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Jordi Bonet a,c, Raphaële Thery a, Xuan-Mi Meyer a, Michel Meyer a, Jean-Michel Reneaume b, Maria-Isabel Galan c,∗, José Costa c a Laboratoire de Génie Chimique, UMR-CNRS 5503, INPT-ENSIACET, 5 rue Paulin Talabot, 31106 Toulouse Cedex 01, France b UPPA/LATEP, Rue Jules Ferry, 64000 Pau, France c Departament d’Enginyeria Quı́mica, Universitat de Barcelona, Martı́ i Franquès 1, E-08028 Barcelona, S...

The paper starts with a brief account of how and why, at about the time of the birth of what is now INRIA, the author and his colleagues became interested in the subject now known as system dependability. The main body of the paper summarizes the work over the last three years of the ESPRIT Basic Research project on Predictably Dependable Computing Systems (PDCS). This is a long term collaborat...