Pedro Mejıa-Alvarez received the BS degree in computer systems engineering from ITESM, Queretaro, Mexico, in 1985 and the PhD degree in informatics from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain, in 1995. He has been a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at CINVESTAV-IPN Mexico since 1997. In 1999, he held a research faculty position in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh and, in 2000, a visiting assistant professor position in the Department of Information Sciences and Telecommunications at the University of Pittsburgh. His main research interests are real-time systems scheduling, low-power computing, adaptive fault tolerance, and software engineering. He is member of the IEEE Computer Society.Luis Eduardo Leyva receive the BS degree in Automatic Control Engineering from Instituto Superior Politécnico Julio Antonio Mella , Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba (1989). The Msc. in Computer Science, from Centro de Investigacionen Computacion, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico,(2000), and PhD in Electrical Engineering from CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico (2007). He has been a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Unidad Cuajimalpa, since 2008. His research interests are Real-Time and Embedded Systems, Distributed Systems and Software Engineering.Arnoldo Díaz-Ramirez is a research professor in the department of Computer Systems at Tecnologico Nacional de Mexico/Instituto Tecnologico de Mexicali. He received the BS degree in computer sciences from Cetys University, Mexicali, Mexico, and the Masters degree in computer sciences from the same university. He received the PhD degree in computer sciences from Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain, in 2006. His research interests include real-time systems, Internet of Things, wireless sensor networks, and ubiquiotous computing. He is member of the IEEE Computer Society.
