Proceedings of the first IEEE Workshop on Real-Time Applications, held in New York City in May 1993. The workshop served as a forum for industrial, government, and academic researchers, practitioners, and engineers who have been addressing practical applications in many real-time application domains, including astronomy, physical, military, complex systems, energy, transportation, environmental, petro-chemical, pharmaceutical, process control, telecommunications, manufacturing, and multimedia. No index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.