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Rephrasing rules for off-the-shelf SQL database servers
We have reported previously (Gashi et al., 2004) results of a study with a sample of bug reports from four off-the-shelf SQL servers. We checked whether these bugs caused failures in more than one server. We found that very few bugs caused failures in two servers and none caused failures in more than two. This would suggest a fault-tolerant server built with diverse off-the-shelf servers would be a prudent choice for improving failure detection. To study other aspects of fault tolerance, namely failure diagnosis and state recovery, we have studied the "data diversity" mechanism and we defined a number of SQL rephrasing rules. These rules transform a client sent statement to an additional logically equivalent statement, leading to more results being returned to an adjudicator. These rules therefore help to increase the probability of a correct response being returned to a client and maintain a correct state in the database
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Uncertainty explicit assessment of off-the-shelf software: Selection of an optimal diverse pair
Assessment of software COTS components is an essential part of component-based software development. Sub-optimal selection of components may lead to solutions with low quality. The assessment is based on incomplete knowledge about the COTS components themselves and other aspects, which may affect the choice such as the vendor's credentials, etc. We argue in favor of assessment methods in which uncertainty is explicitly represented (`uncertainty explicit' methods) using probability distributions. We have adapted a model (developed elsewhere by Littlewood, B. et al. (2000)) for assessment of a pair of COTS components to take account of the fault (bug) logs that might be available for the COTS components being assessed. We also provide empirical data from a study we have conducted with off-the-shelf database servers, which illustrate the use of the method
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Fault tolerance via diversity for off-the-shelf products: A study with SQL database servers
If an off-the-shelf software product exhibits poor dependability due to design faults, then software fault tolerance is often the only way available to users and system integrators to alleviate the problem. Thanks to low acquisition costs, even using multiple versions of software in a parallel architecture, which is a scheme formerly reserved for few and highly critical applications, may become viable for many applications. We have studied the potential dependability gains from these solutions for off-the-shelf database servers. We based the study on the bug reports available for four off-the-shelf SQL servers plus later releases of two of them. We found that many of these faults cause systematic noncrash failures, which is a category ignored by most studies and standard implementations of fault tolerance for databases. Our observations suggest that diverse redundancy would be effective for tolerating design faults in this category of products. Only in very few cases would demands that triggered a bug in one server cause failures in another one, and there were no coincident failures in more than two of the servers. Use of different releases of the same product would also tolerate a significant fraction of the faults. We report our results and discuss their implications, the architectural options available for exploiting them, and the difficulties that they may present
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Fault diversity among off-the-shelf SQL database servers
Fault tolerance is often the only viable way of obtaining the required system dependability from systems built out of "off-the-shelf" (OTS) products. We have studied a sample of bug reports from four off-the-shelf SQL servers so as to estimate the possible advantages of software fault tolerance - in the form of modular redundancy with diversity - in complex off-the-shelf software. We checked whether these bugs would cause coincident failures in more than one of the servers. We found that very few bugs affected two of the four servers, and none caused failures in more than two. We also found that only four of these bugs would cause identical, undetectable failures in two servers. Therefore, a fault-tolerant server, built with diverse off-the-shelf servers, seems to have a good chance of delivering improvements in availability and failure rates compared with the individual off-the-shelf servers or their replicated, nondiverse configurations
Polarization of the electron and positron produced in combined Coulomb and strong laser fields
The process of production in the superposition of a Coulomb and a
strong laser field is considered. The pair production rate integrated over the
momentum and summed over the spin projections of one of the particles is
derived exactly in the parameters of the laser field and in the Born
approximation with respect to the Coulomb field. The case of a monochromatic
circularly polarized laser field is considered in detail. A very compact
analytical expression of the pair production rate and its dependence on the
polarization of one of the created particles is obtained in the quasiclassical
approximation for the experimentally relevant case of an undercritical laser
field. As a result, the polarization of the created electron (positron) is
derived.Comment: 16 pages, no figure
Population synthesis of DA white dwarfs: constraints on soft X-ray spectra evolution
Extending the population synthesis method to isolated young cooling white
dwarfs we are able to confront our model assumptions with observations made in
ROSAT All-Sky Survey (Fleming et al., 1996). This allows us to check model
parameters such as evolution of spectra and separation of heavy elements in DA
WD envelopes. It seems like X-ray spectrum temperature of these objects is
given by the formula T_{X-ray} = min(T_eff, T_max). We have obtained DA WD's
birth rate and upper limit of the X-ray spectrum temperature: DA birth rate in cubic parsec per year and T_max = 41000 K. These values
are in good correspondence with values obtained by other authors (Liebert et
al., 2004; Wolff et al., 1996). From this fact we also conclude that our
population synthesis method is applicable to the population of close-by
isolated cooling white dwarfs as well as to the population of the isolated
cooling neutron stars.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, conference "European White Dwarf Workshop, 2010",
Tubingen, German
Statistical properties of Klauder-Perelomov coherent states for the Morse potential
We present in this paper a realistic construction of the coherent states for
the Morse potential using the Klauder-Perelomov approach . We discuss the
statistical properties of these states, by deducing the Q- and P-distribution
functions. The thermal expectations for the quantum canonical ideal gas of the
Morse oscillators are also calculated
Angular distributions of scattered excited muonic hydrogen atoms
Differential cross sections of the Coulomb deexcitation in the collisions of
excited muonic hydrogen with the hydrogen atom have been studied for the first
time. In the framework of the fully quantum-mechanical close-coupling approach
both the differential cross sections for the transitions and
-averaged differential cross sections have been calculated for exotic atom
in the initial states with the principle quantum number at relative
motion energies eV and at scattering angles
. The vacuum polarization shifts of the
-states are taken into account. The calculated in the same approach
differential cross sections of the elastic and Stark scattering are also
presented. The main features of the calculated differential cross sections are
discussed and a strong anisotropy of cross sections for the Coulomb
deexcitation is predicted.Comment: 5 pages, 9 figure
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