Abstract Cyber Physical Systems (CPSs) play a crucial role in the Industry 4.0 paradigm. The
application of CPSs in production and manufacturing environments gave rise to the term …

AutomationML is an open neutral XML based data exchange format used in automation
systems. It has come into the public for more than 10 years and is being used in many …

To engineer large, complex, and interdisciplinary systems, modeling is considered as the
universal technique to understand and simplify reality through abstraction, and thus, models …

Emerging manufacturing systems are becoming complex while their engineering and ramp-
up phases have to be as short as possible in order to decrease the reaction time to new …

Within the multi-disciplinary engineering process of a cyber-physical production system, the
information about the plant is increasing steadily. Different departments work on separate …

Global competition has resulted in changes on product demand which have to be managed
by current manufacturing systems. In this context, modularity seems to be a suitable solution …

Designing modern Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) is posing new challenges to both
industrial practitioners and academics. In this context, adopting cutting-edge paradigms …

Supporting the design of more and more complex Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs)
frequently poses new challenges to both industrial practitioners and academics. In this …

Understanding and providing knowledge of production processes is crucial for flexible
production systems as many decisions are postponed to the operation time. Furthermore …

Abstract System performance is one of the most critical quality characteristics of Web
applications which is typically expressed in response time, throughput, and utilization. These …