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The role that system structuring techniques plays in helping to cope with system complexity and achieve system dependability is analyzed. This leads on to a discussion of (i) the problems of the various kinds of assumptions, both deliberate and unthinking, that are made by system designers, (ii) the increased difficulties regarding such assumptions that can face the designers of complex systems that are intended to function as infrastructures, and (iii) the problems of defending systems and infrastructures against malicious attacks, including those which cause initially-unsuspected structural damage.
Author(s): Randell B
Publication type: Report
Publication status: Published
Series Title: School of Computing Science Technical Report Series
Year: 2004
Pages: 18
Print publication date: 01/11/2004
Source Publication Date: November 2004
Report Number: 877
Institution: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne
URL: http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/trs/papers/877.pdf
