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high-level cross-layer integration and cooperation,
event propagation, aggregation and management.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of
UK EPSRC and Loughborough University’s
IMCRC through Business Driven Automation
(BDA) project, the EU SCORADES FP6 and the
ongoing EU AESOP FP7 project. We would like to
thank all the project participants and engineers who
have contributed in this research from
Loughborough University and participant companies
especially Ford Motor Company and Schneider
Electric.
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