Component-Based Design meets Model-Driven Engineering methodologies: improving the development of Embedded Systems

Project Information

COMING

Grant agreement ID: 255591

Project closed

Start date 1 May 2010

End date 30 April 2012

Funded under

• Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Total cost € 165 628,60

EU contribution € 165 628,60

Coordinated by

MALARDALENS UNIVERSITET
Sweden

Objective

Embedded systems are those systems in which the software is embedded into a hardware product, ranging from mobile phones to aircraft navigation controllers. They usually must satisfy timing constraints and resource usage such as CPU, energy, memory, bus bandwidth. Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) and Component-Based Development (CBD) can be seen as two orthogonal approaches to deal with the ever increasing complexity of modern embedded systems development. The former aims at making applications resilient to technology evolutions by abstracting the business logic from platform/hardware details, while the latter promotes the reuse and recombination of already realized and validated software units. Despite the fact that the adoption of MDE mechanisms in CBD could be profitable for reducing complexity and for improving reusability, these are still prevented by the lack of a rigorous formalization of CBD concepts into the MDE field. This project aims at joining complementary expertise gained by the hosting organization in CBD of embedded systems and the state-of-the-art knowledge in MDE techniques carried in by the research fellow. The expected outcomes are manifold, both from the researcher and the hosting organization sides, notably: - advance of the current state-of-the-art methodologies devoted to embedded systems development; - development of new skills for the research fellow; - enrichment of the education and training activities provided by the hosting organization to both students and industrial partners; - integration of researcher's activities into the host environment to build up a career advancement path.

Fields of science

• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › software
• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › electronic engineering › computer hardware › computer processors
• engineering and technology › mechanical engineering › vehicle engineering › aerospace engineering › aircraft
• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › information engineering › telecommunications › mobile phones

Programme(s)

• FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Topic(s)

• FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IEF - Marie Curie Action: "Intra-European Fellowships for Career Development"

Call for proposal

FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IEF
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Funding Scheme

MC-IEF - Intra-European Fellowships (IEF)

Coordinator

MALARDALENS UNIVERSITET

• EU contribution: € 165 628,60
• Address: UNIVERSITETSPLAN 1 ; 722 20 VASTERAAS ; Sweden
• Region: Östra Sverige › Östra Mellansverige › Västmanlands län
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Administrative Contact: Malin Rosqvist (Ms.)
• Total cost: No data