@conference {18464,
	title = {Embedded Systems Education: Job Market Expectations},
	booktitle = {Workshop on Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems Education (WESE) },
	year = {2014},
	month = {10/2014},
	publisher = {ACM},
	organization = {ACM},
	address = {New Delhi, India},
	abstract = {In the fifteen years since the first Embedded Systems Design Master studies were proposed the embedded systems world has radically changed. The spectrum of application areas has increased beyond any expectation, and the increasing presence of embedded systems in the physical world has led to "cyber-physical systems." Devices tend to become a commodity in many cases, while sensors and IPs acquire a larger share of the market. The whole industrial ecosystem is changing as well, with "application" companies becoming increasingly present and SMEs emerging as major players. It becomes mandatory to reconsider the competences and capacities that should be provided in a Master of Science course oriented to Embedded Systems Design, so as to meet new and diverse requests that come from job market and prospective employers. Within the frame of the Nano-Tera Swiss Federal program (www.nano-tera.ch), the educational project Future Embedded Systems Education (FESTE) aimed at identifying requests coming from the job market, so as to outline the renewed professional profile for young Embedded Systems Designers. The results indicate that programming, networking, real time and system architecture know-how combined with soft skills such as teamwork and communication are in demand and frequently come under disguised names such as automation or control engineering.},
	keywords = {Cyber-Physical Systems Education, embedded systems, Nano Tera program},
	isbn = {978-1-4503-3090-9},
	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2829957.2829961},
	author = {Sami, Mariagiovanna and Malek, Miroslaw and Bondi, Umberto and Regazzoni, Francesco}
}
@inbook {141.aetherinbook.2011,
	title = {AETHER: Self-Adaptive Networked Entities: Autonomous Computing Elements for Future Pervasive Applications and Technologies},
	booktitle = {Reconfigurable Computing: From FPGAs to Hardware/Software Codesign},
	year = {2011},
	pages = {149{\textendash}184},
	publisher = {Springer},
	organization = {Springer},
	address = {New York, USA},
	abstract = {The AETHER project has laid the foundation of a complete new framework for designing and programming computing resources that live in changing environments and need to re-configure their objectives in a dynamic way. This chapter contributes to a strategic research agenda in the field of self-adaptive computing systems. It brings inputs to the reconfigurable hardware community and proposes directions to go for reconfigurable hardware and research on self-adaptive computing; it tries to identify some of the most promising future technologies for reconfiguration, while pointing out the main foreseen Challenges for reconfigurable hardware. This chapter presents the main solutions the AETHER project proposed for some of the major concerns in trying to engineer a self-adaptive computing system. The text exposes the AETHER vision of self-adaptation and its requirements. It describes and discusses the proposed solutions for tackling self-adaptivity at the various levels of abstractions. It exposes how the developed technologies could be put together in a real methodology and how self-adaptation could then be used in potential applications. Finally and based on lessons learned from AETHER, we discuss open issues and research opportunities and put those in perspective along other investigations and roadmaps.},
	isbn = {978-1-4614-0061-5},
	author = {Gamrat, Christian and Philippe, Jean-Marc and Jesshope, Chris and Shafarenko, Alex and Bisdounis, Labros and Bondi, Umberto and Ferrante, Alberto and Cabestany, Joan and Huebner, Michael and Parsinnen, Juha and Kadlec, Jiri and Danek, Martin and Tain, Benoit and Eisenbach, Susan and Auguin, Michel and Diguet, Jean-Philippe and Lenormand, Eric and Roux, Jean-Luc},
	editor = {Cardoso, Joao Manuel Pai and Huebner, Michael}
}
@inbook {17734,
	title = {The MULTICUBE Design Flow},
	booktitle = {Multi-objective Design Space Exploration of Multiprocessor SoC Architectures},
	year = {2011},
	pages = {3-17},
	publisher = {Springer New York},
	organization = {Springer New York},
	isbn = {978-1-4419-8836-2},
	doi = {10.1007/978-1-4419-8837-9_1},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8837-9_1},
	author = {Silvano, Cristina and Fornaciari, William and Palermo, Gianluca and Zaccaria, Vittorio and Castro, Fabrizio and Martinez, Marcos and Bocchio, Sara and Zafalon, Roberto and Avasare, Prabhat and Vanmeerbeeck, Geert and Ykman-Couvreur, Chantal and Wouters, Maryse and Kavka, Carlos and Onesti, Luka and Turco, Alessandro and Bondi, Umberto and Mariani, Giovanni and Posadas, Hector and Villar, Eugenio and Wu, Chris and Dongrui, Fan and Hao, Zhang},
	editor = {Silvano, Cristina and Fornaciari, William and Villar, Eugenio}
}
@inbook {139.Sietal2.2011,
	title = {MULTICUBE: Multi-Objective Design Space Exploration of Multi-Core Architectures},
	booktitle = {VLSI 2010 Annual Symposium},
	volume = {105},
	year = {2011},
	pages = {47-63},
	publisher = {Springer},
	organization = {Springer},
	address = {Netherlands},
	abstract = {Given the increasing complexity of Chip Multi-Processors (CMPs), a wide range of architecture parameters must be explored at design time to find the best trade-off in terms of multiple competing objectives (such as energy, delay, bandwidth, area, etc.) The design space of the target architectures is huge because it should consider all possible combinations of each hardware parameter (e.g., number of processors, processor issue width, L1 and L2 cache sizes, etc.). In this complex scenario, intuition and past experience of design architects is no more a sufficient condition to converge to an optimal design of the system. Indeed, Automatic Design Space Exploration (DSE) is needed to systematically support the analysis and quantitative comparison of a large amount of design alternatives in terms of multiple competing objectives (by means of Pareto analysis). The main goal of the MULTICUBE project consists of the definition of an automatic Design Space Exploration framework to support the design of next generation many-core architectures.},
	isbn = {978-94-007-1487-8},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1488-5_4},
	author = {Silvano, Cristina and Fornaciari, William and Palermo, Gianluca and Zaccaria, Vittorio and Castro, Fabrizio and Martinez, Marcos and Bocchio, Sara and Zafalon, Roberto and Avasare, Prabhat and Vanmeerbeeck, Geert and Ykman-Couvreur, Chantal and Wouters, Maryse and Kavka, Carlos and Onesti, Luka and Turco, Alessandro and Bondi, Umberto and Mariani, Giovanni and Posadas, Hector and Villar, Eugenio and Wu, Chris and Dongrui, Fan and Hao, Zhang and Shibin, Tang}
}
@conference {124.LuKaBo10,
	title = {Adopting system engineering methodology to Virtual Power Systems design flow},
	booktitle = {CPSWEEK/GREEMBED 2010: Proceedings of the First Workshop on Green and Smart Embedded System Technology: Infrastructures, Methods and Tools},
	year = {2010},
	month = {April},
	address = {Stockholm, Sweden},
	abstract = {The concept of Virtual Power System (VPS) emerges as a promising response for increased concerns on secure, sustainable and at the same time {\textquoteright}clean{\textquoteright} energy supply requests. This novel concept aims at boosting operational efficiency of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) but also at establishing them as an autonomous commercial actor on the open energy market. Nevertheless, VPSs are fairly complex HW/SW systems that require holistic multidisciplinary approach and also novel specification, modeling and analysis instruments to facilitate mutual understanding among stakeholders from different fields. We introduce UML/SysML based modeling methodology to describe such power system related issues aiming at providing an unified modeling instrument applicable for VPSs design flow. In the proposed system engineering methodology, system representation starts from a very general context description and gets refined through different levels of abstraction down to concrete embedded systems employed to perform defined tasks.},
	author = {Lukovi{\'c}, Slobodan and Kaitovi{\'c}, Igor and Bondi, Umberto}
}
@conference {130.LuKaMuBoKuPo10,
	title = {Functional model of Virtual Power Plant (VPP)},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2010 CIGRE (International Council on Large Electric Systems) Session},
	year = {2010},
	month = {July},
	address = {Paris, France},
	keywords = {smart grid, unified modeling language (UML), virtual power plants},
	author = {Lukovi{\'c}, Slobodan and Kaitovi{\'c}, Igor and Mura, Marcello and Bondi, Umberto and Kuli{\'c}, Filip and Popovi{\'c}, Dragan}
}
@conference {129.Sietal.ISVLSI11,
	title = {Multicube: Multi-objective design space exploration of multi-core architectures},
	booktitle = {ISVLSI 2010: IEEE Annual Symposium on VLSI},
	year = {2010},
	month = {July},
	pages = {488{\textendash}493},
	address = {Lixouri, Kefalonia - Greece},
	abstract = {Technology trends enable the integration of many processor cores in a System-on-Chip (SoC). In these complex architectures, several architectural parameters can be tuned to find the best trade-off in terms of multiple metrics such as energy and delay. The main goal of the MULTICUBE project consists of the definition of an automatic Design Space Exploration framework to support the design of next generation many-core architectures.},
	doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISVLSI.2010.67},
	author = {Silvano, Cristina and Fornaciari, William and Palermo, Gianluca and Zaccaria, Vittorio and Castro, Fabrizio and Martinez, Marcos and Bocchio, Sara and Zafalon, Roberto and Avasare, Prabhat and Vanmeerbeeck, Geert and Ykman-Couvreur, Chantal and Wouters, Maryse and Kavka, Carlos and Onesti, Luka and Turco, Alessandro and Bondi, Umberto and Mariani, Giovanni and Posadas, Hector and Villar, Eugenio and Wu, Chris and Dongrui, Fan and Hao, Zhang and Shibin, Tang}
}
@conference {112.LuKaMuBo10,
	title = {Virtual Power Plant as a bridge between Distributed Energy Resources and Smart Grid},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 43th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS{\textquoteright}43)},
	year = {2010},
	month = {January},
	address = {Hawaii, USA},
	abstract = {The liberalization of energy markets, especially in correlation with the Smart Grid concept development, requires adjusted legislation, new business models, energy stock exchanges establishment and many other advanced instruments. Realization of these features necessitates novel concepts to support such changes in the power system while granting security and reliability of supply. Such evolution poses new challenges to ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) to bridge the gap between increased complexity of deregulated market and on the other side expected rapid growth of number of players in power systems. Increasing presence of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) implementations constitutes a further source of complexity. Bearing in mind ongoing and possible scenarios we aim to determinate the place and role of the novel Virtual Power Plants (VPP) concept, related to the Smart Grid structure. At the same time we introduce an innovative modeling approach as an instrument to determine actors and highlight their actual roles and interactions from different point of view, trying to pave the way for development of a common understanding platform for variety of stakeholders. The effectiveness of the proposed modeling concept is shown through a number of UML models representing system level description of VPP at different levels of abstraction.},
	keywords = {distributed energy resources, smart grid, unified modeling language (UML), virtual power plants},
	doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2010.437},
	author = {Lukovi{\'c}, Slobodan and Kaitovi{\'c}, Igor and Mura, Marcello and Bondi, Umberto}
}
@conference {106.BoSa09,
	title = {Creating an Embedded Systems Program from Scratch: Nine years of experience at ALaRI},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Embedded System Education},
	year = {2009},
	month = {October},
	address = {Grenoble, France},
	abstract = {In 1999, experts form academia and industry met in a workshop dealing with education in Embedded Systems Design: at the time there were no specifically oriented programs, and an {\textquoteright}ideal{\textquoteright} educational track was designed. One year later, that educational design was implemented with a one-year {\textquoteright}executive-type{\textquoteright} Master at Universit{\`a} della Svizzera italiana, in Switzerland; over the years, the program blossomed and extended, with development of a two-year Master of Science program as well. The experience is discussed here; results and perspectives are analyzed.},
	keywords = {education, embedded systems},
	doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1719010.1719012},
	author = {Bondi, Umberto and Sami, Mariagiovanna}
}
@conference {102.LuKaMuBo09,
	title = {Functional requirements of embedded systems for monitoring and control structure of Virtual Power Plants},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Workshop on Environmental, Energy, and Structural Monitoring Systems},
	year = {2009},
	month = {September},
	address = {Crema, Italy},
	abstract = {Efficient integration of distributed renewable generation into a reliable single entity in technical and commercial terms is one of key issues for successful realization of smart-grids. The novel concept of Virtual Power Plants (VPP) emerges to be promising response to these needs. ICT is the enabling technology for VPP implementation. In fact, an efficient monitoring and control system coupled with appropriate communication structure must be designed in a scalable and modular way so that full interoperability among components of the system is achieved. On top of that, Control Center applications take care of power flow optimization (production, consumption, ancillary services) and high-level applications (e.g. energy trading, Demand Side Management etc.). In this work we focus on functional requirements for realization of such concept by means of embedded systems.},
	keywords = {monitoring and control, system level modeling, virtual power plants},
	doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/EESMS.2009.5341320},
	author = {Lukovi{\'c}, Slobodan and Kaitovi{\'c}, Igor and Mura, Marcello and Bondi, Umberto}
}
@conference {97.Silvanoetal09,
	title = {MULTICUBE: Multi-Objective Design Space Exploration of Multiprocessor Architectures for Embedded Multimedia Applications},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the DATE{\textquoteright}09 workshop on Designing for Embedded Parallel Computing Platforms: Architectures, Design Tools, and Applications},
	year = {2009},
	month = {April},
	address = {Nice, France},
	author = {Silvano, Cristina and Palermo, Gianluca and Zaccaria, Vittorio and Fornaciari, William and Zafalon, Roberto and Bocchio, Sara and Martinez, Marcos and Wouters, Maryse and Vanmeerbeeck, Geert and Avasare, Prabhat and Onesti, Luka and Kavka, Carlos and Bondi, Umberto and Mariani, Giovanni and Villar, Eugenio and Posadas, Hector and Wu, Chris and Dongrui, Fan and Hao, Zhang}
}
@conference {17.NegBon2004,
	title = {The ALaRI Intranet: a Remote Collaboration Platform for a Worldwide Learning and Research Network},
	booktitle = {World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 04 (ED-MEDIA 04)},
	year = {2004},
	pages = {5042-5047},
	publisher = {AACE Press},
	organization = {AACE Press},
	address = {Lugano, Switzerland},
	abstract = {The ALaRI Intranet is a web-based remote learning, tutoring and collaboration platform that has been developed within the ANTITESYS project. ANTITESYS is a EU project involving some of the major academic and industrial institutions in Europe; its aim is to foster academic-industrial collaboration in the field of embedded systems whilst forming selected students by means of a one-year master program, held at the ALaRI institute sited in Lugano, Switzerland. What makes this scenario very unique lies in the roles played by the industrial and academic partners of ANTITESYS. The two sides contribute to the training of the master students in different ways, but both share the problem of integrating remote and face-to-face meetings with the students and with the other stakeholders. In this paper, we present the requirements gathering process and the design phase of the ALaRI Intranet, plus some details about its actual implementation and some initial usage figures.},
	keywords = {case study, remote cooperation},
	author = {Negri, Luca and Bondi, Umberto}
}
@Patent {10.pat20030068036PATENT,
	title = {Method and circuit for data encryption/decryption},
	number = {US 09/974,705},
	year = {2003},
	month = {April},
	type = {Grant},
	chapter = {US7801301 B2},
	abstract = {Data are converted between an unencrypted and an encrypted format according to the Rijndael algorithm, including a plurality of rounds. Each round is comprised of fixed set of transformations applied to a two-dimensional array, designated state, of rows and columns of bit words. At least a part of said transformations are applied on a transposed version of the state, wherein rows and columns are transposed for the columns and rows, respectively.},
	issn = {US7801301B2},
	author = {Macchetti, Marco and Marchesin, Stefano and Bondi, Umberto and Breveglieri, Luca and Bertoni, Guido Marco and Fragneto, Pasqualina}
}
@conference {1.371690,
	title = {Development cost and size estimation starting from high-level specifications},
	booktitle = {CODES {\textquoteright}01: Proceedings of the ninth international symposium on Hardware/software codesign},
	year = {2001},
	pages = {86-91},
	publisher = {ACM Press, New York, USA},
	organization = {ACM Press, New York, USA},
	address = {Copenhagen, Denmark},
	abstract = {This paper addresses the problem of estimating cost and development effort of a system, starting from its complete or partial high-level description. In addition, some modifications to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of reusing VHDL-based designs, are presented. The proposed approach has been formalized using an approach similar to the COCOMO analysis strategy, enhanced by a project size prediction methodology based on a VHDL function point metric. The proposed design size estimation methodology has been validated through a significant benchmark. The LEON-I microprocessor, whose VHDL description is of public domain.},
	keywords = {concurrent engineering, design reuse, process management, project size estimation, VHDL},
	isbn = {1-58113-364-2},
	doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HSC.2001.924656},
	author = {Fornaciari, William and Salice, Fabio and Bondi, Umberto and Magini, Edi}
}
@conference {2.BoSaMa2001,
	title = {The {\textquoteright}Smart Card System{\textquoteright} project: From plastic money to mobile transaction support},
	booktitle = {Technology Leadership Day - organized by the MicroSwiss Network},
	year = {2001},
	month = {October 10},
	address = {Fribourg},
	author = {Bondi, Umberto and Saraceno, Giuseppe and Mazzoni, Luca}
}
