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During the last couple of years a lot of component- or object-oriented approaches have been presented to ease the implementation and reconfiguration of distributed control systems. Using these frameworks, the structure of the control objects follows the configuration of the mechanical components, and each object is instantiated as often as the corresponding device occurs in a plant. Having an object...