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There is a constant pressure on developers of embedded systems to simultaneously increase system functionality and to decrease development costs. Aviable way to obtain a better system performance with the same physical hardware is adaptivity: a system should be able to adapt itself to dynamically changing circumstances.

Adaptive systems engineering comprises two individual themes, adaptive systems and systems engineering, and their interaction. In the Octopus project, some challenges that arise from these themes have been addressed in the realm of professional printers. This chapter serves to place these challenges in a common context, which is done along the BAPO structuring principle (Business, Architecture, Process, Organisation).

Full flexible use of inkjet printhead units in printing systems requires consistent generation of drops with any given volume and velocity at any moment and place desired. True drop-on-demand is currently hampered by physical phenomena in the printhead. These are residual vibrations and crosstalk resulting from conventional jets.

Full flexible use of inkjet printhead units in printing systems requires consistent generation of drops with any given volume and velocity at any moment and place desired. True drop-on-demand is currently hampered by physical phenomena in the printhead. These are residual vibrations and crosstalk resulting from conventional jets.

How to develop adaptive high-tech embedded systems? This question has motivated this book. Adaptivity provides a wider operational envelope of systems and enables new market opportunities. Effective development of such systems requires a systematic approach that enables to include the adaptive capabilities at various system levels.

Context: Large software systems are usually developed by integrating several smaller systems, which may have been developed independently. The integration of such systems often requires the development of a custom adapter (sometimes called mediator or glue logic) for bridging any technical incompatibilities between the systems.

Much, if not most, information needed to assess a crisis situation originates these days from cooperative sources such as the Internet and social networks. Public safety authorities face the challenge to compile this information of uncertain origin and quality in their situation understanding and response planning.

Single-Rate Data-Flow (SRDF) graphs, also known as Homogeneous Synchronous Data-Flow (HSDF) graphs or Marked Graphs, are often used to model the implementation and do temporal analysis of concurrent DSP and multimedia applications. An important problem in implementing applications expressed as SRDF graphs is the computation of the minimal amount of buffering needed to implement a static periodic schedule (SPS) that is optimal in terms of execution rate, or throughput.

This chapter reflects on Falcon, a project to advance automation inwarehouses. Its main results and their impact as well as the project’s process arediscussed. The impact of Falcon on its industrial partners mainly concern model-based methods, of which strengthening the inception of the new architecture forsystem-level control of warehouses is a good example.