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Methods, Models and Tools for Fault Tolerance

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  • © 2009

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 5454)

Part of the book sub series: Programming and Software Engineering (LNPSE)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Formal Reasoning about Fault Tolerant Systems and Protocols

  2. Fault Tolerance: Modelling in B

  3. Fault Tolerance in System Development Process

  4. Fault Tolerant Applications

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The growing complexity of modern software systems increases the di?culty of ensuring the overall dependability of software-intensive systems. Complexity of environments, in which systems operate, high dependability requirements that systems have to meet, as well as the complexity of infrastructures on which they rely make system design a true engineering challenge. Mastering system complexity requires design techniques that support clear thinking and rigorous validation and veri?cation. Formal design methods help to achieve this. Coping with complexity also requires architectures that are t- erant of faults and of unpredictable changes in environment. This issue can be addressed by fault-tolerant design techniques. Therefore, there is a clear need of methods enabling rigorous modelling and development of complex fault-tolerant systems. This bookaddressessuchacuteissues indevelopingfault-tolerantsystemsas: – Veri?cation and re?nement of fault-tolerant systems – Integrated approaches to developing fault-tolerant systems – Formal foundations for error detection, error recovery, exception and fault handling – Abstractions, styles and patterns for rigorousdevelopment of fault tolerance – Fault-tolerant software architectures – Development and application of tools supporting rigorous design of depe- able systems – Integrated platforms for developing dependable systems – Rigorous approaches to speci?cation and design of fault tolerance in novel computing systems TheeditorsofthisbookwereinvolvedintheEU(FP-6)projectRODIN(R- orous Open Development Environment for Complex Systems), which brought together researchers from the fault tolerance and formal methods communi- 1 ties. In 2007 RODIN organized the MeMoT workshop held in conjunction with theIntegrated Formal Methods 2007 Conference at Oxford University.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Highfield Southampton, United Kingdom

    Michael Butler

  • School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    Cliff Jones, Alexander Romanovsky

  • Department of Computer Science, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

    Elena Troubitsyna

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