This paper presents one perspective on recent developments related to software
engineering in the industrial automation sector that spans from manufacturing factory …

This review paper discusses the industrial and research activities around the IEC 61499
architecture for distributed automation systems. IEC 61499 has been developed to enable …

This paper presents a new approach to power system automation, based on distributed
intelligence rather than traditional centralized control. The paper investigates the interplay …

The article is structured as follows. In the" System-Level Design for Distributed Automation"
section, we give a general introduction to IEC 61499 in terms of its value for the automation …

Industrial automation systems (IASs) are commonly developed using the languages defined
by the IEC 61131 standard and are executed on programmable logic controllers (PLCs) …

Few developments have changed the evolution of the automation process as substantially
as the development of industrial local area networks and communication protocols …

With the advent of Industry 4.0, industrial facilities and critical infrastructures are transforming
into an ecosystem of heterogeneous physical and cyber components, such as …

As systems have been and are becoming more and more complex, the task of quality
assurance is increasingly challenging. Model-based testing is a research field addressing …

This paper presents a survey on model-driven design and validation approaches for
distributed automation and control systems with essentially decentralized logic. Driven by …

IEC 61131 has been widely accepted in the industrial automation domain. However, it is
claimed that the standard does not address today the new requirements of complex …