This monograph presents the state-of-the-art developments in the design of behaviorally and structurally optimal livenessen-forcing Petri net supervisors with computationally tractable approaches. It details optimal supervisory control problems arising in automated production systems and outlines a methodology to achieve the optimality purposes of

Introduction. Preliminaries. Symbolic Computation and Analysis of Petri Nets. Supervisor Design Based on the Theory of Regions. Maximally Permissive Supervisors. Most Permissive Supervisors. Structurally Minimal Supervisors. Behaviorally Optimal and Structurally Simple Supervisors. Forbidden State Problems. Conclusions and Open Problems.