his MDPI Electronics journal special issue is dedicated to the cyberphysical and real time embedded systems present both in traditional relevant application domains (such as industrial automation and control, energy management, automotive, aerospace and defense systems) and in emerging domains (such as in medical devices, household appliances, mobile multimedia, gaming, and entertainment systems).

Real-time and networked embedded systems are crucial bridges between the physical and the information worlds in the ever growing embedded intelligence pervasiveness in industry, infrastructure, and in public and private spaces. They have been identified as society and economy emerging "neural systems", and as one of the next big concepts supporting societal changes and economic growth. Intelligence is increasingly embedded in everyday life connected objects, fostered by cost/performance improvements and by the spread to wider application fields of the specialized technologies and engineering disciplines once tightened in silo domains. While this process gradually builds the IoT, it starts to expose non trivial timing and other extra functional requirements and system properties, which are less common to typical computing.

For this special issue we solicit both review and state-of-the-art original research contributions addressing these domains, in topics that include but are not limited to:

- Industrial use-cases and applications of real-time embedded systems: design, implementation and performance evaluation
- Modeling, formal methods, simulation and development tools for real-time and networked embedded systems
- Real-time embedded systems design: energy management, dynamic reconfiguration, QoS, heterogeneity and interoperability
- Formal methods, timing analysis, scheduling design, analysis and verification
- Hardware/software co-design, synthesis, reconfigurable hardware, real-time network- and system on chip
- Wireless sensor networks (WSNs), RFID and time-sensitive components and applications
- Real-time networks, network management and time synchronization
- Real-time embedded operating systems (RTOS) and middleware, resource management, resource usage optimization
- Real-time virtualization and hypervisors, real-time Java and Linux for embedded systems
- Security, dependability and fault tolerance of real-time and distributed embedded systems

Dr. Christos Koulamas
Dr. Mihai Teodor Lazarescu
Guest Editors