Methods, Models and Tools for Fault Tolerance

The growing complexity of modern software systems increases the di?culty of ensuring the overall dependability of software-intensive systems. Complexity of environments, in which systems operate, high dependability requirements that systems have to meet, as well as the complexity of infrastructures on which they rely make system design a true engineering challenge. Mastering system complexity requires design techniques that support clear thinking and rigorous validation and veri?cation. Formal design methods help to achieve this. Coping with complexity also requires architectures that are t- erant of faults and of unpredictable changes in environment. This issue can be addressed by fault-tolerant design techniques. Therefore, there is a clear need of methods enabling rigorous modelling and development of complex fault-tolerant systems. This bookaddressessuchacuteissues indevelopingfault-tolerantsystemsas: Veri?cation and re?nement of fault-tolerant systems Integrated approaches to developing fault-tolerant systems Formal foundations for error detection, error recovery, exception and fault handling Abstractions, styles and patterns for rigorousdevelopment of fault tolerance Fault-tolerant software architectures Development and application of tools supporting rigorous design of depe- able systems Integrated platforms for developing dependable systems Rigorous approaches to speci?cation and design of fault tolerance in novel computing systems TheeditorsofthisbookwereinvolvedintheEU(FP-6)projectRODIN(R- orous Open Development Environment for Complex Systems), which brought together researchers from the fault tolerance and formal methods communi- 1 ties. In 2007 RODIN organized the MeMoT workshop held in conjunction with theIntegrated Formal Methods 2007 Conference at Oxford University.

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Formal Reasoning about Fault Tolerant Systems and Protocols.- Graphical Modelling for Simulation and Formal Analysis of Wireless Network Protocols.- Reasoning about System-Degradation and Fault-Recovery with Deontic Logic.- Temporal Verification of Fault-Tolerant Protocols.- Design and Verification of Fault-Tolerant Components.- Dynamically Detecting Faults via Integrity Constraints.- Fault Tolerance: Modelling in B.- Event-B Patterns for Specifying Fault-Tolerance in Multi-agent Interaction.- Formal Reasoning about Fault Tolerance and Parallelism in Communicating Systems.- Formal Development of a Total Order Broadcast for Distributed Transactions Using Event-B.- Model-Based Testing Using Scenarios and Event-B Refinements.- Fault Tolerance in System Development Process.- Recording Process Documentation in the Presence of Failures.- DREP: A Requirements Engineering Process for Dependable Reactive Systems.- Documenting the Progress of the System Development.- Fault Tolerance Requirements Analysis Using Deviations in the CORRECT Development Process.- Fault Tolerant Applications.- Step-Wise Development of Resilient Ambient Campus Scenarios.- Using Inherent Service Redundancy and Diversity to Ensure Web Services Dependability.