Cyber Biosphere for Future Embedded Systems
SEUS '08 Proceedings of the 6th IFIP WG 10.2 international workshop on Software Technologies for Embedded and Ubiquitous Systems
Model-based security and dependability patterns in RCES: the TERESA approach
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Security and Dependability for Resource Constrained Embedded Systems
Loosely time-triggered architectures for cyber-physical systems
Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe
A unifying view of loosely time-triggered architectures
EMSOFT '10 Proceedings of the tenth ACM international conference on Embedded software
Safety lifecycle development process modeling for embedded systems - example of railway domain
SERENE'12 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems
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The ever-increasing functionality and the non-functional constraints that must be satisfied by embedded systems lead to an enormous growth in the complexity at the system level. In this paper we investigate the notion of cognitive complexity and argue that it is not the embedded system, but the models of the embedded system that must be simple and understandable. The introduction of appropriate levels of abstraction in modeling and the associated concept formation help to reduce the emerging complexity by focusing on the relevant properties and omitting irrelevant detail, thus leading to a simpler representation of the evolving artifact. In the second part of the paper we present examples of basic-level concepts that we find essential in the design of distributed embedded systems and summarize the insights by presenting a set of concise design patterns that support the component-based design of embedded systems.