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An alternative implementation of an insertion-only recovery technique

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In an earlier paper [7] Fischer, Milton and Quiring developed algorithms for insertion-only error recovery. In related work [3] a simple factorisation lemma for error repairs was developed; by applying this lemma to the work of Fischer, Milton and Quiring their implementation is simplified and storage requirements reduced though there may be a small penalty in the execution time of the algorithm. In addition some flaws in their theoretical analyses are corrected and an alternative to the “immediate error detection property” is proposed.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, EH1 2HJ, Edinburgh, Scotland

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  1. S. O. Anderson
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Currently on leave at Laboratory for Programming Methodology, Department of Computer Science, University of Göteborg — Chalmers University of Technology, S-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden

Now at Department of Computer Science, University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, England

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Anderson, S.O., Backhouse, R.C. An alternative implementation of an insertion-only recovery technique. Acta Informatica 18, 289–298 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00263195

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