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The following topics are dealt with: soft real-time optimality; fixed-priority global multiprocessor scheduling analysis; enhanced fault-tolerant fixed-priority scheduling; smart phones; cooperative code positioning; WCET minimization; performance-asymmetric multicore architecture; cloud-based offloading service; computation-intensive mobile applications; real-time system virtualization; bi-level deadline scaling; overhead-aware schedulability evaluation; hard real-time multiprocessor scheduling; component-based software development; memory access detection methodology; end-to-end timing analysis; legacy vehicular distributed embedded systems; reconfigurable communication middleware; ballroom intersection protocol; EDF schedulability analysis; automata product; priority-based functional reactive programming; job response-time information and EDF-PStream.