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15.5 Incremental Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
15.5.1 Preliminaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
15.5.1.1 System Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
15.5.1.2 Application Mapping and Scheduling . . . . . . . 411
15.5.2 Problem Formulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
15.5.3 Characterizing Existing and Future Applications . . . . . . 416
15.5.3.1 Characterizing the Already Running Applications 416
15.5.3.2 Characterizing Future Applications . . . . . . . . 418
15.5.4 Quality Metrics and Objective Function . . . . . . . . . . . 419
15.5.4.1 Slack Sizes (the first criterion) . . . . . . . . . . 419
15.5.4.2 Distribution of Slacks (the second criterion) . . . 421
15.5.4.3 ...