Foreword
As computer systems have permeated ever more aspects of daily and communal life, so individuals’, organizations’ and society’s dependency on the satisfactory functioning of these systems has become ever greater. This dependency can take many forms. It can arise, for example, from (i) the cost to a manufacturer of recalling a mass-market product of inadequate reliability, (ii) the dangers to life and limb from unsafe actions that are caused by, or fail to be prevented by, a computer system, or (iii) the reputational or financial consequence of failure to protect highly-confidential information.
Computer systems can be employed in many different situations and can fail in many different ways. A system will be judged to be dependable if ...
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