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M. Schoeberl:
"Time-predictable Cache Organization";
Talk: First International Workshop on Software Technologies for Future Dependable Distributed Systems (STFSSD 2009), Tokyo, Japan (invited); 2009-03-17 - 2009-03-18; in: "2009 Software Technologies for Future Dependable Distributed Systems", IEEE, (2009), ISBN: 978-0-7695-3572-2; 11 - 16.

Dependability is a broad concept which covers such aspects
of computer systems like reliability, maintainability,
and availability. Also because of this broadness, researches
came up with related yet more focused notions such as selfhealing
and robustness. In this article, I discuss robustness
in relation to dependability and make a distinction between
these two. I outline the state of the art of the research in
robustness and discuss required design practices leading
to robust systems. In analogy to end-to-end argument, I
present a new set of arguments called repairability which
could help a designer resolve design decisions and choose
a solution which potentially leads to a robust system.