P.S. Thiagarajan - Böcker

Embedded computing systems have started to carry out the key control functions in diverse domains such as telecommunications, automotive electronics, avionics and even complete industrial manufacturing lines. Traditionally, such embedded control systems have been implemented in a monolithic, centralized manner. However, distributed and parallel solutions have been steadily gaining popularity. In a distributed setup, the control task is carried out by a number of controllers distributed over the entire system and interconnected as a network by communication components such as field buses. More demanding local control applications require controllers based on parallel architectures or processors with dedicated co-processors. Distribution and parallelism in embedded system design increase the engineering challenges and demand new development methods and tools.From Model-Driven Design to Resource Management for Distributed Embedded Systems contains 16 original contributions as well as 12 invited papers by distinguished invited speakers. These papers were presented at the Working Conference on Distributed and Parallel Embedded Systems (DIPES 2006), which was held in October 2006 in Braga, Portugal, and sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).This volume covers the following very timely topics: model-driven design, test and evolution of embedded systems, timing analysis and predictability, scheduling, allocation, communication and resource management in distributed real-time systems.

Embedded computing systems have started to carry out the key control functions in diverse domains such as telecommunications, automotive electronics, avionics and even complete industrial manufacturing lines. Traditionally, such embedded control systems have been implemented in a monolithic, centralized manner. However, distributed and parallel solutions have been steadily gaining popularity. In a distributed setup, the control task is carried out by a number of controllers distributed over the entire system and interconnected as a network by communication components such as field buses. More demanding local control applications require controllers based on parallel architectures or processors with dedicated co-processors. Distribution and parallelism in embedded system design increase the engineering challenges and demand new development methods and tools.From Model-Driven Design to Resource Management for Distributed Embedded Systems contains 16 original contributions as well as 12 invited papers by distinguished invited speakers. These papers were presented at the Working Conference on Distributed and Parallel Embedded Systems (DIPES 2006), which was held in October 2006 in Braga, Portugal, and sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).This volume covers the following very timely topics: model-driven design, test and evolution of embedded systems, timing analysis and predictability, scheduling, allocation, communication and resource management in distributed real-time systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Applications and Theory of Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency, ICATPN 2006, held in Turku, Finland in June 2006. The book presents 16 revised full papers and 6 revised tool papers together with 4 invited papers. All current issues on research and development in the area of Petri nets and modeling of concurrent systems are addressed.

This volume presents the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on the Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, FST&TCS-14, held in Madras, India in December 1994.Besides the five invited papers by well-known researchers, it includes 31 full refereed research papers selected out of a total of 140 submissions. The papers contribute to the whole area of theoretical computer science with an emphasis on algorithms and complexity. Other topics covered are program semantics, program verification, formal logic, computational geometry, concurrency, unification, and discrete mathematics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, FSTTCS '95, held in Bangalore, India in December 1995.The volume presents 31 full revised research papers selected from a total of 106 submissions together with full papers of four invited talks. Among the topics covered are algorithms, software technology, functional programming theory, distributed algorithms, term rewriting and constraint logic programming, complexity theory, process algebras, computational geometry, and temporal logics and verification theory.

The Asian Computing Science Conference (ASIAN) series was initiated in 1995 to provide a forum for researchers in computer science from the Asian region to meet and to promote interaction with researchers from other regions. The previous four conferences were held, respectively, in Bangkok, Singapore, Ka- mandu, and Manila. The proceedings were published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series of Springer-Verlag. This year's conference (ASIAN'99) attracted 114 submissions from which 28 papers were selected through an electronic PC meeting. In addition, 11 papers were selected for shorter presentations at the poster sessions. The themes for this year's conference were announced to be: { Embedded and Real-Time Systems { Formal Reasoning and Veric ation { Distributed and Mobile Computing The key note speaker for ASIAN'99 is Amir Pnueli (Weizmann Institute, Israel) and the invited speakers are Nicolas Halbwachs (VERIMAG, CNRS, France) and Krishna Palem (The Georgia Institute of Technology and Courant Institute, New York University, USA). We thank them for accepting our invi- tion.Thisyear'sconferenceisbeingsponsoredbytheAsianInstituteofTechnology (Thailand), INRIA (France), the National University of Singapore (Singapore), andUNU/IIST (Macau).We thank allthese institutions fortheir continueds- port of the ASIAN series. This year'sconferencewill be held inPhuket,Thailand.We aremuchobliged to the Prince of Songkhla University for providing the conference venue and to Rattana Wetprasit for making the local arrangements. We also wish to thank the PC members and the large number of referees for the substantial work put in by them in assessing the submitted papers.

This volume consists of the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Formal Modelling and Analysis of Timed Systems (FORMATS 2007). The main goal of this series of conferences is to bring together diverse communities of researchers that deal with the timing aspects of computing systems. Both fundamental and practical aspects of timed systems are addressed and results reportingnewapplicationdomainsareactivelyencouraged.Further,invitedtalks that survey various aspects of this broad research domain were presented at the conference. FORMATS 2007 was co-located (during October 3–5) as a guest conference attheEmbeddedSystemsWeek,whichconstitutesaweek-longeventthatbrings togetherconferences,tutorialsandworkshopsdealingwithvariousaspectsof- bedded systemsresearchanddevelopment. Embedded Systems Week took place this year at Salzburg, Austria during September 30 - October 5, 2007. Detailed information about FORMATS 2007 can be found at http://www.ulb.ac.be/ di/formats07, while http://www.esweek.org provides an overview of the - bedded Systems Week Event. We would like to thank the organizers of the - bedded Systems Week for enabling FORMATS 2007 to be co-located at this exciting event and for providing valuable logistics support.