Control Systems: an Application to a High Energy Physics Experiment   (COMPASS)
  The Detector Control System (DCS) of the COMPASS experiment at CERN is presented. The experiment has a high level of complexity and flexibility and a long time of operation, that constitute a challenge for its full monitorisation and control. A strategy to use a limited number of standardised, cost-effective, industrial solutions of hardware and software was pursued. When such solutions were not available or could not be used, customised solutions were developed. 
P. Bordalo, A. S. Nunes, C. Pires, C. Quintans and S. Ramos
cs.SY hep-ex physics.ins-det