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This paper gives the main definitions relating to dependability, a generic concept including as special cases such atributes as reliability, availability, safety, security, maintainability. The various impairments to dependability (faults, errors, failures) and means for dependability (especially fault tolerance, fault removal, fault forecasting) are emphasized.
This paper is based largely on material in [48, 49].
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Laprie, JC. (1995). Dependability — Its Attributes, Impairments and Means. In: Randell, B., Laprie, JC., Kopetz, H., Littlewood, B. (eds) Predictably Dependable Computing Systems. ESPRIT Basic Research Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79789-7_1
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