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Responsive Computer Systems: Steps Toward Fault-Tolerant Real-Time Systems pp 209–223Cite as

Fault-Tolerant Automatic Control

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There has been great progress in the area of hardware fault-tolerance. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said about software fault-tolerance. Computing system failures are increasingly caused by software faults. A commercial study by Tandem Computing Inc.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA

    Marc Bodson

  2. Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA

    John Lehoczky

  3. Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA

    Ragunathan Rajkumar & Lui Sha

  4. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA

    Jennifer Stephan

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  1. The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA

    Donald S. Fussell

  2. Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany

    Miroslaw Malek

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Bodson, M., Lehoczky, J., Rajkumar, R., Sha, L., Stephan, J. (1995). Fault-Tolerant Automatic Control. In: Fussell, D.S., Malek, M. (eds) Responsive Computer Systems: Steps Toward Fault-Tolerant Real-Time Systems. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 297. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2271-3_11

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