Project-Team : triskell
Section: Contracts and Grants with Industry
Keywords: Real-Time Component Models.
Artist2 (Network of Excellence)
Participants: Jean-Marc Jézéquel, Noël Plouzeau, Pierre-Alain Muller, Benoit Baudry, Didier Vojtisek.The strategic objective of the ARTIST2 Network of Excellence is to strengthen European research in Embedded Systems Design, and promote the emergence of this new multi-disciplinary area. Artist2 gathers together the best European teams from the composing disciplines, and will work to forge a scientific community. Integration will be achieved around a Joint Programme of Activities, aiming to create critical mass from the selected European teams.
The ARTIST2 Network of Excellence on Embedded Systems Design is implementing an international and interdisciplinary fusion of effort to create a unique European virtual centre of excellence on Embedded Systems Design. This interdisciplinary effort in research is mandatory to establish Embedded Systems Design as a discipline, combining competencies from electrical engineering, computer science, applied mathematics, and control theory. The ambition is to compete on the same level as equivalent centres in the USA (Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, Carnegie Mellon), for both the production and transfer of knowledge and competencies, and for the impact on industrial innovation.
ARTIST2 has a double core, consisting of leading-edge research in embedded systems design issues (described later in this document) in the Joint Programme of Research Activities (JPRA), and complementary activities around shared platforms and staff mobility in the Joint Programme of Integration Activities (JPIA).
The JPRA activities are pure research, and the JPIA are complementary efforts for integration. Both work towards deep integration between the participating research teams.
The JPRA and JPIA are structured into clusters - one for each of the selected topics in embedded systems design (in red). Teams may be involved in one or several clusters.
Around this double core is the Joint Programme of Activities for Spreading Excellence (JPASE). These are complementary activiites for disseminating excellence across all available channels, targetting industry, students, and other European and international research teams.
Building the embedded systems design scientific community is an ambitious programme. To succeed, ARTIST2 will build on the achievements and experience from the ARTIST1 FP5 Accompanying Measure (http://www.artist-embedded.org/) on Advanced Real-Time Systems. ARTIST1 provided the opportunity to test the concept of a two-level integration (within and between clusters) four clusters in ARTIST2 originated as ``actions'' in ARTIST1. Building the ARTIST2 consortium and associated structure is the culmination of discussions and ambitions elaborated within ARTIST1.
ARTIST2 addresses the full range of challenges related to Embedded Systems Design, covering all aspects, ranging from theory through to applications. In this way, ARTIST2 is perfectly in line with the IST priority on embedded systems, and in particular with the focus area called ``system design''.
The Triskell team is taking part in two Artist2 clusters: the Modelling and Components cluster (led by Bengt Jonsson, at Uppssala university, Sweden) and the Adaptive Real Time Middleware (led by Giorgo Buttazzo, Italy).
The current cooperation topics within the Components cluster are the use of various formalisms for timed behaviour descriptions, the definition of an architecture for interconnecting simulation and verification platforms for these behaviours. Within the Adaptive Real Time cluster, Triskell is participating in the common definition of quality of service dictionary, in the context of middleware runtimes.