Embedded systems have long become essential in application areas in which human control is impossible or infeasible. The development of modern embedded systems is becoming increasingly difficult and challenging because of their overall system complexity, their tighter and cross-functional integration, the increasing requirements concerning safety and real-time behavior, and the need to reduce development and operation costs.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Software Platform Embedded Systems (SPES) modeling framework and demonstrates its applicability in embedded system development in various industry domains such as automation, automotive, avionics, energy, and healthcare. In SPES 2020, twenty-one partners from academia and industry have joined forces in order to develop and evaluate in different industrial domains a modeling framework that reflects the current state of the art in embedded systems engineering.

The content of this book is structured in four parts. Part I Starting Point discusses the status quo of embedded systems development and model-based engineering, and summarizes the key requirements faced when developing embedded systems in different application domains. Part II The SPES Modeling Framework describes the SPES modeling framework. Part III Application and Evaluation of the SPES Modeling Framework reports on the validation steps taken to ensure that the framework met the requirements discussed in Part I. Finally, Part IV Impact of the SPES Modeling Framework summarizes the results achieved and provides an outlook on future work.

The book is mainly aimed at professionals and practitioners who deal with the development of embedded systems on a daily basis. Researchers in academia and industry may use it as a compendium for the requirements and state-of-the-art solution concepts for embedded systems development.

Klaus Pohl is full professor for Software Systems Engineering at the Institute of Computer Science and Business Computing of the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany, and director of paluno The Ruhr Institute for Software Technology. He was scientific founding director of Lero, the Irish Software Engineering Institute, served as coordinator of the FP7 Network of Excellence S-Cube (Software Services and Systems Network) and is member of several steering committees and boards of directors including  the European Technology Platform NESSI (Networked European Software and Services Initiative) and the German Innovation Alliance SPES 2020.

Harald Hönninger is Vice President of Advance Engineering for Software-Intensive Systems at Corporate Research and Advanced Development with Robert Bosch GmbH. In his position, he is responsible for the pre-development of software-intensive systems and for corporate-wide software-, hardware- and systems engineering methods.

Reinhold Achatz recently joined ThyssenKrupp, where he leads the Corporate Center Technology, Innovation& Quality.  Before he was Corporate Vice President of Siemens AG and head of Corporate Research and Technologies as well as the Corporate Development Center. He has been honored as a Siemens Top Innovator for his outstanding innovations in software-based components for set-up, operations and execution accuracy of machine tools.