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System-Level Diagnosis: A Perspective for the Third Decade

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This paper gives an overview of twenty years of achievement in system-level diagnosis and examines the antinomy of this flourishing theoretical research area that has yet to have any apparent practical impact in an era of unforetold technical advances. The potentially important role of system-level diagnosis is discussed relative to future multicomputer systems.

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Dahbura, A.T. (1988). System-Level Diagnosis: A Perspective for the Third Decade. In: Tewksbury, S.K., Dickinson, B.W., Schwartz, S.C. (eds) Concurrent Computations. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5511-3_21

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