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Challenges on Complexity and Connectivity in Embedded Systems

  2. This paper describes the design and implementation of a distributed self-stabilizing clock synchronization algorithm based on the biological example of Asian Fireflies. Huge swarms of these fireflies use the p...

    Authors: Robert Leidenfrost and Wilfried Elmenreich
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2009 2009:186406
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  3. Embedded systems are often used in safety-critical environments. Thus, thorough testing of them is mandatory. To achieve a required structural code-coverage criteria it is beneficial to derive the test data at...

    Authors: Raimund Kirner
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2009 2009:127945
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  4. Fusing spatially distributed observations in wireless sensor networks or asset tracking in a shipyard are just two-example applications where the location of radio nodes needs to be known. Localization and tra...

    Authors: Ákos Lédeczi, János Sallai, Péter Völgyesi and Ryan Thibodeaux
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2009 2009:682183
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  5. This paper discusses an innovative extension of the actual vehicle platforms that integrate intelligent environments in order to carry out e-safety tasks improving the driving security. These platforms are ded...

    Authors: Ralf Seepold, Natividad Martínez Madrid, Jesús Sáez Gómez-Escalonilla and Alvaro Reina Nieves
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2009 2009:856962
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  6. Today's general-purpose processors are optimized for maximum throughput. Real-time systems need a processor with both a reasonable and a known worst-case execution time (WCET). Features such as pipelines with ...

    Authors: Martin Schoeberl
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2009 2009:758480
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  8. This paper considers the development of a Petri-net-based modelling tool as a mechanism for process and system monitoring. The use of Petri-nets, which has previously been largely based in the areas of systems...

    Authors: MarcosR Frankowiak, RogerI Grosvenor and PaulW Prickett
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2009 2009:282708
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  9. Traction control is a widely used control system to increase stability and safety of four wheel vehicles. Automatic stability control is used in the BMW K1200R motorcycle and in motoGP competition, but not in ...

    Authors: Pascal Cardinale, Camillo D'Angelo and Massimo Conti
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 2008 2009:161373
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