We are proud to announce that the paper “Modeling the SL-LET Paradigm in AUTOSAR Adaptive” has received the DATE ASD Outstanding Paper Award 2025 at the Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference, a premier European event for electronic system design and test.
This work addresses a crucial challenge in modern automotive systems: guaranteeing deterministic behavior within the AUTOSAR Adaptive platform, which is essential for ensuring functional safety. While AUTOSAR Adaptive introduces a flexible, service-oriented architecture designed for high-performance automotive applications, it currently lacks support for non-functional properties such as timing determinism.
The awarded paper proposes a modeling extension to the AUTOSAR Adaptive standard that integrates the System-Level Logical Execution Time (SL-LET) paradigm—already established in AUTOSAR Classic—to provide predictable timing behavior. The feasibility of the proposed approach is validated through a prototype implementation and an evaluation based on a realistic automotive application running on the AUTOSAR Adaptive Platform Demonstrator (APD).
The research team includes:
- Davide Bellassai – PhD Student, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and Evidence S.r.l.
- Gerlando Sciangula – PhD Student, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and Evidence S.r.l.
- Claudio Scordino – Senior Researcher, Evidence S.r.l.
- Daniel Casini – Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
- Alessandro Biondi – Associate Professor, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
The award was presented as part of the ASD (Autonomous Systems Design) Initiative, which recognizes outstanding contributions in the field of autonomous and cyber-physical systems. Congratulations to all the authors for this outstanding achievement!
