Acknowledgements

• Sponsors
• Influences

Sponsors

Research Centers

• The iCyPhy Research Center (Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems, supported by:
  • Camozzi Industries
  • Denso
  • Ford
  • Siemens
  • Toyota
  And previously supported by:
  • IBM
  • National Instruments
  • United Technologies
• The Center for Hybrid and Embedded Software Systems (CHESS) at UC Berkeley, previously supported by
  • Agilent
  • Bosch
  • Denso
  • General Motors
  • Hewlett-Packard
  • HSBC
  • Infineon
  • Lockheed Martin
  • Microsoft
  • National Instruments
  • Thales
  • Toyota
• and by the SwarmLab, - Industrial interactions with Ericsson, IHI, NEC, Qualcomm, Sony, Toshiba and Visa
• and previously by
  • The Multiscale Systems Center (MuSyC), one of six research centers funded under the Focus Center Research Program, a Semiconductor Research Corporation program
  • The TerraSwarm Research Center, one of six centers administered by the STARnet phase of the Focus Center Research Program (FCRP) a Semiconductor Research Corporation program sponsored by MARCO and DARPA;

Government

• The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) (TerraSwarm and MuSyC, see above)
• The National Science Foundation (NSF) current awards:
  • 1446619 (Mathematical Theory of CPS)
  • 1329759 (COSMOI)
  • 0931843 (ActionWebs)
  and previous awards:
  • #0720882 (CSR-EHS: PRET)
  • #1035672 (CPS: Medium: Timing Centric Software)
and previously by
• The Air Force Research Laboratory under agreement numbers FA8750-08-2-0001 and FA8750-11-C-0023.
• The Army Research Laboratory under Cooperative Agreement Numbers W911NF-07-2-0019 and W911NF-11-2-0038.
• The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL #N0013-12-1-G015)

Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of any of the sponsors and should not be interpreted as representing any official policies, either expressed or implied.

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. Reinhard von Hanxleden and his group at the University of Kiel, Germany.
• Prof. Janette Cardoso of ISAE, Toulouse, France.
• 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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