Dependable Computing - EDCC-2

Second European Dependable Computing Conference, Taormina, Italy, October 2 - 4, 1996. Proceedings
1996
ISBN: 978-3-540-61772-3
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Buch, Englisch, Band 1150, 444 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1430 g

Reihe: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second European Dependable Computing Conference, EDCC-2, held in Taormina, Italy, in October 1996.
The book presents 26 revised full papers selected from a total of 66 submissions based on the reviews of 146 referees. The papers are organized in sections on distributed fault tolerance, fault injection, modelling and evaluation, fault-tolerant design, basic hardware models, testing, verification, replication and distribution, and system level diagnosis.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hlawiczka, Andrzej

Simoncini, Luca

Silva, Joao G.S.

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Systemverwaltung & Management
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Betriebssysteme Windows Betriebssysteme
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Wartung & Reparatur
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Software Engineering Objektorientierte Softwareentwicklung
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Hardware: Grundlagen und Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Friends: A flexible architecture for implementing fault tolerant and secure distributed applications.- Adaptable fault tolerance for distributed process control using exclusively standard components.- On stratified sampling for high coverage estimations.- Fault injection evaluation of assigned signatures in a RISC processor.- An evaluation of the error detection mechanisms in MARS using software-implemented fault injection.- Dependability modeling and analysis of complex control systems: An application to railway interlocking.- The effect of interfailure time variability on the software reliability growth modelling.- Dependability evaluation of a computing system for traction control of electrical locomotives.- Dependability models of RAID using stochastic activity networks.- Compiler assisted self-checking of structural integrity using return address hashing.- Single source fault-tolerant broadcasting for two-dimensional meshes without virtual channels.- On-line testing of an off-the-shelf microprocessor board for safety-critical applications.- The logic threshold based voting: A model for local feedback bridging fault.- On the yield of VLSI processors with on-chip CPU cache.- Design of dependable hardware: What BIST is most efficient?.- Pseudorandom testing of microprocessors at instruction/data flow level.- Multi-level test generation and fault diagnosis for finite state machines.- Dynamic testing from bounded data type specifications.- A theory of specification-based testing for object-oriented software.- Proving safety properties for embedded control systems.- Enhancing dependability of cooperative applications in partitionable environments.- Efficient message logging for uncoordinated checkpointing protocols.- Atomic updates of replicated data.- Removal of all faulty nodes from a fault-tolerant service by means of distributed diagnosis with imperfect fault coverage.- Constraint based system-level diagnosis of multiprocessors.- A unified theory for f1/f2-diagnosable communication networks.