Proceedings Of The Third Workshop On Parallel And Distributed Real Time Systems

Aimed at researchers, professors, practitioners, students and other computing professionals, this work looks at: new paradigms for parallel and distributed real-time systems; operating systems and environments; scheduling; and real-time databases.

The 48 refereed, original, unpublished papers describe research pertaining to real-time experimental and commercial systems that are parallel and/or distributed, their scientific and commercial applications, and theoretical foundations. The keynote speech is on Ada 95 for real-time, distribution, an

Annotation Proceedings of the February 1997 workshop, WORDS'97, include one panel discussion--selecting quality of service in a heterogeneous environment: bandwidth, security, fault tolerance and real-time behavior. The rest of the 45 papers are organized in sessions on models/language, operating systems/architecture, system engineering, system validation and verification, applications, dependability and fault tolerance, and communication. Two early bird sessions covered a variety of topics, including object-based checkpoints in distributed systems and time-bounded cooperative recovery with the distributed real-time application. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

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