1. Editorial

   • John A. Stankovic
   • Wolfgang A. Halang
   • Krithi Ramamritham

   EditorialNotes 20 January 2006 Pages: 5 - 7

2. The Non-preemptive Scheduling of Periodic Tasks upon Multiprocessors

   • Sanjoy K. Baruah

   OriginalPaper 20 February 2006 Pages: 9 - 20

3. Dynamic Real-time Scheduling of Firm Periodic Tasks with Hard and Soft Aperiodic Tasks

   • Audrey Marchand
   • Maryline Silly-Chetto

   OriginalPaper 20 February 2006 Pages: 21 - 47

4. An Analysis of Fixed-Priority Schedulability on a Multiprocessor

   • Theodore P. Baker

   OriginalPaper 28 January 2006 Pages: 49 - 71

5. A Method for Computing the Number of Iterations in Data Dependent Loops

   • Francesco Curatelli
   • Leonardo Mangeruca

   OriginalPaper 20 February 2006 Pages: 73 - 104

6. Modular Design of Real-Time Systems Using Hierarchical Communicating Real-time State Machines

   • Angelo Furfaro
   • Libero Nigro
   • Francesco Pupo

   OriginalPaper 20 February 2006 Pages: 105 - 123

7. Group-Based Pfair Scheduling

   • Philip Holman
   • James H. Anderson

   OriginalPaper 20 February 2006 Pages: 125 - 168