Pinho, Luís MiguelVasques, Francisco2014-02-032014-02-032000978-1-4757-4535-1978-0-387-35409-51868-4238http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/3636In Distributed Computer-Controlled Systems (DCCS), both real-time and reliability requirements are of major concern. Architectures for DCCS must be designed considering the integration of processing nodes and the underlying communication infrastructure. Such integration must be provided by appropriate software support services. In this paper, an architecture for DCCS is presented, its structure is outlined, and the services provided by the support software are presented. These are considered in order to guarantee the real-time and reliability requirements placed by current and future systems.engbook part10.1007/978-0-387-35409-5_5