Guest editor's introduction: ACM OOPS Messenger special issue on object-oriented real-time systems

ABSTRACT

Object-orientation is an effective means to improve the software engineering process. It provides a natural approach to system modeling, and yields benefits in all lifecycle phases. While much progress has been made in general-purpose object-oriented methods, considerably less progress has been made in the domain of object-oriented real-time computing. In addition to the typical requirements of functional correctness, efficiency, and information hiding, object-oriented real-time systems must also conform to stringent timing requirements. An additional complicating factor is that real-time control systems are frequently distributed in nature. For researchers and engineers, this has ramifications for requirements, object specification, object composition, implementation, verification, testing, languages and run-time systems.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  A. General Literature

Additional Classification:
  C. Computer Systems Organization
  C.3 SPECIAL-PURPOSE AND APPLICATION-BASED SYSTEMS
      Subjects: Real-time and embedded systems

  D. Software
  D.1 PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

General Terms:
Design, Documentation, Theory