Foundations of Dependable Computing, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994 Models and Frameworks for Dependable Systems The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science Series, Vol. 283

Foundations of Dependable Computing: Models and Frameworks forDependable Systems presents two comprehensive frameworks for reasoning about system dependability, thereby establishing a context for understanding the roles played by specific approaches presented in this book's two companion volumes. It then explores the range of models and analysis methods necessary to design, validate and analyze dependable systems.
A companion to this book (published by Kluwer), subtitled Paradigmsfor Dependable Applications, presents a variety of specific approaches to achieving dependability at the application level. Driven by the higher level fault models of Models and Frameworks for DependableSystems, and built on the lower level abstractions implemented in a third companion book subtitled System Implementation, these approaches demonstrate how dependability may be tuned to the requirements of an application, the fault environment, and the characteristics of the target platform. Three classes of paradigms are considered: protocol-based paradigms for distributed applications, algorithm-based paradigms for parallel applications, and approaches to exploiting application semantics in embedded real-time control systems.
Another companion book (published by Kluwer) subtitled SystemImplementation, explores the system infrastructure needed to support the various paradigms of Paradigms for Dependable Applications. Approaches to implementing support mechanisms and to incorporating additional appropriate levels of fault detection and fault tolerance at the processor, network, and operating system level are presented. A primary concern at these levels is balancing cost and performance against coverage and overall dependability. As these chapters demonstrate, low overhead, practical solutions are attainable and not necessarily incompatible with performance considerations. The section on innovative compiler support, in particular, demonstrates how the benefits of application specificity may be obtained while reducing hardware cost and run-time overhead.

Frameworks for Dependable Systems.- A Consensus-Based Framework and Model for the Design of Responsive Computing Systems.- A Methodology for Adapting to Patterns of Faults.- Requirements Models.- Military Fault Tolerant Requirements.- Derivation and Use of Deadline Information in Real-Time Control Systems.- System Validation.- Software-Implemented Fault Injection of Transient Hardware Errors.- REACT: An Integrated Tool for the Design of Dependable Computing Systems.- System Evaluation.- Measurement-Based Dependability Evaluation of Operational Computer Systems.- Modeling and Evaluation of Opto-Electronic Computing Systems.