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245			_aViews on Evolvability of Embedded Systems _h[electronic resource] / _cedited by Pierre Van de Laar, Teade Punter.
300			_aXII, 316 p. _bonline resource.
490			_aEmbedded Systems
490			_x-2193-0155
520			_aEvolvability, the ability to respond effectively to change, represents a major challenge to today's high-end embedded systems, such as those developed in the medical domain by Philips Healthcare. These systems are typically developed by multi-disciplinary teams, located around the world, and are in constant need of upgrading to provide new advanced features, to deal with obsolescence, and to exploit emerging enabling technologies. Despite the importance of evolvability for these types of systems, the field has received scant attention from the scientific and engineering communities. Views on Evolvability of Embedded Systems focuses on the topic of evolvability of embedded systems from an applied scientific perspective. In particular, the book describes results from the Darwin project that researched evolvability in the context of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) systems. This project applied the Industry-as-Laboratory paradigm, in which industry and academia join forces to ensure continuous knowledge and technology transfer during the projectÁ's lifetime. The Darwin project was a collaboration between the Embedded Systems Institute, the MRI business unit of Philips Healthcare, Philips Research, and five Dutch universities. Evolvability was addressed from a system engineering perspective by a number of researchers from different disciplines such as software-, electrical- and mechanical engineering, with a clear focus on economic decision making. The research focused on four areas: data mining, reference architectures, mechanisms and patterns for evolvability, in particular visualization & modelling, and economic decision making. Views on Evolvability of Embedded Systems is targeted at both researchers and practitioners; they will not only find a state-of-the-art overview on evolvability research, but also guidelines to make systems more evolvable and new industrially-validated techniques to improve the evolvability of embedded systems.
650			_aEngineering. _996
650			_aEngineering. _996
650			_933660 _aCIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS.
650			_933673 _aSYSTEMS ENGINEERING
650			_933621 _aSPECIAL PURPOSE AND APPLICATION _bBASED SYSTEMS
650			_933868 _aSOFTWARE ENGINEERING
700			_aVan de Laar, Pierre. _936120
700			_eeditor. _936121
700			_aPunter, Teade. _936122
700			_eeditor. _936121
710			_aSpringerLink (Online service) _9111
856			_uhttp://springer.escuelaing.metaproxy.org/book/10.1007/978-90-481-9849-8 _yir a documento _qURL
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