Fieldbus Systems and Their Applications 2005

The FeT series - Fieldbus Systems and their Applications Conferences started in 1995 in Vienna, Austria. Since FeT'2001 in Nancy, France, the conference became an IFAC - International Federation of Automatic Control sponsored event. These proceedings focus on 13 sessions, covering, fieldbus based systems, services, protocols and profiles, system integration with heterogeneous networks, management, real-time, safety, dependability and security, distributed embedded systems, wireless networking for field applications, education and emerging trends. Two keynote speeches from experts outside Europe are featured. The first one entitled "e;Bandwidth Allocation Scheme in Fieldbuses"e; by Prof. Seung Ho, Hanyang University, Korea. The second by, Prof. I.F. Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, "e;Key Technologies for Wireless Networking in the Next Decade"e;. - Featuring 36 high quality papers from 13 countries- Keynote speech reflecting the current interest of wireless communications for industrial applications- FeT'2005 was supported by a International Program Committee of around 40 members from 15 countries, 6 from Europe