We have conducted a paleoseismic investigation of serial fault rupture at one site along the 110-km rupture of the North Anatolian fault that produced the Mw 7.4 earthquake of 17 August 1999. The benefit of using a recent rupture to compare serial ruptures lies in the fact that the location, magnitude, and slip vector of the most recent event are all very well documented. We wished to determine...

Bad data may lead to performance degradation or even instability of a power system, which can be caused by various factors: unintentional PMU abnormalities, topology error, malicious cyber-attacks, electromagnetic interference, temporary loss communication links, external disturbances, extraneous noise biases, etc. In order develop more resilient and reliable state estimation technique, this ma...

Highly uniform step and termination structures on 4Hand 6H-SiC(0001) surfaces have been prepared via moderate annealing in disilane. Atomic force microscopy and dark-field low-energy electron microscopy imaging indicate single-phase terminations separated solely by half-unit-cell-height steps, driven by stacking fault energy. The atomic structure of 4H-SiC(0001)p 3 p3R30 -Si has been determined...

As embryonic arrays take inspiration from nature they display biological properties, namely complex structure and fault-tolerance. However, hardware implementations have yet to take advantage of a further biological feature at a fundamental level; asynchronous operation. Scalability and reliability are seen as two areas in which embryonic arrays could benefit from asynchronous design. This pape...

The CRCW PRAM under dynamic fail-stop (no restart) processor behavior is a fault-prone multiprocessor model for which it is possible to both guarantee reliability and preserve eeciency. To handle dynamic faults some redundancy is necessary in the form of many processors concurrently performing a common read or write task. In this paper we show how to signiicantly decrease this concurrency by bo...

Predicting faults early in the software life cycle can be used to improve software process control and achieve high software reliability. Quality of software is increasingly important and testing related issues are becoming crucial for software. Methodologies and techniques for predicting the testing effort, monitoring process costs, and measuring results can help in increasing efficiency of so...

We complete the study of [23] and [27] about Miller’s algorithm. Miller’s algorithm is a central step to compute the Weil, Tate and Ate pairings. The aim of this article is to analyze the weakness of Miller’s algorithm when it undergoes a fault attack. We prove that Miller’s algorithm is vulnerable to a fault attack which is valid in all coordinate systems, through the resolution of a nonlinear...

The work presented in this paper has been performed under a Spanish research project. The main aim of the tasks, we were responsible of, was the development of a vision subsystem for 2D image preprocessing. These algorithms are the first step of a 3D reconstruction algorithm. These algorithms have been improved by the addition of fault tolerance capabilities. To achieve this goal, the classical...

The advances of deep submicron VLSI technology pose new challenges in designing robust systems, which can in principle be addressed by approaches established in fault-tolerant distributed systems research. This paper is the first step in an attempt to develop a very robust high-precision clocking system for hardware designs like systemson-chip for critical applications. It is devoted to the des...

Prompt and accurate location of the faults in a largescale transmission system is critical when system reliability is considered and usually is the first step in the system restoration. The accuracy of fault location estimation essentially depends on the information available. While there have been some successful algorithms for fault location utilizing two-end or threeend data, the satisfactor...