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QRE
2008
74views more  QRE 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Computer systems availability evaluation using a segregated failures model
Sergiy A. Vilkomir, David Lorge Parnas, Veena B. M...
SIGOPSE
1996
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
World wide failures
The one issue that unites almost all approaches to distributed computing is the need to know whether certain components in the system have failed or are otherwise unavailable. Whe...
Werner Vogels
FM
2003
Springer
94views Formal Methods» more  FM 2003»
14 years 25 days ago
On Failures and Faults
: Real computer-based systems fail, and hence are often far less dependable than their owners and users need and desire. Individuals, organisations and indeed the world at large ar...
Brian Randell
WDAG
2010
Springer
196views Algorithms» more  WDAG 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Brief Announcement: Failure Detectors Encapsulate Fairness
Abstract. We argue that failure detectors encapsulate fairness. Fairness is a measure of the number of steps a process takes relative to another processes and/or messages in transi...
Scott M. Pike, Srikanth Sastry, Jennifer L. Welch
HASE
1999
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Lessons from 342 Medical Device Failures
Most complex systems today contain software, and systems failures activated by software faults can provide lessons for software development practices and software quality assuranc...
Dolores R. Wallace, D. Richard Kuhn