Architecting Dependable Systems

Paulo Esteves Veríssimo, Nuno Ferreira Neves, Miguel Pupo Correia (auth.), Rogério de Lemos, Cristina Gacek, Alexander Romanovsky (eds.)3540407278, 9783540407270

As software systems become more and more ubiquitous, the issues of dependability become more and more critical. Given that solutions to these issues must be planned at the beginning of the design process, it is appropriate that these issues be addressed at the architectural level.

This book is inspired by the ICSE 2002 Workshop on Architecting Dependable Systems; it is devoted to current topics relevant for improving the state of the art for architecting dependability. Some of the 13 peer-reviewed papers presented were initially presented at the workshop, others were invited in order to achieve competent and complete coverage of all relevant aspects. The papers are organized in topical sections on

– architectures for dependability

– fault tolerance in software architectures

– dependability analysis in software architectures

– industrial experience.

Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages 1-1
Intrusion-Tolerant Architectures: Concepts and Design….Pages 3-36
Improving Dependability of Component-Based Systems via Multi-versioning Connectors….Pages 37-60
Increasing System Dependability through Architecture-Based Self-Repair….Pages 61-89
Dependability in the Web Services Architecture….Pages 90-109
A Component Based Real-Time Scheduling Architecture….Pages 110-125
Front Matter….Pages 127-127
A Fault-Tolerant Software Architecture for Component-Based Systems….Pages 129-149
The Role of Event Description in Architecting Dependable Systems….Pages 150-174
Architectural Mismatch Tolerance….Pages 175-194
Front Matter….Pages 195-195
Quality Analysis of Dependable Systems: A Developer Oriented Approach….Pages 197-218
Stochastic Dependability Analysis of System Architecture Based on UML Models….Pages 219-244
Specification-Level Integration of Simulation and Dependability Analysis….Pages 245-266
Using Architectural Properties to Model and Measure Graceful Degradation….Pages 267-289
Front Matter….Pages 291-291
Dependability Experience in Philips….Pages 293-307