European Projects 2008

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Shoe Manufacturing in Europe faces an intense and growing competitive pressure brought forth by low-wage countries. To maintain competitiveness DOROTHY promotes a response based on the transformation of shoe industry and related business model meant to strengthen Europe s ability to compete in terms of high added value for the customer (as cost-based competition is not compatible with the goal of maintaining the Community s social and sustainability standards).
This transformation relies, on one hand, on the development of tools for the design of customer driven adding value shoes and, on the other hand, on the realization of tools for the design, configuration and reconfiguration of flexible multi-site multi-nation production plants, meant to manufacture those customer driven shoes. DOROTHY mission is to design customer driven shoes everywhere, manufacture them intelligently anywhere as a crucial challenge for shoe industry to gain competitiveness in the global markets, also through better cooperation (and not only to compete) with low-wage countries.

Our project, entitled Theory Applied to Real Embedded Systems (TARES), aims to bridge a gap between theory and practise for the design of Embedded Systems. We are going to apply recent advanced theories and tools developed for timed systems to the design of existing and commercialized software products which are based on the L4 micro-kernel technology. A micro-kernel is an operating system that provides a restricted set of services; the micro-kernel L4 provides threads, basic scheduling, inter-process communications and virtual memory.