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Professor Alan Burns is an Emeritus Professor (i.e. retired) in the Department of Computer Science, University of York, U.K. His research interests cover a number of aspects of real-time systems including the assessment of languages for use in the real-time domain, distributed operating systems, the formal specification of scheduling algorithms and implementation strategies. Professor Burns has authored/co-authored 620 papers/reports and books. Most of these are in the real-time area. In 2009 Professor Burns was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. In 2012 he was elected a Fellow of the IEEE.

Here is a position paper on Predictability as an Emergent Behaviour  -- 4th Workshop on Compositional Theory and Technology for Real-Time Embedded Systems, pp27-29 (2011).


Here is a review paper on Mixed Criticality Systems (14th edition) -- this has been produced as part of the EPSRC funded projects MCC and MCCps.


A. Burns, DPhil, CEng, FBCS, CITP, FIET, FREng, FIEEE
Department of Computer Science,
Deramore Lane,
University of York,
YORK,
YO1 5GH,
UK.