"Billions of smart connected products are changing the competitive landscape for business and the daily lives of consumers. This book analyzes the evolution of embedded product intelligence and the impact of smart products on the automotive, wireless, energy, residential and health industries....

Section 1. Model-Based Approaches -- 1. UML as Front-End Language for Embedded Systems Design / Lisane Brisolara de Brisolara, Márcio Eduardo Kreutz, Luigi Carro -- 2. Model-Driven Design and ASM-Based Validation of Embedded Systems / Angelo Gargantini, Elvinia Riccobene, Patrizia Scandurra --...

Design for software-intensive systems requires adequate methodology and tool support in order for researchers and practitioners to make use of and develop very large and complex systems. Software engineering environments help reduce the design costs of very large and intricate software systems...