Publisher's Synopsis
The 1997 IFAC/IFIP Workshop on Real Time Programming represents the 22 meeting of the Workshop since 1971. It has been sponsored by the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) and the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) since 1974. This year it was held in Lyon, France, and was organised by the Laboratoire d'ingenierie de l'informatique industrielle (L3i) de l'Institut National des Sciences Appliquees de Lyon (INSA Lyon). These proceedings comprise the 19 full papers (selected out of 35 submissions) presented at the workshop, the synthesis of the two forums, and the extended abstracts of the invited speaker.;The Workshop provides an opportunity to assess the state of the art, to present new results, and to discuss possible lines of future developments. This year, a particular accent was given to Object-Oriented researches in the field of real time programming. It covered latest research and developments in architecture, object-oriented approach, timing analysis, scheduling and design plus a forum on Real Time Education.