Real-Time Environment Modeling Using Object Oriented Techniques

Much has been made of recent advances in software development as regards software reusability as a means of making systems easier to develop and maintain and making (as the name implies) it possible to reuse significant portions in other related systems development, further decreasing development and maintenance efforts. Real-time systems pose both unusual problems and unique opportunities in this area. This paper will explore specific modeling approaches for tying together the real world we are controlling, the devices we are using to monitor and control that environment, the internal representation of the environment and temporal relationships between discrete events within the environment and related control functions