The main intention of this book is to give an impression of the state of the art in energy-aware task-scheduling-related issues for very dynamic emb- ded real-time processing applications. The material is based on research at IMEC in this area in the period 1999 2006, with a very extensive state-- the-art overview. It can be viewed as a follow-up of the earlier Modeling, veri?cation and exploration of task-level concurrency in real-time embedded systems book 234] that was published in 1999 based on the task-level m- eling work at IMEC. In order to deal with the stringent timing requirements,...