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The current situation in automation is characterised by an ongoing trend towards distributed systems based on intelligent devices, the application of Web services and the usage of Ethernet as the main communication media. The most important standard to deal with distributed control systems (DCSs) is the IEC 61499 whose industrial application is still at the beginning. Within this paper, a platform...
The European project Proteus aimed at developing a generic software architecture for Web-based e-maintenance. The goal was to propose a good technical and management support to optimize the maintenance strategy, to improve maintenance performance and reliability and finally to reduce maintenance costs. We introduce a notion of semantic e-maintenance platform based on the common semantic and ontology...
In current embedded system design practice, only few architectural solutions and mappings of the functionalities of a system on the architecture's components are examined. This paper presents an optimization-based method and the associated tool developed to help designers take architectural decisions. The principle of this approach is to efficiently explore the design space and to dynamically provide...
In modern communication networks the task of synchronizing the system clock of nodes is of growing interest. Especially in sensor networks synchronized applications are of crucial importance, but a global view of the system status can only be examined if the individual data acquisitions are exactly related to each other. This imposes constraints on the implementation that are rarely discussed. The...
Traffic control and information systems are used in modern traffic technology for information propagation from a higher order control unit to the traffic participant. In up to date systems, the user interface for the traffic participant is provided via programmable signs displaying traffic jam warnings, speed limits or route diversion. These signs can be switched on or off and fed with arbitrary data...
In recent years, concerns about the safety and security of critical infrastructures have increased enormously. These infrastructures can easily become subjects of physical and cyber attacks. In this paper, we propose a software architecture named security and protection architecture for physical infrastructures (SPAPI) for the protection of these critical infrastructures and for other non-military...
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