Preface. Part I: Fault-Tolerant Protocols. 1. Comparing Synchronous and Asynchronous Group Communication; F. Cristian. 2. Using Static Total Causal Ordering Protocols to Achieve Ordered View Synchrony; K.-Y. Siu, M. Iyer. 3. A Failure-Aware Datagram Service; C. Fetzer, F. Cristian. Part II: Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems. 4. Portable Checkpoint For Heterogeneous Architectures; V. Strumpen, B. Ramkumar. 5. A Checkpointing-Recovery Scheme for Domino-Free Distributed Systems; F. Quaglia, et al. 6. Overview of a Fault-Tolerant System; A. Pruscino. 7. An Efficient Recoverable DSM on a Network of Workstations: Design and Implementation; A.-M. Kermarrec, C. Morin. 8. Fault-Tolerant Issues of Local Area MultiProcessors (LAMP) Storage Subsystem; Q. Li, et al. 9. Fault-Tolerance Issues in RDBMS on SCI-Based Local Area MultiProcessor (LAMP); Q. Li, et al. Part III: Dependable Systems. 10. Distributed Safety-Critical Systems; P.J. Perrone, B.W. Johnson. 11. Dependability and Other Challenges in the Collision Between Computing and Telecommunication; Y. Levendel. 12. A Unified Approach for the Synthesis of Scalable and Testable Embedded Architectures; P.B. Bhat, et al. 13. A Fault-Robust SPMD Architecture for 3D-TV Image Processing; A. Chiari, et al. Part IV: Fault-Tolerant Parallel Systems. 14. A Parallel Algorithm for Embedding Complete Binary Trees in Faulty Hypercubes; S.B. Choi, A.K. Somani. 15. Fault-Tolerant Broadcasting in a K-ary N-cube; B. Broeg, B. Bose. 16. Fault Isolation and Diagnosis in Multiprocessor Systems with Point-to-Point Communication Links; K. Chakrabarty, et al. 17. An Efficient Hardware Fault-Tolerant Technique; S.H. Hosseini, et al. 18. Reliability Evaluation of a Task Under a Hardware Fault-Tolerant Technique; O.A. Abulnaja, et al. 19. Fault Tolerance Measures for m-ary n-dimensional Hypercubes Based on Forbidden Faulty Sets; J. Wu, G. Guo. 20. Dynamic Fault Recovery for Wormhole-Routed Two-Dimensional Meshes; D.R. Avresky, C.M. Cunningham. 21. Fault-Tolerant Dynamic Task Scheduling Based on Dataflow Graphs; E. Maehle, F.-J. Markus. 22. A Novel Replication Technique for Implementing Fault-Tolerant Parallel Software; A. Cherif, et al. 23. User-Transparent Checkpoint and Restart for Parallel Computers; B. Bieker, E. Maehle. Index.