COMPONENTS (Unreliable)
Charles François (2004). COMPONENTS (Unreliable), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(1): 574.
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 574 ▶ |
| Object type | Methodology or model |
A great number of unreliable components can become organized in a reliable system through redundancy and variability of their interconnections.
This field of research was opened by J.von NEUMANN in his l956 work on “Probabilistic logic and the synthesis of reliable organisms from unreliable components”.