Jean-Philippe Babau is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science department at INSA, Lyon, France. His research interests include the use of formal models for architecture description to build real-time embedded systems.Mireille Blay-Fornarino is Professor in computer science at University of Nice in France. She is also a researcher in Computer Science at the Computer Science and Automata Laboratory.Joël Champeau is a teacher-researcher in the New Technologies Development Laboratory at ENSIETA, Brest, France. He specializes in applying MDE methodology and techniques to a system modeling framework for embedded systems.Sylvain Robert is Research Engineer at LISP (Lab Software Security Process) at the French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission.Antonino Sabetta is Researcher at ISTI CNR, Pisa, Italy.