Everything about Event-driven programming

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Event-driven programmingA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Fuzzy Event-Driven Optimal Quantized Control for USVs Under Thruster and Positioning Constraints: An Adaptive Dynamic Programming MethodInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Wicket in actionThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Data-Driven Event-Triggered Adaptive Dynamic Programming Control for Nonlinear Systems With Input SaturationCited 190 times
5. Go sideways: Event dispatching threadA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Event loopA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Data-Driven Event-Triggered Adaptive Dynamic Programming Control for Nonlinear Systems With Input Saturation

  Mouquan Shen, Xianming Wang, Song Zhu · 2024 · IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics · 190 citations

• Data-driven control of hydraulic servo actuator: An event-triggered adaptive dynamic programming approach

  Vladimir Djordjevic, Hongfeng Tao, Xiaona Song · 2023 · Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering · 105 citations

• Adaptive Dynamic Programming for Robust Event-Driven Tracking Control of Nonlinear Systems With Asymmetric Input Constraints

  Xiong Yang, Qinglai Wei · 2024 · IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics · 43 citations

• Approximate Dynamic Programming for Event-Driven H ∞ Constrained Control

  Xiong Yang, Mengmeng Xu, Qinglai Wei · 2023 · IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems · 35 citations

• Event-driven optimal control for uncertain nonlinear systems with external disturbance via adaptive dynamic programming

  Aijuan Wang, Xiaofeng Liao, Tao Dong · 2018 · Neurocomputing · 34 citations

• Stochastic Optimal Regulation of Nonlinear Networked Control Systems by Using Event-Driven Adaptive Dynamic Programming

  Avimanyu Sahoo, Sarangapani Jagannathan · 2016 · IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics · 30 citations

• Online Reinforcement Learning Control by Direct Heuristic Dynamic Programming: From Time-Driven to Event-Driven

  Qingtao Zhao, Jennie Si, Jian Sun · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems · 24 citations

• Event-driven Programming in Programming Education

  Aleksi Lukkarinen, Lauri Malmi, Lassi Haaranen · 2021 · ACM Transactions on Computing Education · 17 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Fuzzy Event-Driven Optimal Quantized Control for USVs Under Thruster and Positioning Constraints: An Adaptive Dynamic Programming Method

  Jun Ning, Xiangjie Cui, Xiaoyang Gao · 2026 · IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems · 11 citations

• AbU: A calculus for distributed event-driven programming with attribute-based interaction

  Michele Pasqua, Marino Miculan · 2023 · Theoretical Computer Science · 7 citations

• EVENT-DRIVEN PROGRAMMING FOR HIGH THROUGHPUT APPLICATIONS

  Raghukishore Balivada · 2025 · INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN COMPUTER APPLICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY · 1 citations

• Event-triggered adaptive dynamic programming for cable-driven parallel rehabilitation system with uncertainties

  Yingbo Lu, Pengfei Li, Ao Huang · 2024 · International Journal of Control · 1 citations

• An event-driven neurodynamic solver with adaptive projection for constrained quadratic programming

  Ameer Hamza Khan, Xinwei Cao, Shuai Li · 2026 · Neurocomputing · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Wicket in actionMartijn Dashorst, Eelco Hillenius · 2008

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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