Abstract

Increasing complexity of real-time systems and demands for enabling their con gurability and tailorability are strong motivations for applying new software engineering principles such as aspect-oriented and component-based software development. The integration of these two techniques into real-time systems development would enable: (i) e-cient system con guration from the components in the component library based on the system requirements, (ii) easy tailoring of components and/or a system for a speci c application bychanging the behavior (code) of the component by aspect weaving, and (iii) enhanced exibility of the real-time and embedded software through the notion of system con gurability and component tailorability. In this thesis we focus on applying aspect-oriented and componentbased software development to real-time system development. We propose a novel concept of aspectual component-based real-time system development(ACCORD). ACCORD introduces the following into real-tim