of The Master's Thesis The requirements for process automation systems have changed much since the adoption of automatic control. To survive in tightening global competition the developers of automation systems are introducing new tools to increase flexibility and fault-tolerance in process automation systems. This thesis proposes that agent technology as a new programming paradigm could be uti...

Service-Oriented architecture (SOA) as an emerging architecture style has been widely adopted in the industry. Due to the heterogeneous, dynamic and open nature of services, architecting ServiceBased Applications (SBAs) poses additional concerns as compared to traditional software applications. Hence, for SOA architects it is of great importance that their concerns are appropriately addressed i...

In this paper a new methodology for determining the optimal level of automation in microgrids is proposed. In traditional distribution networks, automation is referred to the management of the fault in a more efficiently manner especially in medium voltage (MV) distribution network in order to improve the network reliability indices by reduction of average outage duration per consumer and meanw...

This paper describes a paradigm for human/automation control sharing in which the automation acts through a motor coupled to a machine's manual control interface. The manual interface becomes a haptic display, continually informing the human about automation actions. While monitoring by feel, users may choose either to conform to the automation or override it and express their own control inten...

In this paper I briefly discuss the importance of home automation system. Going in to the details I briefly present a real time designed and implemented software and hardware oriented house automation research project, capable of automating house’s electricity and providing a security system to detect the presence of unexpected behavior.

Software reuse in modern industrial automation systems is gaining in importance. Small and medium-sized companies (SMC) in particular, see reuse as a possibility to lower costs and shorten time-to-market. The market lacks existing reusable software which is applicable for industrial automation systems. Therefore, companies are forced to develop reusable software on their own. The currently avai...

Participants performed a tracking task along with a system and flight parameter monitoring task while aided by diagnostic automation. The goal of the study was to examine operator compliance and reliance as affected by automation failures, and to clarify claims regarding independence of these two constructs. Background data revealed a trend towards non-independence of the compliance-reliance co...

Automation was introduced many years ago in several diagnostic disciplines such as chemistry, haematology and molecular biology. The first laboratory automation system for clinical bacteriology was released in 2006, and it rapidly proved its value by increasing productivity, allowing a continuous increase in sample volumes despite limited budgets and personnel shortages. Today, two major manufa...

OBJECTIVE This study examined whether benefits of conflict probe automation would occur in a future air traffic scenario in which air traffic service providers (ATSPs) are not directly responsible for freely maneuvering aircraft but are controlling other nonequipped aircraft (mixed-equipage environment). The objective was to examine how the type of automation imperfection (miss vs. false alarm)...