15th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems

ECBS Programme

Tuesday 01 April 2008

9:30 - 10:30: Keynote Speaker

"System Complexity and System Failures"
Professor Brian Randell

10:30 - 11:00: Break

11:00 - 13:00: Parallel Sessions

Session VII: Systems Applications 3

"Fuzzy Logic-Based Performance Assessment in The Virtual, Assistive Surgical Trainer (VAST)"
Chuan Feng, Jerzy W. Rozenblit, and Allan Hamilton

"A Model Driven Approach to Automate the Implementation of Clinical Guidelines in Decision Support Systems"
Ivan Porres, Eladio Domínguez, Beatriz Pérez, Áurea Rodríguez, and María A. Zapata

"Automated Phone Capture of Diabetes Patients Readings with Consultant Monitoring via the Web"
Roy Harper, Peter Nicholl, Mike McTear, Jonathan Wallace, Lesley-Ann Black, and Patricia Kearney

"A Hybrid Approach for Modeling and Assessing Performance of Embedded Systems in a Biologically Critical Application"
Claudio Talarico, David Freiberger, Tyler Jones, Brandon Hopkins, and Charlie Herr

Session VIII: Product Line Development

"Optimizing Design for Variability Using Traceability Links"
Matthias Riebisch and Robert Brcina

"Taking Advantage of COTS for Developing Aspect-Oriented Software Architecture"
Jennifer Pérez, Isidro Ramos, and Jose Ángel Carsí

"Evaluation of Quality Attribute Variability in Software Product Families"
Leire Etxeberria and Goiuria Sagardui

"Software Configuration Management for Product Derivation in Software Product Families"
Cheng Thao, Ethan V. Munson, and Tien N. Nguyen

13:00 - 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 15:30: Parallel Sessions

Session IX: Systems Modeling 2

"Model Driven Management of Complex Systems: Implementing the Macroscope’s Vision"
Mikaël Barbero, Frédéric Jouault, and Jean Bézivin

"Utilising Abstract Matching to Preserve the Nature of Heuristics in Design Optimisation"
Cameron Maxwell, John Leaney, and Tim O’Neill

"ALI: An Extensible Architecture Description Language for Industrial Applications"
R. Bashroush, I. Spence, P. Kilpatrick, TJ. Brown, W. Gilani, and M. Fritzsche

Session X: Hardware-Software Interface 1

"A Model-Based Design Process for the SegBus Distributed Architecture"
Dragos Truscan, Tiberiu Seceleanu, Johan Lilius, and Hannu Tenhunen

"Interrupt Costs in Embedded System with Short Latency Hardware Accelerators"
Sébastien Lafond and Johan Lilius

"Energy-Aware Middleware"
Luigia Petre

15:30 - 16:00: Break

16:00 - 17:30: Parallel Sessions

Session XI: Component Based Development

"Hierarchical Model to Develop Component-Based Systems"
Abdelkrim Amirat and Mourad Oussalah

"V3Studio: A Component-Based Architecture Modeling Language"
Diego Alonso, Cristina Vicente-Chicote, and Olivier Barais

Session XII: Hardware-Software Interface 2

"On the Use of DesertFD to Generate Custom Architectures for H.264 Motion Estimation"
Rohit Saraswat and Brandon Eames

"QR Recursive Least Squares IP Core Example"
Gaye Lightbody and Roger Woods

"Testable Specifications of NoTA-based Modular Embedded Systems"
Dragos Truscan, Johan Lindqvist, Johan Lilius, and Ivan Porres

Conference Dinner: Ulster Folk Museum

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