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Dataflow Computing and Its Impact on Automation Applications
A research project on dataflow automation system architecture is presented exploring the research and engineering issues related to the development of computer architecture for the next generation distributed supervision and control systems that exploits and leverages dataflow computation model. Major focus of research is on new object-attribute architecture of dataflow computing environment which is particularly suitable for the design and implementation of reconfigurable scalable heterogeneous distributed applications in industrial automation area. The state-ofthe- art in the application of the dataflow model of computation is accompanied with description of software tools developed for programming, simulation, debugging and test of automation applications that follow the object-attribute dataflow model.