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Information technology, robotics, automatic control and other leading sectors deal with redundant components that pursue very different scopes: they improve the reliability, they perfect the behavior of an actuator, they make a message more intelligible, they get more secure telecommunication infrastructures etc. These disparate functions entail the calculus of parameters that appear rather heterogeneous and inconsistent from the mathematical viewpoint. Software developers frequently compare and balance redundant solutions and need for converging calculation methods. This paper puts forward a definition of redundancy, which aims at unifying the various measurements in use. The present proposal enhances also the progress toward the exhaustive understanding of the redundancy due to the discussion of its logical significance.
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Rocchi, P. (2007). Redundancy: the Measurement Crossing Cutting-edge Technologies. In: Filipe, J., Ferrier, JL., Cetto, J.A., Carvalho, M. (eds) Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics II. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5626-0_2
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