Towards a Platform for Widespread Embedded Intelligence - ERCIM

tems and on a very specialised aspect of
designing concurrent systems (tagged
procedure calls, TPC). This covers a
broad range of system architecture,
design and development issues in the
embedded systems area.
Ambient Intelligence (AmI)
Systems, Smart Environments,
Platforms and Services
The articles provide an overview of one
ERCIM member's AmI research facility
(FORTH); on a user-centred design
approach to smart environments (EASE);
on platforms for ambient services - spanning
the gap between the issue of sensor
networks and adaptive applications -
(Ambiance, Construct); on Service-
Oriented Architectures for pervasive
computing environments (ARLES) and,
as a special case, intelligent materials for
smart applications. This part should give a
feeling for the broad range of perspectives
of 'ambiance' (vs. embedded systems in
technical engineering applications).
Further on, this special theme continues
with articles covering specific key
aspects and technologies of embedded
systems and ambiance implementations:
Wireless Sensor Networks
Firstly, there is a description of a
Network of Excellence to overcome the
fragmentation of research in this field
(CRUISE). Then two key aspects of
wireless sensor networks are highlighted:
Intelligent RFID sensor integration
(IntelliSense RFID) and collaborative
capture, linking information systems
to real work by sensor networks (ACES).
Embedded Systems
A key characteristic of embedded systems
is the use of restricted resources, a
problem to be resolved beforehand by
modelling. One article covers autarkic
power generation for networked
embedded systems (FIT-IT, Intermon),
another covers guarantees on resource
usage bounds (EmBounded).
Massively Deployed Embedded
Systems: Trust and Security
Massively deployed and networked
embedded systems are prone to security
breaches leading to loss of safety or reliability/availability
of safety or loss of
business critical services (and loss of
Introduction to the special theme
14 Embedded Intelligence
by Erwin Schoitsch and Amund Skavhaug
Embedded Systems Applications
16 Autonomous Systems - Safety Critical
Embedded Systems and Intelligence
by Erwin Schoitsch and Wilfried Kubinger
18 Automotive Visions beyond In-Car
Driver Assistance: Integrated Traffic
Management with Coopers
by Thomas Gruber and Erwin Schoitsch
19 Embedded Intelligence for Ambient
Assisted Living
by Frank Bomarius, Martin Becker and
Thomas Kleinberger
21 iCat - A Friendly Robot that Helps
Children and Grown-Ups
by Bernt Meerbeek, Jettie Hoonhout,
Peter Bingley, and Albert van Breemen
Design, Development, Programming
22 The DECOS Tool-Chain: Model-Based
Development of Distributed Embedded
Safety-Critical Real-Time Systems
by Wolfgang Herzner, Bernhard Huber,
György Csertan and Andras Balogh
23 Ambient Hardware: Embedded
Architectures on Demand
by Kjetil Svarstad
25 System-Level Design of Fault-Tolerant
Embedded Systems
by Alain Girault
27 New Tool to Design the Behaviour of
Embedded Systems
by Jan Friso Groote
28 Reactive Processing for Reactive
Systems
by Reinhard von Hanxleden, Xin Li,
Partha Roop, Zoran Salcic and Li Hsien
Yoong
30 TPC: Tagged Procedure Calls
by Konstantinos Kapelonis, Sven
Karsson, and Angelos Bilas
Ambient Intelligence Systems
31 A European Ambient Intelligence
Research Facility at FORTH - ICS
by Constantine Stephanidis
32 Ecological Approach to Smart
Environments
by Veikko Ikonen
ARTICLES IN THIS SECTION
consumer confidence). The ITEA project
Trust4All project has written two
articles on different aspects of this
problem - research on context-aware
trust in open environments as a basic
research issue and a trust management
framework. The special problem of protecting
privacy by providing separate
digital identities depending on the context
of use in ambient environments is
handled in another article (BASIS).
These areas overlap in part, so overlapping
topics may be addressed as well.
This theme should provide a vision of
the future for anyone interested in
embedded systems and address the challenges
and risks for research, the
economy and society rather than
focusing on a single, isolated subtopic.
33 Ambiance: A Platform for
Macroprogramming Personalised
Ambient Services
by Reza Razavi
35 Towards a Platform for Widespread
Embedded Intelligence
by Simon Dobson, Steve Neely, Graeme
Stevenson, Lorcan Coyle and Paddy
Nixon
36 Networking Semantic Services for
Pervasive Computing
by Valerie Issarny, Nikolaos Georgantas
and Sonia Ben Mokhtar
37 Materials with Intelligence
by Simon Dobson and Kieran Delaney
Wireless Sensor Networks
39 The CRUISE Project - Network
Initiative for Creating Ubiquitos
Intelligent Sensing Environments
by Gabriele Kotsis, Anelia Mitseva and
Neeli R. Prasad
40 IntelliSense RFID - An RFID Platform
for Ambient Intelligence with Sensors
Integration Capabilities
by Ovidiu Vermesan, Nadine Pesonen,
Cristina Rusu, Aarne Oja, Peter
Enoksson and Helge Rustad
42 Collaborative Capture: A New
Perspective for Sensor Networks
by Paul Couderc
Resources
43 Autarkic Power Generation for
Networked Systems
by Eberhard Mueller and Ulrich Hofman
45 Formally Bounded Embedded Systems
by Kevin Hammond
Massively Deployed Embedded
Systems: Trust and security
46 Adaptable and Context-Aware
Trustworthiness Evaluation
by Gabriele Lenzini, Santtu Toivonen,
and Ilkka Uusitalo
47 Digital Identity in Ambient
Environments
by Ben Schouten and Onkar Ambekar
48 Trust4All enhances Trustworthiness of
Embedded Component-based Systems
by Gabriele Lenzini, Johan Muskens and
Andrew Tokmakoff
In most cases, the articles are based on
reports of European research projects
and Networks of Excellence and thus
provide a good overview of research and
applications in the areas addressed.
Several ERCIM working groups and
many teams within ERCIM member
institutes are involved in at least some of
the aspects of this special theme, which
was suggested by the ERCIM Working
group on Dependable Embedded
Systems. We have tried to provide a
comprehensive overview on many different
aspects of this important theme.
Please contact:
Erwin Schoitsch, ARC Seibersdorf
research/AARIT, Austria
E-mail: erwin.schoitsch@arcs.ac.at
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