Nowadays, the prevalence of computing systems in our lives is so ubiquitous that we live in a cyber-physical world dominated by computer systems, from pacemakers to cars and airplanes. These systems demand for more computational performance to process large amounts of data from multiple data sources with guaranteed processing times. Actuating outside of the required timing bounds may cause the failure of the system, being vital for systems like planes, cars, business monitoring, e-trading, etc.
High-Performance and Time-Predictable Embedded Computing presents recent advances in software architecture and tools to support such complex systems, enabling the design of embedded computing devices which are able to deliver high-performance whilst guaranteeing the application required timing bounds.
Technical topics discussed in the book include:
- Parallel embedded platforms
- Programming models
- Mapping and scheduling of parallel computations
- Timing and schedulability analysis
- Runtimes and operating systems
The work reflected in this book was done in the scope of the European project P-SOCRATES, funded under the FP7 framework program of the European Commission. High-performance and time-predictable embedded computing is ideal for personnel in computer/communication/embedded industries as well as academic staff and master/research students in computer science, embedded systems, cyber-physical systems and internet-of-things.
Pinho, Luis Miguel: - Luıs Miguel Pinho is Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering of the School of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal, with a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Porto, Portugal. He has more than 20 years of experience in research in the area of real-time and embedded systems, particularly in concurrent and parallel programming models, languages, and runtime systems. He is Research Associate in the CISTER research unit, where he was Vice-Director from 2010 to 2017, being responsible for creating several research areas and topics, among which the activities on parallel real-time systems, that he leads. He has participated in more than 20 R&D projects, was Project Coordinator and Technical Manager of the FP7 R&D European Project P-SOCRATES and national-funded Cooperates and Reflect Projects. He was also coordinator of the participation of CISTER and work package leader in several other international and national projects. He has published more than 100 papers in international conferences and journals in the area of real-time embedded systems. He was Senior Researcher of the Artist Design NoE and is currently a member of the HiPEAC NoE. He was Keynote Speaker at the 16th IEEE Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA 2010) and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Ada User Journal. Among others, he was General Co-Chair of the 28th GI/ITG International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS2015), and Program Co-Chair of the 24th International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS 2016) and of the 21st International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (Ada-Europe 2016).
Quinones, Eduardo: - Eduardo Quinones is with Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain.
