Prototyping a Process Monitoring Experiment

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 1994, Pages 774-784

  Perry, Dewayne E ^a   Votta, Lawrence G ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

process analysis; process monitoring; process sampling; Prototyping process experiments

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA STRUCTURES; ENGINEERS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MONITORING; QUEUEING THEORY;

PROCESS ANALYSIS; PROCESS MONITORING; PROCESS SAMPLING; PROTOTYPING; RECONSTRUCTED DATA; REPRESENTATIVE PROCESS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0028517799     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.328994     Document Type: Article

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