysts and aspiring behavior analysts creates an imperative for effective and efficient supervisory practices. Many behavior analysts receive little to no explicit instruction and mentoring in supervision practices while they are in training themselves. Those behavior analysts may then be expected to provide supervision for a range of individuals soo...

The engineering of supervisory controllers for large and complex cyber-physical systems requires dedicated engineering support. The Compositional Interchange Format language and toolset have been developed for this purpose. We highlight a model-based engineering framework for the engineering of supervisory controllers and explain how the CIF language and accompanying tools can be used for typic...

A supervisory adaptive control approach has been developed for a structural vibration control of a coordinate measuring machine, which is a dynamic system with time varying system model order and parameters. An on-line dynamic data system modelling algorithm is used to identify the system model order and parameters simultaneously. Based on the identified model, a predictive control algorithm is...

On supervisory policies that enforce liveness in completely controlled petri nets with directed cut-places and cut-transitions. On supervisory policies that enforce liveness in in a class of completely controlled petri nets obtained via reenement. Starting from the observation that the set of initial markings (N) for which there is a supervisory policy that enforces liveness in a partially cont...

Supervisory Controllers are Discrete Event Dynamic Systems (DEDSs) forming the discrete core of a Hybrid Control System. We address the problem of automatic synthesis of Optimal Finite State Supervisory Controllers (OSCs). We show that Boolean First Order Logic (BFOL) and Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) are an eeective meth-odological and practical framework for Optimal Finite State Supervisory...

OBJECTIVE Assess the roles of care neglect and supervisory neglect, and the moderating influence of child age on childhood obesity. Study Design Child BMI, parental care neglect, and supervisory neglect were assessed in an ethnically diverse sample of 571 young children from two Midwestern States. Hierarchical linear regression was used to assess the influence of both forms of neglect and the m...

Based on a two-stage analysis of a panel of data on 12 outlets of a high-end retailer for 24 months, we investigate how the level of supervisory monitoring affects retail sales productivity. In the first stage, we use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to compute the relative productivity of retail outlets in using their labor and capital resources to generate store sales. In the second stage, we ...

This article reports efforts to devise frameworks for quickly and easily characterizing 13 different supervisory control applications developed and tested by the international participants in a North Atlantic Treaty Organization working group on supervisory control of multiple uninhabited vehicles (UVs). Multiple prior frameworks for supervisory control are reviewed, and two novel ones (a more ...

This paper presents the application of discrete event system in the field of power system. In power system there are various components which required control and coordination when they are in operation. The theory of discrete event system has been applied in the application part of power system. The discrete nature of ULTC and discrete switching behavior of SVC are best suited for the supervis...

The automation of complex industrial batch processes is a difficult problem due to the extremely nonlinear and variable system behavior or the conflicting goals within the different process phases. The introduction of a single multipleinput multiple-output controller (e.g. fuzzy logic (FL) controller) is not useful because of the rather high design effort and the low transparency of its complex...