Synchronize your watches: Part I: General-purpose solutions for distributed real-time control

IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 18-29

  Cena, Gianluca ^a   Bertolotti, Ivan ^a   Scanzio, Stefano ^a   Valenzano, Adriano ^a   Zunino, Claudio ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED CONTROL; DEGREE OF ACCURACY; DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING SYSTEMS; NUMERICALLY CONTROLLED MACHINE; PHYSICAL OBJECTS; PLANNING HORIZONS;

REAL TIME CONTROL;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

EID: 84875610715     PISSN: 19324529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MIE.2012.2232354     Document Type: Article

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