Title :
On the reliability of dependable soft real-time cooperating systems
Author :
Yen, I-Ling ; Chen, Ing-Ray ; Bastani, Farokh B.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, USA
Abstract :
We consider real time systems where multiple agents cooperate to jointly achieve the system goal. Further, the quality of the output of each agent has a fuzzy rather than a binary (pass/fail) value. The system model is defined and illustrated using examples from manufacturing and defense systems. Then, the reliability models for various types of service expectations are formulated and applied to a multiple agent coordination system
Keywords :
groupware; manufacturing data processing; military computing; real-time systems; software reliability; defense systems; dependable soft real time cooperating systems; dependable soft real-time cooperating systems; manufacturing; multiple agent coordination system; multiple agents; reliability models; service expectations; system goal; Automatic control; Computer aided manufacturing; Computer science; Degradation; Embedded computing; Fuzzy systems; Real time systems; Robot kinematics; Robotic assembly; Scheduling algorithm;
Conference_Titel :
Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems, 1994. Proceedings of WORDS 94., First Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Dana Point, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7083-5
DOI :
10.1109/WORDS.1994.518682
