On-Line Error Monitoring for Several Data Structures

  • Authors:
  • J. D. Bright

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • FTCS '95 Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

Abstract: We present several examples of programs which efficiently monitor the answers from queries performed on data structures to determine if any errors are present. Our paper includes the first efficient on-line error monitor for a data structure designed to perform nearest neighbor queries. Applications of nearest neighbor queries are extensive and include learning, categorization, speech processing, and data compression. Our paper also discusses on-line error monitors for priority queues and splittable priority queues. On-line error monitors immediately detect if an error is present in the answer to a query. An error monitor which is not on-line may delay the time of detection until a later query is being processed which may allow the error to propagate or may cause irreversible state changes. On-line monitors can allow a more rapid and accurate response to an error.