4DIAC User's Workshops

The 4DIAC initiative has been founded with the idea to support research activities and industrial adoption of distributed automation systems. During the last years, 4DIAC grew with the new versions, which added improvements and new features for the engineering as well as the runtime environment. Moreover, a special focus was on the performance improvement of the runtime system. Even more important, 4DIAC as an IEC 61499-compliant distributed control environment for industrial and research applications, has proven to be a stable basis for further research towards the next generation of distributed automation and control systems using open standards.
With these series of workshops we would like to bring the developers and users of 4DIAC together as the users are the main drivers of ongoing development activities. This event should provide a discussion platform to present novel research and achieved results based on the 4DIAC open source project. Moreover, new ideas and approaches as well as near future plans for 4DIAC can be discussed which turn this initiative into the position to become a larger framework for many application domains.

4th 4DIAC User’s Workshop

held in conjunction with the

18th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA'2013), Cagliari, Italy

Workshop Date: 14th September 2013

Workshop Organizers

• Alois Zoitl, fortiss GmbH;
• Gerhard Ebenhofer, PROFACTOR GmbH;
• Thomas Strasser, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology;

Contributions to this workshop may address, but are not limited to:

• Application of 4DIAC in different automation domains and projects
  
• Extension to the runtime environment and engineering tool
  
• Integration with new communication technologies or porting to new hardware devices
  
• Interoperability with different automation systems
  
• Proposals for extending the 4DIAC environment
  

Submission of Proposals

• Authors may consider the following two presentation formats:
  • Workshop presentation: Oral given presentation on the above topics.
    
  • Workshop poster on the above topics. Intended for 4DIAC users not able to visit the workshop Presentations and posters will be published on the 4DIAC webpage after the event.
• If you would like to present your work with 4DIAC feel free to drop us a note in the 4DIAC-forum or contact us!
  
• Proposal template
• For details on registration and attending the workshop please visit the ETFA 2013 web-page under: http://www.etfa2013.org/

Hands on Tutorial: “Programming Distributed Embedded Real-Time Control Systems with 4DIAC”

The half day workshop will be accompanied by a half day hands on tutorial session where the 4DIAC team will explain how to use 4DIAC.

Author’s Schedule:

DISCLAIMER

The ETFA 2013 Conference Organizers reserve a right to cancel a workshop if insufficient registrations. The cut-off date is July 15.

Previous Workshops

• 1^st 4DIAC Users Meeting, ETFA 2010, Bilbao, September 16^th
• 2^nd 4DIAC User's Workshop, ETFA 2011, Toulouse, September 9^th
• 3^rd 4DIAC Users’ Workshop @ IEEE ETFA 2012, Kraków, September 21^st

Technical Program Committee

Industrial Steering Committee