CS 589 HW #2

Answer the following questions. Each answer should be about one paragraph long. Make sure your answers are in plain text and in a single ASCII file. Also, please include your name in the name of your homework file (e.g., "George Edwards - hw2.txt"). Mail your file to gedwards@usc.edu before the start of class (September 19, 2:00 PM).

1) What is the property that allows real-time systems to be pieced together from available components, according to Kopetz?

2) Describe a property of embedded software that is, according to Lee and Stankovic, the most important one for proper system interaction with the physical world.

3) What are the ways in which software engineering might need to change in order to fulfill the needs of real-time computing?