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 editor of Model Driven Engineering for Distributed Real-Time Embedded Systems 2009: Advances, Standards, Applications and Perspectives, published by Wiley. Antonino Sabetta is editor of Model Driven Engineering for Distributed Real-Time Embedded Systems 2009: Advances, Standards, Applications and Perspectives, published by Wiley.