1 Advances In Real-Time Database Systems Research. - 1 Introduction. - 2 Scheduling Models for Real-Time Systems. - 3 Concurrency Control Techniques. - 4 Resource Management and Operating System Support. - 5 Models and Paradigms. - References. - Section I: Models and Paradigms. - 2 Requirements and Issues on Real-Time Database System. - 3 Similarity Semantics And Concurrency Control. - 4 Probabilistic Real-Time Data Access With Deadline And Interval Constraints. - Section II: Applications and Benchmarks. - 5 Real-Time Databases: Real-World Requirements. - 6 Real-Time Databases In Telecommunications. - 7 Unbundled RTDBMS Support for WWW-Applications. - 8 Multimedia Capabilities In Distributed Real-Time Applications. - 9 Real-Time Database Benchmark Design For Avionics Systems. - 10 Cost Model Development For A Main Memory Database System. - Section III: Scheduling And Concurrency Control. - 11 Scheduling Access To Temporal Data In Real-Time Databases. - 12 Admission Control and Overload Management for Real-Time Databases. - 13 Lock-Free Transactions For Real-Time Systems. - 14 A Worst-Case Behaviour Analysis for Hard Real-Time Transactions. - 15 Performance Modeling of Real-Time Database Schedulers. - Section IV: Experimental Systems. - 16 The Rtsorac Real-Time Object-Oriented Database Prototype. - 17 Developing A Real-Time DB: The Starbase Experience. - 18 Refining Timing Constraints of Applications In Deeds. - 19 A Real-Time Database Server in an Agile Manufacturing System. Language: English