A position on design, methods, and tools for object-oriented real-time computing

Real-time is a major characteristic of many systems, increasingly employed today in disparate sectors of our society. To specify and program systems, exhibiting real-time properties, a number of computing paradigms have been adopted, both explicitly defined to specify real-time behaviours and imported from other application areas with the addition of mechanisms to deal with real-time. The paper discusses object oriented real-time system design and tools.