About the Editors
Christos G. Cassandras is Professor of Manufacturing Engineering and Professor
of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University. He is also co-founder
of Boston University’s Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE). He
received degrees from Yale University (B.S., 1977), Stanford University (M.S.E.E.,
1978), and Harvard University (S.M., 1979; Ph.D., 1982). In 1982–1984 he was
with ITP Boston, Inc. where he worked on the design of automated manufacturing
systems. In 1984–1996 he was a faculty member at the Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts/Amherst. He specializes
in the areas of discrete event and hybrid systems, stochastic optimization, and com-
puter simulation, with applications to computer and sensor networks, manufacturing
systems, and transportation systems. He has published over 200 refereed papers in
these areas, and two textbooks. He has guest-edited several technical journal issues
and serves on several journal editorial boards. Dr. Cassandras is currently Editor-in-
ChiefoftheIEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and has served as Editor for
Technical Notes and Correspondence and Associate Editor. He is a member of the
IEEE CSS Board of Governors, chaired the CSS Technical Committee on Control
Theory, and served as Chair of several conferences. He has been a plenary speaker
at various international conferences, including the American Control Conference in
2001 and the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in 2002. He is the recipient
of several awards, including the Distinguished Member Award of the IEEE Control
Systems Society (2006), the 1999 Harold Chestnut Prize (IFAC Best Control Engi-
neering Textbook) for Discrete Event Systems: Modeling and Performance Analysis,
and a 1991 Lilly Fellowship. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi.
He is also a Fellow of the IEEE.
John Lygeros completed a B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering in 1990 and an
M.Sc. degree in control in 1991, both at Imperial College of Science Technology
and Medicine, London. He obtained a Ph.D. in 1996 from the Electrical Engineering
and Computer Sciences Department, University of California, Berkeley. In 1996–
2000 he held a series of postdoctoral research appointments at the National Auto-
mated Highway Systems Consortium, M.I.T., and U.C. Berkeley. In parallel, he also
worked as a part-time research engineer at SRI International, Menlo Park, Califor-
nia, and as a Visiting Professor at the Mathematics Department of the Universit´ede
Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France. Between July 2000 and March 2003 he was
a University Lecturer at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge,
Cambridge, U.K., and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. Between March
2003 and July 2006 he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical
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