Concurrent and Real-Time Programming in Ada
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- Hardcover
476 pages
- Release Date
5 July 2007
Summary
Ada is the only ISO-standard, object-oriented, concurrent, real-time programming language. It is intended for use in large, long-lived applications where reliability and efficiency are essential, particularly real-time and embedded systems. In this book, Alan Burns and Andy Wellings give a thorough, self-contained account of how the Ada tasking model can be used to construct a wide range of concurrent and real-time systems. This is the only book that focuses on an in-depth discussion of the A…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780521866972 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0521866979 |
| Author: | Alan Burns, Andy Wellings |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 476 |
| Edition: | 3rd |
| Release Date: | 5 July 2007 |
| Weight: | 950g |
| Dimensions: | 244mm x 170mm x 27mm |
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About The Author
Alan Burns
Alan Burns is a Professor in Computer Science and the Head of the Computer Science Department at the University of York. His research activities have covered a number of aspects of real-time and safety critical systems including the assessment of languages for use in the real-time safety critical domain, distributed operating systems, the formal specification of scheduling algorithms and implementation strategies, and the design of dependable user interfaces to safety critical applications. His teaching activities include courses in Operating Systems, Scheduling and Real-time Systems. He has authored over 350 papers and reports and 8 books, including Real-time Systems and Programming Languages (3rd Edition) and Concurrency in Ada (2nd Edition). Andy Wellings is a Professor of Real-Time Systems in the Computer Science Department at University of York. He is interested in most aspects of the design and implementation of real-time dependable computer systems and, in particular, real-time programming languages and operating systems. He is European Editor-in-Chief for the Computer Science journal Software-Practice and Experience and a member of the International Expert Groups currently developing extensions to the Java platform for real-time, safety critical and distributed programming. He has authored over 200 papers and several books, including Real-time Systems and Programming Languages (3rd edition) and Concurrency in Ada (2nd Edition).
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