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

✍ Scribed by Bertrand Meyer (auth.), Jürg Kohlas, Bertrand Meyer, André Schiper (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 305
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4028
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 management of operations are therefore of utmost importance for the future of information and communication technology.

The present volume documents the results of a research program on Dependable Information and Communication Systems (DICS). The members of the project met in two workshops organized by the Hasler Foundation. This state-of-the-art survey contains 3 overview articles identifying major issues of dependability and presenting the latest solutions, as well as 10 carefully selected and revised papers depicting the research results originating from those workshops. The first workshop took place in Münchenwiler, Switzerland, in March 2004, and the second workshop, which marked the conclusion of the projects, in Löwenberg, Switzerland, in October 2005. The papers are organized in topical sections on surveys, dependable software, dependable computing, and dependable networks.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Dependable Software....Pages 1-33
Dependable Systems....Pages 34-54
Survey on Dependable IP over Fiber Networks....Pages 55-81
SCOOP – Concurrency Made Easy....Pages 82-102
Scalable Programming Abstractions for XML Services....Pages 103-126
Definition and Correct Refinement of Operation Specifications....Pages 127-144
Formal Test Generation from UML Models....Pages 145-171
Advances in the Design and Implementation of Group Communication Middleware....Pages 172-194
Fault-Tolerant Parallel Applications with Dynamic Parallel Schedules: A Programmer’s Perspective....Pages 195-210
Autonomic Computing for Virtual Laboratories....Pages 211-230
Algorithms for Failure Protection in Large IP-over-fiber and Wireless Ad Hoc Networks....Pages 231-259
Robustness of the Internet at the Topology and Routing Level....Pages 260-274
Dependable Peer-to-Peer Systems Withstanding Dynamic Adversarial Churn....Pages 275-294
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Software Engineering; Operating Systems; Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems; System Performance and Evaluation