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Autonomic Middleware for Automotive Embedded Systems

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This chapter describes DySCAS: an advanced autonomic platform-independent middleware framework for automotive embedded systems. The concepts and architecture are motivated and described in detail, focusing on the need for, and achievement of, high flexibility and automatic run-time reconfiguration. The design of the middleware is positioned with respect to the way it overcomes the specific technical, environmental, and performance challenges of the automotive domain. Self-management is achieved in terms of automatic configuration for context-aware behavior, resource-use efficiency, and self-healing to handle run-time detected faults. The self-management is governed by the use of policies distributed throughout the middleware components. The simulation techniques that have been used for extensive validation are described and some key results presented. A reference implementation is presented, illustrating the way in which the various concepts and mechanisms can be realized and orchestrated.

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  1. The University of Greenwich, Greenwich, London, UK

    Richard Anthony

  2. Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), SE-100 44, Stockholm, Sweden

    DeJiu Chen, Martin Törngren, Tahir Naseer, Magnus Persson & Lei Feng

  3. Enea, Skalholtsgatan 9, 1033, 164 21, Kista, Sweden

    Detlef Scholle

  4. Volvo Technology Corporation, Mechatronics & Software, SE-412 88, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Martin Sanfridson

  5. Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Offis e.V., Oldenburg, Germany

    Achim Rettberg

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Anthony, R. et al. (2009). Autonomic Middleware for Automotive Embedded Systems. In: Vasilakos, A., Parashar, M., Karnouskos, S., Pedrycz, W. (eds) Autonomic Communication. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09753-4_7

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