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Our society increasingly depends on large and complex computer systems. Our cars, airplanes, banks, power plants, social interactions, shopping activities, etc., are all controlled and/or mediated to a large extent by computer systems.
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Ölveczky, P.C. (2017). Introduction. In: Designing Reliable Distributed Systems. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6687-0_1
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