Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

SENSATION (http://sensation-project.eu/ ) (Self ENergy-Supporting Autonomous computaTION) is a European project no. 318490 funded by the FP7-ICT-11-8 programme. It gathers 9 participants: Inria (ESTASYS and CONVECS project-teams), Aalborg University (Denmark), RWTH Aachen and Saarland University (Germany), University of Twente (The Netherlands), GomSpace (Denmark), and Recore Systems (The Netherlands). The main goal of SENSATION is to increase the scale of systems that are self-supporting by balancing energy harvesting and consumption up to the level of complete products. In order to build such Energy Centric Systems, embedded system designers face the quest for optimal performance within acceptable reliability and tight energy bounds. Programming systems that reconfigure themselves in view of changing tasks, resources, errors, and available energy is a demanding challenge.

SENSATION started on October 1st, 2012 for three years, and has been extended for five months until February 29, 2016. CONVECS contributes to the project regarding the extension of formal languages with quantitative aspects (see §  7.3.1 ), studying common semantic models for quantitative analysis, and applying formal modeling and analysis to the case studies provided by the industrial partners (see §  7.5.4 ).

The CONVECS project-team is member of the FMICS (Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems) working group of ERCIM (http://fmics.inria.fr ). H. Garavel and R. Mateescu are members of the FMICS board, H. Garavel being in charge of dissemination actions.