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Advances in semiconductor technology greatly extend the scope of special-purpose applications as multi-core processors find the way into embedded systems. The increasing number of processor cores makes it more important than ever to have real-time operating systems process parallel threads in the most efficient way. In doing so, they have to pursue multiple (often conflicting) goals: namely being...