A modular approach to real-time programming using actors and Java

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1485-1491

  Nigro, Libero ^a   Pupo, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Actors; Java; Modularity; Timing in the large; User defined scheduling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; QUEUEING NETWORKS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

USER-DEFINED SCHEDULING;

COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032318529     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0661(98)00135-X     Document Type: Article

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