This document discusses deadlock prevention and recovery in computer systems. It defines deadlock as when a set of blocked processes each hold a resource and wait for a resource held by another process. The document outlines the system model involving resources and processes. It describes deadlock characterization including conditions like mutual exclusion, hold and wait, no preemption, and circular wait. Methods to handle deadlocks include prevention techniques like avoiding one of the four conditions, detection of deadlocks in a resource allocation graph, and recovery methods like process termination or resource preemption.