Special session on “adaptive systems”

Adaptive applications form an increasingly important class of applications for the embedded systems domain. Such applications differ from conventional applications in requiring automatic configuration and dynamic reconfiguration in order to meet changing environmental (run-time) requirements (thus requiring adaptivity). Another reason for adaptivity is that systems more and more need to cope with hardware imperfections (e.g. malfunctioning cores or errors in the memories or the interconnect). For performance and efficiency reasons, adaptive applications are often mapped onto multi-processor systems.