Today a lot of different physical architectures for Substation Automation systems are in use, depending on the functionality as well as on the used protocol and needed reliability. Due to the manufacturer chosen communication protocol for certain functionality classes or reliability classes compromises have to be made or higher costs result. The new Substation Automation Communication standard ...

1 Corresponding author ABSTRACT In order to define an interesting model problem for research work around the assembly of software components, this paper introduces the substation automation domain. Special emphasis is put on those aspects of the application area which make its employment as model problem provider attractive. Firstly, the composition is required to meet several quality requireme...