• A distributed control system (DCS) is a computerized control system for a process or plant usually with many control loops, in which autonomous controllers...
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  • version control system, is a distributed version control system. In 2010, software development author Joel Spolsky described distributed version control systems...
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    A control system manages, commands, directs, or regulates the behavior of other devices or systems using control loops. It can range from a single home...
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  • Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems, defined as computer systems whose inter-communicating components...
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  • A distributed operating system is system software over a collection of independent software, networked, communicating, and physically separate computational...
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  • interconnected and interactive distributed control systems (DCSs) with many thousands of field connections. Control systems receive data from remote sensors...
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  • designed. The difference between a distributed file system and a distributed data store is that a distributed file system allows files to be accessed using...
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  • to access data from a process control device, such as a programmable logic controller (PLC) or distributed control system (DCS). Traditionally, any time...
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  • Distributed Access Control System (DACS) is a light-weight single sign-on and attribute-based access control system for web servers and server-based software...
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  • baseline. Distributed revision control systems (DRCS) take a peer-to-peer approach, as opposed to the client–server approach of centralized systems. Rather...
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    Git (/ɡɪt/) is a distributed version control system that tracks versions of files. It is often used to control source code by programmers who are developing...
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  • distributed concurrency control is distributed serializability (or global serializability for multidatabase systems). Distributed concurrency control...
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  • logic controller (PLC, for smaller, less complex processes) or a distributed control system (DCS, for large-scale or geographically dispersed processes) analyzes...
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  • A complex automated industrial system is typically structured in hierarchical levels as a distributed control system (DCS). In this hierarchy the upper...
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  • Revision Control System (RCS) is an early implementation of a version control system (VCS). It is a set of UNIX commands that allow multiple users to...
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    Distributed generation, also distributed energy, on-site generation (OSG), or district/decentralized energy, is electrical generation and storage performed...
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  • software utilities for reliable, scalable, distributed computing. It provides a software framework for distributed storage and processing of big data using...
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  • automation protocols. In practice, large SCADA systems have grown to become similar to distributed control systems in function, while using multiple means of...
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  • system with a versioning file system and support for distributed repositories Visual SourceSafe (VSS) [proprietary, client-server] – version control tool...
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    Mercurial is a distributed revision control tool for software developers. It is supported on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and other Unix-like systems, such as...
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  • Supervisory control is a general term for control of many individual controllers or control loops, such as within a distributed control system. It refers...
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    neural network DCS – Distributed control system HMI – Human machine interface RPA – Robotic process automation SCADA – Supervisory control and data acquisition...
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    microprocessor-controlled electronic device that interfaces objects in the physical world to a distributed control system or SCADA (supervisory control and data...
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  • or systems. A control mechanism is a process used by a control system. Control system may also refer to: Distributed control system, where control elements...
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    and Industrial Control System (EPICS) is a set of software tools and applications used to develop and implement distributed control systems to operate devices...
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  • The Distributed Concurrent Versions System (DCVS) was a distributed revision control system that enables software developers working on locally distributed...
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    Controller Area Networks, common in vehicles, are primarily distributed control system networks of one or more controllers interconnected with sensors...
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  • The OneFS File System is a parallel distributed networked file system designed by Isilon Systems and is the basis for the Isilon Scale-out Storage Platform...
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    control configuration supported by standard IEC 61131-3 for a control system such as a programmable logic controller (PLC) or a Distributed Control System...
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  • control. Process controls (basic as well as advanced) are implemented within the process control system, which may mean a distributed control system (DCS)...
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