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The data in Section 3 indicates that system failures are predominantly transient in nature and follow a decreasing failure rate function (i.e., Weibull) rather than a constant failure rate function (i.e., exponential). System failures have diverse manifestations and diverse causes ranging from errors in design to component aging. A substantial gap remains between actual system failures and these system failure models. Perhaps as little as 50of the observed system faiures fall into one or more of the high-level fault models defined in Section 1. Much work remains to effectively bridge this gap.
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Siewiorek, D.P. (1990). Faults and their manifestation. In: Simons, B., Spector, A. (eds) Fault-Tolerant Distributed Computing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 448. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0042340
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