Embedded Software Design Journal of Systems Architecture The EUROMICRO Journal Editor-in-Chief Dr. Zonghua Gu Department of Computer Science, Hofstra University, USA Subject Area Editors W. Meng L. Almeida Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark Faculdade de Engenharia, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, M. Nasri Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of J.H. Anderson Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands Dept. of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, G. Palermo Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA Department of Electronics Information and Bioengineering, P. Bellavista Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy Dept. Computer Science and Engineering (DISI), Alma Mater Studiorum, L. Palopoli Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienza dell’Informazione (DISI), C.-S. Bouganis Università di Trento, Povo (Trento), Italy South Kensington Campus, Department of Electrical and Electronic S. Ren Engineering, Imperial College London, London, England, UK Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, San Diego State University, L. Cassano USA Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, S. Sarangi Italy Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of G. Chen Technology Delhi, India School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, M. Schoeberl Guangzhou, China DTU Informatics, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU), Richard Petersens M. García-Valls Plads, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark Departamento de Ingeniería Telemática, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Z. Shao Leganés, Madrid, Spain Dept. of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong C. Gill M. Staron Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University, USA Computer Science and Engineering, University of Gothenburg, A. Gokhale Gothenburg, Sweden Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, F. Tramarin Nashville, Tennessee, USA Dip. Gestione e Tecnica dei Sistemi Industriali (DTG), Università degli Studi di N. Guan Padova, Vicenza, Italy Dept. of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong M.A. Vega-Rodriguez J. Hu ARCO Research Group, Dept. Technologies of Computers & Communications, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, USA Universidad de Extremadura, Escuela Politecnica. Campus Universitario, Y. Jiang Cáceres, Spain School of Software, Tsinghua University, China S. Wan H. Kapoor School of Information and Safety Engineering, Zhongnan University of Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Economics and Law, China Guwahati, India H. Wu A. Kritikakou Center for Applied Mathematics, Tianjin University, China University of Rennes, Inria, Irisa and CNRS, France G. Xie F. Li College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronics Science and Changsha, China Technology of China, China W. Xu S. Li Zhejiang University College of Electrical Engineering, Hangzhou, China College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University Hangzhou, China H. Zeng G. Lima Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA Instituto de Matematica, Departamento de Ciencia da Computacao, Y. Zhang Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, M. Lin Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Department of Computer Science, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Q. Zhao G. Lipari Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS) de Cachan, Cachan, France N. Zheng D. Liu Qiushi Academy for Advanced Studies, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China College of Computer Science and Technology, Chongqing University, Chongqing, J. Zhou China Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Science W. Liu and Technology, China School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, D. Zhu Singapore Dept. of Computer Science, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, L. Lo Bello Texas, USA Dipart. di Ingegneria Elettrica Elettronica e Informatica (DIEEI), Università degli Studi di Catania, Catania, Italy