The idea of creating the European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC) was born at the moment when the Iron Curtain fell. A group of enthusiasts, who were pre viously involved in research and teaching in the ?eld of fault tolerant computing in different European countries, agreed that there is no longer any point in keeping pre viously independent activities apart and created a steering committee which took the responsibility for preparing the EDCC calendar and appointing the chairs for the in dividual conferences. There is no single European or global professional organization that took over the responsibility for this conference, but there are three national in terest groups that sent delegates to the steering committee and support its activities, especially by promoting the conference materials. As can be seen from these materi als, they are the SEE Working Group “Dependable Computing” (which is a successor organizationof AFCET)in France,theGI/ITG/GMATechnicalCommitteeonDepend ability and Fault Tolerance in Germany, and the AICA Working Group “Dependability of Computer Systems” in Italy. In addition, committees of several global professional organizations, such as IEEE and IFIP, support this conference. Prague has been selected as a conference venue for several reasons. It is an easily accessible location that may attract many visitors by its beauty and that has a tradition in organizing international events of this kind (one of the last FTSD conferences took place here).
Author(s): Horst H. Henn (auth.), Jan Hlavička, Erik Maehle, András Pataricza (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1667
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 462
Tags: Computer Hardware; Computer Communication Networks; Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems; System Performance and Evaluation; Software Engineering
Reliable and Secure Operation of Smart Cards....Pages 3-3
Dependability Modelling and Sensitivity Analysis of Scheduled Maintenance Systems....Pages 7-23
Evaluation of Video Communication over Packet Switching Networks....Pages 24-41
Dependability Evaluation of a Distributed Shared Memory Multiprocessor System....Pages 42-59
Software Reliability Engineering Risk Management for the New Millenium....Pages 63-63
List of Fast Abstracts....Pages 67-68
Muteness Failure Detectors: Specification and Implementation....Pages 71-87
A Fault Tolerant Clock Synchronization Algorithm for Systems with Low-Precision Oscillators....Pages 88-105
Avoiding Malicious Byzantine Faults by a New Signature Generation Technique....Pages 106-123
An Experimental Evaluation of Coordinated Checkpointing in a Parallel Machine....Pages 124-139
MAFALDA: Microkernel Assessment by Fault Injection and Design Aid....Pages 143-160
Assessing Error Detection Coverage by Simulated Fault Injection....Pages 161-170
Considering Workload Input Variations in Error Coverage Estimation....Pages 171-188
Fault Injection into VHDL Models: Experimental Validation of a Fault-Tolerant Microcomputer System....Pages 191-208
Can Software Implemented Fault-Injection be Used on Real-Time Systems?....Pages 209-226
Integrated Safety in Flexible Manufacturing Systems....Pages 229-238
A Method for Implementing a Safety Control System Based on Its Separation into Safety-Related and Non-Safety-Related Parts....Pages 239-247
Design of Totally Self-Checking Code-Disjoint Synchronous Sequential Circuits....Pages 251-266
Path Delay Fault Testing of a Class of Circuit-Switched Multistage Interconnection Networks....Pages 267-282
Diagnostic Model and Diagnosis Algorithm of a SIMD Computer....Pages 283-300
Pseudorandom, Weighted Random and Pseudoexhaustive Test Patterns Generated in Universal Cellular Automata....Pages 303-320
A New LFSR with D and T Flip-Flops as an Effective Test Pattern Generator for VLSI Circuits....Pages 321-338
Transparent Word-Oriented Memory BIST Based on Symmetric March Algorithms....Pages 339-348
Achieving Fault-Tolerant Ordered Broadcasts in CAN....Pages 351-363
Directional Gossip: Gossip in a Wide Area Network....Pages 364-379
Efficient Reliable Real-Time Group Communication for Wireless Local Area Networks....Pages 380-397
A Case Study in Statistical Testing of Reusable Concurrent Objects....Pages 401-418
Fault-Detection by Result-Checking for the Eigenproblem 1 ....Pages 419-436
Concurrent Detection of Processor Control Errors by Hybrid Signature Monitoring....Pages 437-454
