This document summarizes Jose E. Rivera's PhD thesis on providing formal semantics for real-time domain specific modeling languages. The thesis defines a framework for specifying the timed behavior of domain specific modeling languages using rewriting logic. It extends in-place model transformations to include time-dependent behavior. Models are formally specified in Maude, enabling simulation and analysis of real-time properties. The work contributes tools and techniques for formally specifying, simulating, and analyzing real-time domain specific modeling languages.