Dependability of Computer Systems: from Concepts to Limits

Jean-Claude Laprie
LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France
laprie@laas.fr

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Abstract 
Our society is faced with an ever increasing dependence on computing 
systems, which lead to question ourselves about the limits of their 
dependability, and to attempt to identify avenues for improving the 
situation. In order to respond these questions, a global conceptual 
and terminological framework is needed, which is first given.