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ARTIST2 Meeting on IMA (Integrated Modular Avionics) http://www.artist-embedded.org/artist/-ARTIST2-meeting-on-Integrated-.html November 12-13, 2007, Rome, Italy Today, the exponentially increasing diversity of airborne systems results in an ever increasing number of computers and controllers for system management, monitoring, and control. The development of specific ad-hoc solutions causes increases in costs, which in turn impacts purchase prices and operational costs. To overcome this, standardization principles and reuse of function units are now considered, via Integrated Modular Avionics. Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) has set the principles of standardized components and interfaces of hardware and software in aircraft. These principles have been applied in particular in the development of the Airbus A380. Further developing IMA raises a number of issues that require fundamental research efforts, in tight coordination with engineering needs. ARTIST2, the European Network of Excellence on embedded systems has decided to organize, as part of its activity on "scientific challenges in specific industrial sectors", a two-day workshop dedicated to Systems, Software, and Architecture, aspects of IMA. The workshop aims to analyze: * the issues and difficulties encountered by aircraft manufacturers and their suppliers, * the specific research problems that result from the above issues, and, * the recent advances in research that may contribute to overcoming the above difficulties. See the agenda http://www.artist-embedded.org/artist/Agenda,931.html This workshop will ne a unique opportunity to gather best specialists of IMA in industry together with best academic researchers in Systems, Software, and Architecture interested in their application to embedded systems. -- Albert Benveniste IRISA, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 RENNES Cedex, FRANCE tel +33 (0)2 99 84 72 35, fax +33 (0)2 99 84 71 71 email [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.irisa.fr/distribcom/benveniste/