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Towards evolvable state machines for automation systems

Authors:
Dirk van der Linden
Georg Neugschwandtner
Herwig Mannaert

Keywords: Normalized Systems; Evolvability; Finite State Machines; Automation Systems.

Abstract:
Since several decades, the pressure on organizations to swiftly adapt to their environment has been increasing. This also applies to industry. One of the consequences is the increasing importance of evolvability in production control systems. Many such systems are modelled using finite state machines. This paper presents an explorative attempt to define design rules and constraints that should be applied to state machines to enable evolvability. Our design of an evolvable state machine is based on normalized systems theory. Without loss of generality, this design is inspired by the typical requirements of automation systems.

Pages: 148 to 153

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: January 27, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4243

ISBN: 978-1-61208-246-2

Location: Seville, Spain

Dates: from January 27, 2013 to February 1, 2013