Basal-plane stacking faults in wurtzite AlN, GaN, and InN are studied using density-functionalpseudopotential calculations. The formation energies follow the trend exhibited for the zinc-blende/wurtzite energy differences in the bulk materials, namely, lowest energy for GaN and highest for AlN. Type-I stacking faults have the lowest energy, followed by type-II stacking faults, and finally extri...

ÐThe problem of computing with faulty shared bits is addressed. The focus is on constructing a reliable test&set bit from a collection of test&set bits of which some may be faulty. Faults are modeled by allowing operations on the faulty bits to return a special distinguished value, signaling that the operation may not have taken place. Such faults are called omission faults. Some of the constru...

An Input/Output Automaton is an automaton with a finite number of state where each transition is associated with a single input or output interaction. In this paper, we consider a generalization of this formalism, the Partial Order Input/Output Automata (POIOA), in which each transition is associated with a partially ordered set of inputs and outputs. This new formalism allows the specification...

In the Internet of Things (IoT) equipment used for aquaculture is often deployed in outdoor ponds located in remote areas. Faults occur frequently in these tough environments and the staff generally lack professional knowledge and pay a low degree of attention in these areas. Once faults happen, expert personnel must carry out maintenance outdoors. Therefore, this study presents an intelligent ...

Hardware system has been expected to become increasingly vulnerable to faults due to continuously increasing function complexity and decreasing feature size. Using I/O-state-based dynamic value invariants, one of software visible symptoms, can probabilistically detect peripheral hardware faults. This paper explores a software solution that watches for anomalous dynamic value invariant behaviors...

We propose two fault-tolerant broadcasting schemes in star graphs. One of the schemes can tolerate up to n − 2 faults of the crash type in the n-star graph. The other scheme can tolerate up to ⌊ n−3d−1 2 ⌋ faults of the Byzantine type in the n-star graph, where d is the smallest positive integer satisfying n ≤ d!. Each of the schemes is designed for the single-port mode, and it completes the br...

Linked Faults are considered an interesting class of memory faults. Their capability of influencing the behavior of other faults causes the hiding of the fault effect and makes test algorithm design a very complex task. Although several March Tests have been developed for the wide memory faults spread, a few of them are able to detect linked faults. In the present paper March AB, a March Test t...

We propose a new hybrid fault model for clock synchronization and single-round (approximate) agreement in synchronous distributed systems1, which accurately captures both node and link faults. Unlike conventional “global” fault models, which rest upon the total number of faulty nodes in the system, it solely relies upon the number of faults in any two non-faulty nodes’ “perceptions” —conveyed b...

In [Perry 85] we reported work in progress on the analysis of software interface faults in a large software system. In this update of that work, we complete the analysis of the interface faults for this large system and extend our results. In our original analysis, we determined that there were 15 categories of interface faults in the prima facie interface fault set of errors reports. We add on...

The GTZAN dataset appears in at least 100 published works, and is the most-used public dataset for evaluation in machine listening research for music genre recognition (MGR). Our recent work, however, shows GTZAN has several faults (repetitions, mislabelings, and distortions), which challenge the interpretability of any result derived using it. In this article, we disprove the claims that all M...