N-version programming and its common-mode limit

Knight, J. C., & Leveson, N. G. (1986). N-version programming and its common-mode limit. not.

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1986

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• Redundant Voting
  • The classic caution is that even independently developed program versions do not fail independently — they tend to err on the same hard inputs, so the vote can be unanimous and unanimously mistaken.

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