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Dependable Computing for Critical Applications

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  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. Algirdas Avižienis

    1. UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

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  2. Jean-Claude Laprie

    1. LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France

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Part of the book series: Dependable Computing and Fault-Tolerant Systems (DEPENDABLECOMP, volume 4)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages N2-xiii
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  2. Validation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Dependable Computing in the UK

      • Mel Barnes
      Pages 3-21

    3. Software Validation by Means of Statistical Testing: Retrospect and Future Direction

      • Pascale Thévenod-Fosse
      Pages 23-50

  3. Design Diversity Assessment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51
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    2. Error Masking: A Source of Failure Dependency in Multi-Version Programs

      • P. G. Bishop, F. D. Pullen
      Pages 53-73

    3. Recovery Block Reliability Analysis with Failure Clustering

      • Attila Csenki
      Pages 75-103

  4. Application-Oriented Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
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    2. Safety and Fault-Tolerance in Computer-Controlled Railway Signalling Systems

      • Katsuji Akita, Hideo Nakamura
      Pages 107-131

    3. Dependability of Digital Computers on Board Airplanes

      • Pascal Traverse
      Pages 133-152

    4. Longlife Dependable Computers for Spacecrafts

      • Tadashi Takano, Takahiro Yamada, Hatsuhiko Kato, Toshiyuki Tanaka, Hirokazu Ihara, Nobuyasu Kanekawa et al.
      Pages 153-173

  5. Experimental Evaluation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175
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    2. A Fault Behavior Model for an Avionic Microprocessor: A Case Study

      • Gwan S. Choi, Ravi K. Iyer, Resve Saleh, Victor Carreno
      Pages 177-195

    3. Use of Heavy-Ion Radiation from 252Californium for Fault Injection Experiments

      • Johan Karlsson, Ulf Gunneflo, Jan Torin
      Pages 197-212

  6. Modeling and Evaluation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213
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    2. A Unified Approach for Specifying Measures of Performance, Dependability and Performability

      • W. H. Sanders, J. F. Meyer
      Pages 215-237

    3. Successive Operational Periods as Measures of Dependability

      • Gerardo Rubino, Bruno Sericola
      Pages 239-254

  7. Architecture

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 255-255
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    2. A Data-Driven Dependability Assurance Scheme with Applications to Data and Design Diversity

      • Behrooz Parhami
      Pages 257-282

    3. Implementing Distributed Capabilities without a Trusted Kernel

      • Maurice P. Herlihy, J. D. Tygar
      Pages 283-300
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The International Working Conference on Dependable Computing for Critical Applications was the first conference organized by IFIP Working Group 10. 4 "Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance", in cooperation with the Technical Committee on Fault-Tolerant Computing of the IEEE Computer Society, and the Technical Committee 7 on Systems Reliability, Safety and Security of EWlCS. The rationale for the Working Conference is best expressed by the aims of WG 10. 4: " Increasingly, individuals and organizations are developing or procuring sophisticated computing systems on whose services they need to place great reliance. In differing circumstances, the focus will be on differing properties of such services - e. g. continuity, performance, real-time response, ability to avoid catastrophic failures, prevention of deliberate privacy intrusions. The notion of dependability, defined as that property of a computing system which allows reliance to be justifiably placed on the service it delivers, enables these various concerns to be subsumed within a single conceptual framework. Dependability thus includes as special cases such attributes as reliability, availability, safety, security. The Working Group is aimed at identifying and integrating approaches, methods and techniques for specifying, designing, building, assessing, validating, operating and maintaining computer systems which should exhibit some or all of these attributes. " The concept of WG 10. 4 was formulated during the IFIP Working Conference on Reliable Computing and Fault Tolerance on September 27-29, 1979 in London, England, held in conjunction with the Europ-IFIP 79 Conference. Profs A. Avi~ienis (UCLA, Los Angeles, USA) and A.

Editors and Affiliations

  • UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

    Algirdas Avižienis

  • LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France

    Jean-Claude Laprie

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