Automation of fault-tolerant graceful degradation

• Published in: Distributed computing Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 1 - 25
• Main Authors: Lin, Yiyan, Kulkarni, Sandeep, Jhumka, Arshad
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.02.2019; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Algorithms; Complexity; Computer Communication Networks; Computer Hardware; Computer Science; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks; Degradation; Fault tolerance; Faults; Masking; Phase transitions; Set theory; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems; Specifications; Theory of Computation; Viability

Traditionally, (nonmasking and masking) fault-tolerance has focused on ensuring that after the occurrence of faults, the program recovers to states from where it continues to satisfy its original specification. However, a problem with this limited notion is that, in some cases, it may be impossible...