Software Reliability Allocation Based on Structure, Utility, Price, and Cost

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1991, Pages 345-356

  Zahedi, Fatemeh ^a   Ashrafi, Noushin ^a  

^a Department of Management Sciences University of Massachusetts ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process module cost module price; module reliability; program reliability; reliability allocation; software reliability; software utility; system hierarchy

Indexed keywords

COST ACCOUNTING; SYSTEMS SCIENCE AND CYBERNETICS - HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; COST VERSUS RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY ALLOCATION; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY MODELS; SOFTWARE UTILITY MEASURE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0026138713     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.90434     Document Type: Article

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