Contains the 29 papers presented at the November 2000 symposium on real-time computing, communication, and control systems. The main areas of discussion are real-time system design and analysis, distributed real-time processing, processor scheduling, timing analysis and verification, resource allocation, and networking and real-time communications. Topics include scalable real-time system design using preemption thresholds, adding PEP to real-time distributed commit processing, real-time digital signal processing of component-oriented phased array radars, formal analysis of the priority ceiling protocol, and an incremental approach to scheduling during overloads. No subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)