This paper provides a fundamental research review of Reconfigurable Manufacturing
Systems (RMS), which uniquely explores the state-of-the-art in distributed and decentralized …

Virtualization is gaining attraction in the industry as it promises a flexible way to integrate,
manage, and re-use heterogeneous software components with mixed-criticality levels, on a …

Industrial Automation and Control systems have matured into a stable infrastructure model
that has been kept fundamentally unchanged, using discrete embedded systems (such as …

The Programmable-logical-controller (PLC) has been the key building block of industrial
control systems throughout the whole automation revolution, where its role has been mainly …

The increasing heterogeneity and scalability of the Internet of everything, especially, the
Energy Internet (EI), is a prompt for novel engineering paradigms. The current infrastructure …

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has the potential to improve the production and
business processes by enabling the extraction of valuable information from industrial …

Containers are a form of software virtualization, rapidly becoming the de facto way of
providing edge computing services. Research on container-based edge computing is …

Container-based virtualization has gained a significant importance in a deployment of
software applications in cloud-based environments. The technology fully relies on operating …

Industry 4.0 concepts are used as a response to an increasingly varied demand in
companies and flexibility corresponds to a lever for improving production manufacturing …

Fog and edge computing offer the flexibility and decentralized architecture benefits of cloud
computing without suffering from the latency issues inherent in the cloud. This makes fog …