relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2490/ title: Controlled reversibility and compensations creator: Lanese, Ivan creator: Mezzina, Claudio Antares creator: Stefani, Jean-Bernard subject: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science description: In this paper we report the main ideas of an ongoing thread of research that aims at exploiting reversibility mechanisms to define programming abstractions for dependable distributed systems. In particular, we discuss the issues posed by concurrency in the definition of controlled forms of reversibility. We also discuss the need of introducing compensations to deal with irreversible actions and to avoid to repeat past errors. publisher: Springer date: 2013 type: Book Section type: PeerReviewed identifier: Lanese, Ivan and Mezzina, Claudio Antares and Stefani, Jean-Bernard Controlled reversibility and compensations. In: Reversible Computation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (7581). Springer, pp. 233-240. ISBN 978-3-642-36315-3 (2013) relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36315-3_19 relation: 10.1007/978-3-642-36315-3_19