. Because it is a generic name, its specific purpose varies by the software environment it belongs to.

The most academically relevant "paper" or technical documentation related to an implementation can be found in a doctoral thesis from the University of Bologna , which details a distributed architecture using a specific for data implementation. AMS Tesi di Dottorato Academic and Technical References Distributed Architecture for Data Acquisition

: It is frequently identified as a component of ArtCAM Pro (a CNC and 3D modeling software).