The IEC 61499 standard was proposed for distributed architecture design of industrial
automation systems to support portability, interoperability, and configurability. Compared …

Design patterns in software engineering is a generic solution provided for repeatable
problems occurring frequently in a software design. They are used a lot in the field of …

Bad Smells are certain suboptimal structures or patterns in software. They can cause
maintenance issues and hinder understandability. Therefore, it is essential to avoid Bad …

Bad Smells are sub-optimal software structures or patterns. They can obstruct the
understandability of a software system and cause maintenance issues. As a result, it is …

Refactoring is a key technology for improving the quality of a software system. A higher
quality will lead to a clearer structure, which facilitates sharing work across multiple teams …

In modern industrial applications, the complexity of control software is increasing while its
execution may be distributed to numerous small devices. The standard IEC 61499 fosters …

The paper proposes a topology-free specification of distributed control systems by means of
a process-oriented programming paradigm. The proposed approach was characterized, on …

Established development processes for industrial control systems are static and struggle to
adopt changing requirements. The interdisciplinary nature of such systems necessitates …

Cyber-physical production systems (CPPSs) are modern production systems that aim to
integrate the latest techniques and technologies from IT to enable flexible/adaptive …

With the constant growth in size and complexity of modern industrial applications, it is not
suitable to use a unique and centralized controller device for the whole process. Thus …