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Proceedings of the Workshop on Methods, Models and Tools for Fault Tolerance

M. Butler, C. B. Jones, A. Romanovsky, E. Troubitsyna.

TECHNICAL REPORT SERIES

No. CS-TR-1032 June, 2007 TECHNICAL REPORT SERIES

No. CS-TR-1032 June, 2007

Proceedings of the Workshop on Methods, Models and Tools for Fault Tolerance

Michael Butler, Cliff Jones, Alexander Romanovsky, Elena Troubitsyna.

Abstract

These are the Proceedings of the workshop organized at IFM 2007 in Oxford (June 3, 2007).

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BUTLER, M., JONES, C. B., ROMANOVSKY, A., TROUBITSYNA, E.

Proceedings of the Workshop on Methods, Models and Tools for Fault Tolerance [By] M. Butler, C. B. Jones, A. Romanovsky, E. Troubitsyna.

Newcastle upon Tyne: University of Newcastle upon Tyne: Computing Science, 2007.

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Abstract

These are the Proceedings of the workshop organized at IFM 2007 in Oxford (June 3, 2007).

About the author

Cliff Jones is currently Professor of Computing Science and Project of the IRC on “Dependability of Computer- Based Systems”. He has spent more of his career in industry than academia. Fifteen years in IBM saw among other things the creation with colleagues in Vienna of VDM. Cliff is a fellow of the BCS, IEE and ACM. He Received a (late) Doctorate under Tony Hoare in Oxford in 1981 and immediately moved to a chair at Manchester University where he built a strong Formal Methods group which among other projects was the academic partner in the largest Alvey Software Engineering project (IPSE 2.5 created the "mural" theorem proving assistant). During his time at Manchester, Cliff had an SRC 5-year Senior Fellowship and spent a sabbatical at Cambridge with the Newton Institute event on "Semantics". Much of his research at this time focused on formal (compositional) development methods for concurrent systems. In 1996 he moved to Harlequin directing some 50 developers on Information Management projects and finally became overall Technical Director before leaving to re-join academia in 1999. Cliff's interests in formal methods have now broadened to reflect wider issues of dependability.

Alexander (Sascha) Romanovsky is a Professor in the CSR. He received a M.Sc. degree in Applied Mathematics from Moscow State University and a PhD degree in Computer Science from St. Petersburg State Technical University. He was with this University from 1984 until 1996, doing research and teaching. In 1991 he worked as a visiting researcher at ABB Ltd Computer Architecture Lab Research Center, Switzerland. In 1993 he was a visiting fellow at Istituto di Elaborazione della Informazione, CNR, Pisa, Italy. In 1993-94 he was a post-doctoral fellow with the Department of Computing Science, the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1992-1998 he was involved in the Predictably Dependable Computing Systems (PDCS) ESPRIT Basic Research Action and the Design for Validation (DeVa) ESPRIT Basic Project. In 1998-2000 he worked on the Diversity in Safety Critical Software (DISCS) EPSRC/UK Project. Prof Romanovsky was a co-author of the Diversity with Off-The-Shelf Components (DOTS) EPSRC/UK Project and was involved in this project in 2001-2004. In 2000-2003 he was in the executive board of Dependable Systems of Systems (DSoS) IST Project. Now he is coordinating Rigorous Open Development Environment for Complex Systems (RODIN) IST Project (2004-2007).

Suggested keywords

FAULT TOLERANCE, FORMAL METHODS, SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT, ERROR RECOVERY