During maintenance, systems are updated to correct faults, improve functionality, and adapt the software to changes in its execution environment. The typical softwareupdate proces...
Abstract—A dependable software system contains two important components, namely, error detection mechanisms and error recovery mechanisms. An error detection mechanism attempts t...
When designing a software module or system, a systems engineer must consider and differentiate between how the system responds to external and internal errors. External errors can...
This paper evaluates the tradeoffs involved in the design of the software-extended memory system of Alewife, a multiprocessor architecturethat implements coherentsharedmemorythrou...