A new frontier for real-time systems - Lessons from molecular biology

Abstract

In this paper, we are presenting a bionic approach towards real-time systems research. Observing that a cell is a real-time computing, but also a producing, system, the work presented here explores the analogy between the real-time computer systems (and their management) and the molecular biology control systems. This paper is a further elaboration of the idea that the DNA is indeed a real-time system. It also gives insight into how knowledge obtained from the biological systems could lead to further evolution and improvement of the human-made complex real-time systems.