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Consider a reactive system of the form S 1 ∥ S 2. Given the specification of one component, say S 1, methods are available to design S 2 in a stepwise manner such that the composed system S 1 ∥ S 2 satisfies a given specification. In this paper, we use a similar paradigm to construct a fault-tolerant program. Given a program S 1 that may suffer from hardware faults or software design faults, we show how a stepwise method can be used to design a program S 2 so that S 1 ∥ S 2 meets a given specification. The main idea is demonstrated by solving a resource allocation problem.
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Liu, Z., Joseph, M. (1994). Stepwise development of fault-tolerant reactive systems. In: Langmaack, H., de Roever, WP., Vytopil, J. (eds) Formal Techniques in Real-Time and Fault-Tolerant Systems. FTRTFT ProCoS 1994 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 863. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58468-4_182
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