Dependable Systems: Software, Computing, Networks Research Results of the DICS Program /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kohlas, Jürg (Editor), Meyer, Bertrand (Editor), Schiper, André (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4028
• Subjects: Computer science.; Special purpose computers.; Computer system failures.; Software engineering.; Operating systems (Computers).; Computer Science.; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.; Software Engineering.; Operating Systems.; Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems.; System Performance and Evaluation.

Modern civilization relies on a functioning information infrastructure. As a result, dependability has become a central issue in all disciplines of systems engineering and software architecture.Theories, methods and tools that help to master the problems encountered in the design process and the man...

Table of Contents:

• Surveys
• Dependable Software
• Dependable Systems
• Survey on Dependable IP over Fiber Networks
• Dependable Software
• SCOOP – Concurrency Made Easy
• Scalable Programming Abstractions for XML Services
• Definition and Correct Refinement of Operation Specifications
• Formal Test Generation from UML Models
• Dependable Computing
• Advances in the Design and Implementation of Group Communication Middleware
• Fault-Tolerant Parallel Applications with Dynamic Parallel Schedules: A Programmer’s Perspective
• Autonomic Computing for Virtual Laboratories
• Dependable Networks
• Algorithms for Failure Protection in Large IP-over-fiber and Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
• Robustness of the Internet at the Topology and Routing Level
• Dependable Peer-to-Peer Systems Withstanding Dynamic Adversarial Churn.