Response to “Comments on Bridging Service-Oriented Architecture and IEC 61499 for Flexibility and Interoperability”

Service-oriented architecture is increasingly applied in industrial cyber-physical systems to provide better flexibility and interoperability between various systems and devices. In the previous work ([3]) a service-based execution environment for IEC 61499 is proposed to enhance flexibility and interoperability in distributed automation systems. In this paper, we discuss questions raised by some readers, for example, performance overhead of the proposed method. Also, other clarifications are made in order to address possible confusions expressed in the received comments.