Real Time Computing: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Real Time Computing, Held in Sint Maarten, Dutch Antilles, October 5-17, 1992: 127 (NATO ASI Subseries F) - Hardcover

9783540575580: Real Time Computing: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Real Time Computing, Held in Sint Maarten, Dutch Antilles, October 5-17, 1992: 127 (NATO ASI Subseries F)

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ISBN 10: 3540575588 ISBN 13: 9783540575580

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, 1994

NATO's Division of Scientific and Environmental Affairs sponsored this Advan- ced Study Institute because it was felt to be timely to cover this important and challengjng subject for the first time in the framework of NATO's ASI programme. The significance of real-time systems in everyones' life is rapidly growing. The vast spectrum of these systems can be characterised by just a few examples of increasing complexity: controllers in washing machines, air traffic control systems, control and safety systems of nuclear power plants and, finally, future military systems like the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). The import- ance of such systems for the well-being of people requires considerable efforts in research and development of highly reliable real-time systems. Furthermore, the competitiveness and prosperity of entire nations now depend on the early app- lication and efficient utilisation of computer integrated manufacturing systems (CIM), of which real-time systems are an essential and decisive part. Owing to its key significance in computerised defence systems, real-time computing has also a special importance for the Alliance. The early research and development activities in this field in the 1960s and 1970s aimed towards improving the then unsatisfactory software situation. Thus, the first high-level real-time languages were defined and developed: RTL/2, Coral 66, Procol, LTR, and PEARL. In close connection with these language develop- ments and with the utilisation of special purpose process control peripherals, the research on real-time operating systems advanced considerably.

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The significance of real time systems, from washing machine controllers to "Star Wars" systems, is rapidly increasing. Real time computing has an interdisciplinary character and is concerned with all aspects of computers that operate within, observe, or control applications with critical timing constraints, whose violation would lead to loss of life or property or to environmental damage. This volume is based on a NATO Advanced Study Institute that covered the entire span of present interest in the field and attracted leading European and American researchers. It is a unique and comprehensive reference book on real time computing.

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