Final workshop

Invitation to DySCAS dissemination workshop

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We shall be holding a public workshop to disseminate the results of the “Dynamically Self-configuring Automotive Systems” (DySCAS) FP6 project in February 2009.

DySCAS is a FP6 research project which aims to make embedded automotive computer systems scalable and self-adaptive. The business perspective covers the need to incorporate new devices and software functionality into the vehicle post-design time – beyond vehicle commissioning – and to improve maintenance and reliability of vehicles, which is a potential new business model for vehicle upgrades. These abilities promise to shorten the development phase, support customization and system evolution.

The DySCAS public results dissemination workshop will highlight the advances made during the project. You will learn about a future embedded automotive technology which has sophisticated capabilities to configure itself in context-aware ways to meet the quality-of-service requirements of applications, to automatically optimize resource usage, and to dynamically detect and resolve certain categories of fault. In the project, a substantial effort has been devoted to provide development methods to match the increased flexibility with robustness and safety analyses. Many of the results achieved in DySCAS are applicable to a large class of autonomic embedded systems, while some take specific automotive constraints into account such as integration with existing standards such as Autosar.

The mixed-media presentation of the project results will include technical presentations, posters and live demonstrations.:

• Scalable computer systems
  
  
• Embedded automotive software
  
  
• Autonomic computing (self-managing, self organizing systems)
  
  
• Policy-based computing
  
  
• Context-awareness for quality of service and run-time configuration
  
  
• Modeling and simulation of dynamically configurable embedded systems, for example for validation and performance estimation purposes
  
  
• Methods assisting in ensuring the robustness and safety of dynamically configurable systems
  
  
• Load balancing

There will be adequate time to discuss the technical work of the project with the research team.

The workshop is affiliated with the ArtistDesign network of excellence, http://www.artist-embedded.org/artist/-Home-Page-.html.

Date: Wednesday February 18, 2009
Location: Volvo Office Brussels, Hunderenveldlaan 10, 1082 Brussels, Belgium.
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The workshop starts at 10.30 and ends at 15.00. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

The number of participants for the seminars and demonstrations will be limited by the venue. Please register before January 26 2009 by email, to thomas.soderqvist@volvo.com

Please disseminate this invitation within your organization. This is an open, free event, but registration is mandatory. Please do not forget to register.

Sincerely,
Dr. Martin Sanfridson
Project Coordinator, Volvo Technology Corporation
martin.sanfridson@volvo.com
+46313220665