As real-time and integrated systems become increasingly sophisticated, issues related to development life cycles, non-recurring engineering costs, and poor synergy between development teams will arise. The Handbook of Research on Embedded Systems Design provides insights from the computer science community on integrated systems research projects taking place in the European region. This premier references work takes a look at the diverse range of design principles covered by these projects, from specification at high abstraction levels using standards such as UML and related profiles to intermediate design phases. This work will be invaluable to designers of embedded software, academicians, students, practitioners, professionals, and researchers working in the computer science industry.
Alessandra Bagnato is a research scientist and project manager within the SOFT R&D Department. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from TELECOM SudParis and Université Evry Val d'Essonne, France and a MSc in Computer Science from the University of Genoa, Italy. She has been at TXT Corporate Research Division headquartered in Milan from 1999 till September 2012 as Project Coordinator, Project Manager and/or Technical Leader in several European research projects in the 5th, 6th and 7th Framework Programme related to embedded systems design, software/service development and security. In SOFT, she lead the Exploitation efforts within the FITTEST (Future Internet Testing) project and she is currently involved in the FP7 project OSSMETER (Automated Measurement and Analysis of Open Source Software) funded by European Commission for the improvement of the state-of-the-art in the field of automated analysis and measurement of open-source software and MONDO (Scalable Modelling and Model Management on the Cloud).
Leandro Soares Indrusiak was born in 1974 in Santa Maria, RS, Brazil. He graduated in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) in 1995 and obtained a MSc in Computer Science from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, in 1998. He held a tenured assistant professorship at the Informatics department of the Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) in Uruguaiana from 1998 to 2000. His PhD research started in 2000 and extended his MSc work on design automation environments for microelectronic circuits. From 2001 to 2008 he worked as a researcher at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, where he finished his PhD and then lead a research group on System-on-Chip design. His binational doctoral degree was jointly awarded by UFRGS and TU Darmstadt in 2003. Since 2008, he is a permanent faculty member of University of York's Computer Science department (Lecturer 2008, Senior Lecturer 2013), and a member of the Real-Time Systems (RTS) research group. His current research interests include on-chip multiprocessor systems, distributed embedded systems, mapping and scheduling of applications over multiprocessor and distributed platforms, adaptive and reconfigurable computing. He currently supervises nine PhD students and two post-doc research assistants, and is always keen to discuss about open problems with potential PhD candidates. He is the principal investigator and technical leader of EPSRC-funded LowPowNoC project and EU-funded DreamCloud project, and a co-investigator in a number of other funded projects. He also coordinates two MSc programmes (MSc in Computing and MSc in Information Technology), serves as the department's Internationalisation Advisor, and is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
