TY  - BOOK
AU  - Buttazzo,Giorgio
AU  - Lipari,Giuseppe
AU  - Abeni,Luca
AU  - Caccamo,Marco
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Soft Real-Time Systems: Predictability vs. Efficiency 
T2  - Series in Computer Science,
SN  - 9780387281476
AV  - QA76.76.O63 
U1  - 005.43 23
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Boston, MA
PB  - Springer US
KW  - Computer science
KW  - Software engineering
KW  - Operating systems (Computers)
KW  - Multimedia systems
KW  - Computer Science
KW  - Operating Systems
KW  - Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems
KW  - Multimedia Information Systems
N1  - Overload Management -- Temporal Protection -- Multi-Thread Applications -- Synchronization Protocols for Hard and Soft Real-Time Systems -- Resource Reclaiming -- Quality of Service Management -- Feedback Scheduling -- Stochastic Scheduling
N2  - Hard real-time systems are very predictable, but not sufficiently flexible to adapt to dynamic situations. They are built under pessimistic assumptions to cope with worst-case scenarios, so they often waste resources. Soft real-time systems are built to reduce resource consumption, tolerate overloads and adapt to system changes. They are also more suited to novel applications of real-time technology, such as multimedia systems, monitoring apparatuses, telecommunication networks, mobile robotics, virtual reality, and interactive computer games. This unique monograph provides concrete methods for building flexible, predictable soft real-time systems, in order to optimize resources and reduce costs. It is an invaluable reference for developers, as well as researchers and students in Computer Science
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-387-28147-9
ER  -