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Adaptive Fault Diagnosis using Self-Referential Reasoning

Other Computer Science 2014-07-24 v1

Abstract

The problem is to determine which processors are reliable in a remote location by asking "Yes or No" questions. The processors are of three types: those that always tell the truth, those that always lie, and those the sometimes tell the truth and sometimes lie. Using self-referential reasoning, along with earlier techniques, we can regard both the truth-tellers and liars as reliable and thus the tackle situations when fewer than half the processors are truth-tellers.

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@article{arxiv.1407.6255,
  title  = {Adaptive Fault Diagnosis using Self-Referential Reasoning},
  author = {Robert Cowen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.6255},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

This article will appear in a book on Self-Referential Reasoning dedicated to Raymond Smullyan

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