SBESC 2013 guest editor’s introduction

Abstract

In 2013, Brazilian Symposium on Computing Systems Engineering (SBESC) received 46 full submissions. From those submissions, six were identified as Best Paper Candidates by the program committee and thus also were invited to appear in this special issue of DAEM. We invited the authors of all six papers to submit a revised paper for consideration in this journal, and five chose to do so. After a strict review process we selected three papers for inclusion in this special issue. The excellent result is now available to the readers of DAEM! The first paper is “A Multiple-ISA Reconfigurable Architecture” by Fernanda Mathias Capella, Marcelo Brandalero, Luigi Carro and Antonio Carlos Beck. In this paper the authors propose a new mechanism based on a dynamic two-level binary translation (BT) system in order to generate code for a dynamic reconfigurable array. In conclusion, the proposed mechanism provides a way to the designer take advantage of a BT system and program for multiple application fields, without worrying about the underlying architecture. The second paper is “Cyber-Physical Systems Design: Transition from Functional to ArchitecturalModels” byRosane Fatima Passarini, Leandro Buss Becker, JeanMarie Farines and Joao Miguel Fernandes. In this paper the authors propose an approach called Assisted Transformation ofModels (AST), which aims at transforming functional (simulation)models designed in the Simulink environment into architectural models represented in the Architecture Analysis & Design Language (AADL). The use and benefits of the proposed approach are exemplified through a case study focused on the design of a typical CPS: an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. The third paper is “Network design and planning of wireless embedded systems for industrial automation” by Ramon Hugo de Souza, Stefano Savazzi and Leandro Buss Becker. This