A Software Measure for IEC 61499 Basic Function Blocks

When proposing new design patterns or design guidelines for IEC 61499 Applications, their performance and quality has to be compared to alternative solutions. Software measures are a way of achieving that. Although first attempts towards software measures for IEC 61499 were made, the standard still lacks a solid set of measures to evaluate applications. Taking a first step in that direction, we propose a set of measures for an IEC 61499 Basic Function Block.

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