Ein Baustein versagt, aber das System funktioniert weiter: Dies erreicht man u.a. mit fehlertoleranten Rechenmethoden, in die viele redundante Elemente eingebaut wurden. Ob Netzwerkserver oder Transportmittel - Anwendungen gibt es viele. Der Autor behandelt diese Technologie umfassend und detailliert, wobei er besonders intensiv auf die Grundlagen eingeht. Darüber hinaus liefert er Hintergrundinformationen, z.B. zur Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung und Zuverlässigkeitsanalyse, um dem Leser den Einstieg in das Thema zu erleichtern.
MARTIN L. SHOOMAN, PhD, served for many years as a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, New York. Dr. Shooman has been a Visiting Professor at MIT and Hunter College, and a consultant to Bell Laboratories, NASA, IBM, the US Army, and many other government and commercial organizations. A fellow of the IEEE, he has received five best paper awards from their Reliability and Computer Societies. Dr. Shooman has contributed to over 100 papers and reports to the research literature and has given special courses in Britain, Canada, France, Israel, and throughout the US. The author of Probabilistic Reliability: An Engineering Approach and Software Engineering: Design, Reliability, and Management, he is currently President of the consulting firm Martin L. Shooman & Associates.