Fault tolerance and fault recovery are integral parts of real-time systems. The literature addresses the issue of fault recovery via two main methods. One is hardware redundancy, and the other is achieved through task replication. Although lots of research has been done in this area, most of the work fell within one of the two streams, or as a combination of both. One point that did not have en...

Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, causing widespread damage to industry, housing, and infrastructure. The area of New Orleans East was particularly devastated, including a cluster of industries, such as a major foodprocessing plant, manufacturing facilities, and bulk material and gas processors. Although this area was well suited for resource recovery and eco-industrial ...

Several distributed real time applications require fault tolerance apart from guaranteed timeliness. It is essential to provide hard guarantees on recovery delays, due to component failures, which cannot be ensured in traditional datagram services. Several schemes exist which attempt to guarantee recovery in a timely and resource eÆcient manner. These methods center around a priori reservation ...

Several resource recovery projects financed in the last 5 years incorporate preprocessing systems for fuel preparation and materials recovery prior to combus­ tion. These projects represent a return to a system of resource recovery which experienced many technical problems in several projects built in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The purpose of this paper is to review the history of solid wa...