Giorgio Buttazzo is Full Professor of Computer Engineering at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa. He graduated in Electronic Engineering at the University of Pisa in 1985, received a Master in Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania in 1987, and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa in 1991. From 1987 to 1988, he worked on active perception and real-time control at the G.R.A.S.P. Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. From 1991 to 1998, he held a position of Assistant Professor at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa, where he founded and directed the RETIS Laboratory, one of the world leading research groups on real-time systems. From 1998 to 2005 he was Associate Professor at the University of Pavia, directing the Robotics Laboratory at the Computer Science department. In 2003 he co-founded Evidence s.r.l., a spin-off company of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, providing software solutions for real-time embeddedsystems. He has been Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems (2010-2012) and Program Chair and General Chair of the major international conferences on real-time computing. He is IEEE Fellow since 2012 "for contributions to dynamic scheduling algorithms in real-time systems". In 2013 he received the Outstanding Technical Contributions and Leadership Award from the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Real-Time Systems (Springer), the major journal on real-time computing, and Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics and the ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems. He has authored six book editions on real-time systems and over 300 papers in the field of real-time systems, robotics, and neural networks, receiving 13 Best Paper Awards.

A General View.- Basic Concepts.- A Periodic Task Scheduling.- Periodic Task Scheduling.- Fixed-Priority Servers.- Dynamic Priority Servers.- Resource Access Protocols.- Limited Preemptive Scheduling.- Handling Overload Conditions.- Kernel Design Issues.- Application Design Issues.- Implementing Periodic Tasks in LINUX.- Real-Time Operating Systems and Standards.- Solutions to the Exercises.- References.- Index.