Acknowledgements

• Sponsors
• Influences

Sponsors

This work was supported in part by the Center for Hybrid and Embedded Software Systems (CHESS) at UC Berkeley, which receives support from the National Science Foundation (NSF awards #0720882 (CSR-EHS: PRET), #0931843 (CPS: Large: ActionWebs), and #1035672 (CPS: Medium: Ptides)), the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL #N0013-12-1-G015), and the following companies: Bosch, National Instruments, and Toyota.

This work was supported in part by the TerraSwarm Research Center, one of six centers supported by the STARnet phase of the Focus Center Research Program (FCRP) a Semiconductor Research Corporation program sponsored by MARCO and DARPA.

This work was supported in part by iCyPhy. The iCyPhy research program is a partnership between the University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley), the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and member companies, which currently include the founding members, United Technologies and IBM.

CHESS previously received support from the Multiscale Systems Center (MuSyC), one of six research centers funded under the Focus Center Research Program, a Semiconductor Research Corporation program.

This research was sponsored by the Army Research Laboratory and was accomplished under Cooperative Agreement Number W911NF-07-2-0019 and W911NF-11-2-0038. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the Army Research Laboratory or the U.S. Government. The U.S. Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for Government purposes notwithstanding any copyright notation hereon.

This material is based on research sponsored by Air Force Research Laboratory under agreement number FA8750-08-2-0001 and FA8750-11-C-0023. The U.S. Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for Governmental purposes notwithstanding and copyright notation thereon.

The views and conclusions contained herein are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the offical policies or endorsements, either expressed or implied, of Air Force Research Laboratory or the U.S. Government.

Major prior funding was received from DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Prior corporate sponsors include Agilent, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard, HSBC, Infineon, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft and Thales.

Influences

The Ptolemy Project has had long standing interactions with a number of research groups that have profoundly influenced our work. We mention a few of these:

• Prof. Tom Henzinger and his group at EPFL, Switzerland.
• Prof. Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli and the Metropolis team at Berkeley and PARADES, Rome, Italy.
• Profs. Wolfgang Pree and Christoph Kirsch and the MoDECS project in Salzburg, Austria.
• Agilent, particularly Agilent Labs and the EESof division and Agilent Labs.
• Hewlett-Packard Labs.
• Prof. Gul Agha at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and the entire Actor Computing community.
• David Barton, Perry Alexander, and the Rosetta team.
• Albert Benveniste, Gerard Berry, and the entire synchronous language community.
• The group of Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya, University of Maryland.
• The group of Prof. Fernand Boeri, Universite de Nice, France.
• Cadence, and particularly the SPW, BOSS, and VCC groups.
• The group of Hugo De Man, IMEC, Belgium.
• Jack Dennis, Arvind, and the whole dataflow architecture community.
• The group of Prof. Gerhard Fettweis, TU Dresden, Germany.
• The groups of Tom Henzinger, Kurt Keutzer, David Messerschmitt, Richard Newton, and Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, all at UC Berkeley.
• Prof. Soonhoi Ha, Seoul National University, Korea.
• David Harel, Amir Pnueli, and the whole Statecharts community.
• The group of Paul Hudak, Yale University.
• The group of Gilles Kahn, INRIA, France.
• The group of David Kaplan, Naval Research Labs.
• The group of Dr. Ir. Rudy Lauwereins, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
• The group of Prof. Luciano Lavagno Politecnico di Torino, Italy.
• The Math Works, particularly the Simulink team.
• The group of Prof. Heinrich Meyr, Aachen University of Technology.
• Philips, and particularly Kees Vissers and the video signal processing group.
• The group of Janos Sztipanovits, Vanderbilt University.
• Structured Software Systems, and particularly Tom Lane.
• Synopsys, and particularly Joe Buck and the El Greco project.
• Thales (formerly Thomson-CSF), and particularly Ed Willink and Xavier Warzee.
• The group of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lothar Thiele, ETH, Switzerland.

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