Thanks to Michael who did a complete redesign of the communication infrastructure we could commit the first version of FORTE’s new communication infrastructure today. This new infrastructure is more modular, easier to extend, and much smaller. Currently we support only Ethernet as transport layer but we like to extend this soon. The main advantage of the new infrastructure is that the interface on the application layer is always one of the 4 communication function blocks (i.e., Server, Client, P...

4DIAC is going into its fourth year. In the last three years, new versions, improving features and performances, have been provided. Even more important, 4DIAC, while being used to implement distributed control systems, based on IEC 61499, in many industrial as well as research applications, has provided a stable basis for further research into next generation distributed automation and control systems based also on other open standards. With this workshop we would like to bring the users...

As announced in April 2010 we moved the current 4DIAC development repository to a public Mercurial repository which is available here. To be precise, we currently have two repositories – one for the FORTE developments called “forte” and another one for the 4DIAC-IDE developments called “fordiac-ide”. A description how to access the Mercurial for 4DIAC can be found at

In the last months we have been rather quiet therefore we thought to give you an update what is going on in 4DIAC. We have been working on the improvements for the next version. Key features of our work are: