Events - ESI Symposium 2008

ESI Symposium 2008

Applied Academic and Industrial Research on Embedded Systems

December 4, 2008

This year, for the first time, ESI organized a one-day symposium presenting all of its activities and research projects, as well as those of a number of its network partners. This exciting event provides a unique opportunity to get the latest updates on applied embedded systems research in the Netherlands, and to meet and greet many key-players in the Embedded Systems Community.

The highlights of the programme are:

Keynote presentations:

  • Prof. Dr. Lothar Thiele (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich)
  • Ir. Anton Schaaf (Member Executive Board & CTOO, Océ)

Morning and afternoon session

  • Innovative results of ESI research projects: Darwin, Trader, Falcon, Poseidon
  • Contributions of ESI network partners: Progress, 3TU, Quasimodo
  • Valorization of project results: Ideals, Tangram

Demo market:

ESI projects and partners from academia and industry are proud to share their results, not only by presentations, but also through both posters and demonstrators, such as

  • Program Assisted Fault Localization
  • Complexity and Installed Base Visualization
  • Real-time modelling and self-awareness
  • and many more …

The ESI symposium took place on Thursday, December 4, 2008 in the Congress center at the Auditorium of the Eindhoven University of Technology. The programme is available on the next pages.

I am pleased to invite you, as a valued ESI partner, to participate to this event.

 

Ed Brinksma
Scientific Director and Chair
Embedded Systems Institute
 

 

Programme:

Click here for a time table of the programme

The proceedings are available via this link (4MB PDF)

Keynotes:

  • Prof. Dr. Lothar Thiele (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich)
  • Ir. Anton Schaaf (Member Executive Board & CTOO, Océ, Venlo)

Tracks:

There will be 3 sessions of 3 parallel tracks.
In the morning sessions there are 3 tracks about Trader, Falcon and Quasimodo & Poseidon. In the afternoon sessions there are 3 parallel tracks about Darwin, 3TU, Progress and 3 parallel tracks about Trader, Valorization and Progress.

  • Darwin is about System evolvability: How to design a complex system to make it robust enough to accommodate still unknown changes in the next 10 to 20 years of its commercial life. Cases based on an MRI scanner are presented (Darwin project).
  • Trader is about System reliability: It is virtually impossible to perform a 100% test on a complex system for consumers. How to design a consumer product that feels reliable to the customer, while time-to-market and price (resource restrictions) highly limit regular reliability measures. In this project a television is used as research case.
  • Falcon is about System performance and reliability: Complex systems exist of multiple and layered systems. Here the challenge is to optimally decompose the system, still being able to predict and control performance and reliability. A warehouse, a large logistic system, is the basis for this research (Falcon project)
  • Poseidon is about Evolvability and Reliability of Systems of Systems, collaborations between systems, and their sharing of information, processes, and resources.
  • Valorization: Working in the area where academic research is applied in an industrial context, a great challenge is always to embed the results in a fast changing environment. The challenges and good practices of valorization are presented (Applying results from Ideals, Tangram at ASM-L)
  • Progress is the program of NWO, STW, Economic Affairs and industry to enhance the Dutch know-how on Embedded Systems
  • Quasimodo is an European research project funded by the European Commission under the IST framework programme 7 for Information and Communication Technology, ICT.
  • 3TU track The three leading universities of technology in the Netherlands - Delft University of Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology and the University of Twente - have joined forces in the 3TU.Federation. This federation maximizes innovation by combining and concentrating the strengths in research, education and knowledge transfer.

 

Demo market:

  • The results from ESI projects are not only presented in the tracks, but a selection of actual results will be shown as demonstrators, such as:
  • A method to locate the root cause problem in a complex SW program, containing also third party software (Trader)
  • Grippers to grab all kind of objects with different dimensions and different weights (Falcon)
  • A method to visualize the complexity of the installed base by exploiting the data available in databases and spreadsheets. This method shows similarities and differences between different (sets of) configurations (Darwin)
  • Getting insight in how customers perceive the reliability of a consumer product. This method measures to which item customers attribute system failures; is the product to blame or an external factor? (Trader)
  • Modeling the high-level behavior of a system, for facilitating the requirements process and automated testing but also for adding a sense of self-awareness to a system to enable detection of faulty situations (Trader)
  • Modeling the behavior of and information available in a system of systems when a system joins or leaves (Poseidon)
  • Modeling and quantifying printer data path performance and utilization of data path components aiming at early architecture design-space exploration (Octopus)
  • Information about other ESI projects and competence development. What does ESI offer you when you are on the career path of engineer to system architect?

Practical information:

What ESI Symposium 2008
Where Congress center, Auditorium, Eindhoven University of Technology
When Thursday, December 4, 2008
Time 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Costs Registration is free (including proceedings, lunch, refreshments, access to presentations and demo market)
Website www.esi.nl/events/esi_symposium_2008 

The proceedings are available via this link (4MB PDF)