The main chapters have been written by leading scientists, who present their field of research, each providing references to introductory material as well as latest scientific advances and future research directions. This is complemented by short papers submitted by the participating PhD students.
Rolf Drechsler is the head of the Group of Computer Architecture at the University of Bremen, Germany. Since 2011 he is also the director of the Cyber-Physical Systems group at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). His research interests include the development and design of data structures and algorithms with a focus on circuit and system design.
Ulrich Kühne is working as research associate and scientific coordinator of the Graduate School System Design at the University of Bremen. His research interests are in hardware design and verification of hybrid systems.