----------------------------------------------------------------------------Invitation to the Special Session on
Development of Automation Systems:
the Impact of IEC Standards
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------14th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies andFactory Automation, September 22-26, 2009, Mallorca, Spain.
Conference web site: http://www.etfa2009.org/==============================================================================Technical outline of the session / Topics of the special session
Today’s rapidly changing market requirements impose
the need of improving the agility of manufacturing systems. The development of the software counterpart of
these systems is basically driven by programming-centric approaches adopting
application-specific programming languages (e.g., IEC 61131). However,
the dramatic increase of
complexity, the increased demand for security and safety requirements, as well
as for inter-networking, reuse and shortened development cycles impose the need
for more abstract models to be applied in the engineering process of industrial
automation systems. Integration with existing process and automation
engineering methodologies and tools is also a great challenge in this domain.
The International Electrotechnical
Commission (IEC) in order to improve productivity in terms of re-use, reliability,
flexibility and interoperability has defined a number of
standards (61131, 61499, 61512, 61804, 62424, …). These
standards attempt to reduce engineering cost and system implementation time,
as well as to increase reliability and maintainability of the whole system
through simplified migration from existing systems and adoption of current
software engineering technologies.
The
interest from academia and industry in these standards is growing in recent years and a lot of approaches that utilize these are
in evolution (see for example the reports of the 1st , 2nd
and 3rd
Special Session on the IEC 61499).
The
main objective of this Special Session is to assess the use of IEC and other standards
in coping with the current needs of systems development, as well as to
investigate how standardized models can be combined with further techniques
like formal analysis, simulation, and software engineering processes to allow
efficient development of dependable automation systems. Theoretical issues
related to the specifications as well as their use in practice will be
presented and discussed. More specifically topics
include but are not limited to the following:
- System architectures,
development processes, design alternatives that exploit
IEC standards,
- Case studies and comparative evaluations,
- Extensions and modifications to the IEC models,
- Integration of IEC standards with UML,
- Migration of proven designs to new standards (e.g.
from IEC 61131 or IEC 61499),
- Integration or combination of IEC standards (e.g.
IEC 61499 with IEC 61512),
- Experimental developments, real-world examples,
experience reports, industrial acceptance,
- Discussions on strengths and weaknesses of standards.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------AUTHOR'S SCHEDULEAuthors should contact the Special Session Organizers, as soon as possibleDeadline for submission: May 10, 2009Notification of papers acceptance: June 8, 2009Final manuscripts due: July 5, 2009----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SUBMISSION OF PAPERSPapers are to be submitted electronically. For further details, please consult the conference web pages.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SESSION ORGANIZERSProf. Kleanthis Thramboulidis, University of Patras, Greece. (thrambo@ece.upatras.gr)
Prof. Georg Frey, Saarland University, Germany. (Georg.Frey@dfki.de)
Prof. Kari Koskinen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finnland. (Kari.O.Koskinen@hut.fi)