Voting Using Predispositions

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 604-616

  Blough, Douglas M ^a   Sullivan, Gregory F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

faulttolerant computing; jority voter; ma; maximum likelihood principle; median voter; plurality voter; Prior analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY;

MAJORITY VOTER; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD PRINCIPLE; OPTIMAL VOTING ALGORITHMS;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0028740827     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: 15581721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.370219     Document Type: Article

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