Author_Institution :
Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering, Lule?? University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden
Abstract :
It is our pleasure to present this Special Section on Software Engineering in Industrial Automation of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS, which reports the state-of-the-art on the subject, including review papers and new contributions to this field. This Special Section, covers a wide range of subjects, namely, formal foundations of software engineering, automatic synthesis of programs, the use of knowledge intensive Semantic Web models in manufacturing automation, multi-agent technologies, novel synergies between model-driven engineering and aspect-oriented design and design patterns. Also, the issues related to dependability and correct by design methods are discussed.
