Preface: Critical and real-time cyber-physical systems

Biographical notes: Alisson Brito holds a Doctorate in 2008 in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), Brazil, in the field of microelectronics with cooperation with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. He is a reviewer for national and international journals and conferences. He has experience in computer science, with emphasis on design and development of embedded systems, mainly in the following themes: design and simulation of embedded systems, and applications using unmanned aerial vehicles. He is currently a Professor at the Universidade Federal da Paraiba (UFPB), is a coordinator of the Laboratory of Embedded Systems and Robotics (LaSER) and works on the Graduate Program in Computer Science (PPGI) of UFPB, where he teaches courses mainly in the areas of computer architecture and embedded systems for students of computer science and computer engineering.