Autonomous application recovery in distributed intelligent automation and control systems

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1054-1070

  Strasser, Thomas ^a   Froschauer, Roman ^b  

^a AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b AlpinaTec GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

(re)configuration; Automatic application recovery; distributed intelligent automation; holonic manufacturing system (HMS); industrial process measurement and control systems (IPMCSs); International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 61499; lower level control (LLC)

Indexed keywords

(RE)CONFIGURATION; AUTOMATIC APPLICATION; DISTRIBUTED INTELLIGENT AUTOMATIONS; HOLONIC MANUFACTURING SYSTEM; INDUSTRIAL PROCESSS; INTERNATIONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL COMMISSION 61499; LOWER LEVEL CONTROL (LLC);

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; CONTROL SYSTEMS; MODELS; RECOVERY; STANDARDS;

AUTOMATION;

EID: 84867842816     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2012.2185928     Document Type: Article

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