CONCURRENCY IN DEPENDABLE COMPUTING by Paul Ezhilchelvan (Editor), Alexander Romanovsky (Editor) ( 9781402070433 )

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Title:

CONCURRENCY IN DEPENDABLE COMPUTING

By:

Paul Ezhilchelvan (Editor), Alexander Romanovsky (Editor)

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

1402070438

ISBN 13:

9781402070433

Publisher:

SPRINGER-VERLAG NEW YORK INC.

Pub. date:

31 May, 2002

Edition:

2002 ed.

Pages:

310

Description:

Failures of system components, can be viewed as undesirable events. Achieving dependability therefore is closely related to, and also benefits from, concurrency theory and formalisms. This beneficial relationship appears to manifest into three strands of work. This work explores significant issues in all three strands.

Synopsis:

Concurrency in Dependable Computing focuses on concurrency related issues in the area of dependable computing. Failures of system components, be hardware units or software modules, can be viewed as undesirable events occurring concurrently with a set of normal system events. Achieving dependability therefore is closely related to, and also benefits from, concurrency theory and formalisms. This beneficial relationship appears to manifest into three strands of work. Application level structuring of concurrent activities. Concepts such as atomic actions, conversations, exception handling, view synchrony, etc., are useful in structuring concurrent activities so as to facilitate attempts at coping with the effects of component failures. Replication induced concurrency management. Replication is a widely used technique for achieving reliability. Replica management essentially involves ensuring that replicas perceive concurrent events identically. Application of concurrency formalisms for dependability assurance. Fault-tolerant algorithms are harder to verify than their fault-free counterparts due to the fact that the impact of component faults at each state need to be considered in addition to valid state transitions. CSP, Petri nets, CCS are useful tools to specify and verify fault-tolerant designs and protocols. Concurrency in Dependable Computing explores many significant issues in all three strands. To this end, it is composed as a collection of papers written by authors well-known in their respective areas of research. To ensure quality, the papers are reviewed by a panel of at least three experts in the relevant area.

Illustrations:

XVIII, 310 p.

Publication:

Imprint:

Springer-Verlag New York Inc.

Returns:

Returnable

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