The open source initiative 4DIAC – Framework for Distributed Industrial Automation and Control (www.fordiac.org) has been founded with the idea to support research activities and industrial adoption of distributed automation systems. During the last years, 4DIAC grew with new versions, added improvements and new features for the modeling of distributed automation systems as well as the corresponding runtime environment. Moreover, a special focus was on the performance improvement of the runtime system. Even more important, 4DIAC as an IEC 61499-compliant distributed control environment for industrial and research applications has proven to be a stable basis for further research towards the next generation of distributed automation and control systems based on open standards.
By its converging nature, SOCNE workshop brings together researchers and practitioners from a variety of different industrial application domains. They are working on the same goal to improve the interoperability in their own application field as well as between various kinds of domains.
The workshop is in the framework of the PF7 project “Advanced Platform for manufacturing engineering and Product Lifecycle Management” (amePLM http://www.ameplm.eu).
The workshop will provide an opportunity, not only for the projects partners but also for researchers and practitioners, to exchange new ideas and results about Product Life Management (PLM) approaches.
Healthcare systems are highly computerized large-scale distributed systems. To manage the increasing demand and financial pressure, radically new planning and control approaches are needed. Future planning and control requires better integration of various subsystems and advanced algorithms for information handling, prognosis and optimization. It also needs to be useful and understandable by healthcare personnel and patients as well as shifting from a reactive care to proactive and patient-centered care.
The VtRES workshop provides a forum for researchers and technologists to discuss the state-of-the-art, present their work and contributions, and set future directions in virtualization for real-time embedded systems.
The last decade has seen an intense scientific interest in event-based paradigm in a wide spectrum of modern engineering disciplines including control, communication, signal processing, and electronic instrumentation. The primary reason for the increasing research effort in exploring event-based design is its superiority in the resource-constrained applications.
