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The chapter investigates how intelligence plays a key role in managing basic mechanisms involving embedded systems and applications. At the lowest abstraction level we encounter those forms of intelligence that, through adaptation, affect the voltage/clock frequency of the system to reduce the power consumption as well as those aiming to maximize the harvested energy in photovoltaic cells. Adaptive sensing, clock synchronization, and intelligent localization of distributed embedded units are some basic problems that can be suitably addressed by considering automatic and conscious intelligent mechanisms. Functional reprogrammability both at the hardware and software level is another form of intelligence that allows the embedded application to undergo changes whenever needed also in remotely deployed units.
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A task is predictable when it is possible to determine its worst-case execution time.
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here, under the term “nature,” we have all those external actors that affect the embedded system’s context.
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Alippi, C. (2014). Intelligent Mechanisms in Embedded Systems. In: Intelligence for Embedded Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05278-6_8
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