Performability Enhancement of Fault-Tolerant Software

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 227-237

  Tai, Ann T ^a   Meyer, John F ^b   Avitaienis, Algirdas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dependability; Fault tolerant; Performability; software

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY;

DEPENDABILITY; FAULT TOLERANT SOFTWARE; PERFORMABILITY;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0027607764     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: 15581721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.229492     Document Type: Article

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