Formal verification of downtimeless system evolution in embedded automation controllers

Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Sünder, Christoph ^a   Vyatkin, Valeriy ^b,d   Zoitl, Alois ^c,e  

^a THALES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^d LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^e FORTISS GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automation and control systems; Dynamic reconfiguration; IEC 61499; Manufacturing automation; Model checking; NCES; Verification and validation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION AND CONTROLS; DYNAMIC RE-CONFIGURATION; IEC 61499; MANUFACTURING AUTOMATION; NCES; VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION;

DYNAMIC MODELS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; MODEL CHECKING; STANDARDS;

AUTOMATION;

EID: 84873629731     PISSN: 15399087     EISSN: 15583465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2406336.2406353     Document Type: Article

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