Hello all, I just would like to let you know that the OMG (Object Management Group, www.omg.org) issued the LECIS RFP (Request for Proposal) at their technical...
Torsten Staab
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Jun 20, 2000 6:35 am
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Hello all, FYI, the NEWS, UPCOMING EVENTS, and CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS sections on the LECIS website (www.lecis.org) have been updated on June 20, 2000. Torsten...
Torsten Staab
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Jun 20, 2000 7:30 am
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From: Bob Leif, Ph.D. To: Torsten Staab et al. I would like to make the slightly heretical suggestion that instead of or in addition to using CORBA as the...
Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
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Jun 20, 2000 3:17 pm
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Torsten et al. I think that the effort to standardize an object interface for equipment control is a good one and that the work underway at OMG is valuable. I...
Jim Redman
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Jun 21, 2000 5:24 pm
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... This is a good point, given that this is an RFP and not an RFC. This means that the relationship between a response to this RFP and the ASTM LECIS spec...
Evan Wallace
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Jun 22, 2000 9:55 pm
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I don't think LECIS is trademarked, but I'll check with ASTM. The standard document itself is certainly copywritten. I hope that the CORBA standard is...
John Elling
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Jun 26, 2000 12:09 am
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John, I think that the OMG standard is closer to the NIST efforts than to the LECIS standard. Almost by definition it is incompatible with existing LECIS...
Jim Redman
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Jun 26, 2000 7:48 pm
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Actually, all there is at OMG at the moment, is a requirements document (a Request for Proposal). There is no OMG LECIS standard yet. I do believe that Jim...
Evan Wallace
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Jun 27, 2000 9:50 pm
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... Those of you who have had a chance to read the OMG LECIS RFP (a document reference can be found at www.lecis.org) probably have noticed that the LECIS RFP...
Torsten Staab
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Jun 27, 2000 11:13 pm
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Evan, ... Sorry, that should have read as a prediction. As a prediction, in either case I'll stick by the statements that it will be incompatible with ASTM...
Jim Redman
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Jun 28, 2000 2:36 am
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Hello everybody, this is a posting from Thorsten Richter, previous WICIL, now Creon Software. a few weeks ago the OMG has issued the RFP for a CORBA and LECIS...
trichter@...
Jul 24, 2000 2:56 pm
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I have some questions about the implementation of the LECIS port/resource locking. I agree that it is necessary to have some kind of resource managent in the ...
trichter@...
Jul 31, 2000 4:18 pm
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I would like make a proposal for the essential device events of the future OMG standard. Device events are the responses from the device to the automated ...
trichter@...
Aug 2, 2000 2:45 pm
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FYI, Today, ReTiSoft, a Canadian software company, released a number of LECIS and Device Capability Dataset (DCD)-related documents and software on their...
Torsten Staab
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Aug 3, 2000 10:56 pm
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Torsten, You have great questions. I am not sure if I can help with the specifics, but I can give you some of the philosophy and background that led to the...
John Elling
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Aug 4, 2000 1:26 pm
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... location once the SLM has guaranteed that ... the ... order to ... I agree with the concept, that the system must avoid collisions. To have a successfull...
trichter@...
Aug 4, 2000 3:23 pm
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The following comments are a response to the Retisoft specification posted last week. I just browsed through the documents and I was glad to see that some of...
trichter@...
Aug 7, 2000 3:35 pm
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Hi, attached is my draft proposal for a DCD XML-Schema, and an example XML device file. I used a Wc3-Schema validation file instead of a DTD, because the ...
trichter@...
Aug 10, 2000 3:50 pm
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The OMG LECIS Initial Submission from Creon-Labcontrol AG is available on the OMG-Server : http://cgi.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?lifesci/00-11-03 It is the response...
trichter@...
Nov 21, 2000 8:02 pm
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Hello all, I just wanted to let you know that the LECIS (Laboratory Equipment Control Interface Specification) web site, located at www.lecis.org, has been ...
Torsten Staab
tstaab@...
Feb 6, 2001 7:15 am
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Hello all, I've just posted Pfizer's latest LECIS Implementer's Guide (V2.05) at www.lecis.org. The document is now available for download in Word and PDF ...
Torsten Staab
tstaab@...
Feb 14, 2001 5:09 pm
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Hello all, FYI, the LECIS web site, located at www.lecis.org, just experienced a major facelift. I've re-designed the whole site to simplify site navigation....
Torsten Staab
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Feb 21, 2001 7:25 am
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Hallo Herr Staab, bitte nicht FH Wiesbaden sondern "Fachhochschule Wiesbaden - University of Applied Sciences, Germany". Ansonsten ist das Face lifting gut...
Reinhold Schäfer
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Feb 21, 2001 3:38 pm
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Proposed values for LECIS_RESULT struct Each SLM interface operation should return a LECIS_RESULT structure: The TSC always knows the current device state. ...
thorsten.richter@...
Apr 11, 2001 1:27 pm
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Is it necessary to split a SLM into Main- and Sub-Units? A reason for this discussion: In the ASTM LECIS standard, the TSC did not know which commands can be...
thorsten.richter@...
Apr 11, 2001 1:27 pm
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Hi Valery, please post your comments to lecis-post@yahoogroups.com. Thanks :-) I agree that we should define the concurrent/parallel commands in the DCD. That...
thorsten.richter@...
Apr 12, 2001 11:30 am
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Hi everybody, this morning we had a long discussion how to solve our problem with the main/ sub-unit architecture: We came to a solution that might be...
thorsten.richter@...
Apr 12, 2001 1:42 pm
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Hello all, I have an question about ASTM LECIS and CORBA LECIS. The ASTM LECIS describes that an SLM can't report an event without received an NEXTEVENT ...
SCHUSS,UWE (A-Germany...
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Apr 12, 2001 3:11 pm
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... I agree with Thorsten on the macro issue. We cannot ignore macros/scripts, since most devices are controlled by them. To keep the control architecture ...
Torsten Staab
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Apr 12, 2001 4:05 pm
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... It seems to me that the best that you can do with a black-box model for macros is to have: -metadata as described above; -a concepual execution model that...