Software-defined automation and control a preliminary study - Cheng Pang; Wenbin William Dai; Qingdi Miao; Jinxian Liang; Guoqing Cai; Shu Lu; Valeriy Vyatkin (IECON 2017 - 43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Beijing, China, October 29 - November 1, 2017, 2017)