A novel object-oriented environment for distributed process control systems

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 213-230

  Ramos Hernandez, D N ^a   Fleming, P J ^a   Bass, Julian M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b Merit International   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Continuous systems; Control systems; Event driven systems; Object oriented technology; Process control

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROBABILITY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

INTEGRATED DESIGN NOTATION (IDN); OBJECT-ORIENTED ENVIRONMENT; PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEMS; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE (UML);

PROCESS CONTROL;

CONTROL SYSTEM;

EID: 11144346707     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2004.03.007     Document Type: Article

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