This book focuses on the design of complex applications, where the choice of the optimal design alternative in terms of application/architecture pair is too complex to be pursued through a full search comparison, especially because of the multi-objective nature of the designer's goal, the simulation time required and the number of parameters of the multi-core architecture to be optimized concurrently. 

The methodologies presented have been applied to several application domains to demonstrate their applicability and benefits. First, a high-level modeling and exploration approach has been applied for a powerline communication network based on a SoC, then the application of the automatic DSE flow to parallel on-chip architectures is discussed, and finally the DSE for run-time management has been applied to a reconfigurable system for video streaming.

• Describes the MULTICUBE Design Space Exploration methodology, which provides a multi-level system specification and modeling framework to provide static and dynamic evaluation of the system-level metrics;
• Provides a common tool interface composed of several layers that are connected through standardized interfaces;
• Offers a short path to real design space exploration, through use of industrial design flows for examples and tools;
• Includes optimizations in areas such as multi-processor architectures, multimedia, power consumption,design time, system-level simulation and profiling, run-time management of resources, etc.