Component-based software structuring principles are now commonplace at the application
level; but componentization is far less established when it comes to building low-level …

Partitioning a design space to identify components with desired non-functional and
behavioral characteristics is a crucial task in the component-based software development …

The component-based strategy aims at managing complexity, shortening time-to-market,
and reducing maintenance requirements by building systems with existing components. The …

Component-based software engineering promises to provide structure and reusability to
embedded-systems software. At the same time, microkernel-based operating systems are …

As computer systems become increasingly mission-critical, used in life-critical situations,
and relied upon to protect intellectual property, operating-system reliability is becoming an …

Static WCET analysis is a process dedicated to derive a safe upper bound of the worst-case
execution time of a program. In many real-time systems, however, a constant global WCET …

Numerous component models have been proposed in the literature, a testimony of a subject
domain rich with technical and scientific challenges, and considerable potential …

With increased interoperability of cyber-physical systems (CPSs), security becomes
increasingly critical for many of these systems. We know mode switching from domains like …

Next generation embedded systems will be composed of large numbers of heterogeneous
devices. These will typically be resource-constrained (such as sensor motes), will use …

The development of software components with independent release cycles is nowadays
widely supported by multiple languages and frameworks. A critical feature of any such …