The IFIP TC-10 Working Conference on Distributed and Parallel Embedded Systems (DIPES 2004) brings together experts from industry and academia to discuss recent developments in this important and growing field in the splendid city of Toulouse, France. The ever decreasing price/performance ratio of microcontrollers makes it economically attractive to replace more and more conventional mechanical or electronic control systems within many products by embedded real-time computer systems. An embedded real-time computer system is always part of a well-specified larger system, which we call an intelligent product. Although most intelligent products start out as stand-alone units, many of them are required to interact with other systems at a later stage. At present, many industries are in the middle of this transition from stand-alone products to networked embedded systems. This transition requires reflection and architecting: The complexity of the evolving distributed artifact can only be controlled, if careful planning and principled design methods replace the - hoc engineering of the first version of many standalone embedded products.

Modelling and Specification.- MDA Platform for Complex Embedded Systems Development.- On Detecting Deadlocks in Large UML Models.- Verification Framework for UML-Based Design of Embedded Systems.- Verification and Analysis.- LTL's Intuitive Representations and Its Automaton Translation.- Modeling and Verification of Hybrid Systems Based on Equations.- Distribution of Time Interval Between Successive Interrupt Requests.- Fault Detection and Toleration.- A Membership Agreement Algorithm Detecting and Tolerating Asymmetric Timing Faults.- Temporal Bounds for TTA : Validation.- An Active Replication Scheme That Tolerates Failures in Distributed Embedded Real-Time Systems.- Automotive and Mechatronic Systems Design.- Development of Distributed Automotive Software.- Experiences from Model Based Development of Drive-By-Wire Control Systems.- Hardware Design and Protocol Specification for the Control and Communication Within a Mechatronic System.- Networks and Communication.- A Decentralized Self-Organized Approach for Wireless Sensor Networks.- A Software Architecture and Supporting Kernel for Largely Synchronously Operating Sensor Networks.- Adaptive Bus Encoding Schemes for Power-Efficient Data Transfer in DSM Environments.- Scheduling and Resource Management.- A Novel Approach for Off-Line Multiprocessor Scheduling in Embedded Hard Real-Time Systems.- Schedulability Analysis and Design of Real-Time Embedded Systems with Partitions.- Flexible Resource Management.- Hardware Architectures and Synthesis.- Automatic Synthesis of SystemC-Code from Formal Specifications.- Hardware Synthesis of A Parallel JPEG Decoder from Its Functional Specification.- A Self-Controlled and Dynamically Reconfigurable Architecture.- Design Space Exploration.- Profiling Specification PearlDesigns.- A Multiobjective Tabu Search Algorithm for The Design Space Exploration of Embedded Systems.- Design Space Exploration with Automatic Generation of IP-Based Embedded Software.- Design Methodologies and User Interfaces.- A Multi-Level Design Pattern for Embedded Software.- A Petri Net Approach for The Design of Dynamically Modifiable Embedded Systems.- Internet Premium Services for Flexible Format Distributed Devices.- Short Papers.- Evaluating High-Level Models for Real Time Embedded Systems Design.- A Dataflow Language (AVON) as an Architecture Description Language (ADL).- Engineering Concurrent and Reactive Systems with Distributed Real-Time Abstract State Machines.- The Implications of Real-Time Behavior in Networks-on-Chip Architectures.- ME64 - A Parallel Hardware Architecture for Motion Estimation Implemented in FPGA.