From Java to real-time Java: A model-driven methodology with automated toolchain

TY - GEN

T1 - From Java to real-time Java

T2 - 20th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED International Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems

AU - Chang, Wanli

AU - Zhao, Shuai

AU - Wei, Ran

AU - Wellings, Andrew John

AU - Burns, Alan

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PY - 2019/6/23

Y1 - 2019/6/23

N2 - Real-time systems are receiving increasing attention with the emerging application scenarios that are safety-critical, complex in functionality, high on timing-related performance requirements, and cost-sensitive, such as autonomous vehicles. Development of real-time systems is error-prone and highly dependent on the sophisticated domain expertise, making it a costly process. There is a trend of the existing software without the real-time notion being re-developed to realise real-time features, e.g., in the big data technology. This paper utilises the principles of model-driven engineering (MDE) and proposes the first methodology that automatically converts standard time-sharing Java applications to real-time Java applications. It opens up a new research direction on development automation of real-time programming languages and inspires many research questions that can be jointly investigated by the embedded systems, programming languages as well as MDE communities.

AB - Real-time systems are receiving increasing attention with the emerging application scenarios that are safety-critical, complex in functionality, high on timing-related performance requirements, and cost-sensitive, such as autonomous vehicles. Development of real-time systems is error-prone and highly dependent on the sophisticated domain expertise, making it a costly process. There is a trend of the existing software without the real-time notion being re-developed to realise real-time features, e.g., in the big data technology. This paper utilises the principles of model-driven engineering (MDE) and proposes the first methodology that automatically converts standard time-sharing Java applications to real-time Java applications. It opens up a new research direction on development automation of real-time programming languages and inspires many research questions that can be jointly investigated by the embedded systems, programming languages as well as MDE communities.

UR - https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3326360

U2 - 10.1145/3316482.3326360

DO - 10.1145/3316482.3326360

M3 - Conference contribution

SN - 978-1-4503-6724-0

SP - 123

EP - 134

BT - LCTES 2019:

PB - ACM

CY - Phoenix AZ USA

Y2 - 22 June 2019

ER -