This workshop will be held in conjunction with the 9th International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS 2009), held in Athens, Greece, during March 23-25, 2009. (see for detail http://www.ece.upatras.gr/isads2009/).

Embedded systems such as process control systems, vehicle systems and robots collect status data from environments or physical systems, and control them. Such embedded systems are widely used in homes, offices, buildings, vehicle and avionic systems and form ubiquitous systems. The systems continue to work without human interaction. As a result, embedded systems are networked and need to work autonomously.

Building autonomous system faces many challenges not only in server systems, but also in the context of embedded systems. In particular, embedded systems have different properties including (but are not limited to):

* Resource constraints such as the limitation of CPU power, memory capacity and battery life;
* Real-time;
* High dependability and safety;
* Distributed system integration.

The novel hardware, software and network architectures are required to support those properties. Meanwhile, in order to increase reliability and dependability in the system, new development methodologies are needed. For this purpose the control theory and the system design methodologies should be integrated. In addition to the platform technology such hardware and software, theoretical approaches are also needed to build autonomous embedded systems and network systematically.

A lot of networks of embedded systems form as ad-hoc networks, sensor networks, P2P networks.　Since ad-hoc networks, sensor networks, and P2P networks typically consist of equal nodes without any central control, these networks are important applications of autonomous decentralized systems. In the network context of autonomous embedded system, there are many challenges too. In mobile ad-hoc networks, there are many issues not only on the traditional wireless communication issues including bandwidth management, routing, power control, etc., but also on new research issues as an autonomous system, including network configuration and topology management, ad-hoc addressing, system integration etc.

The objective of this workshop is to stimulate researchers and practitioners in embedded systems, autonomic computing, hardware software codesign, cyber-physical systems and all other relevant areas to present their new research ideas and results for advancing the technologies in the field of autonomous embedded systems and networking.