... combina-tion of (1) design- time model-driven tools that can both design applications and customize and configure RACE it-self, (2) QoS-enabled component middleware run-time plat-forms, and (3) research ... conventional component-based mid-dleware have been addressed by the following run-time plat-forms and design- time tools.(i) Run-time: QoS provisioning frameworks, such asQuO [28]andQoskets[8, 29, ... low-level platform-specific parameters from appli-cation end-to-end structure and QoS requirements.RACE’s Configurators provides higher-level abstractions and shield system developers and SA-POP...