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- Editors:
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Luciano Lavagno
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Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
Cadence Berkeley Labs, Berkeley, USA
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Grant Martin
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Cadence Berkeley Labs, Berkeley, USA
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Bran Selic
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Rational Software, Canada
Carleton University, Canada
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xiii
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- Sébastien Gérard, Francois Terrier
Pages 17-51
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- Øystein Haugen, Birger Møller-Pedersen, Thomas Weigert
Pages 53-76
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- David Harel, P. S. Thiagarajan
Pages 77-105
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- Rong Chen, Marco Sgroi, Luciano Lavagno, Grant Martin, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Jan Rabaey
Pages 107-126
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- Martyn Edwards, Peter Green
Pages 127-147
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- D. C. Petriu, C. M. Woodside
Pages 221-240
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- Marco Di Natale, Manas Saksena
Pages 241-269
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- M. von der Beeck, P. Braun, M. Rappl, C. Schröder
Pages 271-299
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- Thomas Weigert, Rick Reed
Pages 301-322
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- Sergey Baranov, Clive Jervis, Vsevolod Kotlyarov, Alexander Letichevsky, Thomas Weigert
Pages 323-342
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- Connie U. Smith, Lloyd G. Williams
Pages 343-365
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Back Matter
Pages 367-370
About this book
The complexity of most real-time and embedded systems often exceeds that of other types of systems since, in addition to the usual spectrum of problems inherent in software, they need to deal with the complexities of the physical world. That world—as the proverbial Mr. Murphy tells us—is an unpredictable and often unfriendly place. Consequently, there is a very strong motivation to investigate and apply advanced design methods and technologies that could simplify and improve the reliability of real-time software design and implementation. As a result, from the first versions of UML issued in the mid 1990’s, designers of embedded and real-time systems have taken to UML with vigour and enthusiasm. However, the dream of a complete, model-driven design flow from specification through automated, optimised code generation, has been difficult to realise without some key improvements in UML semantics and syntax, specifically targeted to the real-time systems problem. With the enhancements in UML that have been proposed and are near standardisation with UML 2. 0, many of these improvements have been made. In the Spring of 2003, adoption of a formalised UML 2. 0 specification by the members of the Object Management Group (OMG) seems very close. It is therefore very appropriate to review the status of UML as a set of notations for embedded real-time systems - both the state of the art and best practices achieved up to this time with UML of previous generations - and where the changes embodied in the 2.
