Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2008 [electronic resource] : 13th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies, Venice, Italy, June 16-20, 2008. Proceedings /

A New Approach to Memory Partitioning in On-Board Spacecraft Software -- Design and Development of Component-Based Embedded Systems for Automotive Applications -- On the Timed Automata-Based Verification of Ravenscar Systems -- Operational Semantics of Ada Ravenscar -- Practical, Fast and Simple Concurrent FIFO Queues Using Single Word Synchronization Primitives -- A Modelling Approach with Coloured Petri Nets -- A Tailored V-Model Exploiting the Theory of Preemptive Time Petri Nets -- Concurrent Program Metrics Drawn by Quasar -- A Comparison of the Object-Oriented Features of Ada 2005 and JavaTM -- A Framework for CFG-Based Static Program Analysis of Ada Programs -- A Type-Safe Database Interface -- StateML?+?: From Graphical State Machine Models to Thread-Safe Ada Code -- Experience in the Integration of Heterogeneous Models in the Model-driven Engineering of High-Integrity Systems -- A Systematic Approach to Automatically Generate Multiple Semantically Equivalent Program Versions -- Increasing Confidence in Concurrent Software through Architectural Analysis -- Fast Scheduling of Distributable Real-Time Threads with Assured End-to-End Timeliness -- RCanalyser: A Flexible Framework for the Detection of Data Races in Parallel Programs -- Can We Increase the Usability of Real Time Scheduling Theory? The Cheddar Project -- An Ada 2005 Technology for Distributed and Real-Time Component-Based Applications -- Real-Time Distribution Middleware from the Ada Perspective.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies, Ada-Europe 2008, held in Venice, Italy, in June 2008. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The conference proceedings published in this volume cover topics ranging from formal verification to real-time systems via concurrency, embedded systems, language technologies, model-driven engineering and applications of Petri Nets.