This book is a translation ofthe accomplishment ofthe French engineer Ammar Attoui, who has set out to bring together the works of computer scientists and automotive engineers. Computer scientists have worked on the same type of systems as automotive engineers, but have used different designs, methods and tools. The former call the resultant systems "real-time systems," and the latter call them "discontinuous event systems." Today, telecommunications systems of increasing performance, and increasingly powerful multi-task operating and real time systems offer the possibilities of the...