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A compositional approach for fault-tolerance using specification transformation

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PARLE '93 Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe (PARLE 1993)

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The incorporation of a recovery algorithm into a program can be viewed as a program transformation, converting the basic program into a fault-tolerant version. We present a framework in which such program transformations are accompanied by a corresponding formula transformation which obtains properties of the fault-tolerant versions of the programs from properties of the basic programs. Compositionality is achieved when every property of the fault-tolerant version can be obtained from a transformed property of the basic program.

A verification method for proving the correctness of formula transformations is presented. This makes it possible to prove just once that a formula transformation corresponds to a program transformation, removing the need to prove separately the correctness of each transformed program.

Supported in part by SERC research grants GR/F 57960 and GR/H 39499.

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  1. AT&T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Avenue, 07974, Murray Hill, NJ, USA

    Doron Peled

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, CV4 7AL, Coventry, UK

    Mathai Joseph

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Peled, D., Joseph, M. (1993). A compositional approach for fault-tolerance using specification transformation. In: Bode, A., Reeve, M., Wolf, G. (eds) PARLE '93 Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe. PARLE 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 694. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-56891-3_14

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