SS04 - Flexible And Interoperable Automation Systems
- Valeriy Vyatkin, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden
[email protected] - Jerker Delsing, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden
[email protected] - Wenbin Dai, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden
[email protected] - Roberto Uribeetxeberria, Mondragon University, Spain
[email protected] - Luís Lino Ferreira, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
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Contents
Modern automation systems are highly software and communication intensive but suffer from insufficient extensibility and flexibility: it is difficult to extend functionalities or enable intelligent control for those systems due to proprietarity of ICT solutions and their layered hierarchical organisation. Future automation systems should be able to collaborate with other counterparts in a peer to peer way and reconfigure themselves automatically. The emerging concepts of the Internet of Things and Service-oriented Architecture promise breakthrough in achieving interoperability and flexibility of devices and systems, so that future automation systems will be capable of seamless reconfiguration without disrupting operations, being also more efficient in productivity and energy consumption.
This special session will be focusing on (but not limited to) the following topics:
- New concepts, trends and approaches for collaborative automation systems;
- Software design support and architecture for intelligent automation systems (object-oriented, component-based design, service-oriented architecture, etc.);
- Self-discovery, self-ogranization and self-reconfiguration (cognitive and multi-agent systems, knowledge engineering);
- Standardisation of software architectures and communication protocols for interoperability, portability and configurability;
- Wearable devices and mobile technologies assisting collaboration in automation systems;
- Applications of intelligent control in automation systems (manufacturing systems, process control, building automation, smart grid, wireless sensor networks);
- Support of safety and security analysis methods of flexible and interoperable automation system architectures.
Submission of Papers
Papers are to be submitted electronically. For further details, please consult the conference web pages.
Author's Schedule
Deadline for submission of special sessions papers | April 25, 2014 |
Notification of acceptance of special sessions papers | May 15, 2014 |
Deadline for submission of final manuscripts Regular and special sessions |
July 1, 2014 |
ETFA 2014 Conference | September 16-19, 2014 |