Complexity issues in automated synthesis of failsafe fault-tolerance

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 201-215

  Kulkarni, Sandeep S ^a   Ebnenasir, Ali ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic addition of fault tolerance; Distributed programs; Fault tolerance; Formal methods; Program synthesis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; POLYNOMIALS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SPECIFICATIONS;

AUTOMATIC ADDITION OF FAULT-TOLERANCE; DISTRIBUTED PROGRAMS; FORMAL METHODS; PROGRAM SYNTHESIS;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 27644596280     PISSN: 15455971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TDSC.2005.29     Document Type: Article

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