Security aspects of today’s automation systems gain increasing importance. One critical point regarding security is the exchange of control data over the network. Recently, cryp...
Wolfgang Granzer, Christian Reinisch, Wolfgang Kas...
This paper presents a novel colored Petri net model for the simulation of fully-switched Ethernet based networked control systems (NCS). The model of the NCS is built from models ...
The reactivity of Networked Automation Systems (NAS) has direct influence on safety and quality aspects. It can be determined by a response time analysis, which itself can be calc...
Emergent self-organization in multi-agent systems appears to contradict the second law of thermodynamics. This paradox has been explained in terms of a coupling between the macro ...
Although employees’ expertise has long been regarded as an important asset in organizations at least on a par with capital, goods and documented information, it is only recently...