Optimal Design of Large Software-Systems Using N-Version Programming

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 344-350

  Ashrafi, Noushin ^a   Berman, Oded ^b   Cutler, Michal ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault tolerant software; mathematical programming; N version programming; software reliability optimization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; ERRORS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; REDUNDANCY; RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY THEORY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

LARGE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; N VERSION PROGRAMMING; OPTIMAL SOFTWARE REDUNDANCY; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY OPTIMIZATION;

FAST RESPONSE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0028446146     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: 15581721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.295021     Document Type: Article

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