A modular approach to programming distributed real-time systems

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 4-12

  Ren, Shangping ^a   Agha, Gul A ^a   Saito, Masahiko ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

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EID: 0030578258     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jpdc.1996.0086     Document Type: Article

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