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MONDAY 4th September 1995 (Full-day)
Engineering of Complex Real-Time Systems
Alexander Stoyenko and Philip Laplante (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Real-time systems form both possibly the oldest and the least understood area of computing. Currently, the R&Demphasis in the area is undergoing a rapid change, from traditional smaller systems to a new generation of complex ones. Owing to a score of integrated functional and non-functional requirements - of which predictable and dependable real-time behaviour in the presence of distribution is most significant - and the inherent complexity of the application, a new system essentially cannot be constructed with the methods used for either traditional real-time systems or modern non-real-time ones.
In this tutorial we study the concepts and construction methods which promise to be applicable to the new generation of systems. Through a systematic examination of major aspects of real-time system construction - from scheduling fundamentals to parallelism and distribution to languages to resource management to system structure to hardware to schedulability analysis - the tutorial strives to present a complete, platform-independent view of the world of modern (and future!) distributed real-time systems. Examples from industrial and government distributed real-time systems are used.
The tutorial is targeted at engineers, system builders, managers and others who need a better practical understanding of both what complex distributed real-time systems are and how to develop them.
Alexander D. Stoyenko is Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Director, Real-Time Computing Laboratory at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, USA. Phillip A. Laplante is the Dean of the Burlington County College/New Jersey Institute of Technology, Technology Education Center in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. Drs. Stoyenko and Laplante have had extensive experience in the subject area and are very active in the professional circles. They are currently leading a number of relevant projects in collaboration with industry and government. Variants of this recently updated tutorial have been delivered successfully to dozens of industrial, government and academic audiences.
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