Subcommittee on  Automotive Electronic and Embedded Systems Chair: Francoise Simonot-Lion, LORIA, France Scope: X-by-Wire, Architecture description language,  Performance evaluation and timing analysis, Dependability, Fault-tolerant services, Safety, Networks: TTP/C, FlexRay, TTCAN, CAN, VAN, J1850 , LIN, MOST, IDB-1394; Operating systems.

Françoise Simonot-Lion Dr. Françoise Simonot-Lion  is a Professor in Computer Science at INPL (Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine) – Nancy,France. Since 2004, responsible of the “Safe Design for Embedded and Ambient Systems”,  a course at Ecole des Mines de Nancy - INPL. Her main research topics include: modeling and verification techniques for the design of optimized real time distributed applications under safety constraints; specification of embedded services ensuring a real time Quality of Service (scheduling of tasks and messages, real time middleware, frame packing). Since 1997, she has been the scientific team leader of TRIO, an INRIA research project-team (Real Time and InterOperability), in LORIA (Lorraine Laboratory of IT Research and its Applications). Since 2002, responsible of the national working group “Real Time Systems and Quality of Service” supported by CNRS. Dr Simonot_lion is also the head of CARAMELS Research team associated with PSA Peugeot Citroën (2001-2004). Contact email address: f.simonot@iestcfa.org