Using real time constraints for modularisation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1204, Issue , 1997, Pages 236-251

  Kirk, Brian ^a   Nigro, Libero ^b   Pupo, Francesco ^b  

^a Robinson Associates   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Distributed real time systems; Modularisation; Object orientation; Timing constraints in the large

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; REUSABILITY; SCHEDULING;

BASIC BUILDING BLOCK; DISTRIBUTED REAL TIME SYSTEM; MODULARISATION; OBJECT ORIENTATION; OBJECT ORIENTED APPROACH; OBJECT REUSABILITY; REAL TIME CONSTRAINTS; TIMING CONSTRAINTS;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 21744447288     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-62599-2_43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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