METHOD FOR PROVIDING SERVICES IN AN AUTOMATION SYSTEM COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF NETWORKED COMPUTING UNITS, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND AUTOMATION SYSTEM

摘要

To provide services in an automation system comprising a plurality of networked computing units, services of the automation system are provided within a service-oriented architecture. A service-requesting computing unit subdivides service requests according to service-providing computing units and sends the requests to said service-providing computing units for processing. Received services requests are subdivided by a service-providing computing unit into logically related operations that provide partial results. When logically related partial results associated with a service request operation are available, the service-providing computing unit transmits a report containing the logically related partial results to the service-requesting computing unit. The transmitted partial results are uncompressed data.