Computer fault tolerances study inspired by the immune system

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Canıbek, Atıf Değer

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Since the advent of computers numerous approaches have been taken to create hardware systems that provide a high degree of reliability even in the presence of errors. This study seeks to address the problem from a biological perspective using the human immune system as a source of inspiration. The immune system uses many ingenious methods to provide reliable operation in the body and so may suggest how similar methods can be used in the design of reliable systems. This study provides a brief introduction into a relatively new discipline: artificial immune systems (AIS) and demonstrates a new application of AIS with an immunologically inspired approach to fault tolerance. It is shown a finite state machine can be provided with a hardware immune system to provide a novel form of fault detection giving the ability to detect faulty states during a normal operating cycle. It is called immunotronics.

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Electronic computers.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12606774/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/15607

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A. D. Canıbek, “Computer fault tolerances study inspired by the immune system,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2005.