Abstract :
THIS is the eighth Special Issue on this subject published by the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTERS. The title of this Special Issue now includes the word reliable to better reflect a broader perception of the field as expressed in the Chinese subtitle of the 10th International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing (FTCS) held in Kyoto, Japan two years ago. It says: —to make (electronic computers) reliable. Computers and digital control systems are relied upon in more and more avenues of our life, and naturally more is demanded of these machines´ ability to perform accurately and adequately under a wide range of disturbances. There have been hundreds of published works and the research and development effort in this important area will continue to attract a large number of participants.
