Comments on Bridging Service-Oriented Architecture and IEC 61499 for Flexibility and Interoperability

TL;DR

This paper critically examines a proposed formal mapping between IEC 61499 and SOA, questioning its practical utility and the effectiveness of the described execution environment architecture for enhancing flexibility and interoperability.

Contribution

It provides a critical discussion on the applicability and potential limitations of the existing IEC 61499 and SOA integration approach.

Findings

The proposed mapping's practical utility is disputed.

The execution environment architecture's effectiveness is critically analyzed.

Potential limitations of the approach are highlighted.

Abstract

In the paper by W. Dai et al. (IEEE Trans. On Industrial Informatics, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 771-781, June 2015), a formal mapping between IEC 61499 and SOA is presented and a SOA-based execution environment architecture is described. In this letter, the proposed in the above paper mapping and the execution environment architecture are discussed and their potential for the exploitation is disputed.