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Lookup NU author(s): Avelino Zorzo, Emeritus Professor Alexander RomanovskyORCiD, Professor Brian RandellORCiD, Dr Robert Stroud, Ian Welch
Coordinated Atomic actions (CA actions) provide a scheme for coordinating complex concurrent activities and supporting error recovery between multiple interacting objects in a distributed object-oriented system. In this paper we show how CA actions can be applied to two different areas: safety-critical systems and fault-tolerant parallel systems. We have used a Production Cell case study to show how we can use CA actions to control a safety-critical system, where safety requirements play a fundamental role, and we have used an example based on the GAMMA paradigm to demonstrate how CA actions can be used to add fault tolerance to a parallel computation model. We discuss how CA actions provide these systems with dependability features, and describe our Java framework for constructing CA actions.
Author(s): Zorzo AF, Romanovsky A, Randell B, Stroud RJ, Welch I, Xu J
Publication type: Report
Publication status: Published
Series Title: Department of Computing Science Technical Report Series
Year: 1998
Pages: 15
Report Number: 619
Institution: Department of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne
URL: http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/trs/papers/619.pdf
