Edited by
I.M. MacLeod, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
W.H. Kwon, School of Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Description
It is increasingly accepted that future dependable, real-time digital computer control systems will have distributed architectures. Advantages
of distributed computer control systems include the possibility of composing large systems out of pre-tested components with minimal
integration effort, their well-defined fault containment properties and their capacity to make effective use of mass-produced silicon
chips.
The IFAC Workshop series on Distributed Computer Control Systems (DCCS) focuses on design requirements and fundamental principles
encountered in such systems and highlights and traces the growth of key concepts at their various stages of development. Theoretical
and application-oriented viewpoints receive equal emphasis. These Workshops also provide an excellent forum for the exchange of information
on recent technological advances and practices in the distributed computer control field.
The 1997 DCCS Workshop was notable for the
attention given to practical implementations of ideas that have been under discussion for decades and maintained the high technical standard
set by previous Workshops in the series - the policy of concentrating on a specific topic, inviting a number of key authors and of accepting
only a limited number of papers paid dividends.
Included in series
IFAC Proceedings Volumes
Audience:
For researchers and practitioners with an interest in the design requirements and principles of distributed computer control systems.
