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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Douglass, Bruce Powel.
   Real time UML : advances in the UML for real-time systems / Bruce Powell
 Douglass. 3rd ed.
    p.  cm. (The Addison-Wesley object technology series)
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  ISBN 0-321-16076-2 (alk. paper)
  1. Embedded computer systems Programming.  2. Real-time data processing.
 3. Object-oriented methods (Computer science)  I. Title.  II. Series.

 QA76.6D658 2004
 005.1'17 dc22                                                 2003022902

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Dedication

This book is dedicated to my family Scott and Blake, my two wonderful sons of whom I am extremely proud and Sarah, the most beautiful, sexy, wonderful, and geeky woman in the world. :-x