Report of research results

The purpose of this reseach cluster (Universities of Augsburg, Karlsruhe, and Patras) will be to explore the potentials and problems to enhance robustness of embedded systems by applying the autonomic/organic computing principles of self-organization, self-configuration, self-optimization, self-healing, and self-protection.



There already exists comprehensive work at University of Augsburg in

hardware multithreading for embedded processors (Komodo, CARUSO,

and CAR-SoC projects) and autonomic/organic middleware

(AMUN, OC-MUE), at University of Karlsruhe in thread scheduling

and real-time Middleware (Komodo, OSA+), and at University

of Patras on self-configuring and self-organising distributed networked

systems and distributed real-time systems.

We plan to explore the combination of the CAR-SoC processor - a

multithreaded processor core with a TriCore instruction set - running

autonomic manager threads as helper threads in specific thread slots of the

multithreaded processor with the distributed networked system techniques

developed at University of Patras.



We plan two mutual visits of researches in Patras and in Augsburg (or Karlsruhe) to intensify the collaboration.

We plan one visit of Sascha Uhrig, Theo Ungerer, and Uwe Brinkschulte (3 days each) in Patras and vice versa of George Papadopoulos and Stefanos Kaxiras in Germany (Augsburg or Karlsruhe)

Costs per person:

- accomodation and allowance for 4 nights (400 EURO)

- traveling round-trip flights (400 EURO)

5 times 800 EURO = 4000 EURO

Uhrig, Sascha (Augsburg)

Christos Koulamas (Patras)