the concept of fault, like other social phenomena, is always changing, following the variable justice. the economic, moral, and philosophical consideration, are the most influential factors in the process of change. however, it seems that, apart from exceptional issues of revolutionary changes, the economic and material factors lead the way. in this historical process, the definitions of fault ...

The capabilities of reliable computations in one-dimensional cellular automata are investigated by means of the Early Bird Problem. The problem is typical for situations in massively parallel systems where a global behavior must be achieved by only local interactions between the single elements. The cells that cause the misoperations are assumed to behave as follows. They run a self-diagnosis b...

static multiple model algorithms, this scheme provides an interactive multiple model environment with soft switching. Simulation results conducted on two practical examples of multimodal systems show that the scheme is computationally feasible, efficient and fault tolerant in nature.

This paper proposes a global escape mechanism which can handle unexpected or unwanted conditions changing the default execution of distributed communicational flows, preserving compatibility of the multiparty conversations. Our escape is realised by a collection of asynchronous local exceptions which can be thrown at any stage of the communication and to any subsets of participants in a multipa...

The best currently known interactive debugging systems rely upon some meta-information in terms of fault probabilities in order to improve their efficiency. However, misleading meta information might result in a dramatic decrease of the performance and its assessment is only possible aposteriori. Consequently, as long as the actual fault is unknown, there is always some risk of suboptimal inter...

Diagnosis of dynamic physical systems is com plex and requires close interaction of monitor ing fault generation and re nement and pre diction We have developed a methodology for model based diagnosis of abrupt faults in con tinuous systems that combines dynamic sys tem modeling with a qualitative reasoning ap proach A temporal causal system model is used to identify faults from deviant measure...

The key contribution of Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) is the encapsulation of crosscutting concerns in aspects, which facilities modular reasoning. However, common methods of introducing aspects into the system, incorporating features such as implicit control-flow, mean that the ability to discover interactions between aspects can be compromised. This has profound implications for developer...

The article outlines the main findings and conclusions of the QUAKER research project and other related studies on the behaviour of foundations built on top of a rupturing dip-slip fault. Although emphasis is placed on normal faults, the derived conclusions are valid for reverse faults, as well. A key conclusion is that it is quite feasible to design a foundation to withstand an underneath rupt...

An important aspect of pHRI (physical Human Robot Interaction) is to assure the safety of the human participant in the interaction. One of the approaches to assure safety is to plan the paths executed by the robot based on a certain safety criterion. This acts as a constraint for decision making of intelligent systems. This paper introduces the FaultTolerant Distance as a novel safety criterion...

the zagros fold- thrust belt as a part of alpine- himalayan orogenic belt, is one of the most active continental collision zones on the earth, which extends from the tarus mountains in south eastern turkey to the minab fault in the east of the strait of hormoz in southern iran. structurally, its formation is related to the continuing convergent movement between the arabian plate to the southwes...