Dependable Computing

Acknowledgments

In writing this book, we were inspired by Professor Dan Siewiorek’s groundbreaking research and the unmatched book The Theory and Practice of Reliable System Design by Siewiorek and Swarz, now in its third edition, as well as the foundational work of Professors Ed McCluskey and Al Avižienis, which continues to impact the field today.

We are indebted to many of our current and former students, postdoctoral associates, and academic and industry colleagues whose research contributed in important ways to material in this book, including Karthik Pattabiraman, Lelio DiMartino, Bob Horst, Saurabh Bagchi, Homa Alemzadeh, Long Wang, Tim Tsai, Saurabh Jha, Phuong Cao, Keywhan Chung, Shengkun Cui, and Archit Patke. Some of our colleagues have also adopted a draft version of this book in teaching dependability courses to graduate and senior students in their respective institutions, which has bolstered our confidence in the usefulness of this content. The administrative and technical proofreading staff members, including, Carol Bosley, Heidi Leerkamp, Jenny Applequist, and Kathleen Atchley, have contributed immensely to this effort by their critical linguistic polish of this technical content and also by their logistical work in keeping the authors and publishers in synchrony to accomplish this massive task. We are grateful to all of them as well as many others who shared their insights.

Special thanks to our colleagues at the University of Illinois Urbana‐Champaign who ...