Dependable Computing EDCC-4 4th European Dependable Computing Conference Toulouse, France, October 23-25, 2002, Proceedings /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Grandoni, Fabrizio (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2002.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2002.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2485
• Subjects: Computers.; Computer science.; Computer hardware.; Special purpose computers.; Computer system failures.; Software engineering.; Theory of Computation.; Computer Science, general.; Computer Hardware.; Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems.; System Performance and Evaluation.; Software Engineering.

It was with great pleasure that, on behalf of the entire organizing committee, I welcomed participants to EDCC-4, the Fourth European Dependable Computing Conference, held for the ?rst time in France. The fourth issue of EDCC carried on the traditions established bythe previous conferences in this s...

Table of Contents:

• Keynote Talk
• Use and Misuse of Safety Models in Design
• Modeling and Evaluation
• On the Effects of Outages on the QoS of GPRS Networks under Different User Characterizations
• Combination of Fault Tree Analysis and Model Checking for Safety Assessment of Complex System
• BPM Based Robust E-business Application Development
• Agreement Protocols
• Solving Agreement Problems with Weak Ordering Oracles
• An Efficient Solution to the k-Set Agreement Problem
• Fast Abstracts I
• Novel Approaches in Dependable Computing
• An Immune System Paradigm for the Design of Fault Tolerant Systems
• Security and Survivability of Large Scale Critical Infrastructures
• An Architectural Approach to Fault Treatment in Critical Infrastructures
• Biologically Inspired Fault-Tolerant Computer Systems
• Error Detection and Fault Tolerance
• Test Set Embedding Based on Phase Shifters
• Reset-Driven Fault Tolerance
• Towards Dependability Modeling of FT-CORBA Architectures
• Experimental Validation
• Experimental Evaluation of the Unavailability Induced by a Group Membership Protocol
• UMLinux - A Versatile SWIFI Tool
• A Methodology for Dependability Evaluation of the Time-Triggered Architecture Using Software Implemented Fault Injection
• Distributed Algorithms
• Fast Indulgent Consensus with Zero Degradation
• Probabilistic Queries in Large-Scale Networks
• Distributed Algorithms
• Towards Information Society Dependability Initiative in FP6: Roadmapping Activities in Dependability
• Real-Time
• The Design of a COTS Real-Time Distributed Security Kernel
• Wrapping Real-time Systems from Temporal Logic Specifications
• Model-Based Dependability Evaluation Method for TTP/C Based Systems.