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The N-Version Approach to Fault-Tolerant Software
Abstract
Evolution of the N-version software approach to the tolerance of design faults is reviewed. Principal requirements for the implementation of N-version software are summarized and the DEDIX distributed supervisor and testbed for the execution of N-version software is described. Goals of current research are presented and some potential benefits of the N-version approach are identified.
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- Authors
- Avizienis, A.
- Venue
- IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
- Published
- 1985-12
- Volume
- SE-11
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 1491-1501
- ISSN
- 0098-5589 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-3520
- 2326-3881
- OpenAlex
- W2129360963
- Cited by
- 1,049
- References
- 11
- FWCI
- 17.48
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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