Thirty contributions, written by a group of international practitioners, developers, and researchers from universities, industry, and government address the principles, theory, and practice of real-time technology. Sessions presented at the symposium addressed real-time process scheduling, quality of service, resource management, works-in-progress, system implementation, and software design. Approaches to the material ranges from a mechanism for quality of service management and a system for voice over IP routing in application layer to the results of research into simulation-based debugging of soft real-time applications and case studies in predictable application scheduling. Lacks a subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)