A new industrial revolution is undergoing, based on a number of technological paradigms.
The will to foster and guide this phenomenon has been summarized in the expression …

Cloud computing and distributed computing are becoming ubiquitous in many modern
control areas such as smart grids, building automation, robot swarms, and intelligent …

Weakly supervised discovery of common visual structure in highly variable, cluttered images
is a key problem in recognition. We address this problem using deformable part-based …

The Programmable-logical-controller (PLC) has been the key building block of industrial
control systems throughout the whole automation revolution, where its role has been mainly …

Cyber-physical systems and the Internet-of-Things are getting more and more traction in
different application areas. Boosted by initiatives such as Industrie 4.0 in Germany or the …

This paper investigates the interplay of cloud computing, fog computing, and Internet of
Things (IoT) in control applications targeting the automation industry. In this context, a …

The vision of factories-of-the-future is motivating many industrial companies to modernise
their existing portfolio of systems and services to maintain market share and improve …

In industrial automation, the control and operation of factories and plants in usually
performed by Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs). As automation tasks find their way …

This article proposes a model predictive control as a secure service (MPCaaSS) framework
for cyber–physical systems (CPSs) in the presence of both cyber threats and external …

In contrast to the predecessors, the fifth generation of mobile networks (5G) will particularly
address communication in production systems by providing machine-type communication …