Fault Tolerant Search Algorithms

Author : Ferdinando Cicalese
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642173271

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Fault-Tolerant Search Algorithms by Ferdinando Cicalese Pdf

Why a book on fault-tolerant search algorithms? Searching is one of the fundamental problems in computer science. Time and again algorithmic and combinatorial issues originally studied in the context of search find application in the most diverse areas of computer science and discrete mathematics. On the other hand, fault-tolerance is a necessary ingredient of computing. Due to their inherent complexity, information systems are naturally prone to errors, which may appear at any level – as imprecisions in the data, bugs in the software, or transient or permanent hardware failures. This book provides a concise, rigorous and up-to-date account of different approaches to fault-tolerance in the context of algorithmic search theory. Thanks to their basic structure, search problems offer insights into how fault-tolerant techniques may be applied in various scenarios. In the first part of the book, a paradigmatic model for fault-tolerant search is presented, the Ulam—Rényi problem. Following a didactic approach, the author takes the reader on a tour of Ulam—Rényi problem variants of increasing complexity. In the context of this basic model, fundamental combinatorial and algorithmic issues in the design of fault-tolerant search procedures are discussed. The algorithmic efficiency achievable is analyzed with respect to the statistical nature of the error sources, and the amount of information on which the search algorithm bases its decisions. In the second part of the book, more general models of faults and fault-tolerance are considered. Special attention is given to the application of fault-tolerant search procedures to specific problems in distributed computing, bioinformatics and computational learning. This book will be of special value to researchers from the areas of combinatorial search and fault-tolerant computation, but also to researchers in learning and coding theory, databases, and artificial intelligence. Only basic training in discrete mathematics is assumed. Parts of the book can be used as the basis for specialized graduate courses on combinatorial search, or as supporting material for a graduate or undergraduate course on error-correcting codes.

Author : Paris Christos Kanellakis,Alex Allister Shvartsman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781475752106

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Fault-Tolerant Parallel Computation by Paris Christos Kanellakis,Alex Allister Shvartsman Pdf

Fault-Tolerant Parallel Computation presents recent advances in algorithmic ways of introducing fault-tolerance in multiprocessors under the constraint of preserving efficiency. The difficulty associated with combining fault-tolerance and efficiency is that the two have conflicting means: fault-tolerance is achieved by introducing redundancy, while efficiency is achieved by removing redundancy. This monograph demonstrates how in certain models of parallel computation it is possible to combine efficiency and fault-tolerance and shows how it is possible to develop efficient algorithms without concern for fault-tolerance, and then correctly and efficiently execute these algorithms on parallel machines whose processors are subject to arbitrary dynamic fail-stop errors. The efficient algorithmic approaches to multiprocessor fault-tolerance presented in this monograph make a contribution towards bridging the gap between the abstract models of parallel computation and realizable parallel architectures. Fault-Tolerant Parallel Computation presents the state of the art in algorithmic approaches to fault-tolerance in efficient parallel algorithms. The monograph synthesizes work that was presented in recent symposia and published in refereed journals by the authors and other leading researchers. This is the first text that takes the reader on the grand tour of this new field summarizing major results and identifying hard open problems. This monograph will be of interest to academic and industrial researchers and graduate students working in the areas of fault-tolerance, algorithms and parallel computation and may also be used as a text in a graduate course on parallel algorithmic techniques and fault-tolerance.

Author : Muhammad Athar Javed Sethi
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781000048056

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Bio-Inspired Fault-Tolerant Algorithms for Network-on-Chip by Muhammad Athar Javed Sethi Pdf

Network on Chip (NoC) addresses the communication requirement of different nodes on System on Chip. The bio-inspired algorithms improve the bandwidth utilization, maximize the throughput and reduce the end-to-end latency and inter-flit arrival time. This book exclusively presents in-depth information regarding bio-inspired algorithms solving real world problems focussing on fault-tolerant algorithms inspired by the biological brain and implemented on NoC. It further documents the bio-inspired algorithms in general and more specifically, in the design of NoC. It gives an exhaustive review and analysis of the NoC architectures developed during the last decade according to various parameters. Key Features: Covers bio-inspired solutions pertaining to Network-on-Chip (NoC) design solving real world examples Includes bio-inspired NoC fault-tolerant algorithms with detail coding examples Lists fault-tolerant algorithms with detailed examples Reviews basic concepts of NoC Discusses NoC architectures developed-to-date

Author : Michael Butler,Cliff B. Jones,Alexander Romanovsky,Elena Troubitsyna
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642008665

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Methods, Models and Tools for Fault Tolerance by Michael Butler,Cliff B. Jones,Alexander Romanovsky,Elena Troubitsyna Pdf

The growing complexity of modern software systems makes it increasingly difficult to ensure the overall dependability of software-intensive systems. Mastering system complexity requires design techniques that support clear thinking and rigorous validation and verification. Formal design methods together with fault-tolerant design techniques help to achieve this. Therefore, there is a clear need for methods that enable rigorous modeling and the development of complex fault-tolerant systems. This book is an outcome of the workshop on Methods, Models and Tools for Fault Tolerance, MeMoT 2007, held in conjunction with the 6th international conference on Integrated Formal Methods, iFM 2007, in Oxford, UK, in July 2007. The authors of the best workshop papers were asked to enhance and expand their work, and a number of well-established researchers working in the area contributed invited chapters in addition. From the 15 refereed and revised papers presented, 12 are versions reworked from the workshop and 3 papers are invited. The articles are organized in four topical sections on: formal reasoning about fault-tolerant systems and protocols; fault tolerance: modelling in B; fault tolerance in system development process; and fault-tolerant applications.

Author : P. Pelliccione
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789812778864

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Software Engineering of Fault Tolerant Systems by P. Pelliccione Pdf

In architecting dependable systems, what is required to improve the overall system robustness is fault tolerance. Many methods have been proposed to this end, the solutions are usually considered late during the design and implementation phases of the software life-cycle (e.g., Java and Windows NT exception handling), thus reducing the effectiveness error and fault handling. Since the system design typically models only normal behaviour of the system while ignoring exceptional ones, the implementation of the system is unable to handle abnormal events. Consequently, the system may fail in unexpected ways due to faults.It has been argued that fault tolerance management during the entire life-cycle improves the overall system robustness and that different classes of threats need to be identified for and dealt with at each distinct phase of software development, depending on the abstraction level of the software system being modelled.This book builds on this trend and investigates how fault tolerance mechanisms can be applied when engineering a software system. In particular, it identifies the new problems arising in this area, introduces the new models to be applied at different abstraction levels, defines methodologies for model-driven engineering of such systems and outlines the new technologies and validation and verification environments supporting this.

Author : Ran Libeskind-Hadas,Nany Hasan,Jingsheng Jason Cong,Philip McKinley,C.L. Liu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781461536147

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Fault Covering Problems in Reconfigurable VLSI Systems by Ran Libeskind-Hadas,Nany Hasan,Jingsheng Jason Cong,Philip McKinley,C.L. Liu Pdf

Fault Covering Problems in Reconfigurable VLSI Systems describes the authors' recent research on reconfiguration problems for fault-tolerance in VLSI and WSI Systems. The book examines solutions to a number of reconfiguration problems. Efficient algorithms are given for tractable covering problems and general techniques are given for dealing with a large number of intractable covering problems. The book begins with an investigation of algorithms for the reconfiguration of large redundant memories. Next, a number of more general covering problems are considered and the complexity of these problems is analyzed. Finally, a general and uniform approach is proposed for solving a wide class of covering problems. The results and techniques described here will be useful to researchers and students working in this area. As such, the book serves as an excellent reference and may be used as the text for an advanced course on the topic.

Author : Michel Raynal
Publisher : Springer
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319941417

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Fault-Tolerant Message-Passing Distributed Systems by Michel Raynal Pdf

This book presents the most important fault-tolerant distributed programming abstractions and their associated distributed algorithms, in particular in terms of reliable communication and agreement, which lie at the heart of nearly all distributed applications. These programming abstractions, distributed objects or services, allow software designers and programmers to cope with asynchrony and the most important types of failures such as process crashes, message losses, and malicious behaviors of computing entities, widely known under the term "Byzantine fault-tolerance". The author introduces these notions in an incremental manner, starting from a clear specification, followed by algorithms which are first described intuitively and then proved correct. The book also presents impossibility results in classic distributed computing models, along with strategies, mainly failure detectors and randomization, that allow us to enrich these models. In this sense, the book constitutes an introduction to the science of distributed computing, with applications in all domains of distributed systems, such as cloud computing and blockchains. Each chapter comes with exercises and bibliographic notes to help the reader approach, understand, and master the fascinating field of fault-tolerant distributed computing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814476102

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Software Engineering of Fault Tolerant Systems by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cengiz Kahraman,Irem Ucal Sari,Basar Oztaysi,Selcuk Cebi,Sezi Cevik Onar,A. Çağrı Tolga
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783031397745

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Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems by Cengiz Kahraman,Irem Ucal Sari,Basar Oztaysi,Selcuk Cebi,Sezi Cevik Onar,A. Çağrı Tolga Pdf

This book consists of the papers accepted after a careful review process at an international scientific meeting where the latest developments on intelligent and fuzzy systems are presented and discussed. The latest developments in both the theoretical and practical fields of the new fuzzy set extensions have been prepared by expert researchers. Contributed by participants from more than 40 different countries, this book is also a useful resource in terms of showing the levels that fuzzy and intelligent systems have reached in various countries of the world. The intended readers are intelligent and fuzzy systems researchers, lecturers, M.Sc., and Ph.D. students studying fuzzy sets and artificial intelligence. The book covers fuzzy logic theory and applications, heuristics, and metaheuristics from optimization to machine learning, from quality management to risk management, making the book an excellent source for researchers.

Author : Mengfei Yang,Gengxin Hua,Yanjun Feng,Jian Gong
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781119107279

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Fault-Tolerance Techniques for Spacecraft Control Computers by Mengfei Yang,Gengxin Hua,Yanjun Feng,Jian Gong Pdf

Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of space application oriented fault tolerance techniques • Experienced expert author working on fault tolerance for Chinese space program for almost three decades • Initiatively provides a systematic texts for the cutting-edge fault tolerance techniques in spacecraft control computer, with emphasis on practical engineering knowledge • Presents fundamental and advanced theories and technologies in a logical and easy-to-understand manner • Beneficial to readers inside and outside the area of space applications

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NASA:31769001173254

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Study of Fault-tolerant Software Technology by Anonim Pdf

Author : Emilio Luque,Tomas Margalef,Domingo Benítez
Publisher : Springer
Page : 964 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540854517

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Euro-Par 2008 Parallel Processing by Emilio Luque,Tomas Margalef,Domingo Benítez Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Parallel Computing, Euro-Par 2008, held in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, in August 2008. The 86 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 264 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on support tools and environments; performance prediction and evaluation; scheduling and load balancing; high performance architectures and compilers; parallel and distributed databases; grid and cluster computing; peer-to-peer computing; distributed systems and algorithms; parallel and distributed programming; parallel numerical algorithms; distributed and high-performance multimedia; theory and algorithms for parallel computation; and high performance networks.

Author : Israel Koren
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781461567998

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Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems by Israel Koren Pdf

This book contains an edited selection of papers presented at the International Workshop on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems held October 6-7, 1988 in Springfield, Massachusetts. Our thanks go to all the contributors and especially the members of the program committee for the difficult and time-consuming work involved in selecting the papers that were presented in the workshop and reviewing the papers included in this book. Thanks are also due to the IEEE Computer Society (in particular, the Technical Committee on Fault-Tolerant Computing and the Technical Committee on VLSI) and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst for sponsoring the workshop, and to the National Science Foundation for supporting (under grant number MIP-8803418) the keynote address and the distribution of this book to all workshop attendees. The objective of the workshop was to bring t. ogether researchers and practition ers from both industry and academia in the field of defect tolerance and yield en ha. ncement in VLSI to discuss their mutual interests in defect-tolerant architectures and models for integrated circuit defects, faults, and yield. Progress in this area was slowed down by the proprietary nature of yield-related data, and by the lack of appropriate forums for disseminating such information. The goal of this workshop was therefore to provide a forum for a dialogue and exchange of views. A follow-up workshop in October 1989, with C. H. Stapper from IBM and V. K. Jain from the University of South Florida as general co-chairmen, is being organized.

Author : Frank Gaitan
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781420006681

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Quantum Error Correction and Fault Tolerant Quantum Computing by Frank Gaitan Pdf

It was once widely believed that quantum computation would never become a reality. However, the discovery of quantum error correction and the proof of the accuracy threshold theorem nearly ten years ago gave rise to extensive development and research aimed at creating a working, scalable quantum computer. Over a decade has passed since this monumental accomplishment yet no book-length pedagogical presentation of this important theory exists. Quantum Error Correction and Fault Tolerant Quantum Computing offers the first full-length exposition on the realization of a theory once thought impossible. It provides in-depth coverage on the most important class of codes discovered to date—quantum stabilizer codes. It brings together the central themes of quantum error correction and fault-tolerant procedures to prove the accuracy threshold theorem for a particular noise error model. The author also includes a derivation of well-known bounds on the parameters of quantum error correcting code. Packed with over 40 real-world problems, 35 field exercises, and 17 worked-out examples, this book is the essential resource for any researcher interested in entering the quantum field as well as for those who want to understand how the unexpected realization of quantum computing is possible.

Author : Nikhil Bansal,Irene Finocchi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1053 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783662483503

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Algorithms - ESA 2015 by Nikhil Bansal,Irene Finocchi Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms, ESA 2015, held in Patras, Greece, in September 2015, as part of ALGO 2015. The 86 revised full papers presented together with two invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 320 initial submissions: 71 out of 261 in Track A, Design and Analysis, and 15 out of 59 in Track B, Engineering and Applications. The papers present real-world applications, engineering, and experimental analysis of algorithms.