Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: A byte of systems theory
• Chapter 3: Modelling for computing systems
• Chapter 4: A byte of basic control theory
• Chapter 5: Scheduling
• Chapter 6: Memory management
• Chapter 7: A byte of advanced control techniques
• Chapter 8: Resource allocation
• Chapter 9: Power-awareness
• Chapter 10: An experimental OS: Miosix
• Chapter 11: Future perspectives and cyber-physical systems
• Appendices

About the Author

Alberto Leva is Associate Professor of Automatic Control in the Department of Electronics and Information of the Faculty of Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. His main research interests are process modelling, simulation and control, automatic tuning of industrial regulators, and more recently, control and control-based design of computing systems. He is author or co-author of about 120 peer-reviewed publications in international journals or conferences.


Martina Maggio is a postdoctoral researcher at LTH, Lund, Sweden, where her research interests deal with feedback control and control-based design of computing systems.


Alessandro Vittorio Papadopoulos is a PhD student at the Politecnico di Milano, where his research focuses on model reduction and model simplification of nonlinear differential algebraic equation systems, and with the use of advanced control and simulation techniques in the design of computing systems components.


Federico Terraneo is a PhD student at the Politecnico di Milano, where his research interests centre on embedded systems, taking advantage of control-based design and assessment. Since 2008 he is the main developer and maintainer of the Miosix embedded operating system.