Impact of timing constraints on real-time database recovery
CIKM '96 Proceedings of the workshop on Databases: active and real-time
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TR # 94-58 TR Title: Real-Time Computing: A Critical Enabling Technology Author(s): Jack Stankovic, IEEE Fellow -- Univ of Massachusetts, Kang Shin, IEEE Fellow -- Univ of Michigan, Herman Kopetz, IEEE Fellow -- Tech. Univ of Vienna, Krithi Ramamritham -- Univ of Massachusetts, Lui Sha -- SEI-CMU, Doug Locke -- IBM, Jane Liu -- Univ of Illinois, Al Mok -- Univ of Texas, Austin, Susan Davidson -- Univ of Pennsylvania, Insup Lee -- Univ of Pennsylvania, Jay Strosnider -- CMU Address: Prof. John A. Stankovic Dept. of Computer Science University of Massachusetts LGRC, Campus Box 34610 Amherst MA 01003-4610 Date: July 29, 1994 ABSRTACT Real-time computing is a generic enabling technology for many important application areas including: flexible manufacturing, multimedia, intelligent vehicle highway systems, telecommunications (the information super highway), robotics, process control, avionics, aircraft flight programs, air traffic control, real-time simulation, virtual reality, space applications, nuclear power plants, intensive care monitoring, and defense applications such as command, control and communications. In particular, almost all safety critical systems are real-time systems. It is {\bf astounding} that such a critical and central technology is not the {\bf focus} of any current research agenda of any major funding agency. The effect is that for each of these application areas real-time research is funded in a piecemeal and unfocused manner, thereby sometimes {\em re-inventing} the wheel, slowing down progress, introducing higher than necessary cost, and possibly producing inferior (or even dangerous) solutions. A strong research and transfer of technology program in real-time computing would serve to produce generic results that can be used in all these important applications, as well as in new ones that develop in the future. The benefit of such a research program is likely to be immense since the results are potentially usable by so many industries critical to the economy, public safety, and the nation''s defense. A focused research program should be funded and put into place as soon as possible to capitalize on the current research infrastructure and momentum formed in part by ONR''s recent, but expired research initiative on real-time computing.