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Immunotronics : Hardware Fault Tolerance Inspired by the Immune System [chapter]

D. W. Bradley, A. M. Tyrrell
2000 Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
A novel approach to hardware fault tolerance is proposed that takes inspiration from the human immune system as a method of fault detection and removal.  ...  The immune system has inspired work within the areas of virus protection and pattern recognition yet its application to hardware fault tolerance is untouched.  ...  Conclusion The paper has introduced an immunological approach to hardware fault tolerance.  ... 
doi:10.1007/3-540-46406-9_2 fatcat:qvjkts3uzrb27agrvd3ssdo65q

Hardware fault tolerance: an immunological solution

D.W. Bradley, A.M. Tyrrell
SMC 2000 Conference Proceedings. 2000 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. 'Cybernetics Evolving to Systems, Humans, Organizations, and their Complex Interactions' (Cat. No.00CH37166)  
The proposed methods demonstrate how through a process of self/non-self differentiation the hardware immune system will create a set of tolerance conditions to monitor the change in states of the hardware  ...  Potential faults may then be flagged, assessed and the appropriate recovery action taken.  ...  Conclusion The paper has introduced an immunological approach to hardware fault tolerance.  ... 
doi:10.1109/icsmc.2000.884973 dblp:conf/smc/BradleyT00 fatcat:zmajyj6brnc4jikyhc7akxtfge

An innovative bio-inspired fault tolerant unitronics architecture

Mohammad Samie, Gabriel Dragffy, Tony Pipe, Paul Bremner
2011 European Conference on Artificial Life  
It is a programmable cellular FPGA-like system inspired by unicellular bacterial organisms, and transposes self-healing and fault tolerant properties of nature to electronics systems.  ...  An e-puck object avoidance robot controller was built to demonstrate all the underlying theories of our research, the validity of the bioinspired model and the capabilities of the Unitronics architecture  ...  The novel artificial prokaryotic model we have proposed [6, 7] is a solution to build efficient fault tolerant hardware systems.  ... 
dblp:conf/ecal/SamieDPB11 fatcat:visuq23kcfb2db2jbbyxo2c2nq

Embryonics+immunotronics: a bio-inspired approach to fault tolerance

D. Bradley, C. Ortega-Sanchez, A. Tyrrell
Proceedings. The Second NASA/DoD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware  
However, the high complexity of modern systems makes the incorporation of fault tolerance a difficult task. Novel approaches to fault tolerance can be achieved by drawing inspiration from nature.  ...  Fault tolerance has always been a standard feature of electronic systems intended for long-term missions.  ...  As has been provided for a software immune system [37] , Table 3 demonstrates a possible mapping of features from immunology to hardware.  ... 
doi:10.1109/eh.2000.869359 dblp:conf/eh/BradleyOT00 fatcat:tw5nuilk35hmdnxauspm2fdccu

Immunotronics - novel finite-state-machine architectures with built-in self-test using self-nonself differentiation

D.W. Bradley, A.M. Tyrrell
2002 IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation  
This paper seeks to address the field of electronic hardware fault tolerance from an immunological perspective with the aim of showing how novel methods based upon the operation of the immune system can  ...  A novel approach to hardware fault tolerance is demonstrated that takes inspiration from the human immune system as a method of fault detection.  ...  immunology and fault tolerance.  ... 
doi:10.1109/tevc.2002.1011538 fatcat:uga2vf63qbgvliyjrhf2epzme4

Addressing failures in exascale computing

Marc Snir, Robert W Wisniewski, Jacob A Abraham, Sarita V Adve, Saurabh Bagchi, Pavan Balaji, Jim Belak, Pradip Bose, Franck Cappello, Bill Carlson, Andrew A Chien, Paul Coteus (+16 others)
2014 The international journal of high performance computing applications  
Software error rates are discussed in Section 4 in more detail. 6 Applicable Technologies The solution to the problem of resilience at exascale will require a synergistic use of multiple hardware and software  ...  approaches in Section 3 and potential software solutions to resilience in Section 5.  ...  This includes development of fault-tolerance mechanisms that avoid or mitigate failures due to hardware or software.  ... 
doi:10.1177/1094342014522573 fatcat:menonpmgdfflzamz2fsivevxqm

Evolvable Hardware, a Fundamental Technology for Homeostasis

Andy Tyrrell, Jon Timmis, Andrew Greensted, Nick Owens
2007 2007 IEEE Workshop on Evolvable and Adaptive Hardware (WEAH2007)  
hardware could make a significant impact.  ...  In order to achieve this we propose an extensible architecture, inspired by the natural immune system.  ...  For the purpose of this paper, the third and fourth points are of particular interest to us here: fault tolerance and adaptability.  ... 
doi:10.1109/weah.2007.361711 dblp:conf/weah/TyrrellTGO07 fatcat:zzdxaub2yjfxhbq7jf27pebrii

Implementation of Immunological Algorithms in Solving Optimization Problems

2014 Acta Polytechnica Hungarica  
The performance of the immunological algorithm in solving optimization problems is analysed using the Optimization Algorithm Toolkit, with emphasis on determining the impact of parameter values.  ...  Fault detection in software and hardware is extended to distributed systems such as sensor networks and nodes of wireless networks, where it can affect the flexibility and routing of traffic.  ...  (tolerance to external agents).  ... 
doi:10.12700/aph.25.04.2014.04.15 fatcat:y5wlr2awefgcthbp6kc25ufczy

Unicellular Self-healing Electronic Array

Mohammad Samie, Gabriel Dragffy, Tony Pipe, Suresh Perinpanayagam
2013 Procedia CIRP  
At the device programming level, it appears as a cellular FPGA-like system; however, underlying structures transpose it into an inherently self-healing and fault tolerant electronics system.  ...  The embedded fault repair mechanism uses significantly less memory for gene storage and considerably less hardware overall for target system implementation than any previously proposed bio-inspired architecture  ...  The novel artificial prokaryotic model we have proposed [6, 7] is a solution to build efficient fault tolerant hardware systems.  ... 
doi:10.1016/j.procir.2013.07.009 fatcat:cppjmktg7bfwjkufk26q7pk67a

Towards immune inspired fault tolerance in embedded systems

J. Timmis, R. de Lemos, M. Ayara, R. Duncan
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, 2002. ICONIP '02.  
This paper discusses the role that the immune system can play in the development of fault tolerant embedded systems.  ...  tolerance.  ...  [9] and hardware fault tolerance [10, 11] .  ... 
doi:10.1109/iconip.2002.1202862 fatcat:lh7msc7xprb57cnpc27ikvikme

IMMUNOLOGY-BASED MOTION CONTROL FOR MODULAR HYPER-REDUNDANT MANIPULATORS

H.Y.K. Lau, A.K.S. Ng
2005 IFAC Proceedings Volumes  
tolerance.  ...  In this paper, we investigate the viability of a multiagent immunology-based motion control for the trajectory control of modular hyper-redundant manipulators. Copyright©2005 IFAC  ...  Fault tolerance is another key advantage of modular robots.  ... 
doi:10.3182/20050703-6-cz-1902.01297 fatcat:ytzi37taw5eofbg7rloacjcdxy

Towards Fault Diagnosis in Robot Swarms: An Online Behaviour Characterisation Approach [chapter]

James O'Keeffe, Danesh Tarapore, Alan G. Millard, Jon Timmis
2017 Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
The use of a simulator is only a short-term solution, and it is used only with the intention of trialling any fault diagnosis mechanism in a hardware system at the first reasonable opportunity.  ...  tolerance of swarm systems -specifically Artificial Immune Systems (AIS), which are defined by De Castro and Timmis [9] as: "adaptive systems, inspired by theoretical immunology and observed immune  ... 
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-64107-2_31 fatcat:a2kqtkmk3za7bdm4ivlurfpmo4

Das Fehlertolerante System Tandem T16 [chapter]

Alfred Schulz
1984 Software-Fehlertoleranz und -Zuverlässigkeit  
On an Interactive Fault-Sensitive Stack -From Communication Histories to State Transition Tables.  ...  Marion, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, Prof. Dr. R.  ...  Imprinting-Gene in testikulären Keimzellen Über die beim Menschen noch wenig untersuchten Methylierungsmuster der Imprinting-Gene während der Spermatogenese werden beispielhaft an zwei Genen, nämlich SNRPN  ... 
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-69705-0_18 dblp:conf/icftcs/Schulz84 fatcat:mcbxefmt25ajljtzk6nh5vudqq

Nature-inspired Approaches in Software Faults Identification and Debugging

Florin Popentiu-Vladicescu, Grigore Albeanu
2016 Procedia Computer Science  
tolerant approaches inspired by immunity principles in order to increase the software dependability.  ...  This paper considers software faults identification along the phases from design to testing and debugging.  ...  Fault is a defect within the system (software bug, hardware fault etc.). An error is a deviation from the required operation of system or subsystem, as a consequence of exiting of one or more faults.  ... 
doi:10.1016/j.procs.2016.07.315 fatcat:k45fj6d4jzckjae4wnt6b5rs2q

Software health management with Bayesian networks

Johann Schumann, Timmy Mbaya, Ole Mengshoel, Knot Pipatsrisawat, Ashok Srivastava, Arthur Choi, Adnan Darwiche
2013 Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering  
These faults could arise for numerous reasons including coding errors, unanticipated faults or failures in hardware, or problematic interactions with the external environment.  ...  Software Health Management (SWHM) is an emerging field which addresses the critical need to detect, diagnose, predict, and mitigate adverse events due to software faults and failures.  ...  Approaches such as redundancy-based fault tolerance, checkpointing, and software roll-back are, in contrast, typically employed for fault tolerance and fault recovery.  ... 
doi:10.1007/s11334-013-0214-y fatcat:sonbzyrdenbzbgainbsqc44ova
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