Authors' reply to "Comments on Object-Oriented Modeling of Complex Mechatronic Components for the Manufacturing Industry". Secchi, C., Bonf̀e, M., Fantuzzi, C., Borsari, R., & Borghi, D. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 4(13):487--489, Aug, 2008.
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In his comments to our paper published in the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 696--702, Dec. 2007), K. Thramboulidis points out many issues related to the application of the object-oriented modeling approach proposed in the paper. The comments of Thramboulidis are relevant and properly referenced, especially considering the section about unified/universal modeling language (UML), its variants (i.e., UML 1.4, UML-RT, UML 2.0) and the conceptual elements of component-based design. However, we believe that the author of the comments has focused his attention too much on the software implementation aspects, including engineering tools and run-time execution frameworks for the control software, which are actually outside the scope of the original paper. In this reply, we aim to emphasize the main contribution of the paper and analyze the issues raised in the comments, with particular regard to our plan to address them in future works
@article{ Secchi-et-al:Tran-On-Mechatronics:2008,
  author = {Secchi, Cristian and Bonf̀e, Marcello and Fantuzzi, Cesare and Borsari, Roberto and Borghi, Davide},
  title = {Authors' reply to "Comments on Object-Oriented
                  Modeling of Complex Mechatronic Components for the
                  Manufacturing Industry"},
  journal = {{IEEE}/{ASME} Transactions on Mechatronics},
  year = {2008},
  volume = {4},
  number = {13},
  pages = {487--489},
  month = {Aug},
  id = {200808},
  issn = {1083-4435},
  abstract = {In his comments to our paper published in the IEEE/ASME
                  Transactions on Mechatronics (vol. 12, no. 6,
                  pp. 696--702, Dec. 2007), K. Thramboulidis points
                  out many issues related to the application of the
                  object-oriented modeling approach proposed in the
                  paper. The comments of Thramboulidis are relevant
                  and properly referenced, especially considering the
                  section about unified/universal modeling language
                  (UML), its variants (i.e., UML 1.4, UML-RT, UML 2.0)
                  and the conceptual elements of component-based
                  design. However, we believe that the author of the
                  comments has focused his attention too much on the
                  software implementation aspects, including
                  engineering tools and run-time execution frameworks
                  for the control software, which are actually outside
                  the scope of the original paper. In this reply, we
                  aim to emphasize the main contribution of the paper
                  and analyze the issues raised in the comments, with
                  particular regard to our plan to address them in
                  future works }
}

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