Estimators for Fault Tolerance Coverage Evaluation

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 261-274

  Powell, David ^a   Martins, Eliane ^a   Arlat, Jean ^a   Crouzet, Yves ^b  

^a LAAS CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A POSTERIORI STRATIFICATION; FAULT INJECTION; FAULT TOLERANCE COVERAGE ESTIMATION; VARIANCE REDUCTION;

ESTIMATION; SAMPLING;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0029252185     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/12.364537     Document Type: Article

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