Generation of role-specific information for an enterprise integration framework using XML descriptions

Abstract

Enterprise integration is one of the most important tasks in modern automation and control solutions. For effective applications at enterprise level, specific interfaces and description models have to be defined. Considering these enterprise applications playing each a specific use case, a role, to the underlying automation and control system, role-specific descriptions with special semantics and syntax have to be generated. These descriptions represent specific views of a general system's information set. To keep them consistent and easy to create, new methods for their handling have to be introduced. This paper shows a concept for generating rolespecific descriptions based on XML.

Temporal information modelling in the context of intelligent instruments

“…Solutions that cut the design process into two pieces, based on the same instrument modelling, have been proposed to simplify the work of the software engineer and the physicist (Benoit et al, 2000a, b). In this kind of approach, supervisor information and automatic code generation can be obtained (Wollschlaeger et al, 2001;Perrin et al, 2002).…”

Automatic code generation based on generic description of intelligent instrument

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