Embedded and ubiquitous computing is an exciting new paradigm that p- vides computing and communication services all the time, everywhere. Now we can attach computing and communication devices to human bodies to mo- tor our health, embed computing chips into brains to cure memory losses, or make smart fabrics so they can change colors or generate heat. All these new devices are created to the bene?ts or convenience of human lives. We need c- ativity as well as the advance of technology. This emergence is an outcome of researchand technologicaladvances in embedded software, embedded hardware,...

Embedded systems are driving an information revolution with their pervasion in our everyday lives. With more and more different types of FUs available, same type of operations can be processed by heterogeneous FUs with different costs, where the cost may relate to power, reliability, etc. Due to conditional operations, some tasks may not have fixed execution time. Therefore, how to assign a proper FU type to each operation of a system and generate a schedule that minimize the total costs while satisfying timing constraints with guaranteed confidence probabilities becomes a critical issue....