The purpose of this paper is to describe the concepts, definitions, and ideas of computer architecture and to suggest that architecture can be viewed...

The ways that the methods of data flow analysis can be applied to improve software reliability are described. There is also a review of the basic ter...

This paper develops four related architectural principles which can guide the construction of error-tolerant operating systems. The fundamental princ...

To deal with hardware reliability requirements of critical real-time computer applications, fault-tolerance provisions have become a widely accepted...

Security has become an important and challenging goal in the design of computer systems. This survey focuses on two system structuring concepts that...